The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
A. A. A. Madness

Flying in the face of the working-cIass
and the poor farmers of the United
States, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
again lays down the law of the New Deal
for the farms: the Agricultural Adjust
ment Act was, is and will be good, and
must continue in effect.
One-third Of the potential crops have been
destroyed by the AAA crop-reduction plan; one
quarter of the farmers have been driven off their
land in the last few years by mortgage companies
and trusts; 20 900 900 Americans live on relief which
means on starvation level; prices are admittedly
rsing-but the mad reduction program Of the AAA
must go on, says Mr.. Wallace.
This gentleman writing in the New York Times
Of August 10, states the Roosevelt farm policy In
unmistakable terms in words which every worker
and farmer in the United States should ponder
over:
IF TO controls and if there
resumption of normal nearly normal grow
Ing weather las is always probabIe) next year
and thereafter, that point of unbaIance could
occasion just much damage In the future
as 1t has caused in the past :. there are surplus
still. Their probable future production
they powed and titled, would pile high
wasted yield, left to rot We have not solved
basic farm surplus problem. Those 100000
of land must be held out of commercial
production until foreign demand is effectively
restored"
Mr.. Wallace admits in his article what every
body knew-that the AAA and not the drought
was the great ravager of American crops The
drought put the finishing touches on what was
fundamental policy of the New Deal adminstra-
ton And, says the secretary, the Roosevelt gov
eminent intends to maintain crop-reduction. "a
year or two of uncontrolled production and
Or hum will farv rio
back where he in 1882, with farm prices In the
cellar and the whole country suffering again from
drastic price collapse"
Here it is clear as day that A.AA restrictions
not being lifted. Obviously the Farmers Ma
tional Weekly, which draws contrary conclusions in
its last issue is incorrect walaces own statements
prove this)
THAT the farmers are getting only further misery
from the A.A.A. Is attested to by daily facts
The "scssors-the gap between prices of agricul-
tural products and prices of manufactured products
is widening. While the price of corn is going up
the price of the farmers overalls = and of every
other manufactured ARTICLES rising much faster
Even official Washington is compelled to admit
this.
City workers are daily being robbed by the in
crease in the price of food and other necessities
The beneficiares of the AAA crop-reduction
madness are simply and solely the few big farmers
the grain SPECTATORS, the great packers the food
trusts. The losers are the mass of farmers and
the workers.
The Farmers Emergency Relief Bill proposed
last June by the Communist Party is the only inn
mediate answer to the needs of both the farmers
and workers. This bill demands the repeal of the
A.AA, the stopping of farm evictions, cash relief
for needy farmers, cash crop loans, and an appro-
priation of s2,00OO0oOOO by taxation of the large
trusts and incomes over $1,000. This bill and the
measures proposed by the farmers organizations
for drought relief should be given the earnest sup
port of farmers and workers alike.
The farmers, however, should act Immediately
to force the administration to provide adequate
drought relief Protest meetings and demonstra-
tons should be held in every township and county
where the farmers demands are emphattcauy set
forward,