“REVOLT” IN FARM BELT
AMERICAN SENATE WARNED. URGENT NEED OF HELP. (United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. A warning of revolution in the farm belt unless Congress enacts aid for agriculture was given to the Senate committee to-day as hearings opened on the domestic allotment price-boosting measure.
M.r Edward O’Neal, president' of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said that unless something was done for the American farmer he would have a revolution in the countryside in less than 12 months.
Mr John Simpson, president of the Farmers’ Union, stated: "The biggest and finest crop of revolutions you ever saw is sprouting all over this country right now.”
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 27 January 1933, Page 5
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