The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-06-27
|TUGWELL, ON way To-
BISMARCK, TALKS ATT
|DES MONIES ON AAA|
Undrsecretary Of Agriculture
Scheduled to Arrive Here
Monday
ON TOUR OF FARM BELT
Charges Big Business Trying
to Wreck Social Manage
mont Program

Dies Moines, June. T-(PeRexford
q. Tugwell accused certain big busi-
nesses Wednesday Of trying to wreck
the new deal program for social
management" Of agriculture.
Fresh from his senate victory over
foes who called him radical, the UNI
6ersecretary swung into the farm belt
in the vanguard Of . number Of high
officials who will expound Roosevelt
tian policies to the country before the
fall elections.
Tugwell and his party are scheduled
to arrive In Bismarck Monday where
they will 60 over the grounds Of the
proposed Missouri river diversion
project.
Declares Hes Conservative
Emphasizing anew that he is =
conservative" the No. man Of the
Little Cabinet" told the Iowa State
Bankers association:
II am willing to work for the con-
serving Of all those things In America
which I grew up to love and respect.
This, I take 1t, does not preclude 4
willingness to treat radically those
forces which are enemies Of the COM
mon good
Some firms dealing in farm prod
ucts he hit Is inimical to the AAA.
He arraigned big Gamers. packers,
millers and milk distributors for their
opposition to the now famous lost
amendments" to the AAA.
The agriculture administration
asked congress to pass amendments
described as clarifying the licensing
powers Of this recovery unit. Opposi-
ton sprang up, denouncing the move
as an attempt to hand . cars power
to Secretary Wallace, and the amend
mentS died.
Tugwell said big professors fought
the legislation, although previously
some Of them had urged the AAA to
clamp down on small businesses with
the same licensing powers clarified in
the amendments. Some professors he
accused Of sweating farmers, wage
earners and consumers.
The opposition to the proposed
amendments" Tugwell said. us q pre-
liminary to an attempt to overthrow
the agricultural adjustment program
at its foundation.
The next step will be q concerted
drive at the processing tax.
Warns Against Agitation
Farmers are told that the tax is
too high: that II there were no tax
ct all the price Of hogs would 60 up:
that the processing tax on hogs Is be-
ing paid by the farmers themselves
AT the same time many Of the
packers complain to us that they are
compelled to pay the tax, that they
can neither pass 1t on to the consum-
er nor back to the farmer.
"And simultaneously, opponents Of
the new deal in the east, like Senator
Reed In Pennsylvania, tell the con-
sumers that the farmers Of the west
are being supported by processing
taxes paid by eastern consumers.
1T Is an attack on Ill fronts, but
each Of the three contentious Is In
consistent with the other two"
DR.. Tugwell repudiated the idea Of
blue print planning" but he advocat-
ed "a purposeful evolution Of society,""
no rigid theoretical COM
mitment to q finished system"
II prefer to call this social manage
ment' rather than planning" he said.
The AAA and the NRA are In
stances Of social management, he
said, both being democratic yet COM
pulsory on recalcitrant minoeities.