ADVOCATE AND GUIDE. 



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were denied by 188 to 42. New raises in pay, which run from five to 

 25 per cent, will reach almost every employee in the postal service re- 

 ceiving less than $1,200 a year. Additional amendments proposing in- 

 creases for the few remaining positions will be brought up tomorrow." 



"Conrad Seipp, an organizer for the United Association of Steam 

 Fitters and Helpers, said the association throughout the country in 

 May, 1920, would demand $1.50 an hour, regardless of the cost of liv- 

 ing. He said steam fitters at the yards receive a maximum of 65 cents 

 an hour now, and are asking for 87^ cents for 1919." 



You see in these accounts how organized labor appeals to 

 wage commissions, courts and Congress for increased wages 

 never appeals in vain. But when the wheat growers 



iked for an increase of only ten per cent of their meager 

 wages to partly cover their greatly increased expenses, the 

 Food Administration refused it, Congress refused it, the 

 President refused it, and the courts would have refused it 

 had they been appealed to. Why is this? Why are they 

 everywhere denied fair wages? Why have they no influence 

 for justice, though admittedly producing the most vital food 

 product? There is only one answer : They are not un- 

 ionized, and consequently have no authorized representa- 

 tives to look after their interests and plead their case, and 

 therefore have no political power. There is only one rem- 

 edy one course to secure justice. That is to unionize and 

 enforce it through the power of their numbers. They can 

 then hold the balance of political power, and by voting it, 

 as a unit control the election of judges, State Legislatures 

 and Congress, who will then be under obligations to do the 

 farmers justice as they are now to favor organized capital 

 and labor classes, who put them in office, at the expense of 

 the farmers. 



Union Labor to Enforce War Wages. 



Now that the war is over, all farm products will in a few 

 months begin to decline in prices until within a year or two 

 they will be as cheap or cheaper than before the war, while 

 organized labor will continue to enforce wartime wages, as 

 the following news items indicate : 



