Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your article on the growth and wealth of the National Farmers Union [March 31], I find it very evident that the Government farm-price supports have been adding to the riches of the farmers and their union at the heavy expense of the taxpayers of this country. Why should the farmers have such a subsidy when all other classes of business and professions survive or perish on their own expense and efforts...
...fact omitted from your article is needed to explain how the business affiliates of the N.F.U. organization have accumulated so much money so very fast. The answer is that the $33 million Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association, the $75 million Farmers Union Central Exchange and other cooperatives wearing the N.F.U. label pay little or no federal income tax. Other businesses of similar magnitude...
...exempt if it qualifies for eight intricately legal requirements, chief of which is that it must pay out all profits or proceeds to members (who of course pay taxes on their cooperative income). Most (62%) of all farm cooperatives so qualify, including all branches of the Farmers Union...
Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich; Author Lewis Mumford; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Riverside Church; Pollster Elmo Roper; National Farmers Union Boss James G. Patton (who runs N.C.S.N.P. material free in N.F.U. publications); Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman; Librettist Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II; and the committee's scientific anchor man, Caltech's busy chemist and busy politician, Dr. Linus Carl Pauling, longtime supporter of Communist-line fronts,* whose ideology was never noticeably shaken by the suppression inside the Soviet Union for years of his own Nobel Prizewinning discovery about the resonance...
...Western protests that the Soviet Union was offering "too little" in its proposals for reducing armed forces in the satellites and Western Europe: "Well, listen! 'Little!' The only thing you will be satisfied with is the end of the Soviet system, that it should no longer exist. Well, we would like to see the end of capitalism, too. But that is not in our power. And it is not in your power to end Communism...