THE FOOD CRISIS AND AMERICANISM \*J 



added man-power, the utmost efforts of those now on 

 the farms will be inadequate. What is done, should 

 be done quickly. 



Both France and England are using Chinese labor 

 on the farms with satisfactory and astonishing results. 

 During more than ten years, it has been impossible to 

 induce either the white or the black labor to do the 

 farm work necessary to produce adequate, wholesome 

 food for all our people; hence, other laborers are in- 

 dispensable. The chief opposition to Chinese labor 

 comes from " idlers " and organized labor. Because 

 of its insistence on shortened hours, reduced output 

 and a constantly increasing wage, and strikes in the 

 presence of the enemy "industrial treason" it 

 should be estopped from protest against getting others 

 to do the absolutely necessary work which they have 

 failed or refuse to do. That mothers and babes, as 

 well as our men with the colors, should go hungry lest 

 the wage scale be not further advanced, or that days 

 of labor be increased toward a basis upon which farm- 

 ers, as well as business men and salary earners, are now 

 working, is unthinkable. To attempt to " conciliate 

 labor " by leaving out the largest class, if not a major- 

 ity, of all our manual laborers, is not making for in- 

 dustrial peace nor national prosperity. One China- 

 man added to the present force on each farm would, 

 at the end of the second year, add 25 per cent, to 40 

 per cent, to the present output, and soon increase this 

 to i oo per cent. 



