850 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



aftp:r recess 



Mr. Pace. The committee will come to order. 



The committee would like now to hear from Mr. Iberg, chairman 

 of the legislative committee, United Farmers of America, Inc., of 

 Highland, 111. 



Mr. Iberg, will you come around? We will be glad to hear you. 



STATEMENT OF RAY IBERG, CHAIRMAN, LEGISLATIVE COM- 

 MITTEE, UNITED FARMERS OF AMERICA, INC., HIGHLAND, 

 ILL. 



Mr. Iberg. I have a paper which I should like to submit to the 

 Subcommittee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Washington, 

 D. C, in behalf of the United Farmers of America, Inc. 



Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee on Agriculture, 

 I have a prepared statement in addition to the regular testimony I am 

 presenting to this committee in behalf of the United Farmers of 

 America. This statement explains the connection of the reciprocal 

 trade agreements with our economy and national farm problems. 

 I ask this honorable committee to grant me the privilege of having 

 the additional statement inserted into the printed hearings along with 

 my regular testimony. 



Mr. Pace. Without objection the supplemental statement will be 

 filed with the clerk, and inserted at the close of your present statement. 



Mr. Iberg. I want to thank this Subcommittee on Agriculture for 

 the courtesy granted to me on this trip to Washington in behalf of the 

 United Farmers of America, Inc. 



My name is Ray Iberg, of Highland, 111. I am a farmer and operate 

 about 200 acres of land in Bond and Madison Counties. I am engaged 

 in diversified farming and kept very busy in the production of grain, 

 hogs, poultry, and beef cattle along with repair work on agricultural 

 equipment. 



The United Farmers of America, Inc., is a farm organization com- 

 posed of farmers who believe in justice and equality, men who attain 

 their livelihood by the sweat of their brow by tilling American soil. 



Unlike many leaders and representatives of so-called farm orgg,niza- 

 tions who have never plowed a row of corn or done an honest day's 

 work, yet speak for farmers, you will find that any representative of 

 the United Farmers of America who appears before this or any other 

 congressional committee is a farmer himself. He has the callouses on 

 his hands and the marks of farm labor show on his person. He knows 

 what it means to be a farmer because he is a farmer, and he will 

 present our findings from knowledge gained by practical experience. 



Because we are interested in the welfare of America, we have cut 

 through the propaganda to the facts. Therefore, I submit the follow- 

 ing remarks and recommendations for consideration by this honorable 

 committee. 



Intelligent farmers who have the welfare and future of America at 

 heart are bitterly opposed to any form of support-price system or 

 relief payments, plus regimentation from their Government made pos- 

 sible at the taxpayers' expense. 



They are very much displeased as real farmers who produce the 

 vital necessities of life, food and fiber, to be placed into the category 

 of leaf rakers and beggars. 



