Agriculture

1. We approve a program of land purchase by the Federal Government and the

distribution

of land under long term contracts of sale to operating farmers in order to

give relief

to the desperate problems of farm tenancy and share cropperism. (1938, p.

93)

2. The Conference suggests that farm cooperatives and rural electrification

among

small farmers receive federal aid and encouragement. (1942, p.?3)

3. We endorse the President’s criticism of the pending price control bill in

the Senate,

which would allow farmers a price for their goods far above parity, as being

against

the national interest. (1942, p. 94)

4. The Conference points to the poor social and economic conditions of

share-croppers,

tenant farmers, peonage, child labor, etc., as needing rectification. It

recommends

government controls in order that the plight of the small farmer and farm

worker

will be improved. (1942, p. 94)

5. We commend the Farm Security Administration for the practical results of

its efforts

among our less privileged farmers. The FSA’s program of education and

rehabilitation,

now under constant attack, must be preserved and extended. We protest against

any

plan which operates to freeze in Southern states the available supply of

under-employed

experienced farm labor. (1942, pp. 127-28)