The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-01-20

The meeting of stockholders o! the
Hood River Fruit Growers Union, last
Saturday. was well attended IN the
absence Of Hon. J. w. Morton, pres
ident, Il. +. Savage. vice president, Oc-
cuped the chair. The roll call showed
l67 shares represpnted-2g 20 more than Il
quorum-and members coming in later
swelled the uumlier to more than lS0
After the secretary read the call for
the meeting. J. Il. Shoemaker present.
ed the following resnluti0n:
"Whereas, BY past experience il has
been found that II is impractical for
seven men 10 familiarize themselves
with the details of business as COM
plicated ~ the business Of this corpor-
alton: and
"Wherens, We can refer to two years
Of our mnsi successful existence when
The hoard of directors consisted of three
0uly; therefore lie il
"Resolvpd, That the eighth word in
Article r. of the'hylaws lie changed 10
read three instead Of sevenn
n. G. Evans mnved to amend by
making il read five, and the amend
ment was adapted.
The following amendments to the
hyaws were then read and adopted:
BV y, n GuOn-"Ait. III. Amend
to read The directors shall have power
10 levy aud collect assessments an he
capital siork. The same To become de-
linqueut in thirty days fi0m date Of
notice Of such assessment in a local
newspaper. The directors may sell
such Delinquent stock 1T public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, first Civ
iug 30 days notice of such sale in a
local newspaper Said sale IT, be made
at the door Of the office of the Hni0n,
III Hood River, Oregon"
BY Jos. A. Wilson - "Art. ~
Amend by emitting all after the word
remuneration. 50 that II shall read:
The directors shall employ such agents
or other employees as are necessary to
d. the business of the corporation and
shall fix their remuneration"
BY G. r. Custner-Art. V. "Amend
to read The directors may refuse to
receive for shipment any fruit not con.
sidered prime from any cause. They
may also refuse to receive fruit for ship
ment from any person who has not
shipped with the union regularly there.
tOfore during the season for shipping
such fruit, when, in their judgment,
the receiving aud shipping nf the same
would be detrimental to the interests
of the regular shippers through the
union.
BY r. r. -"Resolved, That 1t
is the sense of the Stockholders of the
Hood River Fruit Growers Union that
the directors nroceed to make arrange
ments for the shipping of fruit for the
coming sensnn.p
Mr. Coon suggested that this would
he a good time to talk over matters re-
latiug to pickers ard their pay, strikes,
etc, or else appoint another day for u
meeting of berry growers.
/ NJ n. Foley thought growers should
get together and fix prices for pick Ing
and packing berries and suggested that
it would be good plan to send man
tn the reservations to employ Indians,
as they generally did satisfactory work
r. l.. Rood thought the hoard of di-
reciors should I've prepared to advance
money for the pay of pickers that it
sometimes works hardship on pickers
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berries before they can get their pay
f. G. Sherrieb said he learned that
at Mt. Tabor pickers worked for three
quarters of a cent box, while the price
paid here last year was generally
cents for picking ami packing.
O. l.. Slrauahan reported that he
found good white pickers last season
and paid hut cents
H. +. Davidson suggested that the
chairman appoint II committee of five
to look after the matter Of prices, etc
Axtel Rahm wanted to know if
prices would be fixed the same for
good and inferior work.
Mr.. Fitzgerald said we could not eY-
pect pickers and packers to do goSd
work for less than cents box; that
the best of his pickers could not make
more than Sl.l0 a day.
G. r. Castner thought the union
should take some action towards being
prepared to put herries in cold storage
as SION as they arrive from the field.
On motion of T. r. Coon, a meeting
of all fruit growers was called for Jan.
2S, 1898, at O'clock, in A. o. U. w.
hall, to discuss the question of pickers
and other matters OF interest to grow
ers.