Farmer Labor Relations
UPHOFF, WALTER H.
Farmer Labor Relations By WALTER H. UPHOFFHOW will American farmers and workers fare as the military expansion program gets underway? Will they gain or lose? From all indications to date the...
...From all indications to date the great majority are going to come out at the "short end" of the deal...
...It prohibits child labor and convict labor, sets a work week of 40 hours and authorizes the Department of Labor to set fair wage standards...
...He failed to condemn the anti-labor opponents of the Act and was apparently unperturbed at the prospects of suspension of the New Deal's first great labor law...
...Congressman Arthur D. Healey, co-sponsor of the legislation and a battling progressive from a thickly populated industrial community of Greater Boston, stuck to his liberal guns with a bitter denunciation of "those who would like to revert to sweatshop conditions...
...22,327,226 16,679,583 15,761,841 Socialist...
...The Wisconsin Power Cooperative near Chippewa Falls is a Diesel plant serving 12 member REA co-ops...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist, polled 116,796 votes...
...Republican total for 1940 includes 22,428 Independent Democratic votes in Georgia and 2,496 Jeffersonian Democrat votes in South Carolina for Willkie electors...
...Roosevelt that "there is not sufficient evidence at present that we can't full-Sll our defense needs and still hold onto our labor gains...
...J~ior parties turned in oae of the poorest performances in years, the official tabulations showed...
...and this means that it directly reduces the amount of farm products they can buy...
...Earl R. Browder, Communist, 48,789, John W. Aiken, Socialist-Labor, 14,861...
...Four Of Every 10 Citizens Did Not Vote Nov...
...According to "Facts for Farmers," published by Farm Research, Washington, D. C, farmers should not expect any improved conditions resulting from the war...
...If every bit of price-fixing and every wasteful market practice were paid for by the consumer, this investigation would still be important to the farmer," Arnold said...
...Arnold Urges Farmers To Fight Food Price Rings Farmers and consumers have a common interest in keeping the cost of distributing food as low as efficiency permits, Assistant Attorney General Thurman W. Arnold told the convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Baltimore last week as he asked farmers for their support in driving racketeering and price-fixing rings from the food distribution industry...
...This is part of a drive against all labor gains—the Wagner Act, the Wage and Hour Law and the Walsh-Healey Act...
...58,600 37,661 81,869 Communist...
...5, nearly four out of every 10 citizens failed to exercise their right to vote...
...Army Guns Wipe Out Georgia Towns, Farmers Installing the army's anti-aircraft guns in southeast Georgia will wipe out three villages and force 1,500 old-line American farm families to look for new homes...
...Experts Go South Eight expert American geologists will study the mineral resources of Latin-America this winter in the interest of national defense, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes announced this week...
...Other vote" total for 1936 includes 882,479 Union party votes for Lemke electors...
...It quotes Eric Bnglund of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics as saying, "I see no possibility that this war, whether long or short, will really solve any of the present agricultural problems...
...The President recently said that ail expenditures other than for "national defense" m-ust be "cut to the bone...
...President Roosevelt's plurality was the smallest in 24 years, but his margin of electoral votes...
...David I. Walsh and Congressman j Arthur D. Healey, both Democrats...
...He agreed with Sen...
...449 to 82, was the third biggest in history, exceeded only by his own 523 to 8 margin over Landon and his 472 to 59 victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932...
...Congressman.Healey pointed out that all the New Deal's labor legislation had been especially beneficial to New England, whose manufacturers have been placed at a disadvantage for years by the cheap labor standards of the South...
...As consumers they are already finding that their dollars buy...
...Perhaps providing Jobs and some degree of economic security for our unemployed workers, sharecroppers and migratory workers, would be just as important, if not more important, a bulwark for "national defense...
...We hesitate to say what the total number of unemployed will be when the war is pver...
...less than they did even a year ago...
...WHILE farmers and wokers are being asked to sacrifice for national defense, industry's profits are climbing to new heights...
...Presidential Vote, 1932 to 1940 The result of the 1940 presidential election by party vote, with comparative figures for 1936 and 1932, follows: Party 1940 1936 1932 Democratic...
...116,796 188,014 884,781 Prohibition...
...Wisconsin's 11th seat would come under Rank-to's plan to increase the size of the house from 435 to 450 members on the basis of the 1940 census...
...Therefore, it is the President's duty to suspend the Walsh-Healey Act...
...In the southwestern part of the state, the largest co-op steam generating plant in the world, the Tri-State Power Cooperative, is nearing completion...
...ALTHOUGH thousands of workers have been employed by the various industries supplying the nation (and foreign countries) with direct and indirect needs of "military preparedness" the basic problem of unemployment remains unsolved...
...The National City Bank of New York reports that, based on an analysis covering 350 major corporations, the net profits after deducting taxes are 42.3 percent higher for the first nine months of 1*940 than for the same period last year...
...Financed with federal RE A funds, the modern generating plant consists of three large Diesel engines with a capacity of 1,500 horsepower...
...48,789 80,159 102,991 Soeialist-Labor...
...John Rankin, Mississippi Democrat, is enacted...
...This will further curtail buying power of groups whose incomes are already too low...
...5 Although the American electorate cast a record-breaking vote of 49,808,624 in the presidential race of Nov...
...This is a time of national emergency...
...Arnold quoted federal trade commission figures showing that the farmer's share of the consumer's food dollar had dropped from an average of 56 cents in the 1913-20 period to an average of 40.5 cents in 1938...
...14,861 12,508 33,2"6 Other votes...
...These great labor laws have halted the migration of industry into low wage areas...
...The Act affects all government contracts in excess of $10,000...
...These 3 5 0 corporations reported n«t profits of i}>869,OOO.000 for the first three-quarters of this year as compared with $611,000,000 last year...
...Firing center of the new guns covers 360,000 acres, and the big anti-aircraft cannon carry shells 17 miles...
...Walsh that the President had the power to suspend the law in an emergency, but said he agreed with Mr...
...Replying to a Washington statement by Admiral Ray Spears of the Navy's Bureau of Supplies that the Act "continues to be a disturbing factor in the procurement of some lines of Government supplies," Sen...
...Across the Mississippi from Minnesota, Wisconsin farmers have two co-op generating plants...
...To just what extent work-relief projects, NYA funds, FSA grants and loans, and tenant purchase loans are to be curtailed remains to be seen, but it is obvious that most of the ©utting will be done here...
...Walsh suggested to the President that he could "suspend the law" if it was delaying the defense program...
...Then at least these groups could really feel that they had something to defend...
...Final, official election figures compiled by the Associated Press showed that President Roosevelt received 27,241,939 votes, or 509,-658 fewer than in 1936, while Wendell L. Willkie polled 22,327,226 votes, or 5,647,643 more than Alf Landom, Republican candidate in 1936, received that year...
...Walsh, who only last month was re-elected after a campaign which included a defense tour with President Roosevelt in the White House car, opened his release as follows: "If the Walsh-Healey Act is delaying the defense program, it is the fault of the Administration and not...
...413 897,595 129,907 Total vote...
...Although the Walsh statement did not directly state that the act would be suspended, it could be fairly syllogized as follows: It is the duty of the President to suspend the Walsh-Healey Act in time of national emergency...
...27,211,939 27.751,597 22,821,857 Republican...
...The price o? many commodities has been raised and government agen-eies are being kept busy holding "war profiteering" at a minimum...
...Under the Walsh-Healey Act," he added, "decent manufacturers attempting to maintain high standards are protected from competition which would like to revert to sweatshop standards...
...Willkie carried 10 states—Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Vermont...
...It is more likely to intensify them and to "create new ones...
...For those who have found jobs the new program may seem like a good thing even though it may be a "blessing in disguise...
...Sen...
...Roger W. Babson, Prohibitionist, 58,600...
...Whether this type of- budgeting of our national expenditure is wisest is certainly an open question...
...Wisconsin May Get 11th Congressman Wisconsin will gain another seat in the house of representatives if apportionment legislation proposed by Rep...
...49,808,624 45,647,117 39,816,522 Note—Democratic totals include 417,418 American Labor paty votes in 1940 and 274,924 in 1936 in New York for Roosevelt electors...
...These profits were at an annual rate of 10.4 percent on the net worth of the group, as compared with 7.4 percent last year...
...Some manufacturers and speculators are even trying to take advantage of the government by unwarranted price increases...
...Minnesota Farm Co-op Dedicated Farmers of four Minnesota counties met in Kettle River recently to dedicate the state's first cooperative power plant...
...Trust Buster" Arnold charged that the 12,000,000 families who must spend less than 9 cents per person per meal don't buy the food they need but the food they can afford...
...Pass This Paper On...
...Walsh-Healey Act Develops Bitter Clash By HAROLD PUTNAM BITTER controversy over the Walsh-Healey Act, which specifies wage and hour standards for government contracts, has apparently even involved the two Massachusetts sponsors of the Act—Sen...
...Whatever they spend to pay for racketeering and waste or for extra charges exacted by some price-fixing ring comes directly out of their diet...
...Everyone knows that the "defense industries" spring up like mushrooms Hi time of war hysteria and collapse like pricked balloons when hostilities cease...
...While the dispossessed farm families will receive payment from the government for their farms, no payments have yet been made because the defense equipment had to be installed quickly and property recorde going back 125 years have to be checked...
...I still believe that the emergency is being used as a pretext to emasculate and break down our great labor acts...
...the Congress...
Vol. 4 • December 1940 • No. 51
