Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-02-25
GROWERS MEET
AT TACOMA
Continued from Page One.


lows: Such members shall be bona
fide fruit growers in and from the
district that he represents and no
member of the Board of Control
shah be a salaried official OF any
fruit sales agency or one whose
principal business consists in buy
ing, assembling, or selling for his
own profit, fruit that is not grown
| by himself. Members of the Board
of Control shall receive $500 per day
and shall be paid their necessary ira
Yelling expenses while attending to
duties of their office.
4. The Board of Control shah be
authorized and empowered to elect
am Executive Committee of three,
provided, that the Board of Control
is hereby instructed to elect as
such Executive Committee the three
men nominated by the Growers Coun
! Gil. Each member of said Executive
Committee shall be acceptable to
the majority of the delegation re-
/ presenting said district and shall re-
ceive such compensation for his
services as shall be fixed by the
Growers Council.
] The powers conferred by the
Growers Council upon the Executive
Committee are hereby declared and
defined as follows:
(x). 1t shalr be the duty of the
Executive Committee to enter into
negotiations with the Shippers Lea
que, or other duly authorized repre-
sentatives of the shippers of the
Northwestern fruits, or any consid-
cradle numbers of them, for the fol-
lowing purposes:
! (a). To obtain for the fruit grow
ers the maximum amount of service
in return for the compensation paid
the shipper by the grower.
(b). To secure the adoption of
such uniform methods for the trans
action of business between shipper
ard growers as will furnish fair
basis of comparison.
(c). To establish such practices
with regard to the selling and mar
hetin2 of fruit as will tend to elimi-
late consignment and auction sales,
prevent unwise and unfair compe-
tition. and in every possible man
ner stabilize the market and secure
for the grower the greatest possible
net leturn for his product.
ID. In conjunction and co-opera-
ton with the shippers, to proceed,
as occasion offers, be conservative
and well-considered measures to i'm
prove the condition affecting the
production and marketing of fruit
and especially to promote the inter
csts of the boxed apple Industry of
the Northwest.
(e). To arrange for the collect
ion through the shippers of a tax,
to be paid by the grower, not to
exceed two dollars per carload of
fruit shipped, to provide for the
cost and expense of this organiza-
tion, all such funds to be subject
to disbursement by the Executive
Committee, who shall make perio-
die reports to the Board of Control.
~. To make arrangements with
the shippers for the carrying out
Of the purposes herein outlines, and
Tor other purposes as the same
may appear to be mutually advan-
tageous, and to enforce the same;
and to that end they are authoriz-
ed to establish headquarters and en-
gage such employees and assistance
as may be necessary.
B. The Executive Committee shall
nave charge of all the details of
carrying into execution the purpos-
es Of this organization; but its acts
snail be under the general supervi-
Sion and direction of the Board oil
my nGuU6I IQ6 EA6Cu-
tive Committee may be removed on|
three-fourths vote of the men,
oershlp of the Board of Control
out such member of the Executive
Committee may appeal such remov-
al to the Growers Council, whose
majority vote shall be the final de-
cision.
The Board of Control shall have
power to make and adopt such by
laws, rules and regulations for its
OWN government as it shall deem
necessary, not to conflict with the
provisions hereof.
Nothing herein contained shall be
construed to require the Executive
committee TO give to the Board of
.ontrol or any member thereof con
'Doentlal information given to them