The farmers and growers who live in Delta, a large and very fertile district on the environs of Van. couver, are organizing in a province-wide effort to combat Oriental penetration. The new Delta Co-optrative Growers Association has received signatures representing 92 per cent. of the cultivated acreage of the district. Sumas, another similar area, has 89 per cent. pledged to membership in an association now organizing. It proposed to extend the movement throughout the entire province this autumn. The broad and specific aim for the associations to pool their products and sell hay, grain, straw, potatoes, etc,, through a" single selling organization, as is being done by the big wheat, pools.
A spokesman say: is a ease of the white growers doing something to offset the inroads which have been made by the yellow race. We are loth to forego the result of years of toil and endeavour and see a class of people who neither conform to our laws, nor yet try to assimilate with us in our practices and customs, get the fruit of our past labours. We hope in our campaign to preserve the soil of our valleys for our white citizens."
The contracts which are being signed by members of the various ce-operative groups are an agree ment that they will not lease, rent oF sell, of allow to be leased, rented, or sold, to any Oriental any land they control. It is binding for five years and carries a severe penalty for default.
Alarmed by the rapid increase being made by Orientals in business in Vancouver, local merchants fare arranging a campaign which will at least partially offset the in-ronds of Chinese who are engaged in the grocery and general produce business. The first actual step was taken recently by a white firm who operate a chain of grocery stores.
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