. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mr. Bloom Attacks tive's management, found consi- derable sympathy among growers in his effort to get nrore access and more information concerning the coi-poration for members, and in his charges that matters could be improved within NCA. The slate of directors he offered in opposition to that recommended —largely the same as last year— was lost by an overwhelming vote. Following ballot count after the meeting, by an outside board of auditors, NCA reported that ap- proxinrately 129,000 votes were cast out of a possible 144,000. Of
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mr. Bloom Attacks tive's management, found consi- derable sympathy among growers in his effort to get nrore access and more information concerning the coi-poration for members, and in his charges that matters could be improved within NCA. The slate of directors he offered in opposition to that recommended —largely the same as last year— was lost by an overwhelming vote. Following ballot count after the meeting, by an outside board of auditors, NCA reported that ap- proxinrately 129,000 votes were cast out of a possible 144,000. Of these approximately 126,000 were for the original slate, while Mr. Bloom's candidates received about 2900. Figures were given as approxi- mate, because a number of nomi- nees for directors on both slates were the same. Mr. Bloom headed his own list of nominees and he was given 3,938 votes. He had an- nounced he was not seeking any paid position within NCA. He had sent circular letters to NCA members requesting proxies of growers. His only interest he has said, as a stockholder is to pre- vent National from falling into ruin and causing further heavy losses to stockholders and grow- ers. Granted the floor at the open- ing of the meeting Mr. Bloom demanded to know the salaries of principal paid envployees, such as that of Mr. Glover and others. He did not receive this information in the open meeting and charged it had previously been withheld from him when he had sought it as a stockholder. He asserted he had been re- fused these figures by the presi- dent and "the president has some- thing to ; He asserted that if Mr. Glover or some other offi- cer did not give these figures during the meeting "I'm going to move to have this meeting ad- journed for three weeks to enable me to get a court order to obtain these facts. I shall then tell these facts to you and you shall vote as informed stockholders. "You are entitled to know the important facts before c
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