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Letter To The Editor rl Farm Union Mn Manitoba Six 4-II Clubs Organized In Seaforth Area .04posinonmeosio -imaammis Here are the PreSidents of six 4-H Clubs organized last week in Seaforth: Lawrence Taylor, RR 1, Londesboro, grain; Alex Townsend, RR 3, Seaforth, tractor; Tom Whyte, RR 2, Seaforth, swine; Gloria Carter, RR 2, Seaforth, dairy; Bill Strong, RR 2, Dublin, beef; Roy Eyre, AR 2, Kippen, poultry. Nineteen 4-H Clubs have been organized so far this year in the county, Huron County Crop Report (By G. W,, igo4goniery, agricul- tural represenitatiVe for-Diluent • County) The worst weather condition's of the winter Prevailed during this past week. The heavy rain of ov- er two inches on Tuesday, was ben- d01, but the severe ice storm of Wednesday. knocked ,out hydro and .particularly telepNone services In some sections of the C,Quoty. This coupled with a very bad snow storm on Thursday again blocked most rural roads. Con, secetently farm meetings in. the County were in many cases can- celled' and otherwise poorly atten, . „ . 'The Editor, Oieton News-Record, Dear Sir Since Arriving at Toronto from 'Manitoba on Monday of this week. X have held a series of meetings. in the London to Codex-jell. areas. Your edition of this week's Awe-. paper was read. with interest, es- pecially the news coverage of Mr. Cop- eck's mass meeting •etteed, snce here and the two open letters. to the editor. Unfortunately Mr, Grieg, the secretary fielelman of the .Federe, tem of Agriculture, has not check- ed with actual happenings in Western Canada or else he was grossly misinformed. The reason why none of the provinces of Manitoba, Saekatc,h- kw= or Alberta have a Hog Pro- ducer's Sales Agency is becalm the' Farm Unions are advocating ;and pressing for an overall pro- ducers` livestock marketing board that will .handle cattle, sheep and logs. We do not believe that a marketing board will work satis- factorily when one commodity is handled to' the exclusion of the other , two and furthermore we 'hope to go much farther than a. sales agency, which is only the. initial step—we hope to be able :kJ control 'the livestock from the farmer to the consumer. You have made. a complete mis, take Mr. Grieg, when you say that we have no marketing legislation Ito permit us to operate sales agen-, .ties or marketing boards in. gen- eral. Both Manitoba and Saskat- •ehewan have legislation that puts Ontario's marketing legislation to shame in so far as controls and "teeth" in the Act is concerned dealing from the farther, to the packer to the wholesaler, to the retailer, and ultimately to the con, suiner, Only in the province of Alberta where the Farmers' Un- ion of Alberta and the Alberta . Federation of Agriculture are lowly affiliated do we not have, proper legislation. Last year leg, iSlation. to establish producer mar- keting boards on all products, ex, cept: livestock, were finally enact- ed by the Social Credit .Govern- anent there. In all three Western Provinces, the Stock Growers Associations are fairly powerful and they op- pose any and all forms of market- ing boards. Mr. Grieg states that, "if the Union wants to prove their sup- port for Producers' Marketing Boards let them produce some concrete results in the provinces where'. they claim to have great strength of membership." Any, one living in the West would not even bother • answering that un- just criticism but perhaps it would be in order to leave a few of the efforts in that regard, here in On- tario. ties of a Hog Marketing Board in Manitoba (this, was a Board of Directors decision only, then del- egates at their provincial conven- tion in June of 1952 did not even second a motion to carry forward a plan for a Hog Board and it was dropped then). (3) A further livestock Confer- ence was called by the Farm Un- ions late in January of 1954 in Saskatoon. It was decided that each province should and would have to work for their own live- stock marketing boards, because Federal legislation did not provide for that in itself, After each pro- vince would secure their own marketing board under provincial legislation already in existence then they could be co-ordinated under Federal 11111 No, 82. (4) Manitoba invited all organ- izations and livestock' producers to a Producers' Conference in Grace United Church on April 6 of 1954. This was sponsored by the Mani- toba Farm Unions and 1,000 live- stock producers attended. (5) The conference had both the overall livestock producers' marketing plan of the MFU dis- cussed and Hog Marketing Plan of the MFAC. The delegates voted overwhelmingly in favour of the overall livestock plan and only a handful of around 25 voted for the. Federation, Hog Plan. (6) The support of the Manit- oba farmers was becoming . clear but only two weeks later the Man- itoba Co-operative Pool Elevators called a one-day Livestock Confer- ence in Brandon at which about 1,000 attended. Mr. W. J. Parker, President, (and vice-president of CFA)' and his able staff of seven fieldrnen, -etc, wanted the grain growers (belonging to his co-oper- ative organization but also being livestock producers to varying de- grees) to take no part in the sup- port for a Producers' Board for livestock. Each one of the men who attended were paid mileage and expenses to attend and we did not learn till one year later that this conference cost 87,000.00, which was taken (not from grain !producers' monies) but from West- !ern Co-operative livestock agen, !cies, which is the Co-operative Commission firm for the three prairie provinces. (7) • Just how far the Farm Un- ions and the farmers in general were sold out by their own; Co- operatiye (unknowingly) and the Federations of Agriculture can be quoted from a press release from the Western Producers on Febru- ary 10, 1955. The' Western Pro- ducer is the West's second larg- est newspaper and is published' by the Saskatchewan Co-operative Pool Elevators. In this report on the Western Stock Growers' As- sociation: Convention held Febru- ary 2 and 3, in Calgary, it states, and I quote, "Another thing made clear was that, in opinion of Pres- ident Roy lVfarler, of Alberta Fed- eration of Agriculture, the set-up of the Ontario rag IV.I.R15etiag Board would not be "aeoeptable in Alberta," Nor did he think the proposed Manitoba and Saskatch- ewan producers livestock market- ing plans acceptable." Later Mr. Marler said, "The Ontario Hog marketing plan is not comprehen- sive enough to be effective, he thought." In the same press. report on the same convention the following ap- peared and I quote, "Henry Young, president of the Farmers' Union of Alberta declared the idea of a producer • livestock marketing board followed democratic princ- iples of majority rule. Producers should market their products as a group and a minority should not. wreck plans of the majority, he told the general meeting. Boards probably would be' more efficient than people who, 'have no direct concern in the producer' under the presen.t system," he concluded." (end quote). This should be.'• sufficient to in- dicate the position of the Western Farm Unions but I have much more information and many more clippings here with me (and even more at home in Manitoba) to prove more than conclusively ev- ery statement I have made here. I hope Mr. Greig will check with us in the Farm Union before he unduly criticizes us. I'm not an- swering his other comments be- cause it pertains to Ontario where I am certain someone will answer him if any other errors have been made. We are still working for an overall producers livestock marketing board plan in Manito- be' and the other provinces, but so far our Liberal Government of Manitoba have indicated their op- position to the livestock plan and have refused to grant us _a pleb- icite to allow the farmers to de- cide. After all what can you ex- pect when we have such a diver-, sity of opinion among our Co-op- erative and, Federation spokesmen. Thanking you Mr. Editor • for this valuable space. Perhaps I have dealt at too much length on this subject but I hope your read- ers feel that there is some infor- mation and facts here tilt. they will appreciate reading Yours very truly, ' • AUDY US/CK, MFU Director District II, Erickson, Manitoba Clinton Ontario, March 8, 1956: 0 Canada's population was esti- mated to be 15,792,000 at Decem- ber 1st last, an increase of 382,- 000 from a year previously. In- crease in the preceding twelve- month period was 405,000. Notice Township Of Tuckersmith To facilitate snow remov- al operations, the public is requested not to park cars or vehicles on roadsides during the winter months. And notice is hereby giv- en that the Township will not be responsible for any damages caused to such vehicles as a result of snow- plowing operations. E. P. CHESNEY, Clerk, Township of Tuckersmith 51-tfb (1) On October 15, 1953, the Western Farm Unions called a livestock conference at the Marl- borough Hotel in Winnipeg. 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