The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-06

THURSDAY q,
THE CASE FOR THE FARMERS
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HE EXECUTIVE Committee of the Connecticut Vegetable
Growers Association is dspleased with attacks made
upon the farmers To the assertions that the greed of the far
e the basis Of the high Of food the farmers
Eeaping excessive profits
dspleasure with social condition might not be
matter tangible enough for profitable discussion but the
tsee offers statement of disabilities and suggestions for
amedes and the communication is above the rank of mere
protest.
The statement disabilities is so clear and definite that
anybody can understand it:
1st-IIe asked production (aeady
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b @ nR up Of the price and to do this that we might
snSae SURE aa shshn s aaa 0aSs
srdo o ne cop ps T bi h ,a,d, -
factory
.thHs had
potash
sth1is labor situation most unusual and critical
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that @ hand ooeasiona school boys students wo a
@ a so,'rsa psaRa a from ah h the south s
These allegations are substantially true There was de-
ent labor supply there was no organized nteigenly ar
anged market seed prices high fertilizer frequent
~ deficient in potash, and there glut.
AS always America considerable quantities of material
ent TO waste Apples remained unpicked Cabbages
ploughed under.
The vegetable growers make statement of remedies,
follows:
roD saa reliable
srdeA reasonable enjoy their
share Of the advantages of modern civilization
nnsasurats with importance Of calling
These remedies atainabe but they would require very
considerable changes social and economic structure The
changes not necessarily difficult
dependable, sufficient and profitable labor supply
obtained it used to be- The workers fewer and
ste Is more work do million Immigrants used to
into the country each year. TIL and will not
eoe while the lasts The labor that does will seek
m advantageous market for the aborer will demand de-
psndabe sufficient and profitable employment Because he
ab0rer Is Of the flesh and blood the farmer, he will
demand for himself the best he get.
labor supply be in effect increased easily by
operative effort by the employment Of group owned machinery
bv doing things in that present done individually
Independently, lonesomey The remedy requires change
change In the habual economic thought Of the farmer well
as Of the rest Of the community.
market for the farmers crop that reliable be OBJ
ned but it would require far different methods than the
restrained Compatihun prevailing.
would have to be census Of requirements as vel
pooling of the distribution Cold storage would be needed
cannere The bushels Of potatoes the quantity Of cab
e and other vegetables required by the families of Fairfield
county would have be definitely ascertained to the pon
Of ample and sufficiently diversified ration and the goods
So asceaned necessary would have to be raised under
cordnated plan distributed under co-ordnaed system
aprces which would recompense the farmer, the wh
works the farmer and those necessary persons engaged
dlstribution
would follow that essay persons engaged in dis
buton would be eliminated both to lower the price Of tn
product and to swell number those available produc
tive enterprise.
The for place the political business and socia
World commensurate with the Importance Of his calling, de
Ponds for its realizatons upon the farmer.
II the farmer votes for and for systems that do
he he
political success organize himself until social recognition
is compulsory, the fault is his,
The Fairfield Vegetable Growers Association has voiced
Indictment against the system of unrestraned competition
has discovered to extent at least that strong state
with respect to its industry be organized comparatively to
greater extent than now,
Each must not do what he pleases, without takin
ohat the other fellow is doing 1t is with railroads
with farmers The demand for unified operation of rail
roads, expressed by the Interstate Commerce Commission,
another phase of the same problem