Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-04-14
GROWERS FAIL TO
REACH AGREEMENT
WITH COMMITTEE
GROIP OF I; REFUSE TO ADOPT
COMPULSORY POOLING PLAN
FOR GRAIN

Failure Of the Committee u Seven.
teen Ia adopt compulsory pooling
plnn Tor marketing wheat viii pre-
vent the National Wheat Growers AN.
ISOLATION from combining with them
In their marketing plans. Instead they
viii go on with their system Of con.
tracing and prepare 10 handle the ma
ior portion of the wheat raised In tho
big wheat producing states. This de-
cision was reached by the executive
board IT the organization on its return
from Chicago Sunday night. The MEM
iars " the hoard who returned 20
Wichita Sunday night were. W. y.
McAIiohacl national president; w. ~.
MoOreevy. national secretary; ". NJ.
McCrackcn. Iampa. Texas; A. G. Bailey.
kinsioy. Kan. j. u. Miller. brighton.
colo. aud !. l.. Hun Y Holstein. Me-
htnskn.
While the executive committee would
not compromise an the compulsory
pooling plan. they are going 20 hold
state meetings of the members of ths
association In all the states where they
are organized 90 obtain the sentiment
IT the farmers. The results ~ these
meetings will determine the future pol.
| Icy ~ the association.
The following dates Tor state meet.
inEs have been set; Kansas az Hut.
chinson. April 10; Oklahoma al Enid.
ApfIl 20; Texns, at Pampa. April ~;
Colorado at Sterling. April &C.. All
wheat ErowoIN, whether or not they bs.
long 10 the association. Will be- allow.
al a. attend aud give their views pf
! the ease. II IN planned 20 give both
thu compulsory and lnoTcompulsWy
plans and show why II was not tho
best thlng Tor the farmers Ia the wheat
states Ia have the optional pool.
u. ". McCracken. 81 the national
executive beard and president of the
Texas branch of tho association. stated
Sunday night the reasons for the action
81 the national association ~ Chicn.
~ In refusing 10 endorse the plans 81
thu committee Of Seventeen. Hc stated.
In part: THE plans Of the committee
ARE not feasible. for they do not plan
Ia control tho 1921 wheat crop. Tin
der their plan there will be no com.
/ iiiiHory pooling and the, ,amo evils
/ that have always troubled the wheat
growers will still exist. The orgnni.
zatlon ~ the committee Gun advise
the farmers what 10 do and " they do
I not dn II. can say u IN the farmers
fault u they fail 10 do ns advised. and
20 receive the same Inv price for their
wheat.
AS formed at Chicago the Committee
body from the wheat producing portion
Of the country. hut men from all phases
of agriculture. There were far less
wheat growers than frpi, srowers.
dalrymen. stock ralsera. corn growers
and truck farmers In other words the
larger portion of the Committee of sev.
cntecn had no vital interest In tho
marketing of wheat. The larger mum.
her did not suffer when the bottom
dropped out ~ the price Of wheat.
However. they decided they did not
like the compulsory plan. and no tho
varied group ~ ngriculturists decided
the plan already put Into operation by
the National wheat Growers associa.
iion did not suit them. They turned Il
down. not by nm unanimous voice. hut
by vote Of 81 10 "a. The representa-.
tlvea who voted for the compulsory
plan az pooling whes, were In the main
from the big wheat producing states.
"The wheat growers In Kansas. Ok
lahoma. Texas. Nebraska and other
states where wheat In the big crop
have realized that cooperative market
Ing will not successfully compete with
organized grain buyers They decided
that N the buyers could organize. they
could do likewise. and 40 the formation
~ the National Wheat Growers associa-
ton resulted. We are prepared 20
give the wheat growers In the big grain
producing states an organization that
they control and an organization that
can successfully decker with tho or.
ganlzed buyers. We were forced 10 or.
ganize nv others organizing. and we
do not intend 10 give up our plans he
cause they did not exactly suit the
Committee ~ Seventeen.
Until we hold our state meetings
We viii 10 on and sign IN five.year
contracts for wheat NJ we have been
doing for some time. After we hold our
meetings the growers VIII express
themselves. and we can then proceed
with more speed"
The amounts 81 wheat already pledg.
I'd from the state where the flve.year
contracts have heen pushed total $500.
600 bushels. This amount has been
signed up In Texas oklahoma and Kan.
sas. There has been 100000 bushels
contracted for In Texas: 100000 BUSH
els In Oklahoma. and 100000 bushels
la Eansaa Nlchltn Eaeie.