The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-08-23
COTTON CUMMING PRICES

10 Tue SOIIOH AioUoeSAo " 0DS
County:
On last Saturday we held meet
ing in Atlanta, which was well at
tended by the farmers, to discuss the
situation as to the price which the
Ginners Association fixed at the con-
vention held recently by them and at
which meeting they agreed to fix the
price for ginning our cotton at IS
cents per hundred pounds lint.
We believe this arbitrary price en-
tirely too high and so the Hon. J. H.
Mills, President of the Farmers Union
of Georgia, called the meeting of the
cotton producers last Saturday.
At this meeting ], in conjunction
with Mr.. J. H. Johnson, of Cherokee
county, offered resolution which
recited the conditions confronting us
and setting forth that the cotton pro
ducers believed that so cents per hun
dred was enough for the ginners to
charge i'm view of the fact that we
would have to pay for TIE bagging
and ties in addition, and further that
the ginners would make good profit
on our seed which they usually buy
at the gins.
The impression prevailing at this
meeting was that the ginners had re-
quested the Food Administration to
fix the price at rs cents and that the
Food Administration had the author
ity to fix it, and that they were only
waiting on US to hear our side of the
matter. With this idea in view, and
inorder to impress upon the Food
Administration that the producers
wished to be certain of being fair, we
finally agreed to change the price
from so cents, as stated in my reso-
luton, and increase it to so cents
and then the resolution was passed
unanimously.
The resolution provided that com
mittee of five be appointed to lay
our side of the matter before the
Food Administration and l was one
of this committee. We went before
the Food Administration and were in
formed by them that they had no
authority in the matter and no au-
thority to fix the price but that if
the producers and ginners could get
together and agree on a price sat
isfactory to both sides that the Food
Administration could then enforce
this price.
We were unable that day to get
in touch with the proper parties rep
resenting the Ginners Association but
hope to do so at an early date.
believe the ginners of Cobb county
will all want to treat us fairly and
will not want to go beyond the 60
cents, in fact am reliably informed
that some of the larger ginneries in
the county have already said that
they considered so cents a reasonable
price and therefore were willing to
stand by it.
Now / think if any ginner in Cobb
county attempts to raise the price
above so cents we ought to all get
together and enter our protest and,
in my opinion. we can make him get
back to the 60 cents rate.
1t is said that the ginners over the
State are ginning at various prices
from 90 cents on down and there is
no standard price This is demoral-
izing and we ought to remedy the
situation by the producers and GIN
ners getting together and agreeing
on a reasonable and uniform price.
NV information is that not near all
of the ginners of Georgia belong to
the Ginners Association and that such
as do not belong are not bound by the
rs cents price and will be satisfied
with the 60 cent price. / hope our
Cobb county ginners will all agree
that so cents is reasonable and is
enough.
Yours respectfully,
JOHN P. CHENEY.