Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831934884

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 6

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 429 - 520

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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430 . AGRICULTURAL RELIEF I do not know just whether I should go along with that in the absence of Mr. Fort or not, as he expressed the desire to continue his questions. The CrAIRMAN. Are you through with your remarks? Mr. Kingore. No; I am not, Mr. Chairman. I was just putting that matter before the committee. The CuatrMAN. My understanding is that Mr. Fort will be here in a few minutes. Mr. KiLcore. Then, I will take up the more general aspects of the question of stability. Stability, I think I may say, is the national problem. In industry it has been reasonably achieved, and it is stability in agriculture that we are seeking to achieve in this legislation. Now, since these hearings have been going on I have clipped, mainly from the Washington papers, two statements regarding the prevention of waste in oil and the adjustment of production to consumption, so as to prevent waste and to prevent ruinous prices. In the matter of rubber, the Secretary of Commerce just a few days ago appeared before a committee in support of a bill, and I wish to read just a portion of the statement in the press about this (reading): The American consumer of tires has lost millions of dollars annually as a result of the British rubber monopoly, Secretary Hoover yesterday told the House Judiciary Committee, in indorsing a bill to permit the formation of American trade associations to make collective purchases of raw material con- trolled by foreign nations. The British Government, it would appear, worked out a rather effective measure for stabilizing and getting a better price for rubber. In Cuba the legislature has passed a measure for a restriction of sugar production and the control of export of sugar to other countries in such a way that they believe it will bring about a better and a stabilized price for sugar. Mr. Kercaam. Right in that connection, Doctor Kilgore, before you leave sugar. Were you going to remark further about it? Mr. KiLcore. It was not my purpose to discuss these different measures as to their merits, to explain them or to criticize or to commend, but merely to call attention to them from the standpoint of the efforts that are being made to stabilize industry and these certain agricultural products that I am referring to. Mr. Kercuam. The reason I injected that was because of the fact that Mr. Yoakum made reference yesterday to the attitude of the sugar-producing countries in the same direction you have just been mentioning, and I wondered if you had given that any study at all, and if so, if you could give the committee the benefit of the con- clusion you had reached upon that whole proposition. Mr. KiLGore. I would prefer not to go into a discussion of the merits of it, because I do not understand it sufficiently well; and, as I stated, I was merely calling attention to these measures to show the importance that is attached to this subject in general: that is, stability in all lines. . In the case of steel, where one half of the production of this country is manufactured by one corporation and a very large proportion of it by just a small number of other corporations, through this large con- trol in manufacturing and handling and through trade associations

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