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Counteroffensive Against The
Cornorate Invasion Launched
The counteroffensive against President of Farmers Union,
the corporate invasion of Ameri- said appropriately to the some
can agriculture was launched 800 i eac jers from 30 states who
at Des Moines recently. The „„ „ ~
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Farmers Union called the in the Hotel Savery: “There has
foices together but it was a been a tenc j enC y to consider the
defensive by all of those in < farm pro biem’ in a singular
rural America who have some- lerm _r gnol . in g the sta ke in ag
thmg to protect and a sense of ricultur * that others have. I am
outrage at the injustice being talking about the stake that
done churches, small busi- sma n-town businessmen have—
nessmen educators, labor, as bank fam im p lem ent deal-
H ell aC f °° rdl M g ers, hardware dealers, druggists
the NFU Washington News- — tbe that young people
letler- have as they look to the future
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—and the stake that consumers
of the food and fiber products
of our farms have. Farming is
inseparable from the welfare of
the Nation."
Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-
Wis ), who keynoted the semin
ar, said his Monopoly Sub-com
mittee of the Senate Small Busi
ness Committee, would press its
investigation of the total effects
of the corporate invasion He
said we are pressing land re
form in other countiies when
we may be coming to the time
when it will be necessary in the
United States.
Msgr. Edward O’Rourke, the
Executive Director of the Na
tional Catholic Rural Life Con
ference, stressed the inconsis
tency of our national policy for
agriculture that is letting the
family farmer go down the
dram at the very time when we
are beginning to help people in
ghettoes and in undei developed
countries become proprietors in
order that they might exercise
initiative and make decisions.
“No other single institution has
done so much to create initia
tive, self-reliance and pride in
work as family farming,” he
said.
Senator Lee Metcalf (D-
Mont) got to the heart of an im
portant part of the problem in
a discussion of the tax policy
that permits non farmers to
write off farm losses against
taxable income from other en
terprises He told the seminar
that he and at least 20 other
Senators will re-introduce legis
lation to limit this practice
K is likely that this was the
fust time that such a bicadly
based group of leaders came to
gether to launch a meaningful
counteroffensive against the
powerful forces that now sur
round and dominate the agri
culture establishment Robeit
D Partridge, General Manager
of the National Rural Electric
Coopei ative Association, put the
REA’s solidly in the battle to
save family agncultuie The
corpoi ate invasion of rural elec
tric cooperative service aieas
by large power companies “is
pait of the same problem,” he
said.
Interests of other segments
of rural America were stated by
banker Pat Dußois of Sauk Cen
tre, Minn, labor leadei Jacob
dayman of Washington, D C,
economist Paul Farris of Pur
due University, and Kansas
State Senator Reynolds Schultz
An action statement putting
teeth in the counteroffensive
was adopted It called foi enact
ment of the tax loss fanning
bill, limiting slaughter of cat
tle by packers that opeiate feed
lots, long-term, low intei est
loans to young faimers, legisla
tion to give faimeis bargaining
power as a “countei vailing
foice to the economic power
of coiporations, “strict enfoi ce
ment of the 160acie limitation
in the Fedeial Reclamation
Law, and enactment by state
legislatures of laws to piohibit
or cm tail the activity of cor
porations in farming Equally
impoitant, as the meeting end
ed plans weie already being
foimulated for similar seminais
in vauous states to call atten
tion to the corporate invasion
The seminar showed that
many are distuibed Small
towns and lural communities
are drying up; resources aie
being wasted; displaced people
are moving into urban centers
As the enormity of the piob
lem becomes apparent, the
counteroffensive will grow.
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or National, Road near Wheel
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government appropriations with
which it was built.
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