The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-15

lcducI OF sugar. HOuT OF some OIneT
standard article. He advertises ex-
tensively his leader at a price which is
cost or slightly below cost, and there
by brings to his store customers. each
of whom will also buy and take away
some of the damaged goods that could
not be sold at all in any other way. On
the damaged goods such a dealer will
make from 80 to $50 per cent profit.
Against dealers Of this sort the
other dealers have constantly made
complaint to the wholesaler They
want to know why the wholesaler sells
such a dealer the standard goods at a
price that allows him to sell at a re-
tail price below the wholesale price to
the questiOners. And in several In
stances the secretary OF the Butchers
q Groeers' association has taken it
upon himself to go TO the wholesaler
and represent to him that If he sells
the particular dealer who was adver-
Using In that way, it Will probably in
terfere with the Wholesalers business
with the members of the association.
Such action on the part of the seere-
tary shows that he has very little ap-
probation of the importance and dell
cacy of his position. for it has sub
jected the association TO a criticism
that was not justified.
Fix Their Own Prices.
we have not been able to find any
instance where an established dealer
selling standard groceries has been re-
quired to raise the price of any COM
modify that he was handling.
"A number of reputable grocers,
nOn-members Of the association, have
appeared before US and under oath
stated that they fix prices for them
selves, and that they have never come
in conflict with the association, and
have not in any way been interfered
with by the association.
"On the night of the End day of De-
cember. 1907, at a regular meeting of
the association an amendment TO the
bylaws was passed. This amendment
had been discussed for several weeks
by The members of the association, and
its purpOrt WAS fully understood by all
OF me members. 1t was passed by the
unanimous vote of all members pres
ent, and reads as follows:
This association, through its off,
GERS, committees or members, is for
ever prohibited from establishing or
maintaining a current price list for
groceries or meats, and from regulat-
ing or making uniform, or attempting
to regulate or make uniform the retail
among its members or among nom
members. Any member of this asso-
ciation who does anything in an at
tempt to carry out any one of the
things above prohibited shall at once
and without any action on the part of
the association, forfeit his membership
ana become non-member of this as
ISOLATION
This amendment to the bylaws set
ties beyond all question the purpose of
the association as 10 the regula ton OF
prices ana puts the association in
complete accord with the laws of this
state.
There is great amount of good that
the association can accomplish in the
ways already indicated and we are
glad TO report the passage of this
amendment TO the bylaws for we
think II expresses the settled intention
or the members of that association.
Other Work for Jensen.
Mr. Donnellan, the former secretary,
has moved away from this state. LO-
renzO Jensen, the present secretary of
the association, is no longer drawing a
salary as such secretary. and is devot-
ing his time TO other work. Hereafter
the association should be more careful
see to it that he sticks to his business
and does not undertake to regulate the
business interests OF the city.
Passing the question of whether or
not this association has attempted to
regulate or make uniform the retail
price of groceries, we have looked into
the question Of the opportunity the
dealers have to regulate prices. and for
this purpose the merchandise sold by
the dealer must be divided into classes.
n the first class we find goods of
when the following are examples:
Schiling's goods. a complete line of
teas, spices, extracts. etc, are sold to
the dealer under a contract to the eff
Iect that the dealer VIII charge a GER
Iain specified retail price for each ar
tieie bought from the company. The
retail prices are printed on cards that
come IL each case, and il this price is
not malnta1ned the dealer will not be
aDle 10 buy goods from the company.
bishop co. of Los Angeles manu-
facture line of fancy canned goods
Jams. preserves and jeIlies. An each
box oil catsup is notice in the follow
ing words
Notice.
The goods contained In this case are
SOLO on the condition, which is made a
paft OF the consideration for the sale
ot these goods, that the purchaser. if
he retails these goods, will maintain
our flXed retail selling price on them:
AMI that If he WHOLESALERS them. he
VII sell them subject to this same con-
iition
our fixed retail selling price for cat
sup is 70 cents per bottle for the pints
md 10 cents for the half pints.
BISHOP & CO,
san francisco, New York, Los Ange-
les"
Hewlett Brost company of Salt Lake
City put out coffee, tea, baking pow
Ter. extracts land spices. II the es-
ablished rctfil price is cut by any
lealer he is n9 sold more goods by the
company. This is also true of Log Cap
n maple syrup put out by Towie & Co.
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