596 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 



RESOLUTIONS OF THE CORN BELT MEAT PRODUCERS' 

 ASSOCIATION 



December 14, 1921. 



1. We favor a continued organized campaign to increase meat consump- 

 tion and to that end pledge our support to the principles of the proposed 

 National Live Stock and Meat Board. 



2. Since there is prospect of a great increase in hogs in 1922 we call on 

 the National Live Stotk and Meat Board, the packers, the daily press, and 

 the United States Department of Agriculture to increase the consumption 

 of pork products at home and abroad. 



3. We express our approval and pledge our support to the efforts of the 

 producers to handle the shipment and selling of live stock through co- 

 operative agencies and urge that all such organizations secure the great- 

 est strength and benefit by uniting their efforts to the greatest degree 

 possible. 



4. To Senators Kenyon and Kendrick and to all others who have helped 

 in the passage of packer and stock yards control legislation, we express 

 our deep appreciation for their valuable efforts. 



5. We reafiirm our resolution of last year "demanding of congress the 

 enactment of such legislation as may be necessary to assure to the farm- 

 ers of the nation the full, free and unrestricted right to bargain collective- 

 ly for the marketing and sale of their crops." 



6. Whereas the just claims and needs of our great agricultural industry 

 call for intelligent, sympathetic and systematic study and support in con- 

 gress ; 



Resolved, That the Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association express its 

 endorsement of the so-called "agrarian bloc," commend their past efforts 

 on the farmers' behalf and urge them to continue this helpful effort in the 

 future. 



7. We commend the selection of Mr. Henry C. Wallace as Secretary of 

 Agriculture and express our high appreciation of the outstanding service 

 he is rendering the agricultural industry in this high ofiice. 



8. We protest most emphatically against any and all proposals to limit 

 the sphere of the United States Department of Agriculture by the removal 

 of the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates, the Forest Service, or other 

 divisions of its work to any other department. 



9. We endorse the efforts being made to provide the farmer with more 

 adequate credit facilities and urge all local bankers to use the War 

 Finance Corporation as fully as possible during this emergency. As a 

 permanent agency to render similar service in the future, we endorse the 

 Iowa Farm Credit Corporation. 



10. We favor amendment to the Federal Reseiwe act providing for rep- 

 resentation on the Federal Reserve Board of agriculture, industry, finance 

 and labor according to their relative importance. 



11. We advocate the repeal of the Adamson law and the amendment of 

 the Cummins-Esch law so as to permit the consolidation of the Railway 

 Labor Board with the Interstate Commerce Commission, and protest 

 against the present valuation of the railroads as a basis for rate making. 



12. We are in full accord with the movement under way to prevent the 



