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Grain Growers in as close touch with the Government, 

 due to the nature of the co-operative enterprises which 

 have been launched with Government support finan- 

 cially. Three members of the cabinet are men who have 

 been identified closely with the Grain Growers' Move- 

 ment. Hon. W. K. Motherwell has held portfolio as 

 Minister of Agriculture for many years. Hon. George 

 Langley, Minister of Municipal Affairs, helped to 

 organize the farmers of Northern Saskatchewan in the 

 early days. Finally in 1916 C. A. Dunning* resigned as 

 general manager of the Saskatchewan Co-Operative 

 Elevator Company to become the youngest Provincial 

 Treasurer in Canada; for already the Saskatchewan 

 Government had called upon him for service on two 

 official commissions to investigate agriculture and 

 finance in most of the European countries and his 

 services were valuable. 



Langley has been a prominent figure in Saskatchewan 

 affairs ever since his arrival in the country in 1893. He 

 was forty-one years old when he came and he brought 

 with him long training as a public speaker, a knowledge 

 of human nature and a ready twinkle in his eye for 

 everything humorous. According to himself, his first 

 job was chasing sparrows from the crops. After leaving 

 the English rural life in which he was reared, he had 

 worked on the London docks and as a London business 

 man. In politics he became a disciple of the Cobden- 

 Bright school and was one of the first members of the 

 Fabian Society under the leadership of the redoubtable 



* The Union Government at Ottawa decided in February, 1918, to 

 replace the office of Pood Controller by the Canada Pood Board, organized 

 as a branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture under Hon. T. A. 

 Crerar. Hon. Charles A. Dunning was selected as Director of Production. 

 The other members of the Canada Food Board were: H. B. Thomson, 

 Chairman and Director of Conservation; J. D. McGregor, Director of 

 Agricultural Labor. (Mr. McGregor resigned after a year in office.) 



