The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-08-16
PLEA IS MADE TO
PRESIDENT FOR
SPECIAL SESSION
American Wheat Growers Asso.
ciated, Inc, Sends Telegram to
Washington Urging That Ac-
tion be Taken to Relieve the
Wheat Growers

Plea for a special session of Con-
gress for the purpose of providing i'm
mediate assistance to the wheat grow
ers was made to President Coolidge
Monday in telegram from the Amer
lean Wheat Growers Association,
signed by II. ]. Weeth, Peetz; Warren
Pope. Haxtun, and the other directors
of the American. The American is the
selling agency of the Colorado Wheat
Growers Association.
Government price control was asked
only for this year, according to Mr..
Weeth. The telegram to President
Coolidge stated that the American
Wheat Growers Associated will un-
doubtedly be in a position to control
prices after July of next year.
while government-set prices can
never be of permanent help to the
farmers, special session of Congress
with the power of fixing prices would
give temporary relief this year." said
Bruce Lampson, manager of the Colo
rado Wheat Growers Association.
"At the present time, the American
does not control enough of the wheat
to be able to set price for this year.
With the plans for a nationwide cam
paign for members well under way,
officials of the organization hope to
be able to practically control the
wheat situation before the harvest of
next year."
Ernest Mayhem, Ovid director of the
Colorado Wheat Growers Association,
went to Sterling last Thursday to at
TEND meeting of the board, where
plans for the campaign and action on
the national situation were to be dis
cussed.
The text of the telegram sent by
the American Wheat Growers Asso-
ciated to President Coolidge Monday
is as follows:
"Impelled by the intolerable condi-
tions and economic punishment now
experienced by the wheat growers of
America as the elimination Of three
years of extreme price depression, the
American Wheat Growers, Associated.
Inc, respectfully urges that you call
an immediate session of Congress to
provide means of relief.
"This is the largest exclusive Or
ganization of wheat growers in the
United States, with 10000 members in
nine wheat states, established to Sc
cure fair price for wheat through
cooperative marketing. But the de-
velopment of such an organization is
necessarily a matter of some time, and
the American Wheat Growers. Asso-
ciated, Inc, will not this year, be in a
position to control bushelage suffi-
GENTLY to influence markets to a de-
gree which is imperative if the ma
tion's wheat growers are to be afford
ed relief.
1.-THE American Wheat Growers AS
sociated, Inc. advocates through i'm
mediate legislation the establishment
of federal agency, suitably financed,
to go into the open market and pur-
chase wheat whenever the price drops
below basis of $1.75 per bushel for
No. l dark northern spring wheat at
Chicago, with suitable differentials
for wheat of different grades and
qualities, this agency to act during the
marketing year of 1923, and until Ju-
ly 1, 1924.
"From that date onward, wheat pro-
ducers through their organization will
exert sufficient domestic price con-
troll to insure capital returns COM
mensurate with their capital and labor
investment