A24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 8,1981 4 Block Vote 9 Bill (Continued from Page A 22) “blockvoting” will sometimes try to pass the procedure off with respectability by saying it is just the way your representatives work in Harrisburg. That is, our directors (elected represen tatives) are only voting for their members like you do at the state capital. Anyone who tries to sell this cheap shot, either doesn’t know how government works with it’s system of checks and balances, or is just trying to confuse the issue because that’s not how our state government works Our con stitution sets safe guards as to how many votes it takes to carry an issue. It’s not just a majority of those voting, but a constitutional majority. There is a big difference, as any member of the House well knows If you choose not to vote, your vote is recorded in the negative, and no one, not your country chairman, not your state chairman, no not even your floor leader himself has the right to vote for you How did this miscarriage of justice come about f (block voting). Power brokers in Washington when Capper-Volstead Act was passed in 1922 were able to insert the philosophy that when a producers jomgs a cooperative he SOYBEAN ROASTING ON YOUR FARM DON'T WASTE IT ROAST IT : BARLEY & WHEAT | t Roasted for drying and ♦ better digestability J DAVID N. GROFF ALLEN SUMMERS RDI, Box 506 C Lewisburg, PA 17837 717-966-3593 Distributor of Blue Ball, Pa. loses his right to individually decide some issues. In this case the block voting issue was important to one group only, the big milk cooperatives. And why the big milk cooperatives? Because, by being able to vote all the votes of their members or by block voting they had a better chance to succeed in obtaining marketing orders Under these marketing orders the United States Government would then set the wholesale nnces and subsidize milk. What this legislature does with H B. 767 will have no effect on federal law. So, contrary to some whole sale buyers of milk, national milk marketing orders are not decided by state statutes. So, that issue is mute. What we are considering is, shall the Pennsylvania legislature allow this travesty to continue; where Pennsylvania commodities can tax their producers tor a program they may not be in agreement with. Aside from block voting this amendment covers several other issues All are probably “OK” except one Section 6 would change, underthis proposal from a majority by number and a majority by volume to 2/3 ■'oting The volume part should be her profits from all grains, roasting TDN, destroys molds and retards removes moisture. >TOM GRAIN ROASTING DONE IN PA AND SURROUNDING STATES DALE L. SCHNUPP RD 6, Lebanon, Pa 17042 Ph-717-865-6611 *-J ■* Aluminum Livestock Body nMTiirfai Sales & Service RD #l, Box 152-C Nottingham, PA 19362 215-932-4761 Refrigerated Trailers 717-354-4971 State Grange .ij name is Feryl Treicnk. i am a dairy farmer from Berks County and am chairman of the Dairy Committee of the Pennsylvania State Grange First, I would like to state that the Pennsylvania State Grange opposes the amendments to the Pennsylvania Agricultural Commodities Marketing Act as recommended in House Hill 767 for three very basic reasons: We are opposed to any crippling of the effectiveness of cooperative groups by prohibiting bloc voting on marketing order referendums. We feel that efforts should be retained under H.B. 767. As it is its a safeguard and returns it to its original language. To use 2/3 of those voting could be very misleading and weakens the act, should it be passed. Under this proposal a 2/3 vote could be had by only three people voting. Some mmimums or constitutional volume should be included as present law requires. With the amendments 1 have suggested, if this Bill is passed into law, all farmers in Pennsylvania will be treated equally for the first time since the “Pennsylvania Commodities Act” became law. The end result of a successful referendum under the Penn sylvania Commodity Act can have a substantial effect on prices all people pay. Its effect penetrates into every comer of our society if vou’re not drying the m-c way with Heat Recouery... you’re paying too much to dry grain! Of aft the dryers / looked at the M C with Heat Shown Gene Meyers with M C975E Continuous Dryer Recovery seemedto fit into my new dryeration system with Heat Recovery rated at 4258 P H 10 point removal rf)e best and / m very happy with it SAVE by metalling a Heat Recovery SAVE and STORE vynh an M C SAVE with Heat Recovery on M C a^ k K V rvi n OAA S