GENERAL FARM PROGRAM (TESTIMONY OF FARM 

 ORGANIZATIONS) 



WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1949 



House of Representatives, 

 Special Subcommittee of the 



Committee on Agriculture, 



W ashington, D. G. 



The special subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture met at 

 10 a. m. on April 27, 1949, Hon, Stephen Pace presiding. 



Mr. Pace. The committee will come to order, please. 



It is the pleasure of the connnittee this morning to have with us 

 the president and representatives of the National Farmers Union. 

 It is our pleasure at this time to hear from its president, Mr. James 

 G. Patton. 



Mr. Patton, you may proceed. 



STATEMENT OF JAMES G. PATTON, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL 

 FARMERS UNION 



Mr. Patton. Mr. Chairman, we very much appreciate the oppor- 

 tunity of appearing before this committee. We consider these hear- 

 ings of extreme importance since last summer we have held a con- 

 siderable number of meetings, including meets of our full board of 

 directors, which is composed of all of our State presidents, and 

 have brought to this hearing the chairman of our executive commit- 

 tee, Mr. Glenn Talbott, and the president of the North Dakota Farmers 

 Union, Mr. Wyum, who is the president of the Sargeant County 

 Farmers Union and president of the North Dakota Kural Electrifica- 

 tion Association and a director in our very large Farmers Union Grain 

 Terminal Cooperative and chairman for the last several years of 

 our National Farmers Union convention program committee which 

 drafts the program on which we predicate our proposals and is, as 

 well as Mr. Theo Steed, a cotton farmer from central Alabama, a 

 member of the Alabama Farmers Union. 



Mr. Talbott will make the principal proposals in relation to what 

 we have to say in the form of a discussion of the bill. My statement 

 will be general in character. I do hope that some arrangement can 

 be worked out with the committee so that all of our witnesses can 

 be heard because they have come a long distance and we do consider the 

 matter very important. 



Mr. Pace. I think if it accommodates the wish of the members of 

 the committee we will let all the witnesses make their statements and 

 question you all as a group. 



Mr. Patton. I think that would be excellent, Mr. Chairman. 



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