The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-02

Today wednesday, press stories from Washington re-
the so-caed farm bloc" of senators prelm-
skrmsh in the vote the initiation control measure
temporarily approving the Hatch amendment an amendment
sponsored by COMMERCIAL and banker farmers to fix
ceiling major product prices of 112 cent parity
the announced objective being thereby to attain of
ducon The senior Montana Senator Wheeler
is reported as voting with the while Senator Muir
voted with the administration forces with whose proposals
the Farmers Union and the two great organizations
in accord.
These organizations may be said generally not to insist
parity wages prices for commodities etc. much as
they insist parity of sacrifice for the nations good IN It's
sefpreservaon. The membership of these
CARNATIONS definitely committed to program OF unse
sh service the nation in its vital struggle But they insist
Also that ceiling incomes of individuals and profits of
business be fixed during the emergency
In statement made by M. w. Thatcher chairman of the
Union Legislative committee the members of the
he declared " that the relief obtanable by nclu
sion of scale in the parity price is negligible in dis
the problem of agricultural production for the nations
increased needs during the emergency.
In his testimony before the banking and currency COM
mee of the senate published elsewhere The
Voice. attention the particular hoering
parity made of about ten cent of the
farmers of e nation He also directs their notice to the fact
that there million farm families ready and anxious to
produce but whoes production is restricted by acreage aot
men lack of government credit This constitutes ire
mendous of cheap potential farm labor which the
10 farmers back of the farm bloc inter
ested in than in production to win the
The argument that unless the ceiling price of agricultural
products fixed at higher level production will be decreased
because of inability compete with the material produc
industries for adequate labor supply the farm as
completely asnne most OF their other arguments and a
tudes They will be position to into the general
labor market and buy It's product IN compeuon with other
industries Before they will be able to do they will have
change working conditions limit working hours provide
adequate housing facilities for labor in general meet
established in the manufacturing industries
the mines and mills by the workers result of of
gained struggle for of justice
Should they attempt to do this there would result epic
struggle supremacy between the workers and industry
much between the manufacturing corporations and
the agricultural producers They would be bidding against
each other for the essential COMMUNICATIONS Then
there restrictions should indeed spiraing
wage structure sprang prices of commodities and the final
dread result-inflaon.
reasonable to think that all that this compare
lively small group of corporation farmers afraid of
sembance of ordered Together with the great
ndustrasts capitalists they have been constantly urging
wage blaming every fault proteering labor
But that proposed to unite all of the producers of
the nation about effort to win the of pro-
ducon with sacrifice their part of opportunity to
exploit labor and increased profits they sing another
yelps distress remind the writer of
by English officer in rest at La Havre in
France during the first World which went something
like this /
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