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e millers there as here are unionized, and because they 

 can take advantage of the wheat growers' necessity for cash 

 and. take his wheat for 80 cents a bushel that costs him $1.24 

 to raise, and then claim it can be raised for that price under 

 "normal conditions." Evidently they mean by "normal 

 conditions" a man with a robust wife and large family to 

 be worked as slaves without compensation. That is the 

 kind of "normal conditions" the millers desire here, and they 

 aided in beating down our good 1914 wheat crop to 60 cents 

 a bushel. Millions of bushels were sold in Kansas that year 

 at from 60 to 65 cents a bushel, and had it not been for the 

 war coming on the price would probably have gone much 

 lower than that. 



Such prices will prevail again after the war if you wheat 

 raisers fail to unionize to protect yourselves from the pau- 

 perized growers of other countries and profiteerers at home. 

 It is now up to you. 



To Give First Market to Needy Producers. 



One of the good things to be accomplished by wheat grow- 

 ers unionizing is to enable them to give the first market each 

 year to those who must sell right after harvest on account 

 of debts, having no granary room or having to move, and to 

 pay those able to hold a monthly increase equal to interest 

 and shrinkage for keeping it off the market. That can be 

 done through the minimum pricing by a monthly increase 

 of from two to three cents, as the executive board may de- 

 termine is necessary. As it is now, many who are able to 

 hold their wheat dump it on the market through fear of 

 lower prices, or at least no increase to pay them for holding 

 it. That gluts the market and overtaxes railroads, elevators 

 and mills to take care of it, tending to force prices ever 

 lower. 



The same price the year round is a serious defect in the 

 present government pricing. Were we to get a big crop this 



ear (1918) and good threshing weather right after harvest 



year 



