The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-28

tion costs, including labor. We all took that to mean farm la bor."
 The President explained that what ha meant was labor and production costs in commodities which the farmer buys, not com modities which he sells.
 MT. President, I want to be fair to you and to the members of my committee broke in SteagaII. Therefore, I don't want to quote you Offhand. Will you state that in writing? Will you give me a letter to show my committee, stating in detail the kind of 3 parity formula you want?" e
 The President then called in a stenographer and dictated the let ter to Steagall. When 1t was fin- ished he informed his callers that he would accept no compromise, that he would veto, any bill adopt ed by Congress providing for the inclusion of either hired or farm family labor costs in parity.
 Steagall agreed to go along. and did so, to the extent of scrapping his own bill and accepting an- other, written by IA members of his committee. However, a few days later something intervened which upset Administration plans and led directly to the rebellion in Congress over the parity issue.
 This was meeting No. Pa se- cret conclave in the Washington Hotel on Monday night, Septen1- Der q, called by E. E. Babcock, president of the National Council of Farmers Co-operatives, to map strategy for an all-out lobbying fight against the President. Those present included:
 Eric Johnston, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Ed O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Albert s. Goss, president of the National Grange; Charles Holman, head of the Federation of Milk Cooper atives.
 The strangest figures in this gathering were Johnston and Babcock, both of whom have given strong lip service to the Presidents war policies. How ever, they were cheek-tO jowl with the farm bloc in the back stage plot against the Presidents anti-inflatiOn program.
 After some lively pep talks by O'Neal, Goss and Holman about Rooseveit'S labor dictatorship" in Washington, all those present a. greed to concentrate their fire on the Presidents parity formula in the inflaticn bill.
 In an effort to pressure Con- gress into accepting what later de- veloped as the Brown Amendment in the House providing for the inc clusion of all farm labor costs in computing parity, it was decided that members of all the organiZa- tions represented would join in q nationwide drive on Senate and House members by letters. tele- grams and long-distance phone calls.
 What followed was probably the greatest organized lobby against an Administration blIl since the defeat ol the Supreme Court blII. Gwarma 0e local and state farm group leaders poured Into Washington to augment the lettsF-and- telegram campaign with personal calls en members of Congress.
 This E the inside story Of why the House buckled and accepted the Representative Brown Amend. ment.
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