John Moser

The weird thing is on the one hand prices are too low because too much is being produced.

On the other hand, it's certain areas of the country.

Very little is being produced because of, uh, because of the dust bowl.

Right.

So both of these are major problems.

Well, the price of agricultural products does increase somewhat, but not nearly as much as farmers wanted it to.

Thanks to the Agricultural Adjustment Act,

This allotment plan is set up so that farmers are actually paid to take land out of production to produce less.

This had the effect of increasing farm income because obviously they're getting checks for producing less, but it mostly helped the larger farmers.

If you had a very small farm that didn't help you very much.

If you were a sharecropper in the, you know, in the South, you were in big trouble because if a farm, if a, if a, a landowner is going to take land out of production, he's just going to go to the sharecroppers and say, sorry, don't need you anymore.

And they're left with nothing.

I tend to think that given how bad the situation was, it's surprising that there wasn't more unrest.

Yeah.

The communist party of the United States definitely saw an increase in support.

Of course,

It could double in size.

It'd still be extremely, extremely tiny.

But the communists got involved in protests on the part of the unemployed.

Major march started in Detroit and marched on Ford's facilities.