Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-26
TOBACCO GROWERS
OF STATE ORGANIZE
FOR PROTECTION
Greatest Meeting of Farm
ers Ever Assembled in
Virginia Is Held.
WAREHOUSEMEN ASKED TO
SUSPEND SALES UNTIL OCT. q
Local Units Are to Be Organ
lied Throughout Virginia
Carolina Belt.
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DANVlLLE, VA. Sept. 25.-At two
rousing meetings held here today.
said TO be the largest gathering Of
countrymen ever held here. the Vir-
Gin!a Tobacco Growers Association
vas brought into being. for the pur-
hosc Of meeting the problems grow
ing out Of the general tobacco si,ua-
tion. officers were not elected today
but nominating committee of farm
ers on both sides OF the State line
was named to meet here Friday to
make recommendations. which will
be acted on at another mass-mect!ng
TO be held here next Saturday. Under
the terms of a resolution offered this
afternoon every farmer was delegated
and requested to return to his own
precinct and there organize local
units of the organization and to
preach the doctrine of crop curtail-
ment next year and the necessity of
wholchearted cooperation with the
movement just formed. Various COM
mittecs appointed will hold meetings
during the coming week and by next
Saturday will have reports to present.
The most important ection taken
this afternoon was the unanimous
adoption of resolution calling on
the tobacco warchousemen in the old
belt. which takes in part of Virginia
and North Carolina. to continue to sus-
pend their sales until October 4. The
curtailment committee was urged to
get into touch with all the markets
in tina, belt before Monday and serve
what was taken to mean notice on
the warehousemcp. The sales, e-,,.e
to have been resumed hero Monday
and 1t was expected that some favor
able reaction in prices would no seen.
The Danville warehousemen this
evening declined to close. pointing
and that IL was unfair to their tcus-
toners. Sales Will resume hero Mon
day.
Minister Reads By-Laws.
Tho constitution and the bylaws
of the organization were read by
Rev. T. B. Hill. head of the hurley
growers organization in Kentucky.
Baptist minister and who has
been prominent in negotiations thus
Tar. Both were adopted.
letter was read from State Com
missioner of Agriculture G. w.
koiner showing that the amount of
bright tobacco on hand on July ].
1920. was 100000 pounds less than
that Of year ago. This was intro
duced to rcfute the suggestion of
overproduction or oversupply.
committee was nominated from
the floor to recommend a roster of
officers for the first year. this being
made up as follows: Pittsylvania, r.
L. Coleman; Halifax, d. S. BRAY:
Charlotte. II. p. Barnes; Rockingham.
\. c., r. ]. Hudson: Bedford. G.. T.
Turner; Caswell, L. S. Carter: Henry.
s. Turner; Franklin, ]. l.. Davis:
Person. X. c. Wagstar; Campbell. W.
I. Cakes. and Gunford. n. c., T. l..
Wells.
The committee on crop curtailmcnt
was named as follows: J. J. Martin.
Danville; j. II. Johnson, Halifax; s.
5. Carter Charlotte: John r. VIII
liams. Rockingham. N. c.; 1. NJ. Tur-
ner. Bedford; T. Y. Chandler, CasweIl.
James +. Gordon. Mecklenburg: w.
T. West. Henry: E M. Perkins, frank
lin: Calvin Warren, Person. n. G.
Joseph Epperson, Campbell. and
Henry Labeth, Guilford.
The membership fee, which. in tho
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