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Show Till: KUtMKIi WILL TURN. Farmers are wondering why they should work 12 to 16 hours a day to keep up production and keep down prices tor those who seek a six hour day and penalize the man who produces pro-duces more than a minimum? Why should one class be worked to death to make up for organized slakers who use 'be political club to get shorter and shorter hours and more inefficiency in the uervice rendered rend-ered ? ' With the coal strike, the longshoreman long-shoreman strike, the railroad 3trike, and police strike, the idea of a farmers farm-ers strike is growing. Why should the farmer alouo hustle and slave for long hours? The farmer can live without the city dominated labor conditions, ;he constant strife and clubbin.g of industries, in-dustries, and the demand that he unite his fortunes with organized labor. He may not live as well but he will live better than the multitudes multi-tudes of city dwellers. The revolutions of the past have proceeded from the downtrodden peasants and tenants never from the land owning class. . The revolutionary revolu-tionary tendency in our country comes from the agitator, and socialist social-ist politician class who fight to - reduce re-duce production and paralyze industry. in-dustry. . . . '' The indications are that the farmer farm-er will reject advances to unite his politicial and industrial fortunes with theirs and when it comes to the general strike to force a division of property as advocated by radical . agitators, agi-tators, the farmer will light socialism. social-ism. He will not toil 18 hours to feed the 6-hour slackers. |