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Show the practices complained of and, if established, take such action as may be necessary to protectfarm-ers protectfarm-ers in the transportation, handling and sale of their products in metropolitan met-ropolitan areas. r FARMERS COMPLAIN OF RACKETEERS UNLOADING TRUCKS Farmers of several states recently re-cently told a sub-committee of the House Judiciary Committee that their truck riders were forced to pay "racketeers" for unloading at markets in Philadelphia, New York and other large cities. Officials of truckmen, helpers and porters handling perishable foodstuffs unions of New York City promptly denied the charges and insisted that farmers, if identified, were not forced to engage en-gage union men to unload their products. We are not informed as to the instances mentioned by those testifying test-ifying before the House sub-committee, but we are aware that truck farmers hauling their crops for sale in and around some metropolitan met-ropolitan cities have complained for years that they were forced to employ union drivers and workers upon entering cities for the purpose pur-pose of delivering products from their own farms. That some such practice has been general seems apparent although al-though it may have had its being in a failure of union men to distinguish dis-tinguish farmers from commercial truckers. In fact, one union official offic-ial stated that a system had been developed in New York whereby farmers, with identifying letters or cards from their county agents or farm associations, were unmolested unmolest-ed and allowed to haul and unload their products without difficultly. Without attempting to pass judgment upon the relative merrits of the argument, we think it is a good idea for the House subcommittee subcom-mittee to ' thoroughly investigate |