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lish about 540 weekly or monthly papers, devoted to the cause of labor. 

 The official organ is the American Federationist, edited by Samuel 

 Gompers. There are 1,760 organizers of local unions acting under the 

 orders of the American Federation of Labor. The objects and aims of 

 the American Federation of Labor are officially stated to render em- 

 ployment and means of subsistence less precarious by securing to the 

 workers an equitable share of the fruits of their labor." 



With the changing of very few words the object and aims 

 of the American Federation of Farmers would be identical 

 with that of the American Federation of Labor. While 

 labor has won big wages, recognition, power and influence 

 through unionizing, it still remains for farmers to do so. 



In addressing labor at Squantum, Mass., in April, 1918, 

 Secretary Daniels said that the men turning out destroyers 

 and munitions are just as brave as the men who are at the 

 front. He called attention to the fact that there is not a 

 single body with any executive power that does not have 

 upon it a representative of labor, sitting side by side with 

 the representatives of the employers and having an equal 

 voice. 



Now the question is, Why were the farmers not equally 

 represented with labor and employers in matters that equally 

 concerned them? The answer is they were not unionized, 

 had no official representatives to call in consultation. They 

 are the great unorganized nobodies, without power or in- 

 fluence in government or elsewhere, while that of unionized 

 labor is increasing, according to the following : 



"NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Charles M. Schwab, President of the Beth- 

 lehem Steel Corporation, declared in an address at a dinner here tonight 

 that the time is near at hand 'when the man of the working class 

 the men without property will control the destinies of the world. The 

 Bolsheviki sentiment must be taken into consideration/ Mr. Schwab 

 declared, 'and in the very near future we must look to the worker for 

 a solution of the great economic questions now being considered. I 

 am not one to carelessly turn over my belongings for the uplift of the 

 nation, but I am one who has come to a belief that the worker will 

 rule, and the sooner we realize this the better it will be for our country 

 and the world at large.' " 



