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"WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. In support of the extension of allied co- 

 operation into a league of nations it has been pointed out often enough 

 that the project is evolutionary rather than the revolutionary plan that 

 it is sometimes described by its opponents. Yesterday this was il- 

 lustrated by the report from Paris that Herbert Hoover has been offered, 

 and is considering the acceptance of the office of world food adminis- 

 trator, responsible not to his own government but to the allied nations. 

 The scope of his authority, if this project is carried through, is reported 

 as 'the entire food and relief administration for the European Allies and 

 the United States.' The description of the proposed office further goes 

 on: 



"The general idea of the plan is to centralize the organization under 

 one head so that both the food and the tonnage made available by the 

 various Allies would be used under one plan to the best advantage. . . . 

 The director general would be the supreme executive head and would 

 work in conjunction with the existing inter-allied maritime, food and 

 financial commissions which have headquarters in London." 



By this time wheat growers know what Mr. Hoover thinks 

 of them, and can easily guess what he will do to them when 

 he becomes the only surplus wheat buyer in all the world. 

 To save themselves from becoming further pauperized they 

 should unionize at once in the United States and put the 

 selling of their wheat into the hands of one sales committee 

 to deal with this one buyer. In no other way can he be 

 made to pay the cost of producing it. Of course, he would 

 then go to the unorganized wheat growers of other nations 

 for wheat until he starved our union into submission. To 

 head him off in that course, our union would send delegates 

 to unionize the wheat growers of all wheat exporting coun- 

 tries, and then consolidate all into an international wheat 

 growers' union. They would then pool the entire world 

 crop and place it in the hands of their international union to 

 sell. This sales agency would name the price of wheat, and 

 Mr. Hoover or any other buyer would pay it. It would be 

 worth billions of dollars annually to the world's wheat pro- 

 ducers to be able to meet monopoly buyers with monopoly 

 sellers. 



Therefore, unionize and monopolize as labor and capital 

 does. 



