WHEAT MARKETS
AVOIDING THROAT-CUTTING
UNITED STATES AND CANADA
VANCOUVER, August 20.
The Bureau of Statistics reports that overtures from the United States are expected soon in an effort to avoid throat-cutting between the United States and Canada in wheat exports. Advices from Washington are that the United States will have 100,000,000 bushels to export and Canada 200,000,000.
A message from Regina (Saskatchewan) says1 that a farmers' holiday, during which farmers throughout the three prairie provinces would refuse to market their wheat until the Government increases the guaranteed price from 87£ cents to a dollar, is proposed by Mr. Frank Eliasori, secretary of the United Farmers of Canada, Saskatchewan branch.
He alleges that the price is really equivalent to 50 cents at the elevator, whereas the University of Saskatchewan estimates that the farmers' expenses justify the payment of a dollar. In Ottawa this action is declared to be "sabotage of agriculture."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 45, 22 August 1938, Page 9
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