Pull Employment a Must For Farmers
PATTON, JAMES G.
Pull Employment a Must For Farmers City Income Determines Farm Income By James G. Patton (President, Natienal Farmers Unio*) The agriculture is to be prosperous in (he postwar years, it is time...
...At London the views of the Ukraine, White Russia and New Zealand were invited on Trieste, for example, while those of Belgium and Holland were not...
...9 * ? Mo It ? than a year ago, Ihe National Farmern Union proposed thai the government underwrite full employment through a "compensatory spending" policy...
...There is no real economist in the nation who denies that prosperity is directly linked to the income of working people in the cities...
...Both candidate* in the last presidential elect ion declared themselves determined to achieve it, and Governor Thomas E. Dewey said: "If there is any one thing we are agreed upon, it is that in Ihe coming peacetime years, we in this country must have jobs and opportunity for all...
...63 percent more poultry, 30 percent more eggs, 26 million additional bushels of wheat -anti e>en more cotton (351.000 bales more...
...3 includes the same countries plus Francs, ami No...
...Priority No...
...Philip Shams in V. t. World-Telegram...
...Attainnient of full employment is a non-partisan issue...
...which means providing jobs for approximately 60,000,00(1, will require a total national income of approximately $200,000,000,-000...
...And so j it went...
...It is a MUST far American prosperity in the postwar period PEACE VIA PRIORITY By Wm...
...The basic law, now lie-fore Congress, does NOT make any ap-propriat inns...
...6 allows the smaller powers to speak if and when the Big Three So decide...
...The number of them who have a good income, and the amount of their income, determines how much will be spent for the foods and fibres which the farmers of the nation produce...
...1 priority seems to be reserved exclusively for the Soviet Union...
...Thus, it is observed peacemaking j has now been put on an undemocratic ? priority basis...
...It seems that Russia demanded Hie Ukraine lie heard, and Britain sponsored her dominions...
...It requires the President to gather together data on all contemplated private, city, county and slate investments and forecast the number of jobs which will be available...
...It is just an much an agricultural measure or an industrial measure as it ix a labor measure...
...Pull Employment a Must For Farmers City Income Determines Farm Income By James G. Patton (President, Natienal Farmers Unio*) The agriculture is to be prosperous in (he postwar years, it is time that w* farmers learn that many of our interest* parallel the interests of the working men and women—white collar, professional and union—in the cities...
...WhEN there are 1,000,000 unemployed, »,¦»80,000 unemployed or 10,000,000 unemployed, farmers' markets are reduced proportionately...
...We knew that the total national income is always approximately five times the amount of money which private industry and capital and governmental agencies invest in new production facilities and public works, buildings, iiiads, etc...
...4 takes in China...
...Should this fail to produce enough jobs, then the President would recommend useful public works...
...At that poipt, Congress would consider appropriations...
...Unless America wants to flirt with another depression, enactment of the Full Employment bill is a first, minimum step toward avoiding it...
...That in everybody's business, therefore it is government business...
...If it proves too low, the President would also recommend to Congress means of speeding up private investment—low interest loans, etc...
...The Murray full employment bill proposes to establish machinery which will warn Congress when private investment is get ling dangerously low and more jobs are needed...
...Full employment...
...It is for-this reason that 1 believe that fanners should take a big part in tka earrdnt drive for a Full Employment bill in the United States—a bill which will have the federal government assure jobs for all who wish, and are willing, to work...
...j LJnLESS the Big Five can evolve a new and more democratic approach to the peace settlements, representatives of the smaller powers here are saying, the new league of nationa charted at I San Francisco will go on the rocks...
...Studies conducted by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics show that if America can achieve full employment, we will need a great deal more foodstuffs than we produced on an average in 19.15-W, and more even than we have been producing during Ihe present war period...
...But as no one spoke up for the Low Countries they were left out in the cold...
...It will be a tremendous tragedy if farm people, because of imagined bitter nesa toward labor continuously drummed up by employer groups who want unemployment to force the wages (and the amount of food they can eat) of workers down, permit themselves to view the Full Employment Dill as a "labor" measure...
...Thus, we must have a $40,000,000,-000 capital investment annually...
...Priority No...
...They find that we will need 65 per-rent more pork than in the 1935-39 period We will need 36 percent more fruit, *-t percent more corn, 16 percent mere mutton, 24'i percent more dairy products and beef and veal...
...The best formula, , for farm prosperity the basic thing necessary is for all Americans to have three square meals a day and adequate clothing...
...2 is for Russia, Britain and America...
...Her unilateral decisions regarding Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia would appear to be »•final...
Vol. 28 • October 1945 • No. 40
