OCR Text |
Show FARMERS HOLD ! CRMN MEETING CHICAGO. March 28. Conferences. 'aiming al th0 unification of the several sev-eral large s-ale plans for the cooperative coopera-tive handling of grain by fanners of Ithe country began here today Tftey 'are expected to continue through the ! week. "The hone to arrive at a mKle Iplan to bo presented to tho ratification ratifica-tion conference called hero next week 'by the "Farmers' Grain Marketing committee of seventeen" Aaron Saplro of San Francisco explalhcd. If a general gen-eral plan for handling of all gra;n 'is agreed on, it gives promts of making mak-ing the largest farmers' cooperative enterprise 1" the country. " ll Mln KJ PR! SEN l I U Mr Saplro Is hero representing the l Northwestern Wheat Growers' Exchange Ex-change which operates In Washington, i regon, Idaho and Montana, H - ,i,l that V. H. McOreevy of Wichita. Kan- sos. national -eeretary and tre,- ir r iof the Wheat Crovvers' association of iArtrlca, was expected tomorrow. Clif-j Clif-j ford Thome, counsel for the American Farm Bureau federation, is reprcsent- ing the committee of seventeen, of J which he Is a member. Mr. Jewctt of Spokane. Wash., general manager of the Northwest Fxchange, will be hero 01 I'rlday and the other leaders are , . ted. Preliminary conferences to-day to-day .He cBiefl) among nttomuys. IMs IDEJiTICATJ "The alms or all groups are identi-Cal." identi-Cal." Mr Saplro said. "The question is one or working OUl Hie right ma-chlnery. ma-chlnery. Ti er.- arc ways or adopting an) e)ci ftting associations to this end. so loin: at the spirit ot willingness to gel togellier Is shown, and that spirit is hen ipli bdidly innnlfest. "If the dOnilnahl groups unite on thilr chief point bf method they can go fnlo a hi; , onferettce here on April 'fi and present a plan thit will be adopted unanimously. "Thore la no question that the farm-ers farm-ers of the cdtlnlry will stand behind any program for tiie national coopera-tlv coopera-tlv handling r grain that comes out with the practically unanimous! sup- port. What we all want to avoid Is a split on details of method." |