ABSTRACT
During the month of December 1928, just at the beginning of the new export season, a dispute arose between the rice-mill owners and the foreign rice-buying merchants in Bangkok. This chapter examines the importance of the quality of Siam "Garden rice" in the rice business in Siam before World War II. It focuses on the suspension of rice exports from Siam to Europe and Cuba from December 1928 to January 1929. The chapter examines the dispute between the Chinese rice millers and the European merchants in Bangkok about the quality of rice exports in the 1920s. The Siamese government officially decided not to intervene in the conflict over the new form of rice contract between the European merchants and the Chinese rice millers. Mr. Thi To Siwong questioned whether the European merchants would be able to inspect the rice. "Wotcharathit" asserted that the European merchant sent his compradors to the Chinese rice mill to inspect and receive the rice.
