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THE PERQUT'iyS VTEEXLY, HEBTFOKD," N. Cj FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1949 v Fanner and Laborer Should Unite Two members of the President's ." Cabinet, Secretary ' of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan and Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin. recently told . a conference that governmental action ' to maintain high purchasing power for farmers and labor is necessary to avoid an economic depression in the United States. It is interesting to note that the two Cabinet members, in their re marks, emphasized the dependence of Agriculture and labor upon each other ' and insisted that existing rivalry and suspicions between the two groups be eliminated. The general theme was that the cost of maintaining the high purchas ing power of agriculture and labor would be, as Mr. Tobin asserted, "in - .finitely less than the cost to all of ,us of a depression." Moreover, the Secretary of Labor was convinced that this action will prevent depres- ) ( sions, build bigger markets for in- v rial workers and, in return, the money for the workers to buy the products of the farms. Somewhat interesting was the com ment of a number of officials of labor organizations. They pledged them selves to back a farm-price-support program and, in return, asked the help of farmers in obtaining enact ment of a new Federal minimum wage law and repeal of the Taft . Hartley law. While there has been friction be tween the representatives of agricul ture and labor for many years, the political fact is inescapable that if these two great" segments of our pop ulation get together, in wholehearted cooperation, they can probably put over any program upon which they are agreed.' A Project for Generations The President of the United States says that, among other things, we are planning to "help the people in under developed areas to learn modern in dustrial and agricultural methods," and that "by this means, they will be able to double and redouble their pro duction." Undoubtedly, there is much to be gained if the United States, in seek ing to solve some of the economic problems of the world's farms. He points out that, farmers from China, to Poland, to Egypt, who plant grain by hand, cut it with sickles, irrigate with camel-hide buckets, follow other agricultural practices that are centu ries old. There are other examples that could be cited to reveal the des perate need of farmers throughout the world to develop a modern know-; how, including the use of machines. Norris E. Dodd, Director-General of the U. N. Food and Agricultural Or ganization, recently made a local sur vey of the world's farms. He points out that, in some parts of In dia where the rice ration is only Dine ounces a day, people wait for the summer floods to plant rice and har vest it by hand in January. Then, the rich land is lying unused until the following summer when the land-is flooded again. Mr. Dodd points out that a little ft pump would make it possible to pro duce an extra crop of food and that several thousand pumps would make a tremendous difference. The need, according to Mr, Dodd, is not a vast mechanization but pract ical agricultural methods, with a lot of work and a little money. He points out that the United States, during the war, increased its food production thirty per cent and says that if this increase is possible in the country with up-to-date agricultural methods, nobody can imagine the increase that can be obtained in areas where they are still plowing with a crooked stick. It is undoubtedly true, particularly in regard to the teeming millions of the Fai East, that the population de velops where there is food supply to sustain life. In other places, appar ently, the population dwindles through starvation. Naturally, when people face hunger as a regular oc currence in life, they are inclined to be unstable. Such a condition en courages violence and banditry, not to mention internal disorder and revo lution. If the vast populations of these countries could be introduced to improved agriculture, the results would be significant. To say this however, is not to solve the problem. It takes generations to introduce new methods. This is ob vious in a country as intelligent as the United States, where many farm ers, even at this time, do not utilize the best methods. It will be much harder to persuade the ignorant and superstitious planters of other areas that their way of cultivating the soil is rot the best way. Tariff Subsidy Challenges U. S. Policy Seeking a two-year revival of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements pro gram, the Administration wishes to eliminate the "peril point" restriction written in by the Republican-Controlled Eightieth Congress which passed a one-year extension last June. Under the "peril point" provision the President is required to notify the Tariff Commission of proposed trade concessions. The Commission then ad visee the President of the point be yond which concessions cannot be made without imperiling U. S. pro ducers. If the President does not follow the advice of the Tariff Com mission, he must report his reasons to Congress. There is no reason to have any mis understanding as to the importance of the tariff debate in the Senate. No only is the Riciprocal Trade Agreements program, sponsored by the former Secretary of State, tor- dell Hull, under attack, but the en tire conception of American coopera tion with other nations faces a test. Obviously, if we are to cooperate with the outside world "there must be something effective along the lines of economic reciprocity. The high protective policy of the United States has been involved in political contests for many years Not until the administration of the Jatc Franklin 0, Roosevelt was there a prolonged effort to reduce the bar riers which blocked the flow of trade. Incidently, it should not be overlooked that,: with the exception of one year during the war, the Republicans in Congress have voted against the Re ciprocal Trade program. There is no reason to suspect that they have changed their minds. -"Under the changed financial and economic conditions that confront the United States in regard to its re lations to other nations, the protect ive tariff is as out-of-date as the din osaur. Long upheld, as a means of fostering infant industries, the tariff has been used to mulct consumers for the benefit of the manufacturers. It was sustained by the political asser tion that a high tariff was necessary to maintain the wage standards of this country. The trouble with the tariff, of course, was that the protection neces sary to keep struggling, non-efficient concerns operating, represented a subsidy of considerable magnitude to larger and more efficient plants. There is another reason why the tariff should be progressively re duced. This involves the recotrnized fact that foreign nations cannot buy our surplus agricultural products un less given an oDoortunitv to sell something in the United States to secure dollar exchange. For many decades, agriculture has been bled for the benefit of industrialists. In fact, the farm subsidy program is justifird largely on the basis that the tariff subsidizes industrialists and manu facturers. 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