The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-06-13
MUCH FARMERS MONEY UNACCOUNTED FOR

The efforts cf President Cresap and
Manager Strawman to wreck the
Montana Wheat Growers Association.
by preventing the election of a new
board Of directors Of that association
as provided for in the constitution
and bylaws, pledged to definite pro
gram, includes the complete report
to The membership Of the stewardship
OF the former officers, involving an
audit Of the business of the associa-
ton since its inceptiOn-men nOmi-
mated by petition by a number of
angry members of that organiza-
tlOn-and by the sending out by those
perf1dlous officers instead, a ballet
providing for the dissolution of the
Wheat Growers Association, was de-
feated this week by the timely action
OF August Nelson, recent organizing
manager Of that institution and Di-
rectOrS Clair Steiner, Herb Bierkland
{. Il. Daw, G. M. Storm, Knute Knut-
son and several others, when thew
called a meeting of the membership
at the head Office of the association at
Lewlstcwn, Tuesday, June 10, in per-
suance to and as is provided by the
constitutions and bylaws of the AS
sOciatiOn. and who although locked
out Of the Office by Strawman and
Cresap, held a meeting of the mem
berS of the Association in an alcove
of the building containing the offices
OF the Association and took defnate
steps to- elect new board and then
because of the smallness of the num-
Der attending. adjourned the meeting
OF the membership until Wednesday,
June 70, at 6 p. m. at the offices Of
the Montana Wheat Growers Associ-
alton, at Lewistcwn, Montana. when
and where all members possible of
the organization throughout the pro-
gram are urged to- be present to help
elect new board of directors.
CLOUDS DRIFT AT LAST
At last the clouds that have been
hanging low over the Montana Wheat
Growers Association, otherwise
known as the wheat pool, has rifted
and through the rift a lot of light is
shining that disclOses the records of
two CIR three years of the activities
of President CreSap and Manager
Strawman and the reason for their
recent efforts to dissolve that orga-
together with the records cf
the swindling of the members of that
by premediate extrava-
gance and willful enefficiency cn the
part Of these officers, in the suspected
of the designs of the
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce,
OF whom they are thought to be stool
pigeons, to discredit the idea of CO.
operating marketing in Montana for
years tc come.
LONG SUSPECTED
President Cresap and Manager
Strawman of the Montana Wheat
Growers Association mas long been
of working in collusion
with the Minneapolis Chamber cf
Commerce. and other anti-Co-opera-
tive marketing interests to completely
discredit the idea of a pool, by MAX
ing complete failure cf the Montana
Wheat Pool and so disgusting the
membership with the organization,
that the membership would gladly
dIsorganize when the proposition was
put up to- them as it was in the Mon
tana Wheat Grower, the official or
gan of the Montana Wheat Growers
Association last week. and refuse for
years to participate in another effort.
In no other way can the incompatible
of the Montana Wheat
Growers Association management be
explained. The natural business in
experiance Of Cresap and Strawman
is well known to every farmer at all
advised in the state and is a joke in
5he grain trade; their inefficiency and
and ignorance is and has
been a marvel, but even this does not
explain numerous actually assinine
and criminal policies of the present
and the idea of the de-
iberate plan on the part of the pooI
to destroy the move
nent is the only anaylises of the sit
latlon in harmony with reason CIR log
G: the only conclusion that iustifes
he actions and activities of the man
agement. The idea of pure inefi-
'iency and ignorance on the part Of