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against it. Then governments will place surplus labor on 

 farms to produce food to lower the price of farm products. 

 Nothing but the unionizing of producers of all farm products 

 to enforce fair wages and expenses through a strike by con- 

 certed non-delivery can save them from the calamity of 

 peonage through over-supplies. 



Will it pay to unionize to fight for your rights and interests 

 as city union labor does, or will you be supine slaves to any 

 unjust burden put upon you? 



How to Eliminate Foreign Competition. 



All nations will be so impoverished after the war that 

 they will not only seek to provision themselves, but where 

 possible will endeavor to produce food for export. This 

 will be produced by the cheap unorganized labor of their 

 teeming millions. 



It was reported before the war that wheat producers of 

 India hire their help for five cents a day, and those of Russia, 

 one of the greatest wheat-producing countries, for only 

 eight cents a day. Do American wheat producers wish to 

 be forced to compete with them in the open markets of the 

 world? There is only one plan to avoid it; that is to un- 

 ionize for self -protection. The government will not protect 

 you, neither will your Republican or Democratic Congress- 

 men. They are from the cities. Their sympathies and fi- 

 nancial interests are in the cities, with their demand for 

 cheap food, and they want all the decline in prices to be 

 borne by the farmer. 



The only course left, then, is self-protection through un- 

 ionizing as other business and labor does. Then the wheat 

 grower will have two opportunities to eliminate that foreign 

 competition. One is to send an organizing commission to 

 all wheat-exporting countries to unionize the wheat growers 

 there and induce them to put the same price on their wheat 

 as Americans do. If this plan fails, then try the other. 



