The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
FARMERS NATIONAL COUNCIL WELCOMES
 COMBINATION OF FARMERS AND LABOR
Enthusiastically E n - dOrses GOmpers Sug- gestiOn to Work To- gether and Pledges It's Hearty CO-Opera- ton.

The necessity for a completely harmonious working together of farm and labor forces tor economic re- construction Is we'll illustrated by the reception accorded the telegram sent to President Gompers of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, by Benj "a min C. Marsh, acting managing di- rector of the Farmers National Coun- cil, when Mir. Gompers at the Fed eratiOn of Labor convention in Den yer urged cooperation with farmers.
 That telegram reads
 "The Farmers National Council welcomes your endorsement of it's program for active working together of farmer and labor forces to achieve the ideals of economic, industrial and dom for which our country. was founded. We have been working to this end and will be glad to join hands with you to stop the present control of our railroads, national resources, ships and banking and credit system Ill the interest of a little clique of investment bankers and selfish un- American citizens of great wealth and to secure an honest tax system and control of the meat packers. We warn you against false spokesmen of farmer organizations who denounce the getting together of farmers and other workers. Only by uniting upon a common basis of fundamental jus tiCe can we achieve real freedom for all workers. The interest of workers as workers Is four times as great as their interest as capitalists. The la borer is worthy of his hire but has not received it in this country on t-lr1 transportation. He cannot receive it until privilege and monopoly is end ed To achieve that end joint action of farmers and other workesr is essential"
 The Literary Digest for July oth on page seven contains a discussion of this proposal and quotes some of the farm and metropolitan press on the subject Wallace's Farmer of Des Moines, Iowa, stated, "The fact is that the farmers are suffering more
 now from the leaders of labor than from the leaders of industry and | finance"
 The New York Times stated: Farm and factory are about as con- genial as oil and vinegar"
 The New York Globe calls atten- , tion to the rival claims of business to l the cooperation with the farmers and says: Eastern and Western bankers
 have also begun to pay court to the farmers. * * MT. Gompers presents his bid and MT. Morgan makes his
 offer, and the farmers will select, his i tory Is being made"
 The Philadelphia Public Ledger
 states: MT. J. r. Morgan hurries to l the aid of the meat producers and Bernard BaruCh is adviser to the farmers of the U. $. grain growers. , The fact is that both J. F. Nor 1 gan's overtures and Bernard Baruch' S l overtures have been repudiated by the
 real farmers and the spokesmen for l real farmers who are demanding equal | access to public credit to that accord | ed to any other equally respectable
 and legitimate industry. They do not
 care to be exploited by the invest
 ment bankers.
 As Mr. Marsh pointed out in his | telegram the Overtures tor a com bination of progressive farm and la l Dor organizations came not from la 1 Dor, but from the progressive farmers l speaking through the Farmers Ma l tional Council which in it's reconstruc- 1 ton program adopted in January l 1919, declared: Labor is the first | fixed charge upon all industry, taking
 precedence of the claims of property
 and investment in business and com ! merce."
 l The Farmers National Council has l been attacked by the big business in l terests and by the reactionary farm
 organization leaders who are acting ir
 farm organizations for big business ! because of their direct cooperation
 with organized labor for the com
 mon ends of securing economic jus
 tice. The Farmers National Counci 1 pointed out some months ago that l the interests of farmers as a whole ] as workers is at least three and . l half times as great as their interest as 1 capitalists. The onslaught made
 against the council is adequate proo1 I that it is recognized by the predatory | and privileged interests as the only
 combination of farmers whom big
 business and privilege needs to fear