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

closure, eviction seizure attachment, levy removal
The Secretary 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 needed for such farm home, equip
ment and /or livestock loans. Such loans shall be
made to the individual farmer by the Farmers Re-
lief Committee to replace such losses as have been
suffered by the individual farmer through eviction
foreclosure seizure. levy attachment removal since
1921, and to amount sufficient in the opinion Of
the Farmers Relief Committee to replace such
farm, house, equipment or chattels.
"cECTION NO. 8. The crop production loans made
made under Section No. and the farm, home
equipment, and /or livestock loans made under
Section No shall not carry any interest obligation
and shall be repaid and be collectibe only in the
following manner:
"(a) The loans shall be repaid only directly to
the Farmers Relief Committee that made the loans
Any funds repaid shall be used by the committee
in making other crop production leans in afford
ing cash relief as under Section No. 5 of this Act
"(b) The loans shall be collectible and repaid
only out of that portion Of the income of the farm
ers which the Farmers Relief Committee giving the
loan determines to be in excess of an amount SUI
fcient to cover % cost of production for such
farmer and C2) adequate living standard for such
farmer.
"cECTION NO. 8. No discrimination shall be made
in the administration Of this act because Of the
age, SEX race, color, religious political opinion
or afhliaton, nationality of any farmer.
"CECTION NO. g. The moneys provided for in
this Act, whether in the hands of any Farmers
Relief Committee Of any farmer shall not be
subject to attachment garnishment or execution for
any debt, taxes, rent, or other obligation.
"cECTION NO. 10. At noon on the goth day fol-
lowing the passage of this Act there shall be
held mass convention of farmers in each county
parish within the United States at the seat of
government of each county or parish. At each mass
convention there shall be elected from among their
number, by secret ballot Farmers Relief Com
mttee which shall not exceed ten Q0) members.
The membership of each Farmers Relief Commit
tee must be based upon proportional representation
Of the race, color and nationality of the farmers in
the county parish as reported in the 1880 Fed
eral Census. At these and all subsequent conven-
tons, each farmer shall have only one vote No
convention shall have the power to act unless at
least forty per cent of the farmers eligible to vote
are present at the convention. At any time, petit
ton of one hundred farmers or one-tenth of the
farmers in any county or parish, whichever is
fewer, shall be sufficient to call convention
to consider the recall of any member or members
of Committee and the election of new member
or members.
"CECTION NO. IL. There is hereby appropriated
the initial sum of $2OOOOOO0Oo for the purposes
of this Act which shall be raised by the taxa
ton of inheritance and gifts and the taxation Of
all incomes whether of trusts individuals. corpora
tons foundations) in excess of IS 900 per year
"CECTION NO. IL. The necessary and actual ex-
penses incurred by each such Farmers Relief
Committee in carrying out the provisions of this
Act and compensation for the members of the Com
mittee shall be paid out of the moneys appropri-
ated by the Secretary of the Treasury upon certif
cation from time to time of the necessary amount
by the respective Committees. The expense &C
counts and compensation for each committee shall
each month be audited and published in detail in
a newspaper in this Committees county. Compen-
saton for members of any Committee working full
time shall be equal to the prevailing average income
for farmers in that Committees county"