| Show Pertinent Resolutions Adopted By Utah V Wool Growers Resolutions adopted by the con- con Cedar City was very well represented represented represented t at the Utah Wool Growers Association annual convention In Salt Lake City last lest week not only in but also In active committee work and in committee appointments for the coming year Action taken at the convention Is of vital to everyone in southern Utah whether directly connected with the Industry or not The highlights of the convention as reported by the Salt Lake Tribune Tribune Tribune Tri Tri- bune were as follows venti on covered many subjects Three were of primary importance I 1 Expansion of wool and lamb marketing avenues 2 Condemnation of existing in international In- In trade agreements 3 Problems of railroad trans trans- To expand the wool market the convention voted to request the department de department department de- de of agriculture to increase its study of wool both through the bureau of agricultural economics and the federal products by-products labora labora- tories This It is hoped will lead to new uses for wool and may de develop develop develop de- de a formula of establishing shrinkages and determining quality ity The national advertising of lamb especially In sections where its consumption is at a minimum was WaI approved as was the work of the national livestock and meat board d and Utah Lamb week In regards to present foreign trade agreements the convention adopted the following resolution We hold that recent agreements entered Into have adversely affected affected affected affect affect- ed the agricultural and labor classes of this country by taking the markets markets markets mar mar- of the producer and depriving the laborer of his Job giving both to foreign countries with no visIble visible visible vis vis- vis- vis ible compensation to our own people people peo peo- but resulting In a marked trend to the relief rolls Billions are being spent to equip our soldiers with g guns and ton for defense but not a word is being said or a cent provided to maintain and preserve our livestock industry A soldier without shoes and shirts would be almost 8 as ineffective in ineffective ineffective in- in effective as one without guns or am am- In case of a world warIe warwe war warwe we I would have to rely entirely on our livestock industry for the sustenance sustenance sustenance sus sus- of our people It takes two years to produce wool and leather leathe and convert them into shoes am and shirts If our livestock industry has been destroyed by trade agreements agreements agreements agree agree- ments good neighbor concessions concession and sanitary conventions we will wll have no foundation on which to build or produce them Such negotiations negotiations are Imperiling the ver very existence of our livestock k Industry The convention recommended that all trade agreements and treaties treaties treaties trea trea- ties subject imports to the same earn inspection and regulations regulation that are Imposed upon the products product of the United States In the matter of railroad transi transportation trans trans- i the delegates voted toI to I any change in the long and andI I short haul clause of the interstate commerce act and any federal or state train bills billa that would limit the number of cars that a train may carry i I Other resolutions called for the continuation of a Commodity Credit corporation loan on the 1939 wool clip a request that more stock driveways be d developed eloped in Utah for the benefit benent of stockmen and motorists and matters pertaining to predatory animal control public lands and national forests |
