Evening star., 1953-12-16
Farm Bureau Urges
Sales Campaign 10
Dispose Of Surplus
BY the Asseciafed Press

prosecuted" sales and disposa
campaign to get rid of the bull
Of a 81 billion farm surplus.
The Agriculture Department
which holds these surpluses un
der farm price support programs
may be asked to enlist the ali
of private traders Throughout
the world.
This request is embodied il
resolutions being drafted for ap
proval of the farm organiza
tion's annual convention her
this week. Officials said the!
foresaw no opposition to it.
Benson Hinted of Plan.
Secretary of Agriculture Ben,
son limited at such a possible
change in the farm program
when he told farm leaders here
high Government price support.
and other "well-meaning law,
did not stop farm prices from
going down."
In a speech prepared for thu
convention, Mr.. Benson agair
expressed doubt about the f1xec
high-level farm price support.
program, enforced through
planting and marketing controls
used by Democratic administra.
tions for the last 20 years. II
has not stabilized farm income
he said.
Without giving details, Mr.
Benson said the Eisenhower ad-
ministration has been working
on an overall program to help
insure the farmer a fair share
of the national income" He
added. II pledge we will use
every resource to find new mar
kets for farm products (and) to
recapture, insofar as possible,
overseas markets we have lost"
Congress Must Act Soon.
Congress must act at the COM
ing session because authority for
present price props on basic
crops expires this year.
Farm Bureau policy drafters
said it would be impossible for
any kind of Federal farm-aid
program to work satisfactorily as
long as present surpluses of
wheat, cotton, corn, dairy prod
uctS, f1axseed and other COM
modities overhang farm mar
kets to depress prices.
Whether the farm organiza-
tion will outline ways and means
Of unloading the surpluses was
a matter which only the final
draft of resolutions would de-
termine.
But SpokeSmen said the farm
organization probably would list
a number of guide posts for such
an operation.
Such sales, leaders said, should
not disrupt domestic markets for
current production or risk de-
stroying the possibility of main
tanning and expanding foreign
markets.
Private Aid Encouraged.
They said it was the belief of
the bureau policy drafters that
the Government would do we'll
to enlist the imagination, knowl-
edge and experience of private
traders rather than to depend
solely on Federal officials.
The resolution was expected to
declare that the Government
should not stand idly by and
watch foreign markets shrink
while supplies are available in
this country. On the other hand,
1t was expected to declare
against export dumping or price
cutting in world, markets, lest
such actions ALLEVIATE friendly
competitors.
The resolutions, which will be
submitted to the convention
tomorrow for adoption, are ex-
pected to devote much attention
to labor problems.
Members of the committee,
who declare that the Farm
Bureau is not anti-labor, said
delegates were deeply concerned
by the concentration Of power in
the hands of labor unions.
Labor Monopoly" Charged.
In this connection, Bureau
President Allan B. Kline told the
convention yesterday that one of
the major problems Of today is
finding ways of dealing with
labor monopoly" without inter-
fering with the legitimate rights
and interests of working people.
Some delegates were asking
the convention to go on record
urging amendment of the Taft
Hartley Labor Act to prohibit
the union shop as well as the
closed shop. Some also wanted
1nduStry-wide and area-wide
bargaining prohibited.
Another proposal being
pressed was that the farm or
ganization seek transfer of the
administration of labor manage
ment laws to State governments
to the extent that they are
willing and able to assume such
responsibility.
Meanwhile, the convention
heard a warning that the
family-size farm must continue
to increase it's efficiency of pro-
duction-and pass some of the
benefits along to consumers in
the form Of lower prices-or be
replaced by big, factory-like pro-
duction units.
This admonition came from
F. L. Hovde, president of Purdue
University and president of the
Association of and-Grant Col
legeS, in an address outlining
latest progress In agricultural
research.
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