The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-07-28
DEFINITE ACTION AT MEETING
NEXT FRIDAY.
MINIMUM PRICE IS LIKELY.
Resolutions Adopted at Indignation
Meeting of Growers at
Florence.

Florenc, July 22.-Deinite action
as to what is best to be done to obtain
relief from the situation created by
low priced tobacco will be determined
at a meeting of the Tobacco Grow
ers' Association of South Carolina in
Florence FRIDAY, July 29.
The Warehousemen's Association
was asked by the indignation mass
meeting here today to meet a COM
,mittee from the Growers organization
on Saturday, July 80, for the purpose
of fixing minimum price at which
i tobacco will be permitted to sell. in
this state. 1t was admitted that moth
ing was to be gained by demanding
better prices and that control of the
crop by the farmers themselves in the
acreage and matter of marketing was
the only avenue of relief.
Farmers are urged in resolutions
adopted to offer only the better
grades, we'll cleaned and picked, and
not to bring any tobacco whatever to
market until the meeting here on Fri
day when definite steps as to price
will be taken for their guidance.
Speakers urged today that tobacco
selling for two and three cents
pound was worth more as fertilizer.
There were probably a hundred
present, representing all lines of busi-
| ness, and while the meeting opened
slow it developed into quite a py-
rothechnical display. Some delega-
tions from surrounding counties
brought in reports of such bad feel
ing in some sections against the pres
ent low prices as to give rise to ap-
prehension as to what might happen
in their localities unless the people
were brought to an understanding of
all conditions.
Discussion today was frank and
free. Nearly all of the principal mar
kets were represented. Some tele-
graphed they were water bound
E. C. Epps, banker of Kingstree,
offered the following resolution,
which was. adopted:
"Wheras, citizens representing
various tobacco markets in South
Carolina, called together in mass
meeting by the secretary of the tobac-
co association by request of certain
local markets for the purpose of dis
! cussing the prevailing conditions of
the present markets and the prices Of
fered thereon, after due deliberations
and thought, do hereby
Resolve and recommend the fol-
lowing suggestions as the only prac-
tical means and methods whereby
| more uniform and more satisfactory
prices may be abtoined.
Text of Resolutions.
First. Werecommendt that farmers
devote their best efforts toward har-
vesting and curing only better grades
Of tobacco, and that the same be
cleaned and picked before being Of
fered for sale on the warehouse foor4
Second. That all such tobacco re-
ceiving bids less than (this price to
be determined next Friday to be
withheld from sale and be used as
fertilizer upon the farm upon which
grown.
Third. We recommend that the
warehousemen of the state refrain
from bidding upon offers for sale un-
less at least one bid is made by an
authorized buyer not engaged in or in
any way connected with the ware
house business.
Fourth. That all tobaccoes offered
for sale that do not bring at least
(price to be determined next Friday
be passed by the warehousemen and
returned to the producer.
Fifth. That the warehousemen's
Association be, and is hereby, re-
quested to call a meeting of all ware
housemen in South Carolina in Flor
ence on Saturday, July 80, and at this
time the said association, together
with a committee, which will be ap-
pointed from the Growers Associa-
ton, which meets in Florence on Fri
day, July 90, will fix minimum price
at which any tobacco will be permit
ted to sell in this state. That 1t is
the sense Of this meeting that the
farmers throughout the state be en-
couraged as far as possible to with
hold sales of tobacco from the ware
house floors until after the meeting
of the state Growers Association on
Friday and the meeting of the Tobac-
co Warehausemen's Association on
Saturday, the % and 80, respectively.