The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
FARM RELIEF
CONFERENCE
IN SESSION
Overall Clad Delegates
Enthusiastic, Demand
Moratorium on Debts
NEGROES FROM SOUTH
"a States Represented
and More on the Way

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec.
THE National Farm Relief
Conference was ready to open
here this morning at IL o'clock.
II will hold sessions until the
evening of Dec. 10, and will
work out a statement to con-
gress and to the workers and
farmers of the whole country on the
exploitation of both by the food
trust. Prices to the farmers for
farm products are so low that wide
spread ruin, thousands of bankrupt
farms, has already been the result,
with foreclosures on a mass scale
and eviction through seizure of the
land for taxes just as bad.
At the same time, the farmers see
that prices of farm produce which
city workers have to pay are as high
as ever, and the amount of the sale
is limited, forcing down farm prices
still more.
The conference will certainly
adopt demands on congress for law
declaring a moratorium on farm
debts and taxes, and for real farm
relief from the government, with
out the present restrictions.
Wide Representation.
The conference is made up of del
egates from all parts of the country,
all elected, either at mass meetings
in the communities or by organiza-
lions. The United Farmers League
is the only mass organization of
farmers which officially endorses the
conference, but the lower branches of
the Farmers Union, Grange, Farm
Holiday Association, and various
Producers organizations, have en-
dorsed it and sent delegates.
The call to the conference was is
sued by a united front committee
formed nationally of representatives
of all organizations and was sug-
gested by unanimous vote of thous-
andS of farmers demonstrating in
Sioux City, Ia, at the height OF the
farm strike this summer. The DEM
onStration had been addressed on
the subject of resistance to seizure
of land and organization of the
farmers struggle, by Ella Reeve
Bloor, of the United Farmers League.
Many delegations to the confer
ence had not arrived as the hour of
assembly drew near, but were re-
ported coming from all points of the
compass and due to arrive before it
ends.
Last night, the committee in charge
reported delegates here from Arkan-
Sas, Florida, South Carolina, North
Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma Pennsyl-
vania, Washington, Massachusetts,,
New Jedsey, New York, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Is
land, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Neb-
raska, South Dakota, North Dakota,
Montana, Idaho and Oregon; "a
states.
Negro Delegates.
The delegates here are all enthu-
siastic. They came clad in their
working clothes, overalls and coats.
They are Negro farmers from the
South. There are women farmers
present also.
Two boys, aged Is and 10, sons OF a
disposessed Washington farmer are
among the delegates.
The conference will start with re-
ports from each state delegation ON
the situation ia home, and with the
election of a permanent chairman
and resolutions committee of seven.
After the reports and elections, the
conference will take up the resolutions
submitted by regional groups. There
are four of such groups. Group /
is: New England, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, New York and the Middle
West. Group is the South. Group
3 is the Great Plains west OF the
Mississippi River and east OF the
Rocky Mountains. Group 4 is the
Far West, Idaho, Wyoming, Wash
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