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chewan organization having signified its intention of 

 withdrawing from present action. President C. Rice- 

 Jones, of the Alberta Farmers' Co-Operative Elevator 

 Company, and President T. A. Crerar, of the Grain 

 Growers' Grain Company, were asked to give the 

 matter careful thought and make their recommenda- 

 tions to their respective boards of directors. 



There followed a joint meeting of all those interested. 

 It was held at Winnipeg and the result was a recom- 

 mendation that the Alberta Farmers' Co-Opera tive 

 Elevator Company and the Grain Growers' Grain Com-% 

 pany be amalgamated under the name " United Grain 

 Growers, Limited."* When the matter finally came , 

 before the farmers concerned at their annual meetings 

 in 1916 it was decided unanimously to go ahead 

 with the amalgamation of these two farmers' business 

 organizations. 



Accordingly application was made for necessary 

 changes in the charter of the Grain Growers' Grain 

 Company and these changes were granted by Act of the 

 Dominion Parliament in June, 1917. The authorized 

 capital stock of United Grain Growers is five million 

 dollars. Its annual meetings are to be held in the 

 different provinces alternately. The shareholders are 

 formed into local groups, each represented by delegates 

 at annual meetings, these delegates alone doing the 

 voting. Proxy voting is not allowed. The charter is 

 designed, in brief, to introduce the system of internal 

 government that has been in practice by the Alberta 

 Farmers' Co-Operative Elevator Company and the 

 Saskatchewan Co-Operative Elevator Company and has 

 proved so satisfactory in every way. 



* See Appendix Par. 17. 



