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the children in. school until the age when they will have an education 

 and be fully developed mentally and physically. Labor should declare 

 itself in the most positive and emphatic terms and fight to the last 

 ditch against any reduction of wages, lengthening of hours or deteriora- 

 tion in the conditions for health and safety of the workers.' " 



Thousands of wheat growers will say, "It is none of our 

 business what union labor does, or how much wages it gets." 

 But they should know that these wages are added to the 

 price of everything they buy and every public service they 

 use and thereby pay proportionately all these wages them- 

 selves. 



But if they unionize and adopt the minimum price system 

 they can then add this additional cost to the price of wheat 

 and collect it back again. That is the only way to meet 

 the high cost of living without being hurt by it. All other 

 classes do that way and thus side-step the high cost of liv- 

 ing by adding it to their labor or service. 



Organizing International Labor Unions. 



Organized laborers do not want this country flooded with 

 laborers from other countries seeking the higher wages here 

 through fear of having their wages forced down. Therefore, 

 they are interested in unionizing competing laborers in all 

 countries to enforce higher wages there and keep them from 

 coming to America. 



"WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping Board, 

 who sailed for Europe last Saturday to prepare for the returning of 

 American troops to this country, and for moving needed food supplies 

 to the war-famished nations overseas, also plans to seek an international 

 'agreement between the governments, shipping interests and labor or- 

 ganizations of the principal maritime powers for standardization of 

 seamen's wages and working conditions. It was said today that Mr. 

 Hurley expects to propose that the American laws and the agreements 

 between the government and the seamen's unions on these subjects be 

 accepted as the standards, and it is understood that the American 

 Federation of Labor and the British Seamen's Union are prepared to 

 support the proposal. Such an agreement as that contemplated by 



