HIGHER WHEAT PRICES.
SUGGESTED WORLD CONFERENCE. Received November 25, 11.20 a.m. OTTAWA, Nov. 24. A conference of the four leading wheat exporting countries of the world with a view to curtailing wheat acreage was suggested to the Alberta Wheat Pool’s annual meeting at Calgary to-day by Mr C. W. Peterson, publisher of the Farm and Ranch Review, Calgary. Mr Peterson believed that Canada, Australia, the United States and Argentina should confer on the present wheat crisis as soon as possible. He suggested a plan for stabilisation of wheat prices which included licensing of wheat producers. The largest farms would be forced to make the largest cut in acreage. He believed that the mere announcement by the four countries of an accord for reducing production would raise wheat prices overnight.
GENERAL STRIKE PROPOSED. WIIEATGROWERS’ PROTEST. CALGARY, Nov. 23. A proposal for a general strike of Western Canadian wheatgrowers in protest against the present depressed prices and general economic 'conditions will be placed before the Alberta "Wheat Pool in its annual convention this week. The proposal is to call for a cessation of seeding next spring by all farmers tilling the prairies’ 25 million acres.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 307, 25 November 1932, Page 7
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193HIGHER WHEAT PRICES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 307, 25 November 1932, Page 7
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