Evening star., 1930-06-28
UN|F F|CAT|ON URGED
FOR FARM GROUPS
Legge, in Radio Address,
Sees Greater Results in
Collective Action.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Striking new note in agricultural
cooperation, Chairman Legge of the
Farm Board suggested bringing all ma
tlonal farm organizations under the
same roof" in an address broadcast
today from Washington.
He admitted natural difference of
opinion sometimes existed between the
different groups, but said collectively
they could accomplish results much
more quickly and to better effect
The chairman'S address stressed the
view that as the end of the first years
operation of the Farm Board ap-
preached 1t became more and more
apparent that organization is the
fundamental step in the solution of the
agricultural problem.
Unity Held Need.
with farmers organized" he said.
''the adjustment of production and
effective marketing of agricultural
products would be comparatively easy.
Unity of action is needed through every
stage from planning and planting to
marketing. The difficulty comes In get
ting producers to cooperate, chiefly
because there is still great difference
OF opinion as TO just how to organize
farmers so that they may properly deal
with their problems in handling par
ticular crops in this and that COM
munity."
The chairman insisted there is really
no reason why farmers should not go
further in collective marketing than
organizations of any privately operated
industry.
THAI privilege" he said, "is in the
farmers own hands. Laws have been
written in recent years to free farmers
from the restrictions of antitrust reg
ulationS. In fact, under existing laws
the organization of farmers is permitted
to an extent that probably never could
he accorded to private agencies. There
Is no limit to the quantity of farm
products that may be handled by groups
OF farmers who grow the crops and hold
the full right to sell Them
Bargaining Power Aided.
The great advantage that comes to
farmers who mass large units of prod
nets, he said, is the better bargaining
power thus attained than when they
come to market by the thousands, each
selling his own crop and competing with
otner individuals. Even an unframed
group of farmers, he said, can market
collectively to better advantage than
The private agency which has no control
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takes the product as 1t comes.
1t has been clearly demonstrated in
this country" he continued, that pro-
ducerS of farm crops can so regulate
the marketing of their products collec-
lively that they never have a glut. If
there is any surplus, they can keep it at
home and save freight"
Mr.. Legge initiated the idea of con-
solidating the national farm organiza-
tlons more as wish" on his part than
as probability.
"As you know" he said, "there are
several of the so-calledP general farm
organizations in this country which
might some day be brought under the
same roof. Imagine what power these
organizations could generate if their
forces were all mobilized into one unit
and put to work organizing farmers TO
improve conditions for agriculture"
While he admitted that the hope of
bringing Them all into one general Or
ganization may be a long time in ma
terializing, he said the Farm Board is
trying to help work out the marketing
problem by aiding in the establishment
OF large commodity selling organizations
in which the members of any and all
OF the present national farm groups can
participate.