32 FARMERS' UNION AND FEDERATION 



as part of the expenses in the minimum price. The differ- 

 ence would be that the wheat growers were giving their 

 children employment and retaining their interest and serv- 

 ices in the wheat business. 



Will it pay you wheat raisers to unionize to enable you to 

 give your children a college education and still retain their 

 interest, labor and acquired knowledge for the farm? It is 

 for you to say. 



Farmers' Wives Released from Drudgery. 



Women everywhere are beginning to shun the farm for the 

 better opportunities and more comfortable homes of the 

 cities. Some women refuse to marry farmers unless they 

 will give up the farm for a city home. This growing preju- 

 dice against rural homes will become greater every year until 

 conditions are improved equal to that of the cities. That 

 can never be done until the farmers get higher wages for 

 their labor and investments. 



The wheat growers' union will remedy all that on the 

 wheat farms by collecting through the minimum price of 

 wheat wages for the producer that will enable him to sup- 

 port his wife without her working at all. The wives of doc- 

 tors, lawyers, tradesmen, and even city union laborers, are 

 not obliged to work for their living. Why should the wives 

 of wheat growers be required to do so? It is simply because 

 the wheat producer is not getting an equal price for his 

 labor as those men, and consequently is unable to hire house 

 work done as they do. Besides doing all the house work, 

 many wives of wheat producers work in the fields three or 

 four months of the busy season, taking the place of a hand 

 they are unable to employ. Such wives should be paid the 

 highest union labor wages in cash to spend as they please. 



Wheat growers should unionize, so they can collect enough 

 for their services to enable them to pay for help as other 

 business men do, and dispense with free wife labor. 



