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Show ' BEET GROWERS ARE URGED TO ACCEPT 1927 CONTRACT; GREAT YEILD PREDICTED The misunderstanding that has ' existed for some time among the ! members of the Central Utah Beet Growers association relative to the planting of sugar beets this year l.ns cleared up at a meeting of the jssociation Saturday night. President Presi-dent J. W. Gillman, who is also I president of the Utah State Beet ( . -i;"owers' association,, announced to the growers that the contract offcr-od offcr-od them this year by the sugar companies' com-panies' has been approved by the ' association, and (hat the growers were at liberty and at their own responsibility to sign up for as many acres of beets this year as they desired. Mr. Gillman. who presided at they i meeting, at which more than 123 ! members were in attendance, declared declar-ed that for some time n cloud seems to have been hovering over the - sugar beet situation in the state. I Growers, he said, have misunder-I misunder-I stood the statement given out some j time ago by the directors of tlio I state organization. He reviewed the activities of the beet organization, j especially as. relating to the recent 1 controversy with the companies re- gardlng the difference in the initial I payment offered the Utah and thu I Idaho growers. Gillman Gives View j "We don't want to do anything." I said Mr. Gillman, "that would up-' up-' set our own organization or ser-l ser-l iously upset an industry that means I so much to Utah as docs the sugar ! beet industry. This industry has ( given to the farmers of Utah and j Idaho annually about fifteen mill-I mill-I ion dollars. In deliberating over ' this situation let us do so in ser-I ser-I i( usness and soberui'ss. j "To Insist that the sugar compan-' compan-' ' ies should pay us at this time ?7.riO I a ton for our heels may break or j disrupt our association. At; any I rate it would Invite a lot of trouble j rial may menu the destruction of t the beet industry. J "I want to say for the organiza- I lion that the contract entered into I Willi the sugar companies is valid ' "ad (he organization will stand be-I be-I hind it. Wo cannot and will not i organization. Industry Farmers Samuel Taylor of Payson praised the work of the directors and declared de-clared that it would be unjust for the association to repudiate its present pres-ent contract. He urged every beet grower to stand behind that contract con-tract as if it were his own individual individ-ual contract. Bernard Cnrislonsou of American Fork maintained that the sugar industry in-dustry is as much the farmers as the manufacturers. He reminded the growers that the. industry, once would have gone under had it not been for the fact that the sugar eompnny borrowed several million dollars to pay the contract money to the growers. "Do we want to kill the goose that lays the golden egg " asked Mr. Christenson. "Arc wo going to take an attitude that would destroy the beet industry? If you crush the beet industry, what are you going to raise? Every industry that comes into this section is your business. We get. benefit from all of the sugar factories in this sutte." Contract Valid Ralph Morgan of Spanish Fork stressed the fact that the present contract specifically states that there will be no change in it for three, years. He declared the organization organ-ization can elo nothing else but adhere ad-here to the contract. He maintained maintain-ed that the Idaho growers would get no more eventually for their beets than will Hie Utah growers. He also emphasized the point that as soon as I he organization asks for a change while the present contract is in force it spells the end of collective col-lective bargaining for beet growers iiisthis stale. Roger Creer of Spanish Fork scored the directors of the state organization or-ganization for praising the Gunnison Gunni-son Valley factory for offering S7.50 a ton as being unjust to the other factories. He declared it lint the Utah contract is better than that in any other place in the United Stales. He also said that 1 lie present pres-ent ye-jir promised better licet returns re-turns than ever before. repudiate it. As far as wo are eon- I ctraed, we have told tiie sugar of- ficlals of the mistakes they have I nincle in discriminating against the Utah growers. That is as far a , w-o can go In the matter. We will I never ask them as long as tiie eou- tract is in force to give us more 1 lhnn (he per ton they have offer- eel us. I I Industry Vilal J "The farmers of Ulah county and I f the entire slate, in fact, are on I tleir own responsibilily of raising I or refusing to raise sugar beets this I year. Y'ou have your liberty to do I in this matter as yon see fit." I Several of the members of the or- j ennization Insisted that the coiu- I panics should be made to pay an J Initial payment, of S7.ru) a Ion, but I the suggestions were not taken ser- I imisly by the majority of those j present-. I Most of the speakers urged the j farmers to stand behind the eoni- pilules which have factories in (his j "unity, declaring that the Industry Is vital to the entire county. They j Pointed out that tile initial naym- nt rj makes I i 1 1 lo difference in the long run as long as the sliding scale con- j Iriict Is in effect. They predicted I an unusually big year, and one of J the biggest yields that has ever I been recorded In Utah county, j On motion of William Farrer of I Prove, (ho meeting endorsed the stand taken in the recent controversy contro-versy by the directors of the state I Beet Cash Crop "We are facing a serious problem." prob-lem." said Dr. Jeiseph Hughes of Spanish Fork. "The decision we make here will cither make or break an organization in which we tire essentially es-sentially interested. The hoot crop in Utah coiinly is about the only cash crop that the farmer has ever had. It. is about the only farm pro-clile-t that the farmer can depend upon up-on for his taxes. Suppose that the sugar companies have made a blunder. blund-er. No contract has been broken through it. Why not go out unitedly united-ly and encourage the protection of (his induslry which means so much to this section. Such a step should embarrass no one. We must take no step here which will injure either the fanner or the nianul'actnrer." John K. Allen of Vineyard, one of the most successful fanners of Utah county, said that those who say that the sugar industry is not putting money into the hands of the fanners are itnaeiUainted witll the situation or else not telling the truth. others who spoke at the mooting were A. M. Anderson. Frovo : J. Enl-inelt Enl-inelt Bird. Springvi'lo : Reed Knudsen. Knud-sen. Provo ; Joseph Jensen. Goshen : Harry J. Gammon. Vineyard: Charles Cloward. Payson: Mr. Ash-vorth Ash-vorth and M. Lundcll, Bcniamiu: (George Seoll. Lake View : William II .Xcilson. Palmyra ; Andrew Otteson. Otte-son. Salcun: S. L. Mondonhnll. Springville, and Mrs. Barnes, Lehi. 1 |