Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-19
National Board of arm Or
ganizatiodS Now m wash
ington EnIiSting Support
of Members of Congress
The Atlanta journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 18.-
The national board of farm organ
izations, now in session here, is en-
listing the support of members of
congress for a bill giving specific
approval to collective buying and col
lective selling by farmers. Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, is listed by
the board today as one whose aid
has been promised. Other senators
favorable to the farm organizations
plan include Underwood, of Alabama !;
Kenyon, of Iowa; Curtis, of Kansas ;
Sterlin, of South Dakota, and Wads-
worth, of New York. Legislative
recruits are being added daily.
Members of the Georgia delega-
ton in congress have from time to
time dropped in upon the confer
ence of the farm board, and brief
address was made by Senator Smith.
The board went on record for regula-
ton of the meat-packing industry.
The collective bargaining issue has
taken much of the time of the or
ganization's meeting. Dissatisfaction
was also expressed that agriculture
lists are to have but three representa-
tives at the industrial conference to
be held at the White House next
month.
Labor has been given large rep
resentation, although it raised hell
generally, while agriculture has been
loyal everywhere" said Milo D.
Campbell, chairman of the board of
farm organizations.
R. D. Cooper, president of the
Dairymen's league, of New York, as
serted there was disposition
throughout the country to force the
farmer to assume both the burden
of the high cost of living and the
blame for the same.
Claims Farmers Ignored
The farmers, he said, were not re
sponSible for the high prices. When
representation at the industrial con-
ference was under discussion, Mr.
Cooper said:
I'VE should demand that agricul-
ture be given one-third of the rep
resentation at the conference. 1t is
been stacked against us and
that there is a purpose to put the
burden and the blame for the nigh
cost of living on the farmer" Mr..
Cooper was cheered.
Delegate John McSparran, of Penn.
sylvania. said the farmers were not
sufficiently organized to demand a
third of the representation at the
conference and that moderation must
be followed in their demands undsr
the circumstances.
Replying to this speech, Presi"
dent Campbell said in part: 81 dis
like to disagree with my friend Nc
Spartan, but there is a great indus
try with hundred billions of dol
lars invested in it and forty millions
of persons engaged in it. The powers
that be saw fit in the first place to
room for three representatives.
81 know the president has a multi
tlde of weighty matters on his mind
but that is no reason why he should
ignore the, greatest industry in the
United States. the industry on which
all other industries depend for their
existence.
Labor has been given large repre-
sentation although it raised hell gen
orally. while agriculture has been
to France to be killed while providing
means for feeding the allied armies,
so that they could continue the fight
for civilization"
Senator Wadswortth discussed the
amendment to the Clayton
law. giving unquestioned permission
to the farmer to organize.
"It is time that the hand of the
government was taken off the in
dustry and the farmers permitted to
develop in the old way, unhindered
and unhampered by government