The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18
HOW DOES PUBLIC
FIGURE IN DEAL?
Apparently Selected for Fall
Guy in Big Trade Anal
gamation.
IAN PRICES GO HIGHER?
ooU6Ts AS TO ADVIsARILITY OF
MERGER.

With the news scarcely a day old
that the Manufacturers & Merchants
association, the Butchers & Grocers'
association and the Retail Merchants
association of the state have formed a
working agreement and will be man
aged from one Office after Sept l,
comment of every sort has sprung UP
from business men as TO the advisable
lty of the amalgamation.
the cry Of uniform prices" is among
the first to be heard. and predictions
were freely mace yesterday about
town that retail prices on commodities
throughout the state would not stand
much chance of going lower with the
manufacturers, jobbers and retailers
ieagued together
The officials of the Manufacturers &
Merchants association have been Sc
verely criticized IN several quarters for
agreeing to the merger scheme. as It
is claimed the purposes for which the
Manufacturers & Merchants associa-
ton was organized is not at ali in
harmony with the purposes of the Re-
tail Butchers & Grocersi organization.
The Manufacturers & Merchants was
organized 10 further all manufacturing
and industrial interests in the state,
whatever they might be- and 10 aid it
eTs and grocers and the retailers are
organized for mutual protection and to
regulate prices. The men who cOnsti-
tute the membership of the Manufac-
tureTs & Merchanst association sell
their goods to the men who form the
membership of the Butchers & Gro
GERS and the Retailers associations,
who in turn sell TO the public. With
the manufacturers and jobbers closely
n ss~fF1 he al nd
Gated by the amalgamatiOn of the three
associations, retailers not members Of
any one of the three associations scent
trouble in the matter of uniform prices
and less strenuous competition.
c. o. Harris, the present secretary Of
the Manufacturers & Merchants as
ISOLATION. who is to be depOsed in ia
vcr of Lorenzo jenkins. the latter to
manage the three associations, would
say nothing yesterday Of the action of
the Manufacturers & Merchants asso-
ciariOn in combining with the retailers
associations, when the purposes of the
associations are 50 widely different
Tho board of directors of the Manu-
facturers s, Merchants association viii
meet Monday night 10 act on the ANAL
samatiOn proposition, but as the al
fair is cut and dried. it Will, of course,
be ratified. to go into effect Sept. /.
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Business men who have for years
assisted in the management Of the
Manufacturers & Merchants assOcia-
ton freely predicted yesterday that
the association would soon lose its
identity as a result of the alliance with
the retailers, and they greatly deplored
this, as large amount of money and
time have been spent in building up
the Manufacturers & Merchants as
ISOLATION here during the past
It is pretty generally known that
strong effort was made by several in
huentiaI members of the Manufactur-
ers &, Merchants association just pre-
vious to the last annual meeting of the
Commercial club last winter 10 merge
the two organizations. The proposition
put to the Commercial club by the d.
rectors Of the Manufacturers a Mer-
chants association at that time was
for the club to do away with its pres
emf committee on industries and Gre
ate a new committee with enlarged
powers. The board of directors of the
Manufacturers & Merchants associa-
ton was 10 constitute this new COM
mittee and all the members Of the
board were 20 be given membership
in the club. The Manufacturers &
Merchants association agreed to turn
over to the club $1,000 it then had in
its treasury ana 10 uiSsolNS 'AS osoo
citation membership.
The board of governors OF the club
refused to consider the proposition on
the grounds that they already had
committee on industries that was ca
pabls and acceptable to the public.
Then the Manufacturers & Merchants
association gathered itself together,
changed secretaries and started after
the retailers favor. The Manufactur-
ers & Merchants association now has
a membership of PIG and has reserve
fund of about $1,000.