Fruit Growers of California
Fruit Growers of California was a co-operative fruit shipping organization[1][2], supposedly acting as a "detached auxiliary of the California Prune and Apricot Growers"[3].
When California Co-operative Canneries was being vilified as a front for the Armour & Co. meat packing company, the association filed complaints against the cannery. Aaron Sapiro, lawyer for the Fruit Growers of California, filed a complaint against the company in 1919 claiming unfair competition, and demanding Armour be divorced from California Co-operative Canneries[4].
The company was handling cherries in 1922, and received complaints because of low prices being offered for the crop that year[5] R. P. Van Orden, president of the society, claimed that some non-cooperative fruit buyers had been "talking about very fancy prices" and setting inappropriate expectations to farmers.
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References
- ↑ Tomato and Fruit Men to Combine: May 16, 1919 San Jose Evening News
- ↑ New Fruit Shipping Association: June 21, 1919 Pacific Rural Press
- ↑ Eugene T. Sawyers, History of Santa Clara County. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1922. "The Fruit Growers of California Association, Inc., was organized in 1919 and is a sort of detached auxiliary of the California Prune and Apricot Growers, Inc. It handles green fruit only and sells to canners and ships to Eastern buyers. It does for the green fruit what the dried fruit operators do for dried fruit."
- ↑ After California Products. August 23, 1919 Berkeley Daily Gazette.
- ↑ Editorial: May 24, 1920 San Jose Evening News. Complaining about the price set by the cooperative for cherries.