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Show BEET GROWERS PROTEST LAW Sugar beet growers and manufacturers manu-facturers of the -United States are registering a vigorous protest against any restrictions that may be imposed on sugar beet acreage "as long as the United States produces pro-duces less sugar than it uses." Formal messaves of protest were sent to President Roosevelt by Governors Ed C. Johnson of Colorado Colo-rado and Frank H. Cooney of Montana. Mon-tana. Congressman Fred Cum-mings Cum-mings of Fort Collins and Lawrence Lawr-ence Lewis fof Denver protested to a committee which is drafting a sugar agreement in Washington. Important Industry "Suyar beet culture is a vitally important part of western agriculture agricul-ture and industry," said Governor Johnson, "and any program which would operate to curtail opportunities opportu-nities for growing this crop would, In my opinion, be strongly resented resent-ed by western communities. "It would further add to our unemployment un-employment problem, as seasonal labor in beet fields and sugar factories fac-tories is now of great aid in meeting meet-ing the problem." Allotment Low Leaders of the beet sugar industry in-dustry of Utah agreed Wednesday that the work of the sugar stabilization stabili-zation conference is commendable in its intent to increase returns for domestic sugar producers, but the general sentiment expressed is that proposed domestic allotment on beet sugar production is too low. "The beetgrowers and the beet sugar processors had hoped for new restrictions, but Coordinator John L. Coulter has proposed that the quota for domestic beet production pro-duction shall be fixed at 1,525,000 short tons, expressed in raw sugar-terms, sugar-terms, or approximately 1,425,000 short tons of refined sugar," H. A. Banning, vice president and general gen-eral manager of the Amalgamated Sugar company, Ogden, stated when Interviewed Wednesday. "Disappointing" "This is disappointing to the domestic growers and also to the beet sugar manufacturers, as it is approximately 4,000,000 bags lower than the estimated produc-tion produc-tion for the corning season. " |