The Tomahawk., 1921-04-28

grower himself has the option of sell
ing his grain as he does today or OF
pooling it. If he wants to join pool
he. can pool all or part of his crop and
he can join a district, state or ma
tional pool. IS J.,
]. M. Anderson, president of the
Equity Cooperative exchange; Usher
L. Burdick; president of the North
Dakota Farm Bureau, and W. F..
Schilling of Mortified, Minn., were
appointed regional directors of the
United States Grain Growers, lnc.,
for the Northwest.
Among the resolutions passed ay
the conference were the following: / ,
l. Congress was urged to legal1ze
collective bargaining by farmers. =
2. Speculation in futures was con-
demned and congress was urged to
prohibit short selling and other gam
bling in food products. r.
8. Any substitution of a sales tax
for the excess profits tax was opposed.
4. The Great Lakes waterway prof.
ect was Endorsed. &-.S'.
5. Congress was urged to use the
profits made by the United States
Grain corporation during the waf as
revolving fund to aid farmers In
moving their crops. r. .%
49, - -@~
OHIO EMPLOYERS SEE LIGHT
Efforts of private insurance compa
MES to tamper with publicly managed
Workmen's compensation insurance in
Ohio have met the opposition of en-
ployers as we'll as employees.
Malcolm Jennings, secretary of the
Ohio Manufacturers association,
strongly opposed the bill legalizing
private insurance of this kind on the
ground that workmen's compensation
for injuries or death is public func-
ton. - -. N
1--WE don't want competition in this"
said Jennings, "any more than we do
in the policing of our state or in the
handling of our mails" ~. -
Ohio employers have found by ex-
perience that the state system, while
providing more liberal awards to
workers, has saved them considerable
money. Washington has a similar
system and so has North. Dakota. In
other states the hue and cry of $50
cialism'' has prevented this saving and
better aid to injured workers., 2.
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GRAIN DEALERS AG1TATED -,
The Grain. Dealers National associ.
alton doesn't mind attacking the gov
ernment when the governments fails
to act in its favor 100 per cent of the
time. In its current issue the official
organ of this association has the fol-
lowing scream about the bureau of
markets: ,'.Ar' Yi&ts ..
Z "That the bureau Of markets has
become an enemy of the independent
grain dealer is shown by the fact that
it is counseling the county agents in
the various states to function as dis
tributing agents. It is helping county
agents in counties buying grain to get
in touch with county agents in coun-
ties having grain for sale. These
agents take orders in the producing
districts and place them with county,
agents in the consuming districts.
Thus they come in direct competition
with the independent grain. dealer.
The Grain Dealers National associa-
ton has at last been convinced that
the bureau is just what it's name i'm
plies-a bureau to help the producers
do their own marketing by driving out
the middleman and substituting po-
litical system of distribution. The bu-
reau of. markets must change it's tao
tics-or it must go!" - a.
This ought to be fine boost for the
bureau of markets. x
WOMEN WANT PRIMARY L.
Opposition to moves by political
bosses everywhere to amend or de-
stroy direct primary laws was one Of
the features of the convention Of the
League of Women Voters held at
Cleveland, Ohio: = t,,~- +, 4 8 >.
IF women don't want the same old
boss-ridden tickets" said Miss Mary
Garret Hay of New York, that they
can't conscientiously vote for, they
must see to it that the direct primary
law, is kept on the statute books. if
sIf the primary law is repealed it
will set women back in politics at
least IL years" II r
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait also
scored the party bosses for the delay
in granting suffrage and pointed out
that there. was no disposition yet to
give the women any good jobs,
The strong stand for the primary is
more noteworthy because the League
of Women Voters has been regarded
as conservative. y. -, T.
=. MEXICAN OIL TROUBLES
Ex-senator Fall, now secretary OF
tho interior. annOuncesI that the sEnp-