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Show TACTICS OF CANNERS SAID TO BEUNBUR Growers Unanimously Vote to Endorse Action of Its Committee FARMERS ARE WARNED NOT TO HEED RUMORS Association Members Who Break Agreements to Be Handled In Court Tomato growers of t'tah county will stand pat on their demands of S12 a ton for their product. Should the canners continue to refuse to enter into further negotiations, the growers will raise no tomatoes here 1 his year, but will plant other crops. This was the unanimous decision of more than 00 members of the t'tah County Canning Crois Growers Grow-ers association at a meeting in the court house Wednesday night. The .-rowers indorsed the stand taken by -heir committee negoriating with the .-aimers of the state and again pledged to stand solid for .12 a ton. t'n fair tactics alleged to have been used by representatives of canning can-ning companies in getting growers in sign tomatoes on the -Slo a ton .-ontrai-t were severely rebuked by lie various speakers. l-'ollnu-ing the meeting, it was learned from M. P. Rrowu, president of 1 1 io state organization, that, letters let-ters will be mailed immediately notifying no-tifying all members of the organization organiza-tion to cancel any contracts that they may have made with the canners can-ners to grow tomatoes at $10 a ton. The growers will he instructed that should such tomatoes be delivered lo the canners the growers' association associa-tion will proced to collect one fourth of tile contract price for each ton lclivercd. as the growers agreed in filtering the association. This would mean that all growers who break rheir signed agreement with the association by selling tomatoes nt ;10 a ton wou'd receive only $7.ot) a ton. the association geMing the other $2.50 for everv ton delivered. W. K. Hill of Springville presided ; it a meeting. Kevins from the Saletn, Springville. Provo. Lake View. Vineyard and Provo Bench dst rk-rs showed that only a ueii-;able ueii-;able per cent of tomatoes had been , onirnoted by farmers not members ; f the association. .Mr. Brown warned the growers j lot to pay an attention to the ru-i ru-i mors they undoubtedly would hear j ibour 'Weber or Davis county grow-j grow-j rs accepting the $10 contract j "Whenever there is a fight going m," said Mr. Brown,, "reports are always circulated about this or hat county, or this or thai grower awning up at a lower price "Every county organization is landing pat thus far for the $1J trice. Some of the canners have not tried to get any tomatoes not tie-firing tie-firing to elites' into any controversy .vith the farmers. Other canners nave been very active but have thus i'ar been able to get few contract allied Some of these will be cancelled can-celled from the fact the growers ire said to have been deceived by 'he statement that the $10 price lad been accepted by the growers' issociation." West Jacobs, represent Ing the Pleasant Grove Canning company, stated that bis coiimpany only made i a.iioo profit on a lt".nm sale ast year .lames D. Thorne, also representing represent-ing the canning company, said that as field man he had tried to be as fair ami just as possible in securing on I rails from tin; growers A mong 1 he growers who spoke were George Scott, C. M. Stewart, I J M idscu. I letiry Savin, Jn men lake and Spencer .Mad sen |