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situation now? 



Well, I'd like to get a few more questions in. Getting 

 back to the beginning of your plan, there was this 

 registration. I think you also had a committee, didn't 

 you, of farmers who worked with you there? 

 I had a committee of farmers. I represented the workers, 

 and of course they weren't organized, so naturally I had 

 to be the representative. There was no such a thing as 

 organization here, and I had to be the go-between 

 between the farmers and the laborers. So I did have 

 these farmers agree that they would not cut wages, and 

 that they would not raise wages, that they would stabi- 

 lize the industry, that there would be no incident by 

 them of any kind, and no agitation and no more mention 

 of this or that or agitating within themselves, because 

 in the farmers there were some agitators too. 

 Agitators for what? 



Well, agitating on behalf of the farmer. 

 For lower wages? 



Of course; anything to break the situation, to gain con- 

 trol again. I said this to the farmers, just the same 

 as I said to the workers, that if there's one of you 



