agricultural interest by the large middlemen, the transfer of whose business to agricultural associations must be encouraged by the State.
It shall be the task of such professional organizations to reduce the running expenses of farmers and increase production. (Provision of implements, manures, seed, breeding stock, on favourable conditions, improve¬ ments, war against vermin, free advice, chemical research, etc.) The State shall provide full assistance to the organizations in carrying out their task, in particular the State must insist on a considerable reduction in the cost to farmers of artificial manures and electric power.
- The organizations must also establish the class of farm labourers as members of the farming community by contracts which are just in the social sense. Super¬ vision and arbitration in these matters will be the function of the State. It must be made possible for good labourers to rise to the status of farm-owners. The much called-for improvement in living conditions and wages of farm labourers will ensue as soon as the general farming situation improves. When these con¬ ditions take a turn for the better, it will be no longer necessary to employ foreign labour on the land, and this custom will in future be forbidden.
- The national importance of the farming class requires that the State shall promote technical educa¬ tion in agriculture. (Juvenile institutions, high schools for agriculture, with very favourable terms for youths with talent but no means.)
- PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CANNOT PROVIDE ALL THE ASSISTANCE REQUIRED BY THE FARMING CLASS ; ONLY THE POLITICAL MOVEMENT OF THE N.S.D.A.P. FOR GERMAN LIBERTY CAN DO THIS The country population are poor because the whole German nation is poor. It is an error to imagine that one single class of workers