84147 PART 3 MAY 24, 25, 26, 28, JUNE 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 29, and 30, 1943 Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1943 ELLISON D. SMITH, South Carolina, Chairman GEORGE D. AIKEN, Vermont HARLAN J. BUSHFIELD, South Dakota BURTON K. WHEELER, Montana TOM STEWART, Tennessee FOOD SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES MONDAY, MAY 24, 1943 UNITED STATES SENATE, The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in the committee room of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, 324 Senate Office Building, Senator Ellison D. Smith (chairman) presiding. There were present before the subcommittee: Charles W. Holman, 1731 I Street NW., Washington, D. C., secretary, the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation. J. K. Galbraith, Deputy Administrator, Office of Price Administra tion. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. Mr. Holman, will you state your name and address and your occupation for the record, and proceed with your statement? STATEMENT OF CHARLES W. HOLMAN, WASHINGTON, D. C., SECRETARY, NATIONAL COOPERATIVE MILK PRODUCERS FEDERATION Mr. HOLMAN. My name is Charles W. Holman. Address, Washington, D. C., 1731 I Street. I am secretary of the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, a farmer-owned and controlled organization with 70 affiliates. There are about 300,000 farmers owning these affiliates, living in 41 States. First, in behalf of our people may I thank the committee for its courtesy and its help in responding to our request to throw some light on this rather astonishing action which has taken place recently with regard to a so-called roll-back in the prices of meat, all fourlegged meat, and of butter, and with the implications and complications that flow, particularly from the butter roll-back. On November 30, 1942, Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, in connection with a long public statement, issued to the public these two paragraphs of a pledge which the farmers of the country that I represent took to mean business. I quote: The price program for dairy products includes support through Agricultural Marketing Administration purchases of specified manufactured dairy products at the permanent price ceilings of the Office of Price Administration and a subsidy on American cheese to be financed by the Commodity Credit Corporation. By agreement with the Office of Price Administration, prices will be supported at not less than 46 cents per pound for 92 score butter, Chicago basis; 27 cents |