The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-02-06
PAYROLL Of
MET
BY FARMER
WANTS NO "DEADHEADS" ON
LIST OF EMPLOYEES.
A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS
TO PREVENT USELESS TAX
UPON AGRICULTURE.
BY Peter ga dford
lecturer National Farmers Union

industry ana as such he must meet |
the nations payroll When industry |
pays it's Dili it must make sight
draft upon agriculture for the amount.
I, which the farmer is compelled to
| honor without protest This check
drawn upon agriculture may travel to
and fro over the highways Of com
merce; may build cities; girile the
globe with bands of steel; may search
hidden treasures III the earth or
traverse the skies, but in the end 1t
will rest upon the soil No dollar
win remain suspended in midair; It is
as certain to seek the earth's surface
as an apple that falls from tree
When farmer buys pillow he pays
the man who mined the metal the
woodman who felled the tree, the
manufacturer who assembled the raw
material and shaped 1t into an ar
ticle of usefulness, the railroad that
Transported it and the dealer who
sold him the goods He pays the
wages Of labor and capital employed
in the transaction as well as pays
Tor the tools machinery, buildings,
etc. used in the construction OF the
commodity and the same applies to
all articles of use and diet OF him.
self and those engaged in the sub
: sidiary lines of industry
There is no payroll in civilization
that does not rest upon the BACK
OF the farmer He must pay the bills
A AL OF them
The, total value of the nation s
annual agricultural products is around
- $12 900 100000 and it is safe to esti
! mate that 95 cents on every dollar
! goes to meeting the expenses of SUB
: sidiary industries The farmer does
:. not work more than thirty minutes
per day for himself the remaining
thirteen hours of the days toll ht
devotes to meeting the payroll Of thu
hired hands Of agriculture, such al
= the manufacturer, railroad CONNER
cial and other servants
i The Farmers Payroll and How II
- Meets 1t.
20 The annual payroll of agricuItur
approximates Sl2,000,000,Oo0 POI
ton of the amount is shifted to fol
90 eign countries IN exports. but tn
III. total payroll of industries working TO
ed the farmer divides substantially a
follows Railroads, $l,2520oo,00O
manufacturers, S4,365 100000; mininl
..-- $685. 100000; banks, $200.O00,00o
mercantile $3,5o0,000, 600, and heav
miscellaneous payroll constitutes til
M remainder
81, It takes the corn crop. the mos
valuable in agriculture, which sol
lty last year for 1882, 100000, to pay Q
the employees of the railroads; tn
money derived from our annual salt
45 of livestock of approximately $4,000
100000 the yearly cotton crop, value
'91 at $4,000 000 the wheat GRO
which is worth $610.000o00, and Il
oat crop, that is worth $4400o0,e0
.36 are required to meet the annual pa
), roll of the manufacturers. III
n.y. money derived from the remainir
axe staple crops is used in meeting Il
payroll of the bankers, merchant
etc. After these obligations are pal
the farmer has only few punches
vegetables. some fruit and poult
!, .. which he can sell and call the pl
ceeds his own.
y of Wheh the laiue pays -, nis =
he has very little left and to ne
these tremendous payrolls he
been forced to mortgage homes. wo
Q 81 women in the field and increase
hours OF his labor. We are. the
q 54 fore compelled to call upon all
- dustries dependent upon the farmt
,211 for subsistence to retrench in tn
expenditures and to cut off all
necessary expenses This course
I716 absolutely necessary in order to av,
a reduction in wages, and we wa
4.95 II possible, to retain the present we
v scale paid railroad and all other
'tary dustrial employees
CITY, We will devote this article to
discussion of unnecessary expen
I. and whether required by law or
-. mitted by the arrangements OF
concerns, is wholly imlnaterlal
want all waste labor and extra
nett gance, of whatever character cut
We will mention the full crew Dill
~ ~ illustrating the character OF unnet
sary expenses to which we refer.
Union opposes Full Crew" Bill
The Texas Farmers Union re
os.oi tered it's opposition to this chara'
- of legislation at the last annual M
ing held in Fort Worth, Tex, Aus
100 7K 4, 1914, by resolution, which we gu
as follows:
The matter of prime importa
oa7 tx to the farmers OF this state is an
quate and efficient marketing syst
s11 90 and we recognize that such sys
rs is impossible without adequate
retaryl road facilities, embracing the grea
amount of service at the least
81. sible cost We further recognize