B. D. MORTON W. R. RIERSON W. A. GOODSON

Cc. T. JOYCE F, P. DAVIS
CHM. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHM. FINANCE COMMITTEE

PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT SECRETARY & TREASURER

J.T. BOOTH, SALES SUPERVISOR

Winston Tobacco Board of Trade, Inc.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

March 19, 1943.

Mr. A.B.Carrington, Jr.,
e/o Dibrell Bros.,
Danville, Va.

Dear Berk:

I wish to thank you for your letter of March 12th en-
closing blank form of petition which is being circulated in
your section of the Old Belt, and also copy of newspaper clip-
ping with reference to the same petition which evidently comes

from South Boston.

Of course, we will be only too glad to cooperate along
this line here in the Winston-Salem territory but I have just
contacted the President of the local Warehousemen's Association
and he advises me that this matter was taken up rather in detail
at different meetings of the 01d Belt Warehouse Association
as well as the general meeting in Raleigh, and that the final
opinion of the Warehousemen was that it would be unwise to push
any movement of this kind now. One particular reason for this
is that they know that they will have active opposition of the
Grange and other farmer organizations.

They are hopeful that the matter of government grading
may to some extent collapse even without their active opposition
and if so, feel like they would be in better position thereby.

Of course, you realize that farmers' signatures to such
a petition would have to be secured in any community through
the cooperation of the warehouse people and since they feel as
they do about it, I am afraid that there is nothing that we can

do just now.

Thanking you for bringing this to our attention, and
with best Wishes, we are,

\ Yours very truly,