Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-01-25
RURAL ACTIVITIES AND NEWS
OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER
CUSTAFS0N WILLING TO
MEET EQUITY HALF WAY
u. S. Grain Growers President Says
Demand fer Exclusive Sales ii
Rights Caused Trouble

Fargo, N. d., Jan. STRENGTHENING
the policy Of the U. S. Grain Grow
ers. to cooperate with existing COOP
erative grain marketing companies,
barring arbitrary or -domineering de-
mands for exclusive rights in restrict
ed territories. G. HI. Gustafson, presi-
dent of the farmers national grain
marketing company, has issued a
statement in answer to those reported
to have been made by j. M. Ander-
son.
Mr.. Gustafson's statement was given
to the public here just after the Open7
ing of the Tri-State Grain Growers
annual convention, January II to 20,
by U. l.. Burdick. director for North
Dakota.
1T was determined by the Commit
tee of Seventeen and recognized by the
u S. Grain Growers that the national
organization should cooperate with
existing bona fide cooperative organ
izations," said Mr.. Gustafson. 1--WE
considered contract with the Equity
as quite important and it would have
been completed but for the demands
that it must be exclusive and that we
must not solicit membership in Equity
territory.
I'm fairness to all farmers it did
not seem proper to enter into such an
agreement, as it would not have given
farmers Of that territory an oppor.
tunity to realize the full benefits of
the national plan which Equity repre-,
sentatives themselves have approved
If the expansion Of the Equity or any
other plan ON a national scale would
have the solution Of our grain mark
citing problem. the work of the Com.
mittee of Seventeen would have been
unnecessary.
II am trusting that the farmers of
the northwest will appreciate the SIN
cerity of our course Of action and es-
pecially that the Equity stockholders
will realize the wisdom of cooperating
with the national plan on an equitable
basis as has been offered them.
1--WE wish to maintain friendly
and cooperative relation with the
Equity and / hope that the somewhat
hostile suspicion now existing among
Equity people may be erased and sub.
stituted with an understanding of our
genuinely sincere desire to cooperate
: That is impossible if either side as.
sumes a dictatorial attitude. I have
always had very high personal re.
gard for the work Mr.. Anderson has
done and. am led to believe that the
unco-operative statements attributed to
him in the public press are the work
of an uncontrolled press agent.
''The qualification experienced by
every man connected with the U. S.
Grain Growers is that the worst en-
emies Of the movement have been un-
able to pick flaws in the form of Or
ganization. This has been shared by
Mr.. Anderson. With more than 100,-
100000 bushels of grain now under
contract, nearly 1000 elevators affili-
ated. and the national organization
proceeding Immediately to establish
sales connections ON principal grain
markets, we are in position to demon
strate the usefulness and profit which
the operation of the U. S. Grain Grow
ers will mean to farmers. We believe
that farmers Of the northwest will
join with us and we also stand ready
to make connections with all existing
cooperative organizations who will
meet us on cooperative basls.'