The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-13
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Ask Aid of
Nebraskans Join in Wheat
Growers Appeal for Special
Session to Fix Price at
$l.75 as Minimum.
Urge Immediate Action

1ooiluSe was u1geu 10 call speClal
secession of congress Immediately to
provide relief for the nations wheat
growers, in a telegram sent tonight
by the American Wheat Growers AS
sociated. Inc, the largest association
wheat growers in the country.
The telegram was signed by officers
OF the association and trustees of the
nine state wheat growing associations
which compose the parent body. 1t
was dispatched at the close of four
day session of the board of directors
of the larger association.
In its communication to the presi-
dent, the American Wheat Growers
Associated advocated immediate legis-
lation authorizing the establishment
OF a federal agency to purchase
wheat in the open market when 1t
reaches a price lower than s1.75 a
bushel, as means of stabilizing this
market.
Text Of Telegram.
The telegram 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 organ
ization of wheat growers in the
United States, with $4,000 members
in nine wheat states, established to
secure q fair price for wheat through
cooperative marketing. But the de-
velopment of such an organization
is necessarily matter of some time,
and the American Wheat Growers
Associated, Inc, will not, this year,
be in a position to control bushelage
suffciently to influence markets to a
degree which Is imperative IL the ma
tons wheat growers are to be af-
forded relief.
Quick Action Urged.
The American Wheat Growers,
. Associated, incorporated, advocates
through immediate legislation, the es
tablishment of federal agency, suit
ably financed, to go into the open
market and purchase wheat whenever
the price drops below basis of s1.fo
per bushel for No. l dark northern
spring wheat at Chicago, with suit
able differentials for wheat of differ
ent grades and qualities, this agency
to act during the marketing year OIL
1928 and until July /, 1924. From
that date onward, wheat producersl
through their organization, will ex-
ert sufficient domestic price control
TO insure capital returns commensu-
rate with their capital and labor In
yestment."
Those who affixed their signatures
to the telegram we're: George c.
Jewett. general manager. and Will
liam J. Brown, president of the Amer
lean Wheat Growers, Associated. and
the following trustees representing
The association: Warren Pope and H.
J. Weeth, for Colorado; George c.
Jewett and II. J. Herman, for Idaho;
William J. Brown and W. II. Freder-
icls, for Minnesota; J. f. Walton and
3. D. Holenback, for Montana; James
Thomas and J. L. Hull. for Nebras-
ka; George +. Duis and A. y. Ninge,
for North Dakota A. r. Shumway
and c. A. Harts, for Oregon; Carl
Gunderson and C. w. Croes. for South
Dakota: w. J. Robinson and c. n.
Hatch, for Washington.
Need Immediate Aid.
Reports from all states show that
wheat, growers are unable TO with
stand another year of present prices,
brr. Jewett asserted tonight. He said
that at present there are IL stateI
wheat growing associations, nine of
which act through the American
Wheat Growers organization.
1.-The need Of the wheat market Is
Tor immediate, temporary action"
Mr.. Jewett said. "There Is no thought
OF any permanent fixing of prices byl
the government. Before the next
marketing season the cooperative as
sociation will be in control of moreI
than two-thirds of the wheat grown in
the heavy wheat states, and from that
time the farmers will be in a posi-
tion to determine. by their own pow
sr, that domestic wheat prices areI
set on a plane that will afford salts
factory returns"