Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

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Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831935406

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232218

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 9

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 591 - 642

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 645 in favor of not permitting that very surplus that we need to be a menace to the farmers, to tear down their economic structure, or to make it so that a good crop to them is really less remunerative than a poor crop. I was reading just yesterday in the paper that there is another threatened famine in Russia. Why? By some governmental ma- nipulation they have practically confiscated the crops of the Russian farmers; and the farmers, waking up to the situation that it is no use for them to raise much, where there are any surpluses, have reduced their surpluses and stored what little they have raised: and to-day Russia is menaced with another catastrophe. Now, Mr. Chairman, we feel that relief must be given the farmers in some tangible form. Oh, people say to me, “This equalization fee—unheard of; never has the Government interfered to that extent.” No; but organizations of business men have been able to establish an equalization fee for themselves. It is a well-known fact that machinery manufactured in the United States is sold cheaper abroad than it is sold in the United States, not only farm machinery but all kinds of machinery. The same is true of textiles. There is a 15 per cent overproduction of textiles and, incidentally, let me tell you the wages of the workers in the textile industry are predi- cated on that 15 per cent that they have to sell abroad in competition with Japan and all the other cheap labor countries. Further, we feel that the farmers are not in position and they have not shown themselves able to establish that equalization fee through organization just as the great manufacturers have established an equalization fee through their organizations, and yet it is as necessary for the farmers as it is for these others. Now, Mr. Chairman, we are in favor of the McNary-Haugen bill. We believe that in that bill is the only comprehensive plan that will safeguard the interests of the farmers and put them on a paying basis. If anyone can show some other way by which the farmers can be safeguarded, that their surplus shall be safeguarded, why, we would be for that plan. But no such plan has been offered, as appears to us to be comprehensive enough to safeguard the interests of the country, which demand a surplus, plus the interests of the farmers, which would place them upon a paying basis as consuming citizens of the country. Now, that is all I wish to say at this time. Mr. AsweLL. Mr. Wallace, I understood you to say that 40 per cent of labor is idle. Mr. WarLrack. I said that—I mean to say that 40 per cent—now, understand me, Mr. Aswell, I do not mean that 40 per cent of the workers are totally unemployed. Some are on two days a week, some are on only three days a week, and some are on four days a week. But on any one given day 40 per cent of the potential industrial workers are idle at this time. Co } Mr. AsweLL. All the information we can get from administration sources is that there is great prosperity around here. How about that? Mr. Warnace. Mr. Aswell, I was in all the industrial centers last summer—— i - Mr. AsweLL. I am serious about that. We hear it and see it in the papers about great prosperity, unheard of.

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