WHEAT PROBLEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1931, Page 6

WHEAT PROBLEMS

CANADIAN FARMERS

STAND BY POOLING

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OTTAWA, January 23

deports from Calgary states that the j convention of the United Farmers o! , Alberta, representing eighteen tliou- : sand agrarians, overwhelmingly d«j featcd the proposal for the economic [ secession of prairies from the Dotnin- | ion of Canada, ft expressed itself as I diametrically opposed to the demand j of the Alberta Wheat Pool members for complete secession and for the c*x- | tiuhlishment of a. co-operative Com- : monwealth under the British flag, exorcising free trade with the Old Country. The Convention favoured the one hundred per cent, pooling ol wheat, a large majority voting in favour of a Saskatchewan plan of “perfect pool-J mg.” Under this plan the provinces’ ; wheat ' s to be placed entirely uiidci j control, and efforts will he j made to extend the plan across the I prairies. The Saskatchewan Government has a compulsory pool system, following pu promised legislation on the so-called approval by the pool members of the plan. In Manitoba, the Pool delegates and the members of the United Fnimeis asked for a ballot hut the Premier, Mr Bracken, has stated that the Government has no intention of paving the way for a ballot at the present j session,