68 FARMERS' UNION AND FEDERATION 



the wheat would be dumped on the market in two or three 

 months, swamping the government to take care of it. The 

 other plan, of a gradual increased price, would insure an 

 even delivery throughout the year. 



As the government will not price your wheat after the 

 war, it is the right and duty of wheat growers to unionize 

 now to take over that most important duty when the gov- 

 ernment quits. 



Greater Security for Borrowed Money. 



Unionizing to stabilize and put a bottom to the price of 

 wheat high enough to cover skilled union wages and over- 

 head expenses will greatly increase its security value. Wheat 

 raisers who are obliged to borrow on wheat could get larger 

 amounts at a lower rate, and not be harassed for payment 

 for fear of its price decreasing. Wheat would then be good 

 security for anything wanted on credit up to its minimum 

 price when the union demonstrated it was able to keep it 

 from going below that. 



Wheat raisers should change tactics, and instead of in- 

 creasing the yield go to unionizing to put worth and value 

 into what they now raise. They take worth and value out 

 of it by raising more unless they unionize. Take the sensi- 

 ble plan all other classes are taking. 



. Union labor now gets more wages for eight hours a day 

 than in three days of twelve hours each before unionizing. 

 All classes have found out by experience they can increase 

 their income and decrease their labor by unionizing. Wheat 

 raisers can do that also by following that plan. Why not 

 try it? It is up to them to unionize. No others can do it 

 for them. 



Foolishness of Kansas Wheat Growers. 



Nothing so demonstrates the need of wheat growers un- 

 ionizing to set and maintain prices on wheat as the foolish- 



