The Hartford republican., 1910-10-21
PI OPPOSITION
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Green River Association
Will Not Join in Price.
Willing to Confer With Other Or
ganizatiOns Only After
Offer Had Been Made.

The quarterly Meeting of the Greon
River Tobacco Growers association
WAS held in Owsnsboro Thursday
morning and delegates from Daviess
Hancock, Mclean and Ohio counties
were in attendance and took an active
part in the discussion of the general
markets. The meeting was presided
over by W. G.. Biney.
The meeting was held behind clos
ed doors, but Jhe association made
known the cOat;n of a resolution
adopted by the meeting, which was
the nest important matter that came
before the body. The resolution was
drafted by committee appointed to
confer with delegation repress snting
the American Society of Equity and
the Home Warehouse company COM
posed of +. X. Moseley, l.. ~ Robert
son and EmsJn Shaw
The committee heard the PROPOSE
ton advanced by tn. visitors frcm the
othre organizations. that the three
pools be bound tog sther on a single
selling price, tho price TO be fixed by
tho growers in the different districts,
and to be biudiug on each of the as
sociatioDs.
The COMMITTEES after hsaring the
argument advanced by the visiting
delegation fay0ring the plan, draw up
and submitted for the consideration,
OF the Green River Tobacco Growers
association the following report,
which was unanimously adopted.
We, your committee. submit the
following report
The Representatives of the Ameri-
can Society of Equity and the Home
warehouse prCsmted the following
proposition.
ITO leave the pricing of this years
crop of tobacco to those who have
pooled in any association. Such Meet
ing to be callod by joint call the
presidents of the three associations,
calling all poolers to meet at their
schoolhouses, fix a price and the aver-
age of the prices so fixed shall be the
price for this yoar's crop of tobacco,
below which no association or com
mittee shall have power to Sell or con
tract this tobacco.
All practical and right-thiniing
men agree that all the associations
acting together can accomplish more
than any one single handsd, ard that
each association should do everything
possible TO co-operate with the others.
But after carefully considering the
above proposition as explained by It's
advocates, and listening to all the
arguments advanced in its favor, your
committee conclude that it does not /
present a practical basis for co-opera- ]
tion in selling our tobacco, but is !
merely an invitation to take a joint |
leap in the dark. Sine, ii would bind |
all the associations in advance to
hold for an unknown price. and |
would mean fixing a price without |
considering the samples, while in re- !
ality the samples are almost as i'm
portant as the price.
In the light OF six years exporiencs !
in the organized selling of tobacco.
your committee believing the followin
TO be the most practical and business
like method for the association to
pursue.
That the representatives of the as
sociation get the best possible offer
for the tobacco. This offer to be
based on carefully selected samples,
the offer also to cover the questions
Of grading and weighing, the points
at which the tobacco is to be received
and all details concerning the duliv-
cry of the tobacco.
That the officers of the association
then present this definite proposition
to the association, and show the sam
pies upon which the offer is based.
That the association then consider the
whole question, discuss il fully, con-
suit the other associations TO any ex-
tent 1t may desire, and then decide
whether it will accept the offer or re-
lect it, Should 1t decide to reject it,
he association can then, in the light
'f all the conditions fix price and ,
name the terms upon which 1t will ,
authorize its Representatives TO make
| sale. I
II. MARKSBERRY, Chairman.
r. d. BRYANT,
J. o. MADDEN,
ID NJ WHAYNE