90 FARMERS' UNION AND FEDERATION 



The only remedy for them is to unionize and allow their 

 elected leaders to direct them how to vote as a unit for the 

 good of their own class. Then they can elect men who are 

 in sympathy with them, and will work for their interest as 

 the officials elected by other unionized classes do for them. 



jl 



How to Veto the President's Veto. 



Now that the wheat producers see how they get left by 

 leaving others to price their product, they should unionize 

 at once to take over that most important function to them- 

 selves. Had they been unionized their national officers 

 could have gotten for them most any price they asked from 

 Congress and the President. Failing in that, their national 

 President could have put up a spiel about as follows : 



"Now, see here! All other classes of laborers and produc- 

 ers are naming the price for their services, and you have per- 

 mitted it. Now Congress and the administration may stop 

 wrangling over the price of wheat, and we who produced it 

 will attend to that little matter ourselves. All our last year's 

 wages and expenses, amounting to several billion dollars, 

 are tied up in this crop, and we alone are competent to set 

 a price to cover it. Our expert practical wheat growers 

 from different States have reported to our national executive 

 committee that the cost of our wheat has been between 

 $2.50 and $3.50 a bushel, owing to location and yield. The 

 committee ordered a referendum vote of our members on the 

 price wanted, limiting it to anywhere between $2.50 and 

 $3.25 a bushel. They explained to them their patriotic 

 duty to forego any profits, and even donate part of their 

 labor to the cause of lower prices for food as a loyal duty to 

 our government and our Allies. (Excuse me a minute to 

 answer the phone.) Well, the chairman of the committee 

 reports the result of trie vote on the wheat price. It is $3.00 



