BOB'S COMMITTEE PROBES TRAGIC PLIGHT OF FARMERS OUSTED FROM THEIR LAND
Bob's Committee Probes Tragic Plight of Farmers Ousted From Their Land Whole Migrant Picture to Be Studied by Senators WASHINGTON, D. C. — Pointing out that "farming as a way of life is...
...Heil is anxious to have the other state officers up for re-election campaign on a platform endorsing his administration...
...but only a striking symbol of a much more far-reaching problem, national in scope, involving the present and future welfare of a large proportion of our rural population in many states other than California...
...Thousands of farm owner-operators are burdened with Indebtedness contracted for amounts so large and rates so high that they are likely to lie forced to become tenants, croppers, or farm laborers...
...New patterns of security and opportunity that preserve the native values of our traditional system must be provided for those who are about to be displaced...
...I don't feel my work as governor is done and I would be negligent in my job if I started to run for the U. S. senate," he said to newspaper men...
...Their status on the land is solely dependent upon the landowners' opinion of the continued economy of operation through man-power in a competitive agriculture...
...It is now apparent," he said, "that the problem of civil liberties in California agriculture, which has suffered 187 strikes in the last seven years, signalizes the existence of a tragic underlying condition which must be remedied if farm laborers are to attain a full enjoyment of their civil rights...
...HEIL, who is frankly worried about the growing revolt against his administration, decided definitely last week to risk a campaign for re-election...
...Roethe Will Seek 3rd District Seat STATE SEN...
...Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman has balked thus far in view of his developing ambitions to run for the U. S. senate...
...Additional study and consultation in Washington has convinced the committee that the California situation is not an isolated one...
...This transition challenges long-accepted national ideals of the farmer on his own land...
...Bob said: "The causes of this movement of farm families off the land into crowded channels of employment in industrialized agriculture, are variously attributed to mechanization and amalgamation of farms, drought, foreclosures, and movements away from snbmar-ginal land...
...EDWARD J. ROETHE, Fennimore Republican, who was one of the leaders of the reactionary coalition in the 1939 legislature, announced last week that he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for congressman in the third district...
...The governor spent several weeks sounding out sentiment on the possibility that he might run for the U. S. senate, but last week he definitely abandoned that scheme...
...These agents do not seem to have spent their force...
...If our national agriculture faces the same cycle that changed the form of industry from 1870 to 1930, the problem should be fully recognized if it is to be checked and revised...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr...
...Kveiy farmer standing in their way may become a farm laborer...
...Henry, a former Democrat, has switched to the Republican ticket...
...La Follette said that the committee will limit this final phase of its inquiry to testimony from expert witnesses...
...This decision to hold additional hearings results from a consideration of certain facts obtained during the course of the recent investigation by the committee into the problem of civil liberties in California agriculture and the plight of the migratory farm laborers there," Bob said...
...Bob's Committee Probes Tragic Plight of Farmers Ousted From Their Land Whole Migrant Picture to Be Studied by Senators WASHINGTON, D. C. — Pointing out that "farming as a way of life is threatened" by a combination of serious factors...
...The nation faces again, as at the time of the Homestead act in 1862 and the inquiry of Ihc Commission on Country Life in 19(19, the periodical necessity of restating our national ideals of the place of agricultural workers In society...
...Wisconsin Progressive, has announced that his civil liberties committee will launch a series of hearings this week to explore the "developing farm labor problem...
...Heil Announces He Will Surely Ask Re-election GOV...
...There an- omonous signs lint I the nation is confronted with a transition from the traditional 'family farm' toward industrialization or co-operative agriculture...
...Discussing the tragic plight of the migratory farm worker and pointing out that in many Instances these workers once owned their own farms...
...The recent mraked development of the use of labor-saving machinery and large-scale operations threatens to displace from the land ever-increasing numbers of the two-mlllion-odd farm tenants anil K00,-000 sharecroppers in our gr wheat, corn, and cotton belts...
...Farming as a way of life is threatened...
...For them there must be some alternative protection in harmony with democratic methods, from the harsh workings of competition in a crowded labor market...
...Despite Heil's avowed candidacy, Robert K. Henry, Jefferson banker, appeared to be preparing to seek the Republican gubernatorial nomination...
...For the first time since he has been throwing out hints that he would be a candidate again, Heil announced unequivocally that he will seek a second term in the governor's office...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 18
