Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1919-11-21
ATTEND THE TOBACCO
GROWERS MEETING.

llce OF u llOhSbtA AoDoS~S
ers' meeting, to be held in this
town on Friday, December 9TH.
The purport of this meeting is to
bring the tobacco growers in
closer union and to point out
clearly to those who do not I'M
derstand what the Association
means to the tobacco growers in
this section Of our State. There
are some farmers who have not
Joined the Association for one
reason or another, though we
must confess, we fail to under
stand why any farmer should be
lageard in this movement, which
is for his own benefit. We fail
to understand why man will re-
fuse or neglect to perform, or do
any act in his life, particularly
along business lines, that means
advancement and progress for
not only others, but particularly
himself and those around his
Preside.
In the not far distant past
capital became so INSCRIPTIONS
towards the laboring man
throughout the country through
small wages and long hours that
the laboring man finally began
to realize that he must do some
thing to protect himselfand thus
the laboring man began to and
did organize until today, when
we have labor unions in almost
every ayocation in life. These
organizations among the laboring
men we're formed for self protec-
ton and preservation. The Ia
boring men, uniting throughout
the country, have thus brought
about favorable results and today
they are able to live better and
enjoy a happier and more whole
some life. Through organization
they have obtained higher wages,
shorter hours and other things
that make life more worth the
while. Anyone who reads the
daily papers can readily appre-
ciate what organization among
laboring men has meant to them.
OF course these organizations are
going too far when they resort to
strikes and the like without sense
or reason, as the coal miners have
been doing and as the steel work
ers did, and their action, without
sense or reason, of course, must
and will be met by the Govern
ment if order and democracy is
to prevail in our country, but
what we want to point out to the
farmers is that they can effect
results frem organization just as
the labor unions throughout the
country have done for them
selves. Farmers cannot expect
to maintain the healthy and ade-
.quate markets that they have en-
joyed during the war unless they
unite and force the tobacco buy
ers to pay a decent and fair price
for their commodity. The farm
ers must unite and organize if
they are to maintain stable mar
kets for their tobacco 0rgani-
cation is the only means that the
laboring man could find to get
justice and organization is the
only way farmers can get justice
in fair and adequate pricss for
their tobacco.
We urge every farmer in the
county, white and colored, to at
tend this meeting, whether he
has joined the Tobacco Growers
Association, or not, because
every phase of the tobacco situa-
ton will be discussed, and the
success thus far accomplished by
the Association since organize
tion, plainly demonstrated. We
urge particularly those who have
not joined the Association to at
tend this meeting in order that
they might understand fully and
clearly the object and purposes
of the organization and what it is
intended to accomplish. Weurge
them for the further reason that
they will have the opportunity of
stating their reasons for not
joining the Association. and be
shown the fallacy and fooIishness
of their position in this impor-
tant matter. We sincerely trust
that each farmer of this county
will be mindful of his duty to
himself, those around his Preside
and the prople of his county as
well, which means joining the As.
sociation in order to bring about
hatta1. conditions in the tobacco