The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-01
There WILL Be
A HOT Time
Division in the Ranks of
the California Wine
Corporation.
Scheme on Foot to Dust Two
Of the Most Prominent
Members.
The Matter Will Come to Focus at
To-Day's Session of the
Convention.

The meeting of the California Wine Cor
poration 10 be held in the Chamber OF
Commerce to-day promises to be one OF
unusual warmth. In fact it looks now as
if there will be what is considered hot
time" there.
The corporation was organized some
years ago when the competition between
individual wine-growers was so close that
many of them were selling their products
at ruinous prices in ORDER to get them off
their hands Then a few OF The larger
growers dubbed together and laid the
foundation OF the present corporation,
which is simply pool into which each
man sends his product and receives divi-
dend Of the profits Of the years sales. al
though his gools may still lie untouched.
At first none of the mem bers sold any of
Their iividual prod ucts 10 the retail
trade, but later two large producers
John II. w heller and PIetro L. Ross
who were already doing large business
with retail dealers, were ad mitted to
mem bership, and his was the beginning
of the troub e. great many OF the
mem bers of the corporation are of the
opinion that these gentlemen, instead Of
only sending percentage Of their prod
ucts to the CORPORATION store and retailing
the rest, should turn all of it to the cor
poration and give the benefit of the trade
they had worked UP TO the other stock
holders AS they have declined TO take
anv SUCH action the dissatisfaction has
rapidly grown, and to-day an effort will
be made to Gust them bodily from The
< CORPORATION.
Speaking OF the matter a prominent
mem Der f the corporation said: "Yes, /
am aware Of the fact that an effort viii be
made TO Dust Mr.. Wheeler and Mr.. Rossi
tomorrow, but am confident that it will
be unsuccessful. Both OF the gentlemen
are heavy producers, and | think the
ousting Of them would be an almost sui
cidaI move, and l believe that mem bers
of The California Wine Association are
really st the bottom OF the affair and
have worked up his plan among some OF
our mem beers in an effort to disrupt the
corpora ion. Neither of the gentlemen
mention d send tiIe full amount OF their
products to the corporation, but we have
no rule COMPELLING the m to co So They
send US Ger ain percentage of their 900 IS
and gei proporlonate percentage OF the
net profits. either:or both are ousted
the loss will be not 10 the gentlemen them
s. YES but to u.s.: -.
Another mem Der takeS an entirely diff
fetent view OF The masser.@ I'VE turn all
! our products into the corporation" said
ne. ''aud in return get a dividend on the
percentage sales, but these two mem bers
sell all they can on the outside, and then
send what they cannot get rid of to the
corporation and get their share of the
profits of the sales i -
The members are all greatly agitated
over the question, and it is expected that
Today the d bate Will be long and hea ed.
Other matters to come up are the cleo
ton ofofficers and directors, hearing the
reports of the years work and the discus
sion OF a policy for the iulure. During
the past year none of the loca trade has
fallen into the hands of the corporation,
and an effort will be ITO find out tn e
reasons for this and devise plans to secure
at least portion OF it.