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Show - . i The Farmer and the Laborer When the National Labor Relations Act was being debated de-bated in Congress nearly four years ago. government, spokesmen assured worried farmers that Federal control over farm labor relations was not anticipated under the act. Further, farmers were told that it was going to be a means of preventing industrial strife. Thus agricultural groups were led to believe that factories would not bej closed by strikes and that there would be no danger of any, interruption in the flow of farm goods to factories. Now. however, it appears that the farmers have been, misled in respect to the functions and effectiveness of the. Federal labor law. In the first place efforts are already being made by labor groups (with the apparent tacit approval ap-proval of the labor act's aolministrators) to organize the; , farm workers and give themi the "blessings" of the Na tional Labor Relations Board. Secondly, the act has failed, as a brake on industrial warfare, as rising strike figures since passage of the act seem to prove unquestionably. So serious has the threat become in one State that the State's Council of Agriculture, said to represent 80,000' farmers, has taken up the cudgel in an active fight against intrusion of Federal labor policing into the agricultural field. Perhaps it is time for the farmer to give thought to allying himself with the groups already active in seeking; the amendment of the labor act It is as much to his interest in-terest as that of the business man that industrial warfare be ended and both the employer and employee be given equitable protection under the labor act. CACHE COUNTY FAIR SEPTEMBER 12, 13, 14. |