WISCONSIN PAYS THE PRICE
Wisconsin Pays the Price The Story of The Republican Administration Through (Questions and Answers fllDITOR'S NOTH: — In response to a great many requests, The Progressive this week begins...
...A. Little, if any...
...A. The Wisconsin Development Authority, the Wisconsin Agricultural Authority, and the Wisconsin Home and Farm Credit Administration...
...In fact, it attempted to do just the reverse when a Republican legislator sponsored a bill to repeal the law which enables the department of agriculture and markets to promote co-operative marketing associations...
...They wired Gov...
...Heil has publicly denounced the Wisconsin tax on oleo and other butter .substtiutes in a number of speeches...
...3. A group of public-spirited Wisconsin citizens went to Washington to urge federal purchase of surplus Wisconsin dairy products...
...A. Gov...
...There were no demands for their abolition except from the Republican politicians, as the records of the legislative committees will reveal...
...3. The Wisconsin Home and Farm Credit Administration saved more than 7,000 Wisconsin farmers and home owners, with $500,000,000 of indebtedness, from foreclosure, and succeeded in scaling their debts down by $15,000,000...
...The bill died, but co-operative officials fear the bill wil be revived in 1941 if the Repubicans are re-elected in 1940...
...Q. What farm assistance agencies did the Republican administration abolish...
...2. The Wisconsin Agricultural Authority in a comparatively brief period helped sell 12,000,000 pounds of cheese, 1.200 carloads of Wisconsin cabbage, and 300,000 cases of Wisconsin peas...
...Heii asking for his co-operation, but they did not even receive the courtesy of a reply...
...It tore down, piece by piece, the structure of state co-operation with farmers which had been built up in previous years...
...But the Republicans decided that the farmers should not have further assistance from these agencies...
...Q. Is it true that the Rebublican administration is opposed to the tax on oleomargarine which protects Wisconsin butter...
...Q. Has the Republican administration shown any disposition to get at the roots of farm difficulties in Wisconsin...
...A. The official figures tell the dramatic story...
...This highly-important agency was well on the way toward making a very real dent on surplus produces when the Repubican administration choked off its appropriation...
...They returned with the conviction that just a little more pressure would close the deal...
...Did the Republican administration do anything to give this plank meaning...
...Republican activity in behalf of this industry was confined pretty largely to having Gov...
...A. The only possible reason can be found in their desire to staff the board completely with Republicans since the "reorganized" department consists of the identical set-up In force before "reorganization...
...Thus, agriculture was the only field of state aid in which the state administration did "economize...
...Section* of the booklet will appear In these irilumns from time to time...
...At the hearings held before legislative committees on all three of these agencies hundreds of farmers appeared to plead for their continuance...
...Q. Why did the ReRpublican administration abolish these three agencies...
...The first of the aeries on Agriculture appears below.] rpHE REPUBLICAN administration's record in the alJ-im-¦i- portant field of agriculture i.s negative and destructive...
...Two examples can be cited to show the administration's attitude: 1. Republican forces in the state killed a resolution whicn called for a thorough investigation of charges that monopoly control of the distribution of milk and dairy products was responsible in part for the low price received by farmers...
...Wisconsin Pays the Price The Story of The Republican Administration Through (Questions and Answers fllDITOR'S NOTH: — In response to a great many requests, The Progressive this week begins publication in serial form of the Progressive party pamphlet "Wisinnsin Pays The Price...
...Q. The Republican nlatform contains a plank supporting farm co-operatives...
...Q. Why did the Republican administration reorganize the department of agriculture and markets...
...Heil kept them waiting for three hours, and when he consented to see them his only message was...
...Heil squirt milk from a cow in Milwaukee, and to .setting up a few lonely milk stands which charged customers 20 cents a quart for milk while paying farmers the same low price they had been receiving...
...A. There were no reasons given except that of "economy...
...Keep your shirts on...
...A. No...
...Q. Were these agencies really helpful to farmers...
...2. When 50 farmer-delegates representing thousands of Wisconsin farmers came to Madison to plead for mortgage relief...
...1. The Wisconsin Development Authority and its predecessor helped form 27 rural electrification cooperativss, aided these co-operatives in securing $14,000,000 from the federal govenment, and helped in the construction of 10,785 miles of rural power lines, making electricity available for the first time to 32.000 farm families...
...Republican leaders, many of them wealthy Republican businessmen, showed an amazing lack of understanding of the fundamental problems of Wisconsin's Number One industry— Dairying...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
