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Show are protected with business contracts and workers in all segments of the economy except agriculture are protected pro-tected with minimum wage laws. The farmer is the only group in all the segments seg-ments of the economy who does not receive a price to cover basic costs of production, produc-tion, or give him a minimum mini-mum profit. This is their main goal. reporting services so production pro-duction could be planned and implemented in a supply and demand environment. Also being planned is the dissolving of the futures market in Chicago. The farmers claim the market (the World Board of Trade) is not giving ihem a fair chance at an Income. Imports would be stopped so long as there is a surplus sur-plus of production in the United Unit-ed States and the farmers would have control over the percentage of acres grown each year. Imports would be opened when parity is over 110 percent and closed when parity is under 95 percent. Their goal is not to gain a great profit but instead to meet their costs of production produc-tion and be able to live on an equal basis with the rest of the nation, farmers say. Farmers have chosen parity par-ity over government subsidies. subsid-ies. To make Congress realize real-ize the seriousness of their problems, farmers have chosen to strike. Organized Organiz-ed labor is protected with wage contracts, businesses Formers ouploin 100 parity Farmers in the American Agriculture movement are wanting 100 percent of parity. They want the government out of their business, farm -ers will tell anyone who asks. By striking and not putting their products on the mar- ket they believe the government govern-ment will have to listen. y. They think once the guarantee guar-antee of 100-percent parity is given them, they will be able to handle the market more aptly. The farmer would have to develop world crop |
