The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-12
p0P PICKERS' WAGES.
p.oet Sound Growers Won't
Pay Over IS Cents a Box.
...esT RATES TO BE REDUCED.
rysfn Dispatcher Held Rssponsibie
q, the McMiIIsn wreek-A
Farmer killed By Tramp.

rw~.rrrP. Aug. IL Hcecial- The hop
-..-sr.' meeting was held today 10 dis
- she question Of prices to be paid for
~.r,rg An organization was effected,
10y Meeker as chairman and b. +.
800 A. secretary. The following letter
$50 Ezra Meeker was read:
= .svned the call for this meeting In
s.fsrsncs to the expressed wish of others.
- contrary 20 my own judgment. The
"a .asRe that IL takes two 10 make C bar
- holds goods IN this case, and any
-.,es taken with a view TO establish prices
= hon picking ought 10 include those
...Eirr employment as well ssemployers.
s~mv opinion the law Of supply and de
and will govern in spite Of any resolu-
- az this meeting as 20 the price OF hop
ling. as veil as all other commercial
-sssactsons. 1t would not be policy
: this time TO try TO definitely
s.s~rm,ne what should or should not be
81 There 10 time yet TO entirely change
- condition of the market and send hops
= ii paYing price and then, no matter
rhaf the resolution, we ought 10 and
r1nId pay a more liberal price than we
zseht 70 or could II the market continues
s.sressed as now. There may come con-
sngency in which II would be dehatable
.a<sssofi as 10 the policy Of picking, which
sss Is hsmpered as TO the price of picking,
1 might decide the question as to whether
ID crop should be harvested or not
eFrofn the present outlook think We
ouxlst not 10 pay more than from b5 TO 70
<e.t. boz. We have encouraged those
10 have applied TO us for work to expect
fsat Price II hops would hold near the Is
srss line here, and i would yet favor that,
tssn If We could get but IL cents; but II
tbe market drops to zero, as some antIct-
rsse. and 10 becomes question as to
rhssher il IN better TO pick or not. then
- will need TO be free to make a bar
rain for the picking which would be
toutable. 1 can see how, II we actu-
tlIy cannot afford to pay more than
a cents per box. and can afford that, that
i would be better for pickers and growers
AMI the state at large 10 pay that rather
than leave the hops on the poles. We
hone there will not be such contingency
hni nevertheless do not want 10 tie our
s<lyes up rigidly TO price We cannot af-
lara 10 pay. IL We can become assured
nat hoes will move at Is cents per pound
her would say pay 81 per box. as here
.ogore. There is this TO be said on the
question. that at 65 cents per
boz pickers earnings will buy IS
much these times as 81 per
box would year or two years ago. and
that at these prices the decline in wages
Is no more than in other farm labor. Un-
denisbIy there ought TO be some latitude
allowed for different conditions. In yards
with heavy foliage or with a light yield.
Involving frequent changes of poles. or
With immature hops, growers will doubt
less need 10 pay mcre than in yards with
heavy yields, light foliage and thoroughly
ripened hops" = y
The following resolutions were adopted
unanimouslyi -
aWHKREAs, Owing to the financial strin-
esney, decrease in the consumption of
kesr, oyerproduction OF hops. and other
factors of like import, the prospects for
prices covering the growing crop OF hops
srs not encouraging; and,
"WEEREAs, The attending condition and
circumstances point to prices little in ad-
rance Of the absolute cost OF productions
and,
aWHxRsAs, BY virtue of the facts set
forth the price of picking the growing
erop Of hops should be regulated in accord
snce Herewith. and a reduction therein
Be made: therefore be it 90 Q
sRssoiped. That we, tho undersigned,
representative hop growers OF the hop
rowing counties of King. Pierce, Lewis,
lhurston, Whatcom, Cowlitx. Chehalis,
kferson, snohomish and Skakit. do, in
pubic assembled, mutually agree upon n
rgaiated price for picking the growing
crop Of hops; and
aResolred, That it Is the sense of this
meeting that under present prospects for
tie hop market from 0S to rs cents per
bax, according to conditions, would be an
equitable price for picking hops, but
should prospects improve we hold our
selves In readiness TO advance the price OF
picking.
For the undivided support and mainte-
nance of this declaration and agreement
We mutually pledge 10 each other our
word and honor, and herewith place our
hands and seals:
Hugh Crockett, PuyaAup; v. Sheipp.
Marion; Carl Wasmund. Lake PARK |;
Henry Beckett, orting; Robert Brown,
Aaroni J. A. Miller, Tacoma; A. ].
Query, Alderton: William Cheeseman,
Pnyallup; William Price, Nick Copy,
LAKE Taps; j. Loddi, Hillhurst; NJ. h.
Kelly, Puyallup; = William Nelson,
Lake PARK; w. X. Snyder.
Auburn; John HeImold, Alderton !;
4 H. Williams, w. l.. Thompson. J.oR.
bekerson, II. K. kimmelI, Il. r. Young,
samnsr; II. f. MeGowan. Robert Moore,
rayallnp; ]. ID. Gillian, Sumner; ID. NJ.
Aoss, Charles II. Ross, John Carson. Puy-
asap; J. letiery, +. Annis. A. Spooner.
AldeTton; ]. Smith, b. F. GIoyd, McMil-
lans n. sirels. sumner; J. z. Stewart.
asa +: Leopold, A. G. Campbell, Puyallup;
sean Kelley. A. ellis, Whatcom county,
secsge Q. Kelly, Tacoma; A. Fulmer, A.
Ecker, Ed Young, c. A. Mclaughlin
: = Merrill, Puyallup; Kraus Bros. Al
Asssiek, John +. klncaid, Sum-
asi o. NJ. Annis, William Lane.
Asasrion: Whitesell Bros, -orting;
q Lacey, ST.. Ed Lacey, ir., J. w. Har-
- fuyallup; Frank Spinning, Joseph
psrringer, Dierringer; John w. Boat
rayailup; ID. Seeman, Kent; Capt.
:. uove, Snoqualmie; Fred ). Meeker.
fl's Mesker. J. V. Meeker. NJ. j. Meeker.
speepn r Meeksr, George {. Wintermute.
1aSMi1p; Len purgin. Mcmillan; George
Aose, lulins Pincus, Louis Lachmnnd,
pAiap; William Kelly. Connel's
EfAnei Robert Wilson, Willis Boatman,
aayAlln. nj Mailman Rncklay. lnsenh