Show F Farmers nh i s' s Union Seeks Fast ast Action on M Many Fronts s in Conven Convention hon lion 4 KAMAS I AS I Fourteen members of the Utah Farmers Union delegation returned Friday March from St. St Paul Minn where they attended the Na National F Farmers Union conven- conven I tion President Douglas T T. Simpson on I said the c convention was headlined A Grass Roots Revolt and re ro- leased the following action program program pro pro- program gram gram that was adopted by th the delegates sWe s. s We the delegates and mom memo bers in attendance at the annual annual an an- nual convention of the National Farmers Union are alarmed bythe by bythe bythe the continuing decrease in farm Income to the extent th that thai t our rural communities are being behig dangerously dan eroded while other major segments of the the US U.S. e economy are enjoying increasing In Income me and profits proms I The trend of power and lower farm tarm family income me threatens the entire national l well A multibillion dollar in income como disaster facing the farm families I of America more than any other I I single thing is Is' blocking blacking the reI revitalizing revitalizing re re- re- re I vitalizing g of the nations nation's economy t being sought by th We are concerned too with recent recent re cent sta statistics rel released ased by the De p r m stats r Agriculture re which in we ca can i expect little or no In farm fann prices but t that at an Increase In farm farm costs 1 is p certain t 1 Plagued already already- by a. a high debt debt n. n land an ocial laJ deficiencies ae inthe in to the r rural ral arf areas S we as farm as-farm farm people leo leo- t eo-t iM call for call ll for or- or immediate action ty this his Congress and the Zion in iii Washington to bolster r prices of all farm 1 an ranch commodities MILK MILK Dairy Daliy prod producers are te iri fn a a. I serious and deepening crisis I Pending adoption by by C of an adequate program of direct payments to dairy producers we urge immediate emergency action by the administration to raise the price support on manufacturing milk to per hundredweight LIVESTOCK American live stock producers alone lost more than 2 billion in 1063 1963 and are continuing to sustain heavy loses Although red ment ports h Have Ve contributed to these losses losse they have been minor In hi compari son to the disastrously low prices forced down by large food tood chains through their monopoly power to I administer prices to both pro ro- ro and consumers |