356 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



This is an import tax that would automatical!}^ cause the importa- 

 tions of things we need and would shut out the things we do not need. 



This is an import tax which would automatically make each nation' 

 with whom we trade a preferred nation to the extent that its own 

 internal economy approached the same level as our economy. 



All tariff rates on imports should be calculated in United States 

 currency at port of entry and not in the currency of the nation with 

 whom we trade. 



While speaking of trade, we also recommend an investigation be 

 made into our interstate commerce laws, whereby farmers and truckers 

 are forbidden to transport their products between States within the 

 United States, while at the same time Congress is enacting legislation 

 to cut our tariff rates with foreign and beggar nations and place our 

 Nation on a free trade basis without limitations. 



The United Farmers of America, Inc., recommend the abandon- 

 ment of all regimentation of every kind and an immediate return to 

 a free American economy. 



We want no subsidy payments or hand-outs for the products we 

 produce. We want no acreage benefit payments, and we are capable 

 of taking care of our own soil. 



What we want is an American price for our agricultural products 

 on a true parity with the costs of the products of other American 

 industry and American services. 



The farmers of this Nation are entitled to a true parity of price 

 and it is only just, fair, decent and equitable that Congress protect 

 farm prices of American production. This should be done not for 

 the sake of farmers alone, but for the welfare of the vast majority of 

 our American citizens. 



The United Farmers of America, Inc., petition this Eighty-first 

 Congress of the United States to enact legislation that will forever 

 solve the farm problem. This can be done by means of a minimum 

 floor price by national law at not less than 100 percent true parity 

 at the market place. 



A floor or minimum price is set by law on wages, legal hours of work 

 in a day and workweek, the value of gold, legal rate of interest, freight 

 rates, electric power, telephone and telegraph charges, water rates, 

 including water used for irrigation, and 1,001 other services obtained 

 by farmers, and by sovereign law are compelled to pay out of the 

 products of our soil and toil. 



Food and fiber are vital necessities of life, and should come under a 

 higher category than less important items I have mentioned that do 

 have a minimum floor by law. 



Wliy cannot floor prices be established by law, just as well as the 

 ceiling prices of a few years back. 



We, the United Farmers of America, Inc., are sincere m our recom- 

 mendations that this is the solution to a stable economy and would 

 be sound security for all Americans. It would be insurance of a 

 balanced economy and prosperity for the Nation, a minimum floor 

 by law, to be determined by yearly intervals, at an American price of 

 true parity, for that portion of agricultural production consumed in 

 America, and a worlcl price level for that portion exported to other 

 countries. 



Under this plan, we could all enjoy prosperity unlimiteed, the 

 American way, without regimentation and relieve the taxpayers of 



