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or services, and over ninety-nine per cent of them will tell 

 you they wouldn't be without it; that their expenses for 

 maintaining their union is only a small fraction of the addi- 

 tional money received through the power and advantages 

 of it. 



With your losses herein shown you and your gains assured, 

 the questions in the minds of wheat growers should be, 

 "Can we afford to remain unorganized? Can we afford to 

 continue raising hundreds of millions of bushels to give 

 away free as in the past? Can we afford to work for such 

 low wages, and invest at so low a rate of interest? Can we 

 afford to work and invest and leave to gamblers and profit- 

 eerers the fixing of our wages and interest? Can we afford 

 to see our sons and daughters continue leaving us for better 

 wages in cities? Can we afford to neglect longer to unionize 

 to demand and enforce skilled labor wages and reasonable 

 interest on our investment as other classes do?" It is for 

 you wheat producers to answer these questions, and act to 

 realize your reward as others do by unionizing. 



Union laborers would be considered crazy were they to 

 propose to work twelve hours a day for less wages than for 

 eight hours, yet wheat growers will continue to raise twelve 

 bushels of wheat for less money than for eight bushels until 

 they unionize to enable them to stop such foolishness. 



Menace of Big Farms. 



Probably one of the greatest menaces to the average wheat 

 grower is the mammoth farm that can and may put them 

 out of the wheat raising business unless curbed by the wheat 

 growers themselves through their united political power. 

 The following news item from Canada, dated March 30, 

 1918, indicates the trend of the big farm menace to the small 

 wheat farms : 



"All plowing contests since plows first were made will be eclipsed 

 by a contest next month among the twenty-six units of a 50,000-acre 

 farm, each unit being 1,920 acres, where iron horses will plow, seed and 



