The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
FARMERS EMERGENCY RELIEF BILL

''TO protect and aid tenants, share
troopers, and operating owners of farms
by insuring their continued possession of
their farms and by providing for that
abundance of agricultural crops and live
stock which is essential to the well-being
of farmers and industrial workers.
DE 1T ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE
Dor REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS AS
SENfBLED that because the operation Of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act has resulted in
"(a) eviction Of tens of thousands of tenants
sharecroppers and operating owners Of FARMS from
their farms and homes through the reduction of
acreage programs;
"(b) imposing the full burden of the cost of
benefit payments upon the farmers and workers
through the processing tax;
"(c) the waste of fertile farm lands and the re-
turn to laborious and primitive methods of produc-
ton, while millions of unemployed workers are
starving;
cd creating and fostering nlonopolies among
the distributors and professors OF agricultural pro-
ducts through the marketing agreements and
licenses;
the Agricultural Adjustment Act as amended,
is hereby revoked and repealed"
"cECTIoN NO 2. The term farmer as used in this
Act means any individual who is engaged in
tilling the soil, whether tenant sharecropper or
owner, who operates his farm primarily by his own
labor. None of the benefits or rights of exemp-
tions from taxation granted by this Act shall apply
to any landlord absentee owner or corporation
or to any farmer who owns more than one farm,
or who operates primarily with hired labor or to
any manager or foreman of a farm
"CEcTION NO. 8. Under no circumstances shall
Dany farmer be evicted from the farm on which
he has titled the soil or from the dwelling house
on that farm for the non-payment of any debt
rent, taxes other obligations or because of the
termination Of any lease or contract. To secure
the farmer in possession of his land, home and
equipment all debts and other obligations threat
ening such possession are declared cancelled.
"0ECTION NO L. No farm equipment farm i'm
improvements or livestock on any farm shall be
attached, seized levied upon or removed from such
farm for the non-payment of any debt rent or
other obligation or because of the termination of any
lease or contract.
"0ECTION NO s. Cash relief for the necessities
1of life shall be afforded to all farmers in need
Of relief by committees of farmers who shall de-
VOI1ll1LlC OUCH He6u. In6Se committees shall be
elected in each county and parish within the United
States by the farmers located in that county or
parish. Such committees shall be known as Farm
ers Relief Committees and shall be chosen in the
manner hereinafter provided The Secretary of the
Treasury shall from time to time pay to the Farm
ers Relief Committee in any county or parish such
amounts as the Committee shall certify are needed
for the relief Of farmers in its county or parish
"eECTIoN NO. 6. Crop production loans, in cash
shall be made to all farmers in need of such
crop production loans upon the determination of
such need by the Farmers Relief Committees in
their respective counties or parishes The Score
tary of the Treasury shall, from time to time pay
to the Farmers Relief Committee in any county
or parish such amounts as the Committee shall
certify are needed for crop production loans.
"CECTION NO !. Farm home, equipment and
livestock loans shall be made to all farmers in
need OF same due to the fact that they have suffered
the loss OF farm, dwelling house, farm equipment
farm improvements, or livestock through fore