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union labor fails to get what it wants it strikes, and Congress, 

 the President, and everybody else promptly comes across 

 with its demands. Note the case of the Big Four Railroad 

 Brotherhoods in 1917 getting what they wanted by a threat 

 to strike. 



When, the first time in the memory of wheat growers they 

 were getting a fair price, with prospects of it being continued 

 during the war, the government sat up and took notice of 

 them and promptly knocked a dollar a bushel off the price 

 and prohibited it coming up again. 



Had the wheat growers of the United States been union- 

 ized and some of their members in Congress, the head of- 

 ficials of their union would have been called in for consulta- 

 tion before taking any action, like union labor officials were 

 on wages. These would have made such good pleaders for 

 fair pric'es to wheat growers that prices would have been 

 raised instead of lowered, especially had their pleading been 

 backed up with the wheat growers union ready to go on a 

 concerted non-delivery strike were fair demands of their of- 

 ficials ignored. 



Where union wages were lowered a strike brought them 

 up again. In most instances wages were increased. In 

 loyalty to the government and patriotism the wheat growers 

 are the equal of any class. But it is unfair to make them the 

 goat to bear the sins of unionized capital and labor both. 



When wheat prices were forced down by speculators be- 

 low forty cents to the grower, and thousands of them lost 

 their farms and other property, the government did not come 

 to their aid by enforcing a fair price. Seeing that your only 

 hope is in self-aid, like other unionized classes, you wheat 

 growers should unionize also to protect and defend your 

 rights and interests. Had the government knocked two 

 dollars off the wheat price instead of one you would have 

 stood it because, not being organized, you were absolutely 



