OCTOBER 30, 1958 LIMA, Ohio—A large number of people are
gradually becoming aware of a growing problem in the United
States—the decline in the farm economy. The National
Sharecroppers Fund, of which Dr. Frank P. Graham is chairman,
has organized a new national advisory committee on farm labor
problems with Dr. Graham and A. Phillip Randolph as co-chairmen.
In November, 1957, the Fund held a conference on migratory labor
and low-income farmers, coming to the conclusion that this new
committee was needed to study further the whole subject of the
country's farm economy. Farming is basic to the economy and the
security of this country. And the problems of both the large and
small family-size farm operators, the sharecropper, the farm
worker and the migrant are becoming increasingly more
complicated. The public needs the understanding of these
problems to take an interest in their solution and make them a
matter of government concern. Since the approach to any general
problem should first consider the phases that