The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
The Roosevelt Farm Program

TEE historic Farm Conference which is now IN Ses-
sion at the Peoples Auditorium Chicago, faces the
task of. fighting the Roosevelt farm program, pro-
gram which is deliberately directed to protecting the
PROFITS and investments of the Wall Street mono
poles at the expense of the impoverished and middle
farmers and the city proletariat
The Roosevelt farm program is q deliberate at
tempt TO drive wedge between the exploited wage
workers Of the cities and the ruined and impoverished
small farmers in the countryside, to keep them from
uniting in common struggle against exploitation
In addition, Rooseyets entire AAA farm pro-
gram is Wall Street program, a program to protect
the Wall Street mortgage holders.
Roosevelt set aside ST. 900 600 600 ostensiby TO
assist the mortgage ridden farmers of their debt
BURDEN 1t is in this way that Rooseyets Secretary
Of Agriculture describes the Roosevelt "re-fnancing"
program. +f
Ir actually the $1,000, 100000 for 're-inancing"
viii go not to the farmers, but to the mortgage
holders, whom Roosevelt has provided a plan
whereby the Wall Street banks, insurance companies
etc, protect themselves against loss by exchang-
ing their uncollectable mortgages for guaranteed
Government bonds.
AS for the vast majority of ruined farmers they
either ineligible for the Government loans or else
the government loans merely postpone their bankrupt
c and add to their already intoerable debt burdens
Roosevelt comes before the farmers with a pro-
to remedy the capitalist curse OF "overprouc-
ton in the face of want and hunger He proposes
70 substitute the destruction Of acreage, to send
prices upward and make the city consumers pay for
the whole process by higher living costs and process
ing taxes.
This is the Of his farm progran1-firlance
the destruction of agricultural production by levyng
enormous sales tax on farm goods, to be paid for
by the consuming masses in the city.
But this enormous sales tax, amounting TO $780,
100000 year, never reaches the tenant small ruined
farmers, for whom Roosevelt claims IL Is intended
On the contrary, they driven of the land by
the acreage reduction programl The crops upon wicfs
they depend for their livelihood are destroyed
In Texas alone. officials have admitted, over
100000 tenant farmers have already been driven Of
the land = result Of the Roosevelt acreage re,iuc-
lions.
And hnallys ae Roosevelt prics-raising program
not only still further curtes that market upon which
the farmers depend for the sale OF their products
but also cstces them In tire deadly scissors Of rising
arces for manufactured goods which they must buy
The net result OF the Roosevelt program is pau
psrlzation, ruin, and proletarianixation for the vast
masses Of snsn farmers
lUHAT is the way out for the ruined small fsrmers2
" How can they end the yoke Of mortgage debts
heavy taxes starvation prices and extortonate costs?
Only by forming q united fighting front with the
agricultural laborers and by winning the middle farm
allies only by forming united front with the
proletariat OF the cities
What class lead the oppressed farmers In
their fight against the Roosevelt Wall Street farm,
program, against the whole system Of Wall Street
robbery?
Only the proletariat the most revolutionary class
in modern society, led by the Communist Party, the
Party of the prcletaran revolution, united with the