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Show ORGANIZE FOR OFFENSIVE SAYS FARM LEADER National Farm Bureau Head Delivers Annual Report to 3000 Delegate MORE AGGRESSIVENESS AMONG FARMERS Farm Federation Ready , for Finish Fight Aguinst : Freight Increases By JAMES T. KOLBERT. United Press Staff Correspondent. CHICAO, Dec., 8. A ringing call for a militant organization of farmers farm-ers to fight for the rights of agriculture agri-culture was made here today by President O. E. Bradfute of the American Farm Bureau Federation at the seventh annual convention of that body. Farmers must be more self reliant and aggressive in working out their problems, Bradfute Brad-fute told the 3,000 delegntes, representing repre-senting every section of the country. "We often hear it Said that farmers farm-ers should organize for defense," he said. "However, valuable that mny be it will not get us anywhere. any-where. Just defending our right means only tagging along behind the other groups. "Why not organize for offense? The biggest and oldest business In the country might well be more assertive" as-sertive" "All other great business groups are organized and do not depend on outside agencies to help them In the fight for recognition," Bradfute declared. Bradfute pledged the federation to a finish fight against further freight rate increases. "Agriculture cannot stand any increased transportation charges but should have reductions," Brad- fttte said. Successful agriculture must have a complete system of railroads, high ways and Inland waterways, he asserted. as-serted. He urged development of principal rivers, connecting the Mississippi ' river , with the Great Lakes and the development of the St. Lawrence waterway project. . "This would give the United States the best transportation system sys-tem in the world and nothing less will accomodate thB actual needs of this great agricultural country," he declared. "Such a system of waterways when completed, would reach seven eighths of the states of the Union and give us a water shipping ship-ping const line of over 20,000 miles. "The farmers are required to pay the freight to the lnal market and every cent saved in transportation should go into the pocket of the producer." |