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Show i - FARMERS SIDE WlfH EMPLOYERS - (Whon It cornea to promoting soclnl-ltslc soclnl-ltslc schemes for tho "proletariat" tho farmer Jumps onto the sldo of tho capitalist and employers. j ' Tho bolshovlBtlp program !a based on sotting tho Jarmgr Into bed Wltb tho labor agitator and then thcro Iv a ripping ot the sheets. In tho great national conferenco of labor and capital tho farm delegates aro causing a heap of trouble by not being willing to swallow tho socialist program. Tho farmer contingent, long counted on as naturally allied with labor, seems Inclined to side with the employers. Thoie are only threo representatives representa-tives of tho fanners In tho confeienco nnd they ar a thorn In th side of ev orybody, Including tho national administration. ad-ministration. "How do you farmers stand on tho eight! hour day?" some one asked Charles S. Barrett of deorgla member mem-ber of the farmer group. I "Why, we're the people who Invented In-vented It" answoiod Mr. Barrett. I "Wo have it alieady oight hours beforo noon . nnd eight hours nfter noon." Tho farmers aro officially Identified Identi-fied with tho employers group hut they are making life uncomfoitablo for all groups by constant Insistence that tho farmer: has been Ignored by the government and trampled on b. organized labdr. |