Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-01-27
FARMERS DEMAND NO
MORE LAND Be OPEN
TO T|LLERS OF SOIL
Insist That Normally be Re.
stored Before Farm Area
be Increased.
VOTE TO SPARE FORESTS
IS Associated Press to Every 1svenlnr.

By Associated Press TO Every Evening.
Washington. Jan. 27.~-Union
labor won a victory In tho Ma
tional Agricultural Conference
today when that body by vote
of So TO GA struck out OF commit
tee report a recommendation for
repeal Of the Adamson Eight
Hour law
Washington. Jan. -. Eecommen-
dations for the appointment Of a fed
eral commission TO formulate 4 ma
uonal land policy including all anes-
tions Of reclamation and irrigation
were adopted today by the national
agricultural conference.
The conference also went ON record
as opposed to the opening Of any more
land for farming purposes. until nor
mai economic conditions are restored.
Immediate stoppage- of devastation
OF forest lands was recommended 10
the report of the. committee on perina-
nent forest policy and adopted by tho
conference. The report also recon1-
mended effective methods of fire pre-
vention forestry research and increase
In the nations forest reserves.
Committee conclusions. which would
have put the conference on record as
endorsing the Great LalSe-St. Lawrence
waterway project. We're stricken out
today when the committee report came
up for. adoption by the. conference.
The conference also struck out of
the committee report recommendation
for repeal of the commonly-termed
guaranty clausg df the TRANSPORTATION
act. which fixes six per cent as a
proper return for railroads.
This action Vas taken after a bitter
debate in which Samuel Gompers.
president OF the American Federation
of Labor, denounced a resolution intro
duced by w. IL. Stackhouse, president
of the National Implement and Te-
hicle Association. calling for reduction
of miners and railway union labor
wages and also the committee report
on repeal of the .Adamson law.
The sentiment of the conference as
voiced by several speakers seemed 10
be that the whole matter of transporta-
ton including wages paid TO union
labor and the railway question gener-
ally had better be left TO Congress and
not passed on by the conference.
Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and
several other speakers opposed the
conference going on record ON the
transportation issue.
The Railroad Labor question how
ever, is expected to again come before
the conference. when the committee
on transportation is received.
AIR Gompcrs in q vehement speech
declared he had faced "this same
atereotyped antagonismn to labor IN
the unemployment conference as
manifested itself in the attempt 10
put the agricultural conference on
record as favoFing repeal Of the Adam
son law
You repcal The Adanlson law. and
YOU viii not take the eight-hour day
away fionl the railroad men, he de-
ciared
The labor leader assorted the FARM
ers were good boys now" and were
allowing the bankers. implement
manufacturers and their like 80 play
monkey shine with you
But so on and organize, he told
the farmers, 'and you will face the
criticism as labor has done. The in
terests VIII drive you as they have
driven labor. Adopt AIR. Stackhouso's S
resolution and you viii any YOUR
selves with the greatest exploiters OF
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