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‘Mr. Hat. That has been our whole trouble; we haven’t been
able to get the people into the organization, and a few were carrying
the burdens of those and getting the benefit of it? -
Mr. CROWDER. Yes, sir.
Mr. ANDRESEN. Would it not be the tendency, then, if we had the
equalization fee, that the members on the outside, of the cooperatives
would get the same benefits as the members inside, and then there
would be no inducement for them to come into the cooperative
organizations!
Mr. CrowpEr. We would have the cooperative or anization
the McNary-Haugen bill, then. P s under
Mr. ANDRESEN. Not necessarily.
Mr. CrowpER. Yes, you would to that degree of each one being a
member of that commodity by their equalization fee.
Mr. ANDRESEN. But the bill does not provide that just because
they pay an equilization fee they have to be a member of the coover-
ative.
Mr. CROWDER. No, but they are a member to the extent they are
paying for it and the extent that they get benefit, the same as those
on the inside.
Mr. ANDRESEN. Yes, they become a compulsory member
~ Mr. CROWDER. Oh, yes, they would not be a compulsion member
in the organization. But it rather appears to me that this probabl
micht substitute the need of the cooperative organization to ite =
degree through the McNary-Haugen bill to putting this f i it;
and that is the point we have been. taki 1 2 ee 1h
Mr. AnDRESEN. Do you see Ong Ronen farming legi
lation during the coming year or next year? eed lor farming Teer
Mr. CRowDpER.- Any emergency need?
Nr. iin Yes. oo
Mr. CROWDER. My dear sir, if 1 1 i
time and go over it with you I would o be periijizd to have fhe
ok fth : , uld show you that right in that
oh wun ° United States to-day we are in the most dire need. If
at, & ant me that privilege, I will take a few moments to explain
Mr. AxprEsEN. The rea I on 1S
Br son I asked that question is this: You
Ar, Or oon vetoed the last MeNary-Hangen bill we passed.
Mr. ANDRESE ' os
was the nd. one of the principal reasons for that veto
In Conan, Yes, sir.
Mr. ANDRESEN. . .
dent bas not iad have very reason to believe that the Presi-
in my opinion, that i we report th on nat question, and it means,
the fee in it, and send it down t h oNary-Ilaugen bill again with
Re ecotol go? igh o the President we will have another
brgyeh; up before a more fevorabl Pros Ve aes, Whar fis cen Be
Mr. CrowpEer. G Silent.
from? Tt is get ing tem what are laws and what are laws made
to give and take in this MeN: © various lines, and we have got
been some give and take on th ary-Haugen idea. While there has
to quite a degree from last year 1 ool thas Bo on fo, 90s Jody
o do the legislati ) : at it is this body’s business
rislating and not the business of the President.