Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-05 | Page 2 | Farm Bureau Confers with Republicans

FARM BUREAU CONFERS WITH REPUBLICANS CHICAGO, June 4- J. R. Howard, president of the American Farm wu-roau wu-roau federation, and a committee representing rep-resenting that body, conferred today with Republican convention leaders concerning planks in the Republican platform affecting farming interests. The farm bureau committee explained ex-plained that agriculture would demand de-mand of the next congress the samo measure of import dutv aa uccorued other Industries, and that farmers! j were "opposed to the importation of! Asiatics or other lew-grade foreign farm labor for tho relier of the rami I j labor shortage, or any move toward j 'the creation of an ignorant peasant-1 i ry-" Tho exocutlvo committeo of tho 'rcd-eration 'rcd-eration today voted $35,000 to estnb-' lish a buroau of farm economics, 515,-! 000 for a transportation department.! and 520,000 for an educational or publicity pub-licity department. ; The next convention of the federation, federa-tion, which claims to represent a million mil-lion farmers, will be held in Indlan-aoplls Indlan-aoplls on December 6, 7 and S.