The daily worker., 1929-04-22
Hoover SIaps the Farmers Again.

limited President Hoover proceeding strictly this
basis and opportunity in the consideration of the
farm relief question before congress to take waop
at the farmers and their organizations.
Farmers is put in quotation marks because the real
working dirt farmers; the mortgage and tenant farmers
and the share cropper with the agricultural workers
not even touched by the legislation being considered In the
present congressional session The farmers involved are
mostly the welo-do big farmers the landlords and the
petty bourgeois business and banking interests that feed
the agrarian population with the food spectators
Even these farmer" elements willing to concede any
thing in order to get something even though the crumbs may
be small are being repeatedly kicked in the face by the
presidential efficiency engineer of imperialism SO that the
White House cobber be kept quite busy providing new
footgear.
1t looks as if the total of what the farmers will
get from the she game republican administration is So
called edera Farm Board to investigate the question.
Hoover Just feeds investgatons 1t doesn't matter
that the farming elements in the land since the war have
piled up degree of misery untold that not disputed Yet
the expert the White House wants to expert some more
President Hoover hogs just about all the audacity in
Washington he bunty tells the farmers that they are
to blame because there is farm relief legislation He tells
them that the trouble due to divisions in their own ranks
This he epores adding that mo great step in public action
can ever succeed without compromise of view and some
sacrifice of opinion The sacrifice of has all been
on the side of the farmers until has resulted IN complete
surrender.
All the original so-caled radical proposals of the Nc
NaryHaugen legislation have been dumped in the congress
siona ashcan The socaled revolutionary equalization
fee stalks through the capitol like ghost of the distant past
The export debentue plan has been rotted out But It, too
has received summary treatment the presidential boot
aber president of the National Grange and Senator
McNary called into the imperial at the White
House and told forget about the debenture pan They
will, 14#z
There are several facts that stand prominently Sam
H. Thompson president of the American Farm Bureau Fed
eraion says that the three leading conservative farm
ganzatons quite united what they want The other
two organizations in addition to this are the National
Grange the Farmers Union He says that the lack of
harmony exists in congress- which polite of putting
the blame the doorstep of the White House Congress
repeatedly farm relief legislation only to have it vetoed
by the former president Silent Ca and now Hoover will do
the same if congress doesn't jump as he orders.
The National Grange that is sponsoring the export de-
benture plan the label of he oldest and the most
servatve of farm organizations This plan would work as
follows:
foreign country certificate amounting to
would be assessed the if
imported into the United States The debenture ceri
would be negotiable in payment Of customs duties and the
farmer exporter would turn them into cash by selling
them and customs brokers' The latter would
them in paying duties on goods from abroad
1t can readily how far removed this brand of
relief from the mortgage farmer the share
cropper has his crop taken from him at robbery prices
sometimes before is planted 1t is this element among
the population however that receives full in the face
the smashing fist of the administration at Washington the
fist in fact of finance capital that demands continually
worsening oppression for the countryside as #e for la
Dor in industry.
The Communist Party alone has led the fight for the
dispossessed the land The urged by the Com
munists not being considered in but they
being discussed among increasing of working farmers
and agricultural workers Some of the Communist demands
as follows:
~ ffve-year moratorium farm mortgage debts, nclud
Ing debts chattes. r 5{e.s@E 8a& s
49, 3 Protection of the working farmer against monopoly
prices lowering the all products which
3 the farmer e@8. s5 ~ 4 t~s
g. Protection of the farmer against special exploitation by
distributing agencies production by railroads. packers
mi russ and grain
Federal law for the of special relief
Of $1000O000O0 relieve the conditions the
administered
I working farmers. ~ 1N @sst 'sag
S S. Federal law against forced farm foreclosures.
Abolition of all federal on working and
tenant farmers. ..s'.1Es.9 1t ~,s5.@S
~ Z The land to belong to its .--.-$.
s. Complete freedom organize and strike agricul-
& ural workers. Federal law
working day and 46hour weekly
Yearly vacation with all
agricultural workers of all benefits insurance and
labor protection legislation demanded
basis