Page Four THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE Holdings Shown Setup Of Combine Revealed KELOWNA, BC, Aug. 25—Ac- cording to an elaborate chart pub- lished in the Kelowna Courier here, setup of the jobber-shipper com- bine condemned by Godfrey Isaacs in his charges is: Western Grocers, Ltd., of Win- nipeg, wholesale jobbers of fruit, vegetables and groceries, holds 99,990 of 100,000 shares in Dominion Fruit, Ltd., formerly Wash-Simington, Ltd, Winnipeg wholesale fruit and vegetable job- bers which, through Roy B. Staples, former Nash representa- tive, in trust; and Alexander Mc- Gallum, former Nash manager, holds 9,186 shares in Lander Comapny, Ltd., in which Roy B. Staples holds 4,593 shares and Arthur GCG. Lander, former Wash manager, 4,593 shares. Lander Company, Ltd., incor- porated as shipper of fruit and vegetables of Vernon, BC, is vir- tually a holding company for Do- minion Fruit, Ltd., by reason of its jobber control over shippers sell- ing fruit and vegetables for grow- ers. Lander Company, Ltd., con- trols the following fruit shipping companies: J. B. Lander, Ltd., Kamloops. J. B. Lander, former Wash man- ager, holds 400 shares; Lander Co., Litd., controlled by Dominion Fruit, Ltd, 548 shares; A. Browne, former Wational jobber manager, 50 shares. Brown Tander, Lid., Vernon. A. Browne holds 4000 shares; Lander Company, Ltd., 11,198 shares; A. C. Tuander, i share; R. B. Staples, i share; J. B. Lander, 800 shares. Sales Service Company, Kelowna. Lander Gompany, Ltd. holds 58 shares; Browne Company, Lid., controlled by Lander Company, Ltd. 8 shares; R. B. Staples, i share; Cascade Fruit Company, Ltd., controlled by Lander Com- pany, Ltd. 1 share; Walters, Ltd., Apex Orchard Company, Litd., Greata Ranch, Ltd., W. H. irwin, deceased, Unity Fruit, Ltd. E. G Sherwood, 31 shares. Cascade Fruit Company, Kelowna. Iander Company, Lid., holds 12,406 shares; R. B. Staples, ij share; A. C. Lander, i share; R. J. Stewart, murseryman, 12,408 shares. Browne. Company, Ltd., Pentic- ton. J. S. Browne, former Nash manager, holds 5,274 shares; Land- er Gompany, !Itd., &274 shares, A. CG. Lander, 1 share; R. B. Staples, 1 share. Keremeos Fruits, Ltd., Keremeos. Lander Company, Litd., holds 3,498 shares; R. B. Staples, 1 share; A. G. Lander, 1 share; Ralph 5. Headiey, former jobber representa- tive, 3,499 shares; William Embrey, secretary, 1 share. Western Grocers, Lid., Winnipeg, has assets totalling nearly $3,000,- 000, Godfrey Isaacs told a meeting of growers at Vernon when he pre- sented his charges last week. Ltd., Japanese Mines Rendered Idle LONDON, Eng., Aug. 25—Jap- anese for some years past have been investing capital in Malaya, especially in iron mines, in prepar- ation for the war which they are now waging. Miners in Malaya are generally Ghinese, and on the outbreak of hostilities there was a general strike throughout the iron mines owned by Japanese. The latter at once called in Indian labor, and in a few weeks the mines were again working at full capacity. Ghinese strikers cabled to the Gongress leaders in India, inform- ing them of the facts. Congress im- mediately appealed to the Indian workers, most of whom had been born in Malaya and had never seen India. Nevertheless, the Indians at once struck and evacuated the ,mines, which have ever since lain uals mentioned are feasance, feasance | duties to the unprotected produc-" Charges Arouse Fruit Growers Western Canada. office at Victoria. in the days previous to 1926.” Asserting that market board control over the fruit industry was rendered ‘‘a mere shadow without substance” by the existence of this combine, which “in its ramifica- tions and ruthlessness rivals the Wash organization at the peak of its wumscrupulous career,’’ Isaacs exclaimed: “In the name of the struggling and long suffering producers of fruits and vegetables in British Columbia, I challenge the people of this province to rise in their wrath and see that this evil thing which has once more grown up in our midst is de- stroyed for ever. Charges Detailed Tsaacs charges, in brief are: That a combine, operating in the fruit and vegetable industry of British Columbia and the three prairie provinces, is de- priving growers of money justly theirs, destroying morale of grow- ers by Cheating and betraying them and playing them, as well as shippers and even whole districts, ene against the other. That principals in this combine are: Western Grocers, Ltd., Dominion Fruit, Ltd., and direc- tors of these companies; Alexan- der McCallum, supervisor for Dominion Fruit, Ltd, Roy B. Staples, Kelowna fruit: Lander Company, Ltd., Sales Service, Ltd. and other fruit ship- ping companies eontrolled by Lander Company, Ltd. That corporations and individ- committing breaches of Section 27 of the pro- vincial Sales on Gonsignment Act; have rendered themselves liable to dissolution under provisions of this Act; and, in addition, are committing breaches of Section 498 of the Criminal Code in that they are members of a criminal combine against the public inter- est. That corporations and individ- and | shipper, | uals mentioned are guilty of mal- misfeasance and non- in performance of their idle. ers of British Columbia. producers at heart,” to have | mediate proceedings taken against Dominion Gov’t Asked to Launch Prompt Action KELOWNA, BC, Aug. 25.— (Special) .—Thou- sands of fruit and vegetable growers in the Okan- agan Valley and other Interior districts have been roused to action as the charges that a jobber-shipper combine controls the fruit and vegetable marketing industry of result of sensational The charges were first made at a meeting of growers in Vernon last week by Godfrey Isaacs, Oyama grower, after he had made a search at the office of the Registrar of Companies There he found “through the medium of company reports filed by Valley shipping interests that the old Nash-Simington Company, Ltd., under its new name of Dominion Fruit, Ltd., and controlled by Western Grocers, Ltd., has through its agents in this Walley—Roy Baird Staples and Arthur Clar- ence Lander—acquired control over shipping interests in all the important centres on the main line, in the Okanagan Val- ley and in the Similkameen—a contrel which exceeds in strength that which was exercised by the old Nash combine “Spares Nothing’ “¥ charge that these corpora- tions and individuais are a men- ace to the business morality of the province and of Canada,” Isaacs declared, “and they should be dealt with by all right-think- ing people as such. “J charge that they have plotted and conspired to break the laws of the country and to prevent the producers of MSBritish Columbia from obtaining a fair return for their labors,” he continued, adding, “Tt is for the growers of the Interior to say whether or not they are willing to consent to the continuance of a system which spares nothing in its ruth- lessness and degenerating influ- ence. It is for them to say whether or not they are willing to fight courageously for the en- forcement of law and the secur- ity of their homes.” Referring to the enquiry into fruit marketing made by Lewis Dunean, KC, of Toronto, under the Combines Investigation Act in 1924-5, Isaacs stated: “Commissioner Duncan conduct-— ed his investigation and made his report with such thoroughness it was thought that, as a result thereof and of the prosecutions that followed, it would be impos- sible for such a state of affairs to arise in Canada again. “The Dunean investigation showed that the jobber-controlled shipper, being a party to the com-— bine, permitted and connived at dishonest and improper practices whereby growers were forced to accept a price below that which they should have obtained.”’ “There was disclosed at that time the fact that there existed a network of jobber-controlled ship- ping houses and jobber-controlled brokerage houses operating throughout Western Canada and the WUmited States—all directed from the head office of the Nash organization in Minneapolis.” Challenges Minister Isaacs challenged Hon -K. C. MacDonald, provincial minister of agriculture, “who has in the past shown he has the interests of the im- COMBINE PROBE SO Form Own Co-Op the fields. This situation has already led this year to many berry and vege- table growers refusing to deliver their produce to the canneries be— cause, at the prices offered, it was not worth their while to go to the expense of transporting it to Van- couver. Prune growers in this district are faced with the loss of a crop esti- mated at 350 tons and valued, at prices asked by growers, at $13,250. So far, growers have been unable to dispose of this crop either to canneries or chain store organiza- tions. They are asking $35 a ton de- livered, but canneries offer only $30, a price which would bring growers a return of one cent a pound in the orchard- Tt was this and similar situa- tions which led this week to the formation of the Fairfield Pro- ducers’ Co-operative Association here. This association, in which 26 growers have signed for 5 shares each at $1 a share, will sell fruit, eggs and poultry and arrange re— frigeration of fruit and vegetables. Directors elected were: H. W. A. Vines, president; T E. Herron, WS. Lewis, Jasper Swan and R. G. Skelton. Recently, in Mission district, pea growers, dissatished with the poor price they were receiving from canneries and rejection of their demand for $15 a ton, refused to transport any more of their surplus crop to Canadian and Ayl- mer canneries in Vancouver. Under present conditions, bean the corporations and individuals named by himself under the Sales on Consignment Act and the Crim- inal Code. He also urged Dr. MacDonald to make representations to Ottawa for an investigation under the Combines Investigation Act and proposed that steps should be taken through income tax authori- ties to obtain details of financial transactions made by those he named as members of the com- bine. Attorney-General Gordon Wis- mer was called upon to take “such steps as may be necessary to dis- solve the corporations, members of the combine and incorporated in this province, and to cancel the registration in this province of extra-provinecial corporations, Fmembers of the combine.” A resolution that “this meeting is of the opinion that it is vitally necessary that immediate action be taken’? was unanimously adopt- ed by the Okanagan local of the British Columbia Fruit Growers Association, before whose merm- bers Isaacs made his charges. Oliver Growers Demand Probe OLIVER, BC, Aug. 25—More than 300 growers packing the town hall here Sunday night and scores of others listening to speeches re- layed over a public address system, endorsed a resolution demanding a government probe of charges made by Godfrey Isaacs, Oyama grower. 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