Word: calistan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a bang that reverberated throughout California, the cannery of Calistan Packers, Inc. near Modesto was closed temporarily last week by a Federal court order under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Clingstone peaches caused the trouble. In August, A.A.A. put through an agreement among some 50 canners limiting the pack of the California crop to 218,000 tons (10,000.000 cases). Packers were to pay peach growers $20 per ton for their product (last year's price: $6.50). They were also to contribute $2.50 for every ton they packed to a fund with which to compensate growers for their unharvested...
Last fortnight A.A.A. headquarters in Washington received disturbing reports of violations of the marketing agreement. James Lawrence Fly, a special Assistant Attorney General and Thurman Wesley Arnold of the A.A.A. hopped into a plane, whizzed across the continent to San Francisco. They were told that Calistan was packing 150,000 cases of peaches, was not paying its $2.50 per ton assessment for the surplus...
Declared Donald M. MacLean, Calistan Packers president: ". . . Our right to can them, we believe, is based on the fact that we are not engaged in interstate or foreign commerce but purchase, can and sell our product within California. The emergency act empowering Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to control or interfere with business in this State is unconstitutional. We will fight this Federal suit to a finish...
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