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Show WHITES AMD JAPS RUN CO-OP MARKET SYSTEM "SAX FRANCISCO, Der . ::i--. growlers' grow-lers' co-operative marketing association with ' j per cent of its members Jap-1 lansss and the other 3 pr-r oem Amar-ican Amar-ican has proved to be a sufficiently practical organisation as far as the .berry business is concerned, for virtu-Kll) virtu-Kll) all of the members have signed up for three more years, according to of-, Clciala of the Central California 13er- ' try Growers' association- The association, which was formed In 1 9 1 ! . has .lust completed a canvas-1 Of its territory Uhe counties of Santa Clara. San Mateo. Alameda. Santa .'ruz and San Benito for renewal of con- tracts. Five Americans. fic Japanese ana i an eleventh member, appointed by the Plate market director, who has always chosen an American, constitute the board Of directors. The president, frice president and manager, are American while the secretary of the board is a Japanese. The international cOjnbina-tlon cOjnbina-tlon has worked successfully and without with-out friction, according to official" All of the labor In the strawberry: and raspberry fields is Japanese. ac- Cording to association reports, al-' though Americans are used to some extent ex-tent in picking bush berries Americans, Ameri-cans, however, own considerable more of the acreage than the membership figures Indicate, as the Japanese Confine Con-fine themselves to patches of an acre i or two, while one American patch cov-, l ers ninety acree. j All of the business of the association' is carried In English except that clrcu-llar clrcu-llar letters regarding market conditions; shipping regulations, etc., are printed both In English and Japanese. English lis the language at board meetings, the Japanese directors who speak good ! English translating for Ihe benefit Of others who do not understand the ' tongue well. |