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Farmers
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and amendment Of the social security
act putting the entire cost of old-age
pensions on employers.
The farm leaders indicated yester-
day that they feel. as labor apparent
" does, that the President should
construe his sweeping victory as a
mandate to re-enact most of the bene-
fit legislation which was thrown out
last Winter.
IF the majority vote Is for the
public good, the minority must get in
line" was the way one Of the farm
spokesmen put it.
Both the farm and labor leaders
appear to be determined to force the
hand of the administration. II neces-
sary, by going over his head and
bringing pressure to bear on Congress.
Wallace Irked.
Secretary Wallace seemed irked as
the farm leaders threw cold water on
the crop insurance plan, which he
fathered and tried to have included
in the Democratic platform at Phila-
delphia last June.
After watching one speaker after
another shrug shoulders over the crop
insurance idea, Wallace spoke up
rather sharply:
IF you want to throw crop insur-
ance out Of the window now, that
Is up to you. 1t Is for you to decide"
He then excused himself and stalked
of to the White House to see the
President.
As he was leaving the White House,
he told newspaper men the farmers
seemed pretty sharply divided about
crop insurance. They seemed to want
re-enactment Of the A. A. A., he said.
The Secretary had lunch with Ed
ward A. O'Neal, head of the American
Farm Bureau Federation. After
lunch ONeal offered a resolution,
which was unanimously adopted by
the farm spokesmen.
Text Of Resolution.
The text follows:
Resolved, That the primary need
Of agriculture is adequate prices and
We bA3OAC ACASAC, SOAbAy ASNoul1uCA1A
the strengthening of the present pro-
gram to maintain parity income as an
aid to the stabilization Of supplies
Of farm products in the interest of
both producers and consumers. We
recommend permanent program. Of
surplus storage and commodity loans,
with voluntary crop insurance In the
cases where practical program can
be devised. No program of storage
or insurance can be permanently ef-
fective, however, unless coupled with
some effective means of controlling
production and distribution of farm
produce"
Whether Secretary Wallace pre-
vailed on O'Neal not to put the de-
mand for re-enactment Of the A. A. A.
in written form could not be learned,
but the resolution was milder than
the statements of the farm leaders
in the floor discussion of the farm
program.
Later ONeal said the resolution was
tantamount to a demand for another
A. A. A.
well 60 to Capitol Hill, when Con-
gress convenes," he told newspaper
men, land repass it,"
The conference, which was attended
by the Presidents Crop Insurance
Committee. lasted most Of the day
The morning session was devoted
chiefly to a discussion Of the insur-
ance idea. There seemed to be lack
Of agreement as to what crop insur-
ance was and good deal Of doubt as
to the practicability of any form Of
crop insurance as a solution of the
farmers problem.
'The one thing that worked was
the A. A. A." O'Neal declared. "You
can talk about crop insurance from
now until midnight but crop insurance
won't work unless you have other
things. Let's come back here and re-
enact the A. A. A. with improvements.
Re-enact commodity storage and let's
have charged to . greater degree the
administration costs to the processing
Of farm commodities"
Copyright, 1885. New York Herald
Tribune.)