The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-10
A. N. WANKLE, Secretary
P. ]. WALLACE, Chairman

that section. Sen. Lynn ]. Frazier is member
of the North Dakota Wheat Growers Association
and a hundred percent deliverer
At Grand Forks, your Committee found group
Of wide awake and capable officers who appeared
to understand their work and the Associations
problems and possessed of the initiative and abil-
ity to solve them. They discussed the conditions
of the pool frankly. They confessed that they had
made mistakes in finding their way through the
uncharted seas OF cooperative marketing, but in
sisted that they had made no serious blunders.
Your Committee was very well impressed and
pleased with the persOnelle of the office and field
forces
In Minneapolis your Committee investigated
several charges against the North Dakota Wheat
Growers Association, but find these rumors and
charges to be msubstantated and mostly loose
propaganda. Mr. Deveaux, the former traffic
for the American Wheat Growers, blamed
Mr.. Duis for withdrawing the North Dakota AS
ISOLATION from the American, which is a sales
agency, which thing the Minnesota Association
finally did also, and which Montana and South
Dakota Association did not do The Montana AS
0OSAe'OiOlA
Dakota Association has no wheat this year. and
is dispOsing of any which may be consigned to
that Association through the Minnesota organ
izatiOn, resulting in the closing of the American
Sales Agency. Mr.. Deveaux thought that the
withdrawal of the North Dakota Association from
the American and the setting-up of the North
Dakota Sales Agency, and refusing to cooperate
with cooperative in the same field already es-
tabllshed was act of treachery At the same
time, he disclosed facts about the American that
absolutely justified North Dakota's withdrawal
and the later withdrawal of Minnesota as it was
evident that remaining in that Agency meant ruin
Tor that Association, as it did Montana Mr. De-
veaux is not at present time employed He rec
commended that Northeastern Montana form an
independent pool and suggested that he would like
to sell its grain for it. In other words he seemed
very interested in securing job for himself. Mr.
Jeklin did not have any criticism to offer of the
North Dakota Association except for its with
drawal from the American Sales Agency and
some of a personal nature of Mr. George Duis
the president of the North Dakota Association
lie said that Mr. Duis was a very determined man
and liked to dominate any board that he was on:
he felt that if North Dakota had supported the
American, it could have correlated the different
pools, and perfected a sales agency that would
pools. There was also criticism of the North
Dakota Association for its act in hiring Mr.
Stark very capable and talented wheat sales
man away from the Minnesota Association bv
means Of a substantial raise in wages Thew
thought that this treachery and not Coon
Grafton. However, Mr.. Frederick the manager
OF the Minnesota pool did not indicate that he
considered this Of any particular consequence. Mr.
Stark has the reputation of being one of the two
most experienced, capable and shrewd wheat and
grain statesmen on the Minneapolis market and the
North Dakota Sales Agency is very fortunate
IN having secured his services and his birino
would seem credit to the sagacity of Mr.. Dnis
Mr.. Duis however denies that there was anvtbino
irregular in the employment of Mr. Stark and
that he hired him with the consent of the Mime
sofa Association
The officers of the Minnesota Association
seemed to entertain considerable animositv +o
wards the officers of the North Dakota Associa-
ton and especially towards Mr. Duis the nrasi-
dent. They seemed to be jealous of North Da-
kota. They thought that Montana should form
a pool of its own: and offered to finance the
Montana pool and sell its grain through its sales
agency and admitted that it was financed bv the
Continental Grain Company, an export organiza-
ton financed by syndicate of New York and
London Jews, but claimed that this COMPANY uae
IN no way in competition with the pools. The
Minnesota officers insisted that Mr. Duis was n
rule or ruin man and that he dominated the NORTH
Dakota Association by means of putting all or
most all Of the members Of the Board of Direct
ors on the payroll and by financing their cand;-
dacy for re election, and that he had been instrn-
mental in defeating Mr. Mark Blair of Grand
Forks and Mr.. w. G. Ginther of Sarels, N d
who had led an opposition to him, though thew
had taken great interest in the pool and in the
case of Mr.. Blair had spent sometime in Mime
apOis supervising wheat sales the first two years
of the pool and who was capable man. The
Minnesota Officers charged that the management
Of the North Dakota Pool was not representative
of the membership, but foisted upon them and