The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1936-07-02

quate housing at price which they
can afford. In the last three years
the federal government, having
saved more than two million
homes from foreclosure, has taken
the first steps in our history to
provide decent housing for people
of meager incomes. We believe
every announcement should be
given to the building of new homes
by private enterprise; and that the
government should steadily extend
its housing program toward the
goal of adequate housing for those
forced through economic necessi-
ties to live in unhealthy and slum
conditions.
Veterans
"(7) We shall continue just
treatment to our veterans and
their dependents.
For the establishment of de-
mocracy of opportunity.
Agriculture
1--WE have taken the farmers off
the road to ruin.
eve have kept our pledge to
agriculture to use all available
means to raise farm income toward
its pre-war purchasing power. The
farmer is no longer suffering from
Is cent corn, three cent hogs, two
and one-half cent beef at the farm.
five cent wool, 80 cent wheat, five
cent cotton and three cent sugar.
"By federal legislation we have
reduced the farmers Indebtedness
and doubled his net income. In CO.
operation with the states and
through the farmers own commit
tees, we are restoring the fertility
of the land and checking the ero-
sion of the soil. We are bringing
electricity and good roads to his
home.
1--WE will continue to improve
the soil conservation and domes-
tic allotment program with pay
ments to farmers.
owe will continue a fair-minded
administration of agricultural
laws, quick to recognize and meet
new problems and conditions. We
recognize the gravity of the evils
of farm tenancy, and we pledge
the full cooperation of the gov
eminent in the refinancing of farm
Indebtedness at the lowest possible
rates of interest over a long term
of years: ;,
the market will absorb, both at
home and abroad, plus a reserve
supply sufficient to insure fair
prices to consumers; we favor ju-
dicious commodity loans on sea-
sonal surplus; and we favor as
sistance within federal authority
to enable farmers to adjust and
balance production with demand,
at fair profit to the farmers.
eve favor encouragement of
sound, practical farm co-opera-
tives.
"By the purchase and retirement
of 10000, 900 acres of submarginal
land, and assistance to those at
tempting to exc out an existence
upon it, we have made a good be-
ginning toward proper land use
and rural rehabilitation.
"The farmer has been returned
to the road to freedom and pros
perity. We will keep him on that
road.
Relations to Labor
1--WE have given the army of
Americas industrial workers
something more substantial than
the Republicans dinner pail full
of promises. We have increased the
workers pay and shortened his
hours: we have undertaken to put
an end to the sweated labor of his
wife and children; we have written
into the law of the land his right
to collective bargaining and self
organization free from the inter-
ference of employers; we have
provided federal machinery for
the peaceful settlement of labor
disputes.
"We will continue to protect the
worker and we will guard his
rights, both as wage Garner and
consumer, in the production and
consumption of all commodities,
including coal and waterpower and
other natural-resource products.