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"Fourth. As the prices farmers receive for some products are not 

 yet high enough to cover fair wages and overhead expenses, and thus 

 enable them to modernize their homes, their children are leaving them 

 for the higher wages and better living conditions in the cities. The 

 further lowering of prices through the farm colonizing scheme would 

 result in driving still larger numbers of present farmers to cities. 



"Fifth. Since unionized labor and unionized capital are using their 

 influence to drive the government to this course to bankrupt the farmer 

 through low prices, it is the duty of organized farmers to defend them- 

 selves by a counter influence on our common government. They should 

 induce it to finance and place the soldiers in city labor, business and 

 professions where wages and profits are far in excess of those of the 

 farmers and where living conditions will be more satisfactory to them. 



"With this object in view, I hope the officials of farm organizations 

 will take up this matter with the proper government officials and Con- 

 gress. 



W. H. KERB. 



Great Bend, Kansas, Dec. 20, 1918." 



"WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Louis F. Post, Assistant Secretary of La- 

 bor, and William Kent, member of the Tariff Commission, urged the 

 House Committee on Labor today to act promptly on a bill by Repre- 

 sentative Kelley, of Pennsylvania, appropriating $500,000,000 for the 

 reclamation and occupation by returned soldiers of 215,000,000 acres 

 of land now idle. The bill embodies the general recommendations of 

 Secretary Lane, except as to the amount and the method of expendi- 

 ture. Mr. Post said the labor situation in this country was becoming 

 extremely critical, and that unless something is done quickly dis- 

 charged soldiers would be forced to stand in bread lines." 



Organizations of farmers should counter this half billion- 

 dollar proposition with a demand on. Congress to appropriate 

 ten billion dollars to build and equip and man with soldiers 

 and idle laborers factories to produce clothing, lumber, im- 

 plements, coal, etc., at cost, for the farmers and consumers 

 generally. The wheat growers' union would have representa- 

 tives in Congress to do such things. 



Union Labor Plans Political Control. 



Union labor is fast learning the advantages of owning 

 public officials, Legislatures, Congress and the courts through 



