White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-08-31
Apple Growers Confer on
Fruit Code for Northwest
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similar services in the district in
volved as evidenced by existing con-
tractual agreements.
The agreement provides for board
Of trustees, secretary COM
modify committees, an auction COM
mittee and terminal committees. The
board of directors will pass on sched-
ules of minimum prices, and the auc-
ton and terminal committees are to
function at the instance OF the COM
modify committees and the board.
Provision is made for the control and
ALLEGATION of shipments and the With
holding from shipping and sale OF
such varieties and grades as the COM
modify committees and the board may
deem advisable.
The duties of the board of trustees
shall be, according to the provisions
of the agreement, to supervise the
performance of the agreement, to act
as intermediary between the Secre-
tary of Agriculture and the shippers,
to appoint and define the duties OF
additional committees. to hear ana
dispose of all disputes, to define the
districts for any species OF declduous
tree fruits, to approve all schedules
of minimum prices proposed by COM
modify committees, to entertain, de-
cline or approve promptly requests Tor
permission to sell fruit for less than
the published minimum price, to de-
termine uniform rates for packing
and storage in the various districts, to
consider recommendation of the COM
modify committees with regard to
prohibitions of shipments in inter-
state or foreign commerce OF any
fruit and to prohibit such shipments
by the shippers if it deems such pro-
hibition desirable and in the best
interest of the growers, to revise the
schedule of commissions to be charged
by shippers, to approve or decline TO
approve applications by shippers Tor
permission to participate in joint ac-
count transactions, to propose amend
ments or notifications of the agree
ment, and to establish a uniform
method of payment for sales for flu
i ture shipment.
| The duties of the commodity COM
mittees shall be to make investiga-
lions into and assemble data on the
current growing, shipping and mar
keting conditions in the fruit trade to
enable the committee to perform their
further duties, to determine and pub
lish schedules of minimum prices and
| from time to time revise such price
schedules and publish such revisions
to recommend to growers, in view OF
prevailing marketing conditions, that
they refrain from harvesting any
variety or grade of fruit and recon-
mend to the board of trustees that
the shipment of such fruit be pro-
hibited in whole or in part, to de-
termine from time to time if desirable
to attempt to control or regulate thu
auction of any variety or grade o
! fruit, and to fix and publish schedule
of maximum charges for brokerage
, services.
No minimum price shall be sub
mitted to the board of trustees TO
approval and published unless two
thirds of the total membership OF tn
commodity committee involved ha
: evidenced it's approval by records
J. ballot. All such minimum prices sha
be approved by the board before pub
LEGATION and Shall thereafter be in Ell
! feet unless at any time disapprove
. by the Secretary of Agriculture.
!, The agreement provides that ship
pers shall not sell, quote or offe
. fruit for sale in any manner whatso
e ever for prices less than those for tn
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