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...Scab" is a nasty word. In reading your article [p. 11, TIME. Aug. 6] which describes the Chicago Stock Yards strike where 75,000 starving and thirsty cattle from the drought areas were left to suffer without water by the striking livestock handlers, I was surprised, pained and grieved to find TIME describing as "scabs" these "boys from droughty farms...
...previous acreage control measures, we were immediately able to plant feed crops . . . and purchase . . . the herds of drought-stricken cattle. . . . Since there are 7,000,000 head of cattle in the country in excess of the number needed to maintain an adequate meat and milk supply, even this disaster is not unmanageable...
...alone however did AAA depend. It organized every available man for counterattack on "Tory" critics. Over the radio, Assistant AAAdministrator Victor A. Christgau declared that without AAA "farmers would be driven from the land." George E. Farrell, chief of AAA's wheat section, claimed that the coincidence of the drought and AAA's crop reduction program had saved farmers $22,500,000: "When drought comes it doesn't make any difference how many acres you plant. It gets 'em all. It costs about $3 an acre to plant wheat. Farmers left 7,500,000 acres idle to comply with...
...Dealers are trying this fall to elect a Congress of men who are unfriendly to the AAA and unfriendly to the farmers except in superficial lip service. They hope to do away with the processing tax. They recently have been pointing out the fact of the most extraordinary drought in 40 years as an argument for abandoning the entire agricultural adjustment program. This effort to use the fact of the drought as an attack on the Agricultural Adjustment program is typical of the shortsighted leadership of the Republican Party from...
Real opposition to AAA was of long standing but had not been taken seriously by Democratic politicians until Drought painfully sharpened arguments against their whole program. Prime criticism...