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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
Mr. SExAuER. If milk would go down 50 or 60 as a farmer I think 
[ would be glad to have an operating period so as to get a little more 
money for milk. 
“Mr. KincHELOE. I am not talking about you but your organiza- 
tion. 
Mr. SExaugr. Our organization is composed of, a lot of farmers 
like myself. 
Mr. KincaeLoE. They do not think like you do on all propositions? 
Mr. SexaUER. Not entirely; that is true. 
Mr. KincaeLoe. Has your organization as an organization in con- 
vention assembled indorsed the McNary-Haugen bill? 
Mr. SExaAUER. No; only our board of directors. 
Mr. KincaeLoe. You do not know what the membership thinks 
about that? 
Mr. SExauER. Well, our board of directors rather reflect the views 
of the membership. 
Mr. KincaELOE. Not necessarily. I have seen whereasing and 
resolving around the table of the board of directors when the members 
they were supposed to represent did not know anything about it, 
hecause they did not understand anything about it; is not that true? 
Mr. CLarkE. He is a member of the board of directors. 
Mr. KinceELOE. I am talking about what the individual members 
are thinking when their boards of directors passes some resolutions. 
Mr. CLarkE. Some of the members with whom I have talked, 
after talking with them a lot, said they did not quite understand 
it and they were not going to insist on whether they should or should 
not want to go in. 
Mr. KincEELOE. Do you think your board of directors had in 
mind an operating period would never be declared on dairy products? 
Mr. CLarkE. I think they would defer to the best judgment of 
fred Sexauer. And I would also say I was not at the meeting of the 
board. 
Mr. Jones. And therefore was under the impression that dairy 
products were not included and could not be included in the bill. 
Mr. Fort. Two years ago your national board of directors approved 
the Capper-Tincher bill, did they not? 
Mr. SExauER. I think they did. 
Mr. FuLmer. Mr. Sexauer, in fairness to your organization, I 
think we should get this straightened out. It was your understanding 
in your present condition that you would not come under the opera- 
tion of this bill? 
Mr. SExAUER. That was my general understanding. : 
Mr. FuLmer. And I so understand that. But at any time because 
of competition that your business should get in the condition of the 
other commodities, then you could ask for and get the benefits of 
this legislation. Then you would be perfectly willing to pay the 
equalization fee? 
Mr. SExavER. That would be the general plan, yes. 
Mr. CrarkE. I want to put this in the record: Mr. Sexauer is one 
of the ablest men and one of the fairest men in leadership in the 
cooperatives in the State of New York. I have had him in my dis- 
trict because I believed he would come there and tell my farmers 
the truth as he saw it. - He and I differ on this proposition, and that