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Fleming, who Is also
director of the Federation’s
Washington office, said
repeated efforts by “left
wing political activists” to
build a political coalition of
farmers and labor union
members “will continue to
fall.”
“The inherent weakness in
any farmer-labor coalition
was demonstrated this year
when President George
Meany of the AFL-CIO
aided and abetted by
Secretary of Labor Dunlop
persuaded President Ford to
place an embargo on U.S.
gram sales to the Soviet
Union.
“This anti-farmer effort
by the forces of labor played
right into the hands of
Secretary of State Kissinger,
whose support for the car
telization of trade through
international commodity
agreements drew a sharp
protect from the American
Farm Bureau Federation
Board of Directors long
before the Soviet grain
embargo was announced.
Farmers haven’t forgotten
that it was labor leaders who
launched the campaign to
have price controls on food
imposed in 1973 action
which created such
devastating dislocations in
the livestock industry then
and later.
“Those farm-state U.S.
senators and representatives
who in the past have sought
to make common cause with
lawmakers from union
dominated industrial states
in an effort to win passage of
government farm program
bills have done and are
doing a disservice to
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American agriculture,"
Fleming declared.
“They have Jeopardized
the income earning op
portunities of American
agriculture. Target prices
and compensatory payments
the Brannan plan do not
provide a reliable basis for
future agricultural income.
“Many urban members of
Congress who voted for the
farm bill in 1975 did so in an
overt effort to get rural
members of Congress
obligated to vote for big
spending urban legislation.
“This was made crystal
clear when the House of
Representatives voted on the
motion to override President
Ford’s veto of the 1975 farm
bill.
“At that tune. President
Kuhfuss of the American
Farm Bureau Federation
told all of the Hjuse that the
effort to override the veto
was not prompted by con
cern for the welfare of
agriculture.
“Instead,” he said, “it was
spearheaded by George
Meany as an integral part of
the AFL-ClO’s budget
busting campaign to create a
$lOO billion deficit and
thereby make a shambles of
Firms
buy steers
Several local buyers
purchased Lancaster County
steers at the Farm Show sale
held last Friday. Those
participating in the 4-H event
included: H. D. Matz,
Ephrala; Vintage Sales
Stables; Marvin Miller;
Park Myers; Charles
Myers; K. Henry Stoltzfus
and Ike Weaver.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 17,1976
the ceilings on the federal
budget set by President Ford
and the Congressional
budget committees.
"Treacherous concepts
can be and often are
packaged in seductive
phraseology,” Fleming
declared.
Fleming noted that the
Senate Nutrition Committee
has proposed that Congress
create a food and nutrition
policy board composed of
the Secretaries of HEW,
State, and Agriculture in
the office of the President.
“See who comes in last on
that one,” he said.
Fleming said that in
ternational trade on the
basis of comparative ad
vantage and “fair com
petition” was dealt a
severe blow by the 1975
grains embargo. “Political
manipulation of trade is a
very poor substitute for the
market system," he
declared.
“The failure of the Ad
ministration to impose
countervailing duties
against subsidized unports
of cheese and ham from
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foreign nations is another
instance of actior adverse to
the interests of fa mens and
ranchers.
"Meanwhile, in the larger
arena of expanding mutually
advantageous international
trade it remains to be seen
whether the international
trade negotiations now
underway in Geneva ac
tually will result in expanded
world trade or whether
our government will permit
separate negotiations on
agricultural and industrial
products, repeating the
mistake which was made 10
years ago during the Ken
nedy Round.”
“Federal land use control
remains a major threat to
farmers and ranchers,”
Fleming said. “Even as
members of the House In
terior Committee were
rejecting Representative
Udall’s federal land use
control bill, the ‘controllers’
were coming through the
back door and using the
federal Water Quality Act to
achieve their goals. You can
expect more action on this
front.
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