Manitoba Grain Growers' Association

It provided a voice for farmers in their struggle with grain dealers and the railways, and was influential in obtaining favorable legislation.

The elevator companies, working together, could force the farmers to accept low prices for their grain.

There was a bumper crop that year, and farmers found they could not get their produce to market because the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the grain companies were still failing to conform to the act.

In 1901 the Territorial Grain Growers' Association (TGGA) was founded in Indian Head, in what is now Saskatchewan, in a meeting of farmers organized to address the issue.

[3] In 1902 the TGGA won a case against the CPR that forced it to comply with the Manitoba Grain Act.

[9] By the start of World War I (1914–18) the Social Gospel movement began to spread among organized farmers, particularly Methodists.

The basic concept was that Christianity should be concerned with eradicating injustice and promoting cooperation rather than competition.

He supported their decision to demand taxation of unused land, and said that the co-op movement was "part of the divine plan of human brotherhood.

It was expelled for paying patronage dividends to its member clients, then reinstated when the MGGA exerted pressure on the government of Rodmond Roblin.

The Guide represented the interests of the MGGA and its sister organizations the SGGA and the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA).

[12] The Guide was tightly controlled by the parent company and the associations of grain growers, who ensured that it was independent of political parties.

Fred Dixon was known to support the rights on conscientious objectors, which was an unpopular position with most of the delegates, but was allowed to talk on the question of trade.