The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-14
FARMERS AND SHEEP
MEN ORGANIZING

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making swift move to organize
for selling their wool thru one source
to one buyer representing the con-
sumers. Heretofore a few buyers
have dealt with the many producers
dealing with them separately on diff
ferent days and thereby making all
the producers bid against each other
In the delivery of their wool to the
persons buying for the consumer
The buyers have been organized
while the producers have not been,
therefore the producers have been
the victims. The sheepmen of Utah,
Idaho, Montana and Wyoming pro-
pose to meet organized buying with
organized selling forces; they pro-
pose to go them one better by or
ganizing so that one man shall rep
resent them all as the head of COM
mission of nine and not only shall
organized producers meet organized
consumers, but shall if possible be
organized in greater numbers to act
thru one man than the consumers
shall be.
In our last issue we published an
article by w. D. Trego of Alberta,
Canada in which he explained how
the farmers of five of the greatest
grain growing provinces in Canada
and the world have organized on a
similar plan to meet organized buy
ers with organized producers. Mr..
Trego's article reviewed the upbuild-
ing of their organization for a period
OF twenty years showing what their
successes and failures were due to
and showing that their successes
have far outnumbered their failures.
We want to add something to Mr..
Trego's article by explaining that
Europe has for long time been
more or less organized in their buy
ing of grains from Canada and the
United States. They have played |
Canadians against the Yankees and |
vice versa and then in addition to |
that they have played one against
another in both counties organizing
SO that one man or a few men have
represented the buyers, buying al
ways from the unorganized produc-
ers The grain hauled from the
fields was owned by an absolutely un-
organized producer and the great
prairie provinces of Canada repre-
sented perhaps the most efficient
grain growers in the world in large
numbers. They were pouring little
streams of wheat into the local eleva-
tors, where there was more organiza-
ton than among the farmers. These 4
elevators in turn were pouring great
streams of grain into Winnipeg, the
Chicago of Canada which in turn was
ing vastly greater streams of
grain into the wheat ships for de-
livery to Europe and all the way
along as the grain Travelled from the
farms to the consumers in Europe E
me organization was more and more
complete with each step as it ap- ,
preached the consumer Organized :
consumers told the unorganized pro- :
ULCERS what they could have for their =
wheat. There were always some =
PRODUCERS willing to sell at whatever =
hey could get when the day came :
nd as they made sales of their :
roducts, it reduced the chances for :,
ne Others to get the prices at which :,
hey held their grain =
A few weeks ago the representa- a
ives of four big provincial organiza- +,
Ions of Caraaa sent delegates to a II
at Winnipeg and these Q
elegates represented over 100000 r
i the biggest and best grain grow II
rs on the face of the earth. They a
rganized a central body thru which q
0 handle the Canadian grain that is 6,
marketed in Europe so that the diff =,
erent provinces should not be bid q
ing against each ether, the different q
tiles should rot be bidding against r.
ach other and the different farmers n
hould not be bidding against each h
Their to the cities. ., E,
1t is significant fact that while n
lis great convention was in session a,
Winnipeg welding the activities of 81
10000 grain growers into one tt
edge hammer to go into the mar ia
ets to meet organized purchasers e.
18th organized sellers, the represen- a,
'tives of something like an equal p;
lumber of farmers, were sitting in
convention at indianapolis perfect A
e an organization for similar 81
lrpose, to more completely than
'er before keep daily record of the
mount OF produce on hand in all the fe
ates of the union that day, to know 1t
nat was available, to handle the in kr
rmation thru one central office and Ell
ru its branches and locals turnout on
e United States to be able to give he
telligent orders about where to bill tel
cry car OF potatoes, every car of TIL
ain, pork, beef and mutton, placed m,
the sidings that day to be for an
lrded to the markets of the tn,
untry. Their purpose is to prevent
lifting some markets while others to
We shortage and to meet organ
"a purchasers Of farm products RI
tn organized selling facilities; to
billie the markets; to move the
ID products gradually from the
'ducers to the consumers and to the
ep the price up to a reasonable the
mt thruout the year. ute
t is significant that the two great pla
iculaural countries lying side by chs
> along the great lakes on the thl
allel of 40 degree should at once get
10 to see that it is not so much ant
question of protective tariff wo
inst each other as 1t is a question sor
organizing to conserve their the
lncfs and nut them gradually to SIC