The government’s farm aid program adds up to this: The Treasury will put out an average of $1,000 in the next fiscal year for each of the 4.7 million farms in the nation. .. .Despite the soil bank and the foreign surplus disposal programs, farm surpluses in the fifth year of the Eisenhower Administration are nearly three times as large as they were in 1952 and farm prices average 15 per cent less …. The American Cotton Producers-Association which meets this week is expected to come out for higher acreage allotments and the scrapping of the price-propping machinery on the grounds that artificial price levels hurt domestic cotton in its fight with man-made fibers.
Senator Goldwater has formally asked the McClellan Committee to investigate violence in the three-year-old Kohler strike. Gold-water says 800 individual incidents of violence have been reported …. Sen. Carl Curtis of Nebraska is pushing for legislation to ban secondary boycotts in labor disputes …. A non-striking employee of the Blue Ridge Glass Corporation in Kingsport, Tennessee, was killed April 30 in a dynamite blast. It was the seventeenth dynamiting case in that strike.




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