The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-09-25
Favor Two Cent A Ton
Clause In Beet Contract

According to J. H. Hale, who is
the Bingham county representative
of the Idaho Beet Growers State
committee, preparations are being
made throughout the beet-growing
sections, to conduct a campaign to
get a complete sign-up to the two
cent per ton clause appearing at The
bottom of the 1924 beet contract.
A recent check by the committee
develops the fact that, while ma
jority of the growers are signed, a
very great number are not, and since
all beetgrowers benefit alike in the
past, as well as the future work of
the state committee, all should sign
the clause which supplies the fl
nance necessary for future work of
the committee
It has been ascertained in the
preliminary survey made. that of
those who did not sign the clause,
existence on the contract. Also,
that of those who had knowledge
of its presence there, yet, who did
not sign, refused to do SO only on
the grounds that they were either
unaware of the use to be made of
the fund thus created, or else they
were misinformed as to that use.
1t is explained by the officials of
the Idaho Farm Bureau federation
to whom the money is made payable.
that the federation is the trustee OF
the fund, and that no expenditures
shall be made therefrom, except on
vouchers to be drawn upon the fund
by the Idaho Beet Growers State
committee and that said vouchers
shall be drawn only for claims for
services rendered, after said claims
have received proper verification,
audit and approval of the commit
tee.
For the further information of
the grower, the Idaho Beet Growers
State committee releases the infor-
nation that only SO much of the
fund will be actually expended, as
will be necessary to secure the in
formation which the committee must
have to preserve, further and pre-
sugar beet crop. If the two cents
per ton levied shall provide more
funds than are found to be necess-
AIRY for the work in hand during the
coming contract year, due consider
alton will be given the fact, and next
years clause will contain a lesser
levy per ton. At the end of the con-
tract year a certified statement of
all receipts and disbursements will |
be issued by the committee and mail
ed to all beetgrowers. The personnel
of the committee is sufficient guar
antee that none of the fund will be |
needlessly expended, but rather,
that all investigational work neces-
sary will be done and this at min
imum of cost
Under the terms of the 1924 con-
tract, the grower is permitted to
make an investigation, with grower
employed experts, by means of an
audit of the books of the various
factories; check of the sugar con-
tent of the beets sliced in the vari-
GUS factories; a check of tares made
at dumps of the companies, as wen
as other items of cost which enter
into the determination of the $3.50
contract.
The committee is calling the grow
ers' attention to the fact that the
present contract is negotiated con-
tract, the result of six years of hard
work by members of the state COM
mittee who have given days and
weeks of their individual time, and
hundreds of dollars in the aggre-
gate, of their personal funds to pro-
cure 1t for the growers of this state
The 1924 contract which they nego- s
tiated pays the beetgrowers forty {
cents per ton more than the 1928
contract did and the 1923 contract I
was better contract than the 1922
was. The 1924 contract is I
4 profit-sharing contract, and now I
hat this is 80, the grower, through l
his state committee, will employ the
expert help necessary in cooperation r
With the sugar company's standards
II efficiency In the production, man. 8
fracture and sale of the sugar beef v
ind its product, sugar, to the end v
hat grower and factory shall If pos 1
ible receive alike, their Just pro- b
portion of profits involved in the +
Industry. n
The average beet grower of this Il
tate, according to Mr.. Hale, has re- t.
eived in the 1924 contract alone, n