California Cooperative Canneries

Summary

Business Details
Primary Business	Cannery

Summary

California Cooperative Canneries was an Armour-affiliated cannery in the meat packing company's attempt to expand into fruits and vegetables. After an anti-trust battle, they relinquished the company.

Locations

Location	Years	Address	Details
Modesto	1922
San Francisco	1922	Cunard Building
San Jose	1922	Tenth and Taylor

Details

Also see Producers Warehouse. California Cooperative Canneries was primarily selling to Armour (10 year contract); they argued to farmers that this would give them more flexibility and profits. Others didn't think so and didn't like the meat packers dominating another area of food production, and the US fought against this to keep Armour and Swift from dominating the food industry in the US. by 1924, canneries were deeply in debt to packers. Consent decree was suspended from 1925 to 1929; the Supreme Court ruled anti-trust was appropriate.":http://newspaperarchive.com/bakersfield-californian/1929-05-20/page-2 eventually they were "allowed to keep the business though there's hints that California Cooperative Cannery might have disappeared after that.

Also see 1919 article from grower ad editorial Vernon Campbell was manager in 1921.

Sold to Bisceglia brothers according to January 7, 1920 Evening News Bisceglia Brothers will continue contracts with Armour.

From 1922 history "There are forty canning factories in the county. One of these, the Co-operative plant, is the largest in the world. In 1921 it absorbed 30,000 tons of fruit and employed nearly 1,000 people. In the busy season of that year the combined county payroll reached over two million dollars."

Mentioned as one of the biggest canneries in the county in 1922.

Floyd Bohnett is an enthusiastic member in 1922.

1922 Cannery's Directory shows sites in San Jose and Modesto, with offices in Cunard Building in San Francisco.