14 FARMERS' UNION AND FEDERATION 



and a collecting agency through which the wheat grower is 

 to sell his wheat and collect his wages and expenses. 



But only by unionizing can the wheat grower have the 

 power to price his own product and collect wages and ex- 

 pense of producing it. Will it pay to unionize? 



Elimination of Free Wife and Child Labor. 



If for no other reason, the wheat growers should unionize 

 to free their wives and children from the necessity of farm 

 drudgery. They have been freed in the cities ; why not on 

 the farms? All other classes of producers and laborers have 

 unionized and demanded a wage that would maintain their 

 families without their labor, and it is granted them. All 

 professional people have done the same thing. You never 

 hear of the wives and children of lawyers, doctors, teachers, 

 preachers, merchants, mechanics or laborers who have un- 

 ionized having to work to aid in making the living. Why 

 should the wives and children of the wheat growers have to 

 do that? Simply because they are not unionized to demand 

 and enforce a price for their own labor that will maintain 

 their families as city families are maintained. Yes, it will 

 pay to unionize. 



Price-making to Insure Wages and Expenses. 



Only by taking over the price-making power through un- 

 ionizing can wheat growers be assured of return of wages 

 advanced to hired help so they can discontinue using the 

 free labor of wives and children. When wives and children 

 do work in producing wheat they should be paid union wages 

 for every hour they work, and the growers should unionize 

 to see to it that their wages, too, are added to the price of 

 wheat. ' There is absolutely no justification for expecting or 

 requiring them to give free labor that bread may be cheap 

 to the idle rich of the cities, or to those who include high 

 union wages in the price of everything the wheat grower 

 buys. 



