Show Gunnison Sugar Company Seek leek Contract Fulfillment Action was filed Tuesday in the District Court here by hy the tho Gunnison Gunni Gunnison Gunnison Gunni Gunni- son Sugar Company against the Utah Idaho Sugar Sugar- Company Ube the I Peoples Sugar Company N. N G. G i and amI a number of beet growers browers who have havo contracted to to grow beets for the tho Gunnison Sugar Company The complaint alleges that tho the Gunnison Company at the request of certain beet growers who were looking for a market for Cor their beets at tho lie time It was announced that the Peoples Sugar Company's factory factory factory fac fac- tory at Moroni would woul be dismantled dismant- dismant led lad and removed out of the state contracted with beet growers living Jiving in North Sar pete County that af after after af- af ter their contracts had been heen entered enter enter- ed ad into inlo and with knowledge that they had been heen entered into the Utah Idaho Sugar Company made mado l an agreement with the Peoples Sugar Sugar Sugar Su Su- Su- Su gar Company by hy which winch it undertook undertook undertook under under- took to finance that company's operations op- op orations and thereupon the Peoples Sugar Company began a campaign to induce the beet growers who had contracted with the Gunnison Company to throw over such contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts and und grow beets for fOl tho the Peoples Sugar Company It is alleged that thai to induce such beet growers to break breal their contracts contracts con con- contracts tracts the Peoples Sugar SUg-ar Company is offering a 11 minimum price of ot per ton for Cor beets find and nd that this is a a. higher minimum price than has been heen paid for boots In this territory since 1 1921 21 and higher than tho the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar Company Coo Com pany pays elsewhere In Utah ox at Elsinore w the Utah- Utah Idaho Sugar Company comes coins rule into i C Continued on Page Pago Four Four- Gunnison G Oi 1 I Sugar c Co CoI I Continued from Page Pago 1 I II I direct competition with the p pia tiff and ostensibly contracts to Its growers growers 7 00 per pet ton JJ t k through tho the guise o of a 1 00 Jj iton r i ton tOIl payment b by three benevol citizens actually pays I It t ton n. n The complaint asks that tho the fondants bo he restrained from or Ind Inducing any beet growers rowers I break their contracts with plain Judge Dilworth Woolley in the application of the plain plaint Issued an order directing the Ii j Pendants to show cause before L Jj h b bon on April why a restrain order should not be lie Issued pond pend tho the trial of or tho the case casp President W. W Harvey Ross w Interviewed regarding the brought by br his company s B The question is a simple one vital not only to us but to e ev cv citizen and to everyone doing I b i in do Utah it I is just this 1 I contract a contract or Is It just scrap of or paper Wo We have en ente 11 into these contracts in good fal fai I Wo we have gone to a lot lol o of expense expense preparing to fulfill them Wo V Vp p pest t to live 11 up Ull to our and we believe belie we are entitled have ha the men mell we deal with lIeto live lI to their contracts It is not hard to see that tl th thIs Is an all Influence not originating County which is back the actions of these few beet ors who have disregarded their e tracts 1 We Ve regret that it has been n essary to 10 bring this action pa par r as a 1 against ai the farmers r w waro a aare aro are made defendants along AV the tb Utah-Idaho Utah and Peoples Su Companies but hut we feel that we weft wen t tit it not only to ourselves but i ly b to the many farmers who h In loyally and nd honorably lived u up their contracts to see that J meaning of a 3 contract Is br brats u home to the defendants I |