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the use of any firm or corporation should entitle that 

 firm to the privileges of the Exchange even though regis- 

 tration of membership was under the name of an 

 individual; also that the right to membership should 

 include the right to delegate the trading powers to any- 

 one in the employ of the firm or corporation. 



The Grain Growers also asked that arbitrary inter- 

 ference with the business methods employed by 

 individual firms or corporations and inquisitional 

 inquiry into such be prohibited ; also that the penalties 

 and disabilities against those breaking the common 

 rules and the maximum-price rule be abolished; that 

 the right to define the eligibility of a person as an 

 employee or fix a limit to salary in any way be denied ; 

 also that the expulsion of no member should be con- 

 sidered final until assented to by the Minister of 

 Agriculture and that all by-laws should receive the 

 assent of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council before 

 becoming legal and binding. 



The farmers asked that the Government have full 

 access to the minute books, papers and accounts of the 

 Grain Exchange and that provision be made for the 

 public to have free access to a gallery overlooking the 

 trading room during the sessions of the Exchange so 

 that the transactions occurring might be observed and 

 the prices disseminated through the public press. They 

 further wished to see gambling in futures made a 

 criminal offence. 



Roderick McKenzie, Secretary of the Manitoba Asso- 

 ciation, told how the existing Grain Exchange had 

 about three hundred members, of whom one hundred 

 were active and fifty-seven of these active members 

 represented the elevator interests. He said that the 

 interests of the fifty-seven were looked after by twelve 



