Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1920-11-26
FARMERS ANo CITY
WORKERS AIM IDENTICAL
TO SEcuRE-INsTlcE

price : nos hieh eneush ~ ee have u sas
Is that man might IS well ieSve TIE eorn
IN The neld n u eiss ii a Il sarae as.e s.ss.
LAberers might sell hsgsn = aud 81 nss
as well as any time that shss must e0sns ~
LOT sheir high horses II they expecf sveys
| thine else and everybody else to come daNn.
ss fhsy eontinually demand. they anxl e.
rect b come down themselves. We arr tasa
that thousands are being laid on b. large
factories. We are sorry of this bat il seens
% be the oniy thing that Nsll brins item q
their senses.
The Farm Bureau has sent = news ieftef
70 several hundred papers n Sc4thsfa mi.
nois. Indiana and Kentucky tellinx q the
corn haskins situation. We hopr Il Sli
brinr in some men.--FArn Bureau Notes.
Misinformation ia the cause Of nli.
nois farmers attitude toward labor
misunderstanding caused by the dis
semiration of false statements through
the kept press.
Farmers are led TO believe ali sorts
of lies, and not having al their con.
mand press truly representative Of
the working masses, they. as matter
OF course, believe all they read
The kept press. which includes their
PRIVATELY OWNED farm press,
| prejudice the farmer agetnsf the
worker. SO that the farmer win be.
iieve the city worker is TO aiaIae for
the high cost of machinery, instesd os
lthose who are actually TO blame THIS
lis done to protect the papers advar-
tisers. as the advertisers would not
I,atronize paper that was big enough
10 tell the truth regarding the high
cost OF farm machiners.
For the city worker. the COST Of Iig-a
ing has gone up los per cent. WAGES
lave gone up S5 per cent ii the same
Length of time.
/ II is time the farmer stop lighting
labor. and joins with labor il ight.s
ling their mutual enemy s---the CRATER
| This is being dQpe here in the Twin
| Cities. where the Farm Bureau has
joined with the Federation OF lsabar in
ighting the coal CRATER III this in
stance. both farmer and city worker
are agreed that the CRATER is TO
blame, and the farmer KNOWS labor
is not causing the high price and al-
laged scarcity of coal II is the same
In everything else the farmer uses
The greed for money on the part of
the manufactures or some middleinan
is causing high prices. and IT Is these
/ grafters the farmers organizations
should get after.
Labor's fight Is the farmers fight,
The farmer cannot be prosperous II
labor does not receive enough money
with which to buy the farmers prod
nets, and the city worker cannot be
prosperous unless the farmer receives
1 'sis1lss money 20 bus the city work
ers products
Up in North Dakota the farmer and
city worker have joined hands to oust
the CRATER. and they are doing it,
Banks. elevators, newspapers, cooper
ative buying and selling societies, etc,
have been established The middle
man has been cut out. and the farmer
receives full value for his farm prod.
ucts, which are also bought by the city
man at a price less than formerly
Their newspapers tell the truth, and
an understanding heretofore unob
tainable. now exists between the ru
ralist and urbanite.
Proof that the North Dakota plan
is beneficial may be had from The fact
! that Minnesota farmers residing along
| the Dakota line haul their grain long
distances to sell it at the elevators
conducted by the farmers organiza.
tions.
Further on, we read, in the same is.
sue of the Farm Bureau Notes:
! There are those among the Farm Bureau
members who do not these benefits and
are impatient because the organization has
4 not been able to stop the decline in prices Of
produce. They do not have The least con
ception of the marketing job. They think an
| infant less than year old should be able 70
overcome giant that has grown 70 immense
size and strength and 10 do the work Of that
giant Farmers have always held back on
Organization and do not know what to ex-
pect nor how fast 10 expect it. One Of the
big Jobs and about the first ne is to learn
how to conduct the organization, Some who
have cussed the labor unions and their meth
DDS would rush in and follow those very
same methods If wiser men did not have con-
troll of things.
Another evidence of misinforma-
tion
The farmer is led to believe the prin
ciples of labor organization Is ong,
while they ares urged to organize
farmers unions. Both unions are for
the same puTDose-to secure justice
Inc clFy MOfAel, II uHuA EdA41EA, ~
powerless against organized greed, and
the farmer, if unorganized, is also
powerless against organized greed.
The farmer MUST organize if he
would secure justice, for without Or
ganization. he must bargain indiyidu-
ally, and accept whatever conditions
the much-abhorred board of trade
(for which labor has no use ether
deem fit to make, and accept what
ever price this bunch OF gamblers
fixes.
There is talk OF farmers striking TO
receive a fair price for their grain.
We don't blame them. II justice can
not be gained by any other method,
then the farmer should bring pressure
to bear through his last resort, and
refuse to produce that which he can
not sell at a profit.
Misinformation is the cause OF the
misunderstanding Of the aims OF or
ganized labor Union labor is Ior the
farmer, and The Review would ask the
Farm Bureaus TO read thoroughly Ia
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