Show W X MAM 4 farmers workers united in less than parity issue seven groups back president on continuing farm sed security adm veteran observers ob servers see sed new trend by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service 1343 II 11 street N W washington Washl neton D 0 there Is an interesting story yet to be told behind the letter sent to the president urging him im to take to the public the issues ol of continuation of the farm security administration and the sale of grains tor for feed below parity the lies in the to that letter there were seven of them and they represented tw two 0 farm organizations three labor organizations and two religious groups the combination of names united in a single plea marks one of the few occasions when farmer and worker found common ground on which to take a stand on policy and som some 0 persons in we washington who are working for a closer farm labor alliance see in the move ove the beginnings of a realignment realignment of the farm organizations with the forma tion of a new group that has at least a loose agreement with the and the CIO behind it veteran observers who have w watched at bed a agriculture g ri culture and labor pull in opposite directions tor for many years still feel these two groups have more to disagree than to agree upon but they admit that this time the situation was ideal for mutual logrolling backers of a new day in farm organizations say it Is more than that they point to significance in the tories of the letter to the dent the seven signatories signa tories of 0 this letter were first james G patton palton president of the national farmers union the most radical of the farm arm groups this group contains more tenant fa farmers and fewer farm owners than the other olther farm groups it is a virile growing outfit second murray lincoln executive secretary of the ohio farm bureau federation of ohio the farm bureau federation is not a I 1 left eft wing organization its president oneal is opposed to selling grain below parity but mr lincoln head of the ohio farm bureau units has a mind of his own he runs buying operatives cooperatives co in the country he is very consumer consume r minded the next signature Is that of wil liam green president of the american federation of labor and the next phillip murray head of the CIO the fifth of this group Is J G luhrsen executive secretary of the american railway labor executives association the religious groups are headed by L G ligutti executive secretary of the national catholic rural life association and benson landis of the federal council of churches those who dont know the whole story behind efforts to realign the farm organizations see only the surface reasons reason why all the organizations represented by the above names were willing to support the issues mentioned in the petition the tenant farmer farmar who is ambitious wants to own his own farm he sees in the farm security administration an aid to that end he considers this help a substitute tor for the vanished frontiers the days when a man with a strong will a willing wife and a sharp axe could cut a new home out of 0 the wilderness ness 9 to which the government was glad to hand him the deed cheaper food this concept concerns labor less directly but the question of cheaper food concerns him considerably the argument for sale of grain below parity is that it is necessary to keep dairy and meat products prices down and the farmers union claims that opposition to farm security comes from interests solely corn com th through rough scarcity concept which of course is the opposite of labors platform those are alethe the obvious and immediate reasons s why the signature of two of the count rys leading labor leaders rest among the seven the religious organizations have the family and general welfare in mind 1 of f course but there may be another reason W why by mr murray and mr green signed up and why their onetime one time colleague john lewis the a tory story of the part mr lewis play Is closely connected with the effort to create a new farm organization which will have the blessing of labor laboi important to in the list of aeronautical equipment in these days of aerial combat in the cold regions high above the earth are the electrically trica tri cally lIy heated underwear suits which many pilots don when going up to or feet interwoven with wires like an elic electric heating pad it will begin warming var mine the flier as soon as he plugs himself in on the heating circuit this is what happened jonn john levis head of the powerful I 1 united mine workers ot of america as you all know has been trying to organize farm arm labor he has made some progress under the so called district 50 ot of his union in signing up hands in the dairy industry but he be has encountered obstacles farmers who are all potential employers and capitalists istatt at heart if he could only get some really respectable farm organization iza tion or a man connected with some such organization to take up his banner it would help he settled on the farmers union not because of the name for it is not a union at all in the sense labor employs the word but because it was lett left of center and had an aggressive gres sive president through degoti acors he made an offer to mr patton something like this fall down and worship me get your organization to stand behind my district 50 drive and here Is a million dollars to play with mr Pat pattens tons answer was no but that move made murray and green very patton c conscious on it also called the attention t of other up and comers with a left ot of center inclination to the possibilities ties of developing an organization which without in any way getting under the direct influence of a union labor movement such as lewis might t work out a practical working agreement tor for pooling corn com mon man interests whether this Is a practical idea will be revealed by the amount of acal activity v ity the labor whips show when farm issues are up in the next months whether this Is just another temporary logrolling log rolling alliance which has made stranger bedfellows bed fellows before or whether it has the basis of a more permanent working agreement times are changing its worth watching victory pig clubs prove successful A prominent former washing ionian who moved to kansas kansa a city with his cohorts in order to make room for war workers was in the 4 capital on business recently he Is A D black head of the farm credit administration he was full of the story of the V victory I 1 ato ry pig he said the victory pig movement which is getting a good start in the south promises to spread into the northern states the first victory pig auction was held at jonesboro Jone ark recently and the farmers and farmer boys bay a who signed up to deliver pig pigs s we were re paid in war bonds and stamps the cry of the auctioneer worked prices up that t to 1530 per hundred pounds and that was more than top hogs were bringing on either the memphis or st louis market the idea was hatched by the secretary of the local production credit association he held a contest offering 5 for or the best name for the plan and so the victory pig club was born the local chamber of commerce co m marce joined with the association and the whole countryside soon was feeding pigs to trade for war bonds this in spite of the fact that this agricultural county craighead Cral ghead had signed up tor for in bonds in the last 12 months although jonesboro Jone claims to have held the first auction quitman quit man ga boasts of the organization on of the first victory pig club many of these auctions will be held this tall fall prior to the date when secretary says there is likely to be a bottleneck in hogs by this he means that there has been so many million more hogs raised this year than normally it is going to tax both transportation facilities and the capacity of packing houses the secretary is urging farmers not to try to market too many hogs between bethen thanksgiving day and b birthday ir which is the time of 0 the year when the pack Is ordinarily particularly heavy more accidents happen to farm people than to any other ether class ot of workers and in wartime accident rates usually rise sharply careless use ot of the tractor and other farm machinery causes 29 out boutot of every farm accidents B R I 1 E F S by baukhage approximately pounds of farm products had been delivered to representatives of the united nations tor for lend lease shipment up to may 1 the united states department of agriculture has reported total cost of the pounds bought by the abric agric agricultural marketing administration and and del delivered lvere at shipping p points ints since the program began in abrio april 1 1941 was 65 |