Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farming", continued Mr. Dickinson, "must be placed on a sound economical basis and surrounded with such legislative safeguards as will place it on a par with industrial occupations, and this, if you please, is the program of the agricultural bloc...
...Dickinson stated that the "Bloc" was trying to accomplish in so far as it is possible through legislation, five definite objects which he outlined as follows: "First and foremost it is fundamental that the United States become a self-feeding nation. This involves sufficient tariff protection on agricultural products, and the Bloc has to some extent accomplished this...
...Thirdlyl, all the financial machinery of our Government has been formulated around the commercial and industrial securities of our country. This condition the 'Bloc' has been attempting to remedy though a commodity financing law suitable to the producer's need. This together with a representative on the Federal Reserve Board acquainted with their needs, will give the farmers of the country courage to plant again and finance another crop...
...Lastly, the 'Farm Bloc' has dealt with taxation during the past year on the principle that this Government cannot afford to transfer the burdens of the was from the profits of the few who can afford to pay many of whom secured their wealth from war profits, to the backs and belies of the messes now struggling under adverse conditions to keep body and soul together...
...present railway law should be given a fair trial", he continued. "The members of the farm bloc in Congress are doing everything they can to have the bill repealed. They consider that the provision directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to fix rates so that the railroads will receive a fair return, is detrimental to their interests. This provision is the best feature of the bill, in my opinion. Formerly every company tried to undersell every other road, with the result that wages were low, and investors did not receive a fair return on their money. This new provision promises...