Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-05-24

resolutions which recommended that
the conference 60 on record as IA
voring $3.50 as the price the govern
mont should guarantee the farmers
for the 1917 wheat crop: Benjamin
Drake Of Minneapolis; Magnus John
Aneta. State Senator Charles E.
Drown Of Page. Howard Wood, man.
ager of the N~onpartisan league in
North Dakota; President F. L. McVey
of the state university, and P. A. Su-
humski Of Lisbon.
State Commissioner Of Labor and
Agriculture Hagan was present at tho
session, but took no part in the dis
cussion.
Resolutions Adopted at Prioe-fxine
Conference.
1. We believe that the present
wal emergency and the worldwide
shortage necessitate that our federal
government shall talk upon itself
larger powers In order to encourage
greater food production. and to con-
troll the sale and distribution Of food
products. We believe that such &C.
ton would be In the interests Of pro-
ducers and consumers.
2. We favor q rigid governmental
guarantee to h farmers Of profit
able prices for staple farm products.
such guarantees are necessary for
rme to know how to reorganize
their farming operations and to Sc
cure an increased production. Such
reorganization incurs extra outlays of
capital and extra expense for labor
and other essential factors. In Thu
event that the government should see
fit to nix h prices Of food products
that farmers shall obtain. we al
SO favor q rigid governmental control
Of the prices of other commodities
than food. such az fuel. clothing and
agricultural requirements necessary
or incident to h manufa cturing and
mobilization Of farm products. We
believe that the prinipal factors in de-
termining the prices Of farm products
OF producing such products.
8. We earnestly suggest that in
line with the course of other warning
nations the government shall imme-
diately prepare itself to seize and op-
crate. whenever n wherever neces-
sary. all transportation agencies and
terminal elevators and warehouses.
4. We hereby empower the COM
mittee which has been designated to
represent us at Washington to sys-
tematize and present all necessary
data and to ascertain the wishes Of
this conference n Of other grain
growing interests as to what is con-
sidered by the farmers to be a fair
price guarantee on the standard
grades of grain.
Your committee after careful con-
s~ideration Of such facts and data, as
1t has available is of the opinion that
that the price guaranteed BY the Rov-
eminent for our 1917 crop of wheat
shall be $3.50 per bushel for No. 1
northern wheat at northwestern ter.
minals and we believe that the dele
CATION to be sent to Washington to
represent this conference shall use
every legitimate effort to establish this
price.
s. This conference also takes the
opportunity to express its loyalty to
the president and the government Of
the United States and to state the de-
sire of farmers organizations Of the
northwest, represented here. to CO.
operate in the working out Of this
most important policy of food pro-
duction control.
s.. Resolved, further, that future
trading In farm products be prohibit
ed. not as a temporary war measure,
out as a permanent governmental pol
icy. (Signed)
Benjamin Drake. Minneapolis.
Frank l.. McVey. Grand Forks
(by Charles W. Holman).
-Magnus Johnson, Kimball, MINI.
Howard r. Wood. Deering, n. d.
p. A. Suhumski. Lisbon, N. D..
Charles E.. Drown, Page, N. D.