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Show DEMO CHAIRMAN BLASTS EISENHOWER EARM VETO Paul M. Butler, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Com-mittee, in a major speech this week, charged that President Eisenhower in his veto of the farm bill "is prolonging the recession re-cession by refusing to take action ac-tion right here the recession began be-gan down on the farm." "In vetoing the Democratic farm bill on March 31," Mr. Butler But-ler declared, "Mr. Eisenhower is continuing this Republican administration's ad-ministration's agriculture policies poli-cies that started the farm depression depres-sion five years ago which has now spread to the rest of the economy. His insistence on the veto can only serve to deepen the farm depression and widen its effect on our entire national economy." Chairman Butler called on all Americans to "help halt the recession re-cession by urging their Congressmen Congress-men during the Easter recess to muster enough Congressional support to override the veto. "Not only farm people, but city people as well, have an important impor-tant stake in the vote on the) farm bill veto if we are to re-j verse the serious economic trend we face today. "All Americans should let the Congressmen know that they are opposed to the veto. They should let their Senators and Representatives Represen-tatives know that they are opposed op-posed to a deeper depression for farmers that will inevitably hit city workers harder, and that they are opposed to President Eisenhower's stubborn support of his long discredited Agriculture Agricul-ture Secretary and the policies that started the farm depression. Chairman Butler challenged President Eisenhower's recent claims that 'income per person on farms last year was the highest high-est in history.' These are distorted dis-torted figures, which Mr. Eisenhower Eisen-hower reported to a conference of Republican women in Washington Wash-ington on March 18. This statement state-ment is actually an attemtped cover-up of the farm depression, and it is arrived at by including income received by farmers for work done off their farms with actual farm income. Farmers unable to meet the highest cost of living in history, just like millions of factory workers on the short work week are trying to hold down a second job. Some of them were lucky enough last year to find one in the city. As a result, almost one third of last year's average income in-come for farmers came from extra ex-tra jobs done off the farm. But actual income for farming, according ac-cording to the Agriculture Department's De-partment's own statistics, were only 68.9 per cent of that much publicized 'high income' of which President Eisenhower boasted. "City workers are feeling the pinch, not only in terms of the lost purchasing power of farmers which means less jobs in manufacturing, manu-facturing, but in terms of competition com-petition for jobs at a time when unemployment is at its 16 year peak, seriously aggravated by the more than 1 million farm families forced off the farm and into the towns and cities since 1952. Chairmas Butler predicted that unless this Congress overrides the Eisenhower veto, more and more farm workers, whether they want to or not, will be forced into the labor market for their full income or for a part-time part-time job to supplement their meager earnings. "Now it may be all right for President Eisenhower to be a part-time farmer with being a part-time President, but part-time part-time farming doesn't always pay out for the best interests of the average American farm family or for the country." |