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Why, you and I would be all that would attend the 

 meeting. The balance have to be converted to unionism 

 just as you were before they would attend a meeting to 

 unionize. They would say or think " grafter/' just as you 

 did at the beginning of this book and pay no more atten- 

 tion to it. They must first be taught to understand what the 

 minimum price system is, how it can be made the means 

 for collecting skilled labor wages and overhead expenses in 

 producing wheat, the great increase in its price in normal 

 times, the advantages to them in that increased value, also 

 their political power, and many other desirable things they 

 can secure through unionizing. 



"By George, you are right again. But how in the world 

 can they be converted to the minimum price system so they 

 will answer the call to organize? 



This little book converted you, didn't it? 



"Sure, it did." 



Well, it will convert them, too, if they only have an op- 

 portunity to read it. The first step then is to get this book 

 into the hands of millions of wheat growers, and when they 

 read it hundreds of thousands of them will begin calling for 

 the organizers just as you did. Then it will be the time to 

 provide them, and the meetings will be attended by all 

 wheat growers. Unionizing will then spread over all wheat- 

 raising States simultaneously like a spontaneous combus- 

 tion, as it should do. No wheat grower will want to be a 

 slacker, or wait to see if it will amount to anything, or let 

 his neighbors pay the expense of unionizing while he expects 

 to get the same reward without it. All will have to join the 

 union and do team work under the direction of their own 

 official national executive to get the best results. It will 

 then sweep on to victory, power, influence and control of the 

 wheat price at once, as it should do. 



"That's so. Desire must precede action. Let me tell 

 you what to do and then I'll tell you what I'll do." 



