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PARADOXES FACE LEADERS OF BOTH
POLITICAL PARTIES SOLVING FARM PROBLEM
By Byron Price
Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Wn„ D. C.
Almost beyond belief are the confusions which
beset the leaders of both political parties as they re
new their efforts to do something about the farm pro
blem.
The situation would be almost comic if it did not
involve so important an industry and the fortunes of
so many millions of people.
Toward this industry and these people the fed
eral government has assumed an obligation which it
scarcely dares disavow', and which it does not know
with w'hat certainty how to fulfill. It has a bear by the
tail.
The new administration program is called a “soil
erosion" program. That is, a plan for preventing the
soil from wasting aw'ay. Actually, what everybody
wants is exactly opposite. If a sufficient number of ac
res were to disappear entirely, there would be no farm
problem.
Mr. Hoover, who may almost claim to have orig
inated the word “regimentation”, comes forwmrd with
the suggestion that a direct gcvernment subsidy be
granted to farmers who would then turn to raising
what the government thinks they should.
Meantime, after all the Republican assaults on the
AAA, it is the Republican leader of the senate, McNary
of Oregon, who hastens to introduce an appropriation
bill to pay more money still due under the AAA con
tracts. j
Begetting Confusions
These confusions grow out of other confusions
which go a good way back.
In 1932 one of the great political parties adopted a
platform condemning any policy which would make
the government “a speculator in farm products”, and
also “the unsound policy of restricting agricultural
production to the demands of the domestic market”
In the same year the other great party said in its
platform that “the fundamental problem of American
agriculture is the control of production to such a vol
ume as will balance supply with demand.”
It scarcely would be guessed today, but the party
making the first of these two declarations was the Dem
ocratic party, and the one subscribing to the second was
the Republican party.
After the election the Democratic party leaders
proceeded with a farm plan which took millions of dol
lars worth of corn and cotton off the market and gave
the government a direct stake in farm prices It also
launched on the most comprehensive program of re
stricting production yet conceived.
Whereupon, the Republican party leaders object
ed loudly to the control of production, which their par
ty platform had endorsed, and to government specula
tion in farm prices, which the Democrats had charged
was one of the chief evils of the Hoover farm board.
Reward: A Headache
A headache is the reward of those who try to fig
ure this out.
That has been the reward likewise of everyone
who has tried to solve the farm problem, or assist in
its solution. On many occasions it has been about the
only reward of the farmer himself.
After years of theorizing and experimenting, the
only conclusion to which everybody agrees is that
there still is a farm problem.
Senator Dickinson, who has been against the
“New Deal” at every turn, comes out for “stabilization
of production,” as one alternative. It is hard for the
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without controlling it.
The truth is that the whole situation has fallen
into a state of grotesque paradox and complete uncer
tainty.
What congress will do will be to pass some sort of
bill—absolutely no one can predict at the moment
what it will be—and then go home hoping for the best
from Providence and the Supreme Court.
BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON
By Rodnev Dutcher
WASHINGTON, May," (Copyright, 1936 by NEA
Service, Inc.) — Several developments on the labor
front point to intensification of the long struggle be
tween employers and employees in industry.
These include unprecedented political activity by
labor groups, evidence of repressive tactics of a sensa
tional nature, the rise of labor organizations to demand
a voice in new fields, and likelihood of a Senate in
vestigation of industrial practices inimical to labor or
ganzation.
The old-fashioned conception of the employer as
a benevolent personage with the welfare of his work
ers at heart, though it still must apply in many cases,
has taken a severe jolt with the revelation reported to
have been made in a Senate probe that major industries
were secretly buying stores of machine guns, tear gas,
revolvers and ammunition, in anticipation of labor
strikes.
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i ne evidence was iouna oy me oenaie iviuimiuus
Committee in the files of Federal Laboratories Inc., of
Philadelphia, dealers in tear and nauseating gase. who
handle pistols, and machine guns on the side.
These revelations are being used as a talking point
by President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers, head of the new industrial union movement, and
will be followed up by the La Follette subcommittee in
its preliminary hearings which will be used to base a
request for full investigation of violations of civil
rights.
The Natonal Labor Relations Board has a vast
store of evidence as to industrial espionage which is
being placed before the subcommittee and which has a
direct bearing on enforcement of the Wagner labor
disputes act—probably the most commonly flouted law
in the country today.
It has been common practice, this evidence indicat
es, for large corporation to employ “stool pigeons” to
join labor unions, make reports on the union’s affairs
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will be delivered to the national Democratic ticket in
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