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and working conditions are much better than on the farms. 

 You wheat growers are the only ones who have the power, 

 if you will unionize, to make conditions on your farms so 

 desirable in good wages and living conditions that you can 

 not only keep your children on the farm, but win back 

 many of those who left it to seek those things elsewhere. 



Will it pay you to unionize to make your homes and 

 farms more desirable to your children than the cities? It is 

 for you wheat growers, who alone have that power, to say 

 what you will do. All other professions, business and city 

 union labor have so increased their wages, salaries and profits 

 through unionizing that they can keep their children in 

 schools, colleges and universities until they are of age and 

 prepared to go into business of their own, or to take the 

 soft snaps at high salaries. By unionizing farmers can give 

 their children the same chance. 



Farmers' Children to be College Educated. 



Some wheat raisers object to giving their children a col- 

 lege education, even when able, because they are then lost 

 to the farm, taking no interest in it afterwards. That is 

 because they are offered much better wages" and working 

 conditions in the cities than the farm can offer them under 

 present methods. By unionizing and taking over the selling 

 business, those conditions could be reversed for the educated 

 farmers' children. Then they could make their applied 

 knowledge and labor as remunerative in raising wheat as in 

 other industries and business. Tens of thousands of them 

 could be given employment by the wheat growers' union as 

 elevator operators, wheat salesmen, central distributing 

 clerks, foreign representatives, bookkeepers, accountants, 

 stenographers, etc. 



Of course, all that would require millions of dollars to 

 give them as good wages as such positions now pay, but it 

 would be added to the price of wheat as now, and collected 



