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their best interest. As it is now they cannot know whether 

 the advice they get from government agencies or newspapers 

 are for their interest or for others. They would be advised 

 through their local officers or daily wheat bulletin when to 

 deliver wheat and how much, and when to cease delivery to 

 keep from glutting the market and congesting transporta- 

 tion facilities, and to maintain a stable price. This expert 

 and dependable advice would be of great consolation and 

 aid to the wheat grower, and go a long ways in justifying 

 the little effort necessary to unionize. 



When wheat growers are unionized they would learn to 

 obey their head officials, as other union labor does, when 

 they know it is for their best interests to do so. Some prop- 

 ositions could be left to a vote of the members as union labor 

 does. Union farmers could learn much of interest by a 

 study of union labor methods. 



Co-operation Between Land Owner and Renter. 



Since both wages and interest on investments depends on 

 the price of wheat, there should be harmony and co-operation 

 between the landowner and renter to secure good crops and 

 good prices. Both should be members of the union to work 

 for their mutual interests, subject to the laws and regula- 

 tions of the union on membership admission. Both should 

 share proportionately in the price of wheat according to the 

 labor and money each has invested, and both gain or lose 

 according to good or poor crops and prices. The renter 

 should receive the same rate of interest on money invested 

 in seed, teams, labor, machinery, etc., that the landowner 

 does on money invested in the land and improvements. 

 Renters could not continue to give a fixed cash rent that 

 crops and prices would not justify. Both helping to keep 

 the price up to cover wages and interest on improvements 

 would justify good, convenient and necessary improvements 

 being made by the owner, and more work put in on crops 

 by the renter. The union might eventually find it advisable 



