Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-07-09 | Page 3 | Retailers Unite to Fight Against Mail Order Firms

RETAILERS REI AlLERS UNITE TO FIGHT AGAINST MAIL ORDER fiRMS e Tho The annual convention of r tho rho Western r Merchants l Merchants Merchants' association lation was waif held in lri the tho Comm Commercial club yesterday afternoon Between thirty and forty t delegates from front the the- country were ero eroIn In attendance and the meeting was an I enthusiastic on one tho the qU questions of the tiro hour belr being s taken up and disposed of or with great earnestness The main question to bo threshed out was ho how to oppose the mail order houses The delegates decided that the only way nay n to cope copo successfully with them Is to cooperate co- co co co- operate to and affil many merchants band to together to- to gather gether In n for tor stock thus getting i reduced educed mt rates s and discount each merchant mer mer- merchant chant participating rl regardless of oC the mount amount expended IL A. A M. M I. I will become the rise asso associations association's new general manager In New York He retires from the presidency Officers Are Elected The new officers elected for tor the ing InE 3 ear car year arc are Parley Wright president Wright Sons Son a Ogden H H. H L L. Nelson vice president manager manale Sanpete operative Co store storo of ot Mt Pleasant Tim Covert secretary manager of Evans Co Malad Ida Id A A. A M M. Malouf MaJour treasurer and general manager These with Calvin Foss FOBS of or Foss Fos Bros Preston Ida B. B Jo F F. Booth manager of or the he Booth Mercantile company Garland Oarland C. C E B. B Adder Adderly of the Bingham Mercantile Mercantile Mercantile tile company compan Bingham W. W I II I. Hayes manager of the Pleasant Grovo Grove Mercantile tile lite company E. E B. B Malouf manager Leader store tore Richfield W. W H H. Brown manager manager Salina operative Co com company pan Salina allna W W. S. S McClellan manager Loa operative Co-operative company Loa r. r L L. L Tuttle manager Tuttle Co Mantl comprise the he board of directors director The report of or the retiring president was read It stated the purpose of the organization 01 or- saying that the association associations Is' Is s organized to put th the western merchant I Ion on the same basis as hi Ills his great competitor tor or th the tho mall order house The Thc results of the union and tho benefits benefits bene- bene fits Its to be derived are cited it being stated that hat the middle man Is making makin much mone money out of the retail merchants thus thu causing th the prices on goods that teach reach the he merchant to be 35 per percent cent higher than they hey should be Ho He also said that tho the movement mo is spreading and It Is expected that hat the ork work will be extended through Denver er Salt Lake City and San Fran Fran- an- an cisco