AMERICAN FARMERS
DEMAND FOR ASSISTANCE. TALK OF REVOLUTION. THREATS TO CONGRESS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received January 26, 11.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. A warning of a revolution in the farm belt unless Congress enacts aid for agriculture was served on the Senate Committee to-day as the hearings' opened on the domestic allotment of the price “boosting” measure. Mr Edward O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said that unless something was done for the -American farmer, we will have a revolution in the countryside m less than 12 months.
Mr John Simpson, president of the Fanners-’ Union, stated: “The biggest and finest crop of revolutions you ever saw are sprouting all over this country right now.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 50, 26 January 1933, Page 7
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