Arizona republican., 1921-04-11
Creating Demand an Object
 Of Pimacotton Growers Ass n

unable to accomplish legally. The moment they attempt it they are labeled a trust" and are hailed into court and dissolved
 Yet for years the farmers, the pro- ducers of any specific commodity, have had the legal right to combine, to organize for marketing and dis tribution. and yet with few excep- lions they have not taken advantage of their privileges.
 The farmers marketing organiZa- tions are specifically exempted from the operation of the antitrust laws. The main requirement. that must be lived up to is that these organiza- tions must be purely cooperative, that they must not be operated for profit as organizations, nor for profit for the members as such, but only for nrofit for the members as producers. Along these lines the new Arizona l Pimacotton Growers cooperative | marketing association is being or | ganized, and along the same lines will | be organized the overhead sales | agency to care for the problem of properly supplying the market with all types of long staple.
 l Grain Growers Organizing l Along the same lines is being form ed the national grain sales organiza- | sales associations, and the national sales agencies, are being advised by l Aaron Sapiro as to how. not to avoid l the law, but to conform to the latter | and the spirit of the law.
 Sapiro approved the contract of the Arizona Pimacotton GrNwers that is being signed all over the valley at this time The metings which have been held, while in some cases small have been very satisfactory to the organization committee. for there has not been a single cotton grower
 who has definitely refused to sign
 the contract, and thus combine with
 his neighbors to form firm organ
 ization for marketing.
 It is the belief of the committed
 that considering the evident determ-
 ination of the cotton grower tc
 change the marketing system, the 5t per cent minimum membership Is as.
 sured, and that probably more thar
 15 per cent will sign up. In Okla
 homa the growers reached their min
 imum some weeks ago and are stil going. Texas started to get 1000, %,
 bales, and has now determined if pos.
 sible to sign up 2,000,000 bales, whicf
 is most Of what the state probabl,
 will produce next year. Taking par
 in the organization of the nationa
 overhead sales agency at Oklahoma
 City week from today will be rep.
 resentives from Arizona, Texas, Ok
 lahoma, North and South Carolina
 the various states represented in tn,
 Delta organization. including Arkan sas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana
 and other states.
 Three more meetings have been SC , by the Arizona Pimacotton Grower
 so far, for this week, others to b
 announced later.
 , Tonight the meeting will be a l Roosevelt, Tuesday night at Laveer and "Wednesday night at Mesa. Tn , committee doing the preparator
 work of distributing the contract } for the growers to read, in tn
 Roosevelt district, consists of Lar
 Larsen, Gray Archer, F. H. Finneca f and F. W. Talimer. The Lavee
 committee consists of Charles W : Campbell, J. c. Dobbins, Fred Ga
 lusha, Mrs. Sharpe and w. c Cheat f ham. The Mesa committee is com 7 posed of Leonard Nets. G. c. Spills ] bury, E. D. Tway. Harry E. Chand Ter, Otto Shill and w. H. Branden I burg.