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Farm Relief Meets an Enemy
Allen, Robert S. | January 1, 1930 issue

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The farm-relief act that the special session of the U.S. Congress enacted in the summer of 1930 with such solemn assurance of great deeds to come has not had long to wait for its test. The long fight between the grain dealer and the grain grower, that has been productive of so much political and economic history in the Northwest, has forced the issue. In this fight, the farmer has certain advantages never before on his side. Two decades ago, when wheat producers of the Northwest organized the ill-fated Equity Cooperative-Exchange, they had everyone and everything against them--the politicians, the banks, the merchants, their own inexperience, and above all the power and organization of the dealers.

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UNITED States. Congress; ECONOMIC history; FARMERS; AGRICULTURE; BILLS, Legislative; QUALITY of life; UNITED States
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