Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-12-05

it is warfare for shorter hours, the
time is not far distant when the six
hour day will be the basis of days
work and pay in the cities. When
that time comes still more boys and
farm labor will be attracted to the
cities, and MI. Farmer will have to
work ~ and Is hours each day to
f>ai the world, and it must be fed.
| believe that the crying need in
the labor world today is for greater
efficiency and more production. We
ere calling to the farmer from every
hilltop and through every farm paper
to speed up the production of farm
crops, SO that the world may be
spared the suffering of hunger and
famine. Let organized labor speed up
It's production by longer hours and
more efficiency, so that some of its
workers may be released to go back
TO farms and give farmers an oppor-
iunity Of enjoying little much
needed leisure.
Fair-mindcd men must admit the
gross injustice Of AN industrial
arrangement that is so much out of
balance that one large class of peo-
pie must work from Ia to III hours
Il
six or eight.
Much has been said about the in
creased farm production made posS-
bly, by improved machinery. Who
In; received the benefit of the short
~ hours now required to farm AN
acre Of land with improved mac him
"ry? Not the farmer. Just so soon
rs Il new invention Of farm machin
h.,,. s,,In I.
my il possible for the farmer to do
his work in less time, the labor unions
have cut their days work little o.
increased their pay, and thus at
iractcd more labor to the city, leav-
ing the farmer to work on from sun
20 sun, so that he may producf'
'nough to pay his taxes, and interest
and keep his family provided with
rated talk has been heard of late be-
cause the farmer made Il little money
during the war. He has made good
money during the last year or two
but no more than he was entitled to,
and perhaps no more than enough to
balance The losses that he is apt ia
suffer in the next year or two. How
has he made the extra money that
ON the Job l6 hours a day and work
ing harder than he ever worked be-
fore. If the labor unions has stuck Ia
the lob the same number of hours
and done the same amount of efficient
work, their opportunity of saving
would have been far greater than
that of farmers. AS it is the laborer
in the mines, on the railroads and in
nt h.r al mi hnI Lnl
tunity Of saving more money for the
work done that the average farmer
If he had adopted the same standard
Of living and thrift. The average
coamincr or steel worker has moth
ing invested in the industry for which
he works, and takes but little in
terest in its success, often being n
most Indifferent worker. That which
he earns, above the necessities of
life, is too often wasted i'm mere
pleasure. or, if he be thrifty, his
saving are too often sent to some
foreign land that he holds more dear
to his heart than America.
What labor needs is to inject into
itself a big dose Of ambition and get
busy and deliver Il good old-fashioned
hard days work viii that efficiency
W." No'''N iiOlu iiOIleSt cllucslNOG
Strife between capital and labor will
go; strikes and boycotts will he tn,
weapons Of labor and shorter hours
and higher wages will be it's spoils
Financial and price controls will h.
the armor Of capital and greater
rroiita will be its victory. Togethe,
will they such the lifcblood out oil
'gricutrrc with whi,h to make flint,
for their arrows, and together vii
they pass the har,lships Of decrease
production and increased prices ant
the resulting Inconvenience on to
farmers and the general public, unit
such tin" as the farmer. through m
efficient organization of his own, IN.
sel'ishly led. can stage little strik,
III his own behalf. Only through or.
ganizcd agriculture will capital ans
labor ever be brought to their sense.
and to their knees, and be compell
ed to give farmers IL lust reward ant
place in the economic world. Farm
crs mus: make haste and perfect ;
national organization, so that the,
may iipht union labor with its ow,
fire.-COUNTY AGENT, Rocking
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