92 FARMERS' UNION AND FEDERATION 



ciations of rural ministers to put these plans into effect already have 

 been started in Ohio, West Virginia, Iowa, South Dakota, Pennsylvania 

 and Nebraska. Chairs of Rural Sociology to teach how to be happy 

 though living on a farm have been established in theological seminarieSj 

 and plans are making to start similar courses in colleges." 



Now, Mr. Methodist, you are on the wrong track to ac- 

 complish your object, as many other schemes have been. 

 Take a pointer fro^n me, that to gain your laudable aims 

 you must give up the idea of trying to increase crop pro- 

 duction, as that results in making matters worse. Devote 

 all your efforts to unionizing the producers of each product 

 separately, and then to federating those unions as union 

 labor is organized. Teach them how to increase their wages 

 by the minimum price system as herein advocated and out- 

 lined. It is a greatly increased flow of money to the farms 

 that is needed to gain your object, and that cannot be 

 brought about in any other way. 



Wages That Attract Farmers to Cities. 



" MOUNDSVILLE, W. VA., Sept. 14. Charles Fogel, 55, a miner, has 

 made a new record here for loading coal. In one day he loaded 30 tons 

 and 17 hundredweight, earning $18.20 for eight hours' work. Fogel's 

 pay envelope for 11 days contained $169.89." 



" CHICAGO, Oct. 9. Sixty-four dollars for eight hours' work was the 

 record established by one riveter at the South Chicago ship-building 

 yard Sunday, it was announced to day. The week-day scale for each 

 rivet is 8 cents and on Sunday this is raised to 16 cents." 



Farmers cannot be kept on the farm against such alluring 

 wages for work they can do in other industries unless their 

 wages are greatly increased. Unionize and increase it by 

 the minimum price system. 



Farmers Give Experience. 



Extracts frorii "The Race Between Time and Famine," by 

 Frederick F. Ingram, Detroit, in his interviews with Michi- 

 gan farmers show the deplorable condition they have to 

 contend with. Their statements follow : 



