Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
GROCERS REMAIN
FOR TRADE FARLEY
Meeting With Commission
Follows Convention of Man.
ufaCturerS' Association.

Having concluded their twenty-first
annual convention with the election of
officers and adoption of resolutions at
business session in the Hotel May
flower yesterday afternoon, followed by
a banquet in the hotel last night, many
of the delegates of the Associated
Grocery Manufacturers of America,
Inc are attending the second Grocery
Trade Practice Conference, which con-
vened under the auspices of the Federal
Trade Commission in the Mayfower
Hotel today.
The general purpose Of the Trade
Practice Conference, 1t is pointed out,
is to get the grocerS voluntarily to adopt
codes of business ethics, with a view
to the Federal Trade Commission seek
ing methods to enforce the ethics as
sponsored by the grocers themselves.
H. r. Drackett, past president of the
Associated Grocery Manufacturers OF
America, is presiding at the trade con-
ference sessions as chairman of the
conference executive committee. The
conference executive committee COM
prises members of the following organ
izations: Associated Grocery Manufac-
turers of America, America Wholesale
Grocers' Association, National Associa-
ton of Chain Stores, National Food
Brokers' Association, National Associa-
ton of Retail Grocers and the National
Wholesale Grocerg Association.
Will Discuss Prices.
Principal among the issues to be con-
sidered are those of price discrimination,
on which the conference is to consider
the adoption of resolution declaring 1t
IAN unfair business method to make any
price discrimination that is uneconomic
or unjust; selling below cost. in con-
nection with which it is declared to be
an unfair trade practice to sell goods
below cost for the purpose of injuring
a competitor. Misrepresentation, lot
terry and bribery, boycott and propa-
ganda are also to be considered as sepa-
rate groups.
The following officers of the Asso-
ciated Grocery Manufacturers of Amer
lea were elected at the final business
session of that organization yesterday
afternoon:
George D. Odds, jr., of Hills Bros Co.,
New York, president; Charles A. Villas
of the National Biscuit Co. of New
York, first vice president; George H
Burnett of Joseph Burnett Co., Boston,
second vice president: Joseph d. F.
Bull of the Cream of Wheat Co., Mill
neapolis, third vice president, and B. E.
Snyder of r. B. Davis Co., Hoboken,
N. j., treasurer. Directors elected are +:
C. Francis of New York, M. j. Norton
of New York, j. S. Goldbaum of Phila-
delphia, R. 4. James of Chicago, Paul
E. Willis of New York, M. Hills of New
York and E. c. Godron of Indianapolis.
Want Amendment.
A resolution adopted at the business
session yesterday urged that the Fed
eral and State antitrust laws be
amended to make it lawful ito take any
: business or trade action the purpose of
which shall be to promote constructive
competition
The association also adopted a reso-
luton condemning 1.-The double taxation
of foreign corporations by State legis-
lation involving the imposition of both
franchise tax and an income tax for
the privilege of transacting the same
business within the State"
President OldS in a statement last
night vigorously denied that cooper
alive distribution efforts of the whole
sale grocery manufacturers will lead to
direct selling"
An address telling of the work of
large corporations and their responsible
itiss was delivered at the annual ban
quet by o. H. CLANCY, vice president
of the Irving Trust Co, New York. City.