The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-07-03
BIG FARM BODIES
PLAN CONFERENCE
WILL CAMPAIGN FOR LAW
BASED ON PRINCIPLES OF
McNARY-HAUGEN BILL

st. Paul, Mimi, July 2.-On July
18th and 18th there is to be held
in st. Paul, Minnesota, beginning at
10 a. M, at the Garrick theatre,
great national conference of farm
organizations to formulate a definite
plan and map out a concerted cam
paign for the attainment of such leg
islative protection for agriculture as
was embodied in the McNary- -Haugen
bill, While this bill failed Of passage
in the last session of congress, its
principles are still very much alive. /
The farm organizations which led in I
the promotion of that bill and the |
far-visioned business men who aided |
them are girding themselves for the
second stage of the struggle which /
will come when congress again con-
venes.
Continuous Campaign
At the conference in st. Paul def
mite plans will be formulated for
continuous campaign during the sum-
mer months and for the preparation
of legislative measures of relief to
be presented to congress in Decem-
Der. This is an open conference to /.
which everyone is invited 1t is ex-
pected that an executive committee Il
will be appointed to carry out the {
plans adopted. The McNary-Haugen
bill is the only practicable plan so far
that will lift agriculture
to the level of other industries, and
it will serve as the model
Tor the conference. I
Three hundred farm and CONNER
.ial organizations of the United :
states, national, state, and local, in :.
iorsed the McNary-Haugen bill. :.
twenty special representative of !
hese organizations were on the i
,round in Washington and made up
he legislative committee actively
promoting the passage of the bill.
When congress adjourned without i
according the necessary relief the =
eclslon to call national conference =
n st. Paul for the prosecution of a
urther campaign was made bv this Il
legislative committee. ]
among the organizations actively
epresented on the Washington com
l1ttee were the American Farm Bu-
eau Federation, National Grange.
latlonal Livestock Producers Asso-
iatlon, National Milk Producers Fed ol
ration, National Wool Growers AS al
)clatIon, American Wheat Growers Ill
ssoclated, st. Paul Association. and W
ate farm organizations of Minneso- nj
/, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois IN re
lana, Missouri and Kansas. All of fc
lese organizations are behind the th
I'll for the conference in ST. Paul. tn
Demand General w
Other organizations and agencies m
nong the 300 which indorsed the XII
bill were the United
5ates Department of Agriculture: 81
merican Federation of Labor: Ma fe
onal Board of Farm Organizations; ev
merican National Livestock Asso- or
alton; Corn Belt Meat Producers pl
Tri-State Grain Growers Al
Fargo, N. D.; Iowa State
Republican State Con- TT.
ntions Of Minnesota and Iowa -. -.
ate Bankers Associations of North -. -,
lkota, South Dakota, Montana, s' '
ashington and Oregon; State Retail ~ ~
erchants' Associations of Iowa and ~
Ontana; Minnesota Editorial Asso- oGs PC
alton; city commercial associations ~
st. Paul, Des Moines, Cedar Falls, -
)erdeen Mitchell, Lincoln, Portland, t;a ti'.
attic and Spokane; and many other ~, ~
ganizations too numerous to men 'ii'
N. -.
There are those who have said that ina Lla
2 demand for agricultural protec- -. te"
n comes only from few disgrun- ny ny
d spring-wheat farmers in the -,
rthwest. A glance at the preced- ne ne
: list of agricultural and CONNER ~ ~
j organizations covering the Uni my my
States that promoted the Nc iel
bill exposes the fallacy
that contention. The millions of
'mers and business men included in ain
,se organizations believe that ag- ing
ulture must have the same legisla- up
e protection that is accorded to hol
5iness, industry, and labor, or the cas-
'riers by which these latter are goc
v protected must be struck down, ped
agriculture in America is to sur bus
e. eve