let Quigley out canvassing on board wages. On February 28th the
Manitoba Grain Growers' Association held
their 1906 convention and as chairman of the committee appointed the
year before to report upon the matter, E. A. Partridge again urged the
advisability of establishing a company to handle the farmers' grain. By
this time the plan had taken more definite shape and he pressed the
claims of the proposed commission company with such logic and eloquence
that besides having the committee's
report adopted by the Association unanimously, he secured the interest
of quite a few delegates.
There was, nevertheless, much adverse critic