The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-24
CONNECTICUT FARMERS
 WANT NOTHING TO DO
 WITH ORGANIZED LABOR
So Says the Secretary of the State Agricultural Board and Other HOr- ney-Handed Sons of Soil Nod Boards in Agreement.

Claiming to speak for all the farmers of Connecticut simply be- cause he happens to be secretary of the state board of agriculture, Leonard H. Healey of North Woodstock, this week Ill a report made to the board at the Capitol in Hartford, took a pot shot at Samuel Gompers and his sugges tiOn that American farmers and Labor join hands for mutual bet terment; took another rap at North Dakota which is trying to break away from the tyranny of Wall Street and other financial interests and called Gompers and his plans Impossible visions. The report was received Ill the usual manner in which the back woods actions of the state board of agriculture are received and the members nodded their heards in approval when Healey stated that "the laboring people of the country will have most of the glV- ing to do."
 MT. Gompers proposal that the farmers and Labor join for mutual benefit was made at the convention of the A. F. of l.. now in Denver and Mr. Healey, who apparently gets time to read the newspapers, was prompt to pick it up and answer 1t. The meeting of the state board sched uled for this week, gave him the op- he seeking to take shot at the city worker and he was quick to grasp It. North Dakota's efforts to sell its bonds direct to the people instead ot through big financial interests also was too far advanced for Healey to see through either and he took a fler at that in his report He didn't for get to salve the farmers over and tell what a poor doWntrodden lot they are, because that's his job and he IS on it. The report in part says:
 "We have not even the smallest bit of sympathy with the statement which was recently made by Gompers to his federated membership" said Secretary Healey, that in order to get that which was theirs by right and justice they would have to join forces with the farmers of our country, for 1t seems to me that i'll this get-together movement the 1aboring people, of our country will have most of the giving to do.
 "The farmers of Connecticut and New England have never yet been carried away by leaders with impos- sible visions. We are not looking for perfect state nor are we ready for a wrecked Utopia such as the citizens of North Dakota are now enJoy1ng with their affairs in helpless con fusion and their SOC1ahSt1C schemes in an equally hopeless bankruptcy,
 Roger w. Babson "a statistlcian, has made the statement that If the farmers would sell their crops, liqui- goods now piled on the merchants Shelves the troubles would be over and joy and prosperity would again reign. We say nothing doing. We are, however, with you all for trade betterment that shall help Us all This is the view point of the Connecticut farmers as expressed through the state board of agriculture"
 Defending the farmers against al legations that they were not prOduC- ing enough Secretary Healcy said:
 "Urging the farmer to produce more that the consumers cost of living may be less will never accomplish the desired result The farmer Is the first to feel the effect of times, like those through which we are now pass ing and the last to feel the impetus ot renewed prosperity when it beglns Only for those farm products of which there is a scarcity does he get prlce that even meets the cost of produc- ton"
 Educational, legislative and financial requests of the farmers should be granted. Secretary Healey declared in order that the prosperity ot the country might be increased. "A forty four or ffty-fOur- hour week, sad . Secretary Healey, "is not efficiency especially if you only half work dur ing that time.
 Asserting that "the state board ot agriculture, through its secretary seems to be the only organization which dares to call spade spade when discussing farm problems. Sec retary Healey made the following points:
 "The agricultural prosperity. ot ouI country depends more upon the sue cess of our own live stock industry than upon any other line ot agrlcul
 Livery one must admit that thu: far the farmers have been remark
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