The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-02-10
SIBMIT BYLAWS
TO RICHLAND
FOR APPROVAL
Kennewick Strawberry Growers
Agree Upon Details for the
Marketing Union
SEyENTY-FIVE ACRES NOT in
pue;ness of Association to Be in the
Hands of Board of Seven or
Nine Directors

Organization of the strawberry
growers is now merely a question of
The Kennewick growers and the Rich
land growers agreeing as to details.
The Kennewick men gave definite ex-
rression to their wishes Monday af-
+ernoon when bylaws were adopted
subject to the approval of the Rich
land growers. 1t had been expected
that Mondays meeting would be
;oint one but because of the bad roads
the Richland growers were unable to
attend.
Briefly, the bylaws as adopted pro-
vide that the organization shall be
known as the Observation-Disclosures
Marketing Union and the manage
ments of its business affairs shall be
placed in the hands of seven or nine
men, two of whom may be business
men who are not engaged in growing
strawberries. Three directors are to
be selected by the Kennewick growers
and three by Richland. These six are
to choose seventh director who is
to be chairman of the board and pres
ident Of the union. They may also at
their option elect two more board
members. Thus the board may be
composed of either seven or nine
members.
As adopted, the bylaws provide for
one organization embracing the two
districts instead Of two district or
CARNATIONS working comparatively.
Representation in the union will be
upon an acreage basis, each member
being entitled to one vote for each
acre or fractional acre. General men,
bership meetings are to be held either
in Kennewick or Richland, it being the
intention to alternate between the two
towns.
The only instance where the two
districts are to vote independently of
each other is in the election of three
directors each. The directors are to be
nominated by primary thirty days pri-
or to the annual election. Recall of
directors is provided for, ten per cent
Of the vote being necessary to call a
recall election and majority vote
being required to oust the offending
member from office. Only one direc-
tor can be recalled at a time. In the
main, the bylaws are patterned after
the bylaws of the Hood River Apple
Growers association.
It is not known whether or not this
plan Of organization will prove salts
factory to the Richland growers to
whom it has already been submitted.
Should it prove unsatisfactory, joint
mass meeting of the growers of the
two districts will probably be called
(which any difference will be thresh-
ed out. In case Richland approves the
plan they will probably name their di-
rectors and the organization will be
perfected without calling another gen.
eral meeting.
The three directors chosen to rep
resent Kennewick are M. N. Hudnall,
Jas. Johnston and Emil Albrecht.
This gives each section Of the Kenne-
wick district representation on the
board. Mr.. Hudnall represents the
Highlands, Mr.. Johnston the valley,
and Mr.. Albrecht the river territory
south and east of the O-W. railroad.
Mondays meeting was characterized
oy disposition on the part of the
growers not to quibble over details
There was an evident desire to leave
the working out of details to the di-
rectors whose duty it will be to for
mulate a binding contract to be sign
co by the members, to adopt grade
and pack rules, to engage a manager
rent warehouse and arrange to fl
nance the organization.
Aitho the growers who have signed
up are showing determination to
lend their unqualified support to the
organization, there is still consider
soie acreage which it has been i'm
possible to bring in. In fact the &C.
Nage outside the organization is much