Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-19 | Page 11 | Wholesale Dealers Hit Produce Law Methods

I I I I j I Wholesale Dealers Hit Produce Law Methods Complaining that they are being discriminated against in favor of the small mall dealers members of ot th the Intermountain Intermountain Intermountain Inter- Inter mountain Wholesale Produce Dealers' Dealers association of Utah met with the state board oard of agriculture Tuesday to pro- pro protest protest test est against present enforcement of the he state produce law The law provides that a 25 license fee ce ee must be paid by all aU persons dealing in n produce except retail dealers and those hose dealing ealing in less than carload lots lols The protesting dealers complained that hat itinerant peddlers and other small dealers buy carloads of vegetables and andI fruit ruit at It wholesale haul the produce into nto the cities in small trucks and andI thereby hereby escape the state license fee They asked that the board place trucks rucks and other vehicles vehicles' in the thc class of carloads which would require he the small dealers to pay the fee Attorney General George Georg P. P Parker Parker Par- Par ker er attended the meeting which was presided over by Commissioner Harden Harden Har liar den Bennion chairman