Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-11-26
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Washington. - Cash income re-
ceived by farmers from products
marketed in the month of Septem-
Der amounted to 1854, 900, 900, the bu-
reau of agricultural economics an
nounced.
Cash income from marketings for
August was $685., 900, 900 and for Sep
TENDER last year $648,000,000. The
September increase over August
this year was somewhat more than
usual. The gain over September
1885 amounted to 16 per cent.
An important item entering into
the September gain in farm income
was the increased income from cot
ton, resulting from increased re-
ceipts of cotton at the principal spot
markets and favorable upturn in
prices. The income from tobacco
also increased more than usual in
September.
An unusually large amount of
livestock was sent to market in Sep
TENDER, some of it presumably the
result of liquidation in the drouth
area. Average prices of meat ami
mails were about the same in Sep
TENDER as in August, but were ma
terially lower than in September
last year.
Although prices of wheat and oats
were higher than year ago, the
sales of these grains were sharply
reduced. The net effect was small
er income from grains this Septem-
Der than last.
Rental and benefit payments by
the government in September
amounted to $6,OOO,OOO compared
with $11 100000 in August and $751;
000, 1000 in September, 1885.
The total cash income of farm
ers in September, including govern
ment payments, was $3.50, 1000, 900,
compared with $646, 100000 in Aug
ust and sos, 100000 in September,
1885.
For the first nine months of this
year, total cash income from farm
marketing and from government
payments, was $5,434, 100000, of
which $21O, 900, 900 were government
payments. In the corresponding
nine months of last year total cash
farm income was $4,830, 100000 of
which $4O7, 100000 represented gov
eminent payments.
Favors Aid to Labor
The national labor relations board
asserts in defense of it's activities
under the Wagner act that federal
Intervention is the only way to pro-
tect the constitutional rights of steel
workers.
Proclaiming the necessity of it's
existence in order to maintain an
equilibrium between laborers and
employers in collective bargaining,
the board said:
In steel particularly the exist
ence of company police and of the
company town system, with the con-
sequent suppression of civil iber-
ties, makes governmental interven-
ton the only way to secure for the
workers the free exercise of their
rights to organize for collective bar
gaining purposes.
Governmental Intervention of
some kind has been the rule in ma
jor labor disputes for more than
half a century," the board said.
The study, which Chairman j.
Warren Madden said represented
the views of the board, although
prepared by it's economic division,
charged there are between 100000
and $4,000 'spies" active in Ameri-
can industry.
Taking cognizance of the fact that
the Supreme court is expected to
deliberate on constitutionality of the
Wagner act this winter, the board
said:
Has Some Success
Notwithstanding the sentiment.
pervading business elements that
new legislation should be defied I'M
til it's constitutionality is deter
mined, and the indiscriminate issu-
ance of injunctions by number of
the lower federal courts tying up the
activities of the board in their jur-
isdiction, the present national labor
board has achieved considerable
success.
'"The present board has only neg
alive powers based on minimum
of legal sanctions. Its duties con-
sist primarily of aiding in the crea-
ton of labor situation where there
is relative equality Of bargaining
between employers and employees so
that they can arrive at fair bar
gain on wages, hours and other
working conditions that 60 to make
up the wage contract.
'The national labor relations
board is not a novel venture. Nor
is the act that created it hypo-
thetical conception. On the con-
trary this board is an outgrowth of
the extensive experience of the gov
eminent in intervention in labor re-
lations, and particularly in labor
disputes"
Progress in Trade
Business has shown steady i'm
provement for three successive