The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 31, 1917, Page 10

Know a Good Thing When They See It Railroad Men Think League Membership Fee a “Snap” ' After Paying Union Dues for Years BY RIP, THE REPORTER Deer Mistur Editur— I am havin’ quite a time ridin' 'round with a Nonparteshun Leeg organizeer theze daze an’ ef I keep it up much longer I'll be a Nonparteshun Leeg booster az shore az shootin.’ I've bin around quite a bit in mi life an’ I never did heer a subjeck discussed in which the argymints wuz az much wunsided az thay air on this subjeck. Why, most enny horny-handed, dusty- muzzled, stubby-whiskered, tiller uv the soil can climb offen hiz plow an’ out argufy all the slick-tongued, legal- languaged, hifullutin’ lawyers an’ poli- tishuns you can hurd on a quarter sec- tion. Iv'ry Leeg farmer that I've seed iz always loaded plum full an' the lead stickin’ out at the muzzel uv hiz gun. Jist let a lawyer, a politishun or a backslidin' farmer take wun crack at him an' he begins to fire away and never stops shootin’ argymints into him az long as the feller's in site. An' the best uv it iz that he puts up argy- mints that none uv the smart guys that I've seen can ansur. All they can do iz begin to call peeple naims an’ abuze the leeders uv the Leeg an’' then it usually gits onhelthy in them parts an’' Mistur Smarty hastily retreets to more congenal atmusfear. RIP’'S NEUTRALITY WAVERS Persunally, az you know, Mistur Editur, T have bin tryin’ to be nutral on this gquestion but az the conflict goze on I am more an’ more konvinced that it's only a matter uv time till I'll sever dyplomatick relations an' wate fur the overt act. At present, how- sumever, I'm still follerin' the policy uv watchful waitin’. But it's hard fur a man that luves a scrap like I do to hold hisself in much longer an’ so, don't “I'll be dingfuzzled if I'll be a piker—gimme that pencil.” made out his check, and then started in to boost. be supprized ef you heer enny day that I've got a secokon-handed fliver an’ gone into the organizin’ bizness miself. Now, jist the uther day I wuz out with an organizeer agin an’ we wuz out in the southeastern part of Burly county an’' had bin puttin’ 'em on at the rate uv two to three per hour all day. Along about three p. m.-a live booster tole us about a couple uv young fellers that had bought a place just ADVERTISEMENTS —that his depreciation is 15 per cent per annum? i = —that the average life of a good tractor made like the C. O. D. is 11 vears if properly handled with but 10 per cent depreciation per annum? and —that the C. O. D. can do about everything on your farm that you wish it to do at a very small cost? > The C. O. 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He wuz anxious to have us go over an' git them to jine the Leeg so we drove over thar in about ‘a jiffy an’ a half or maybe two jiffys. ' We found the young fellers out brakin' sod fur flax. Az sune as I lamped 'em an’ give 'em the wunce over, az it"wur, I sed to miself, sez I' “Now rite here's whur we git stung, good an' plenty. Them kids iz too young to be inturrested in thi$ kind uv bizness an’ besides thay've jist started farmin’ an'‘have got it into thur heds that thay're' goin’ to git rich an’ buy out Robafeller the furst yeer.” Bi the time I had run that thru mi mind the organizeer had got outen the car an’ inturduced hisself to ’'em an’ turned an’ inturduced ’em to me. Then I leened back in the fliver an' waited fur results. The organizer maid a fu comments on the weather, on the crops an’ ast ’em how long thay had bin thar. Thay tole him thay had jist got moved on— that thay wuz sorter campin’ out till thay got thur crop in an’ that thay wuz wurkin’ almost day an’ nite. “Well,” sed the organizer, “I'm repersentin’ the Nonparteshun Leeg an’ " “O! iz that so,” thay both exclaimed at wunce. “Shake agin!” thay sed, reechin’ fur hiz han’. WHY WAIT TO BE ORGANIZED? “Then I spoze you've heerd uv that organizashun,” sed the organizeer. ‘“We shorely have, we shorely have,” thay exclaimed in chorus. “Not only have we heerd about it but we've jined it.” “Jined it!” exclaimed the organizeer, noncomplussed an’ discumfitted, az it wur. “When did you jine an’ what organizeer haz bin here to onroll you?” “0O, we jined by ourselves—we jist voluntarily sent in our sixteen dollars each az sune az we bought this farm.” “Amazement stood up all over that organizeer’'s = fase like bristles on a razor-backed hog's back while I wuz rasin’ up the side curtains an’ gaspin’ fur breth. Before the organizeer cud git hiz equilibrium back wun uv the fellers went on, az follers, to-wit, viz: “You see we've bin wurkin’ fur the ralerode cumpany an’ while we wuz wurkin’ fur it we wuzzent farmers an’ tharefore cudn’t jine the farmers’ or- ganizashun, but we belonged to the ralerode men’s organizashun an’ pade our dews in it. But jist az sune az we bought this farm an’ becum farmers then we felt it our dutys to jine the Leeg, so we sot rite down the next day an’ sent in our applicashuns an’ our sixteen bucks each an’ here we air? i %, “Well I'll be dadblizzarded!” I ex- claimed under mi breth, “ef that don’t extract the delapidated linnen frum off the stunted shrubbry,” which iz an aristicratick way uv sayin’ ‘ef that don’t take the rag offen the bush, az you mite know, Mistur Editur. All this time the arganizeer wuz con- gratulatin’ ’em on thur inturrest in the farmers’ organizashun an’ tellin’ ’em uv the suckcess uv the wurk. ORGANIZED LABOR SEES POINT “0, we know the principul uv organ- izashun,” sed wun uv 'em. “We lurned that in our ralerode organizashun. Jist ses what a fite the ralerode boys able to put up when thay ast fur munny an’ sum members 8-hour day. Ef thay had not bin or- ganized the ralerode owners wud have tole 'em to go soke thur heds an’ the governmint wudn’t have pade no more attenshun to them than thay do to a section man who kicks on hiz long hours and little pay. But we not only had a organizashun, but we had munny to fite with. Fur yeers an’ yeers the boys had bin payin’ thur $25 a yeer an’ this had accumulated a fund uv Steen millun dollars in our national organi- zashun. With a fund like that we cud made a hard fite an’ thay node it. It took & long time to git that much have bin payin' in thur dews all thur lives. If we didn’t git results wun yeer we jist kept rite on payin' dews an’' gittin’ more members. An’ jist think,” he concluded, “we pade $25 a year. Why this farmers' organizashun is a snap— only $§8 a yeer! An’ look what it's dun, too. Jist look! Nuthin’ like it in the wurld!” The organizer went around to crank up hiz fliver an’ wun uv the fellers sed, sez he: “Rite over on this next farm iz a feller that I wish you'd git. I wuz talkin’ to him tuther day but he didn't seam to think much uv it.. I didn't have much time to talk or I'd atole him a fu things. Go over an’ see him.” The organizeer ast him why he cudn’t go along an’ help put him on, an’ he jumped at the proposition quicker'n scat. The uther wun stade to do the plowin’ an’ we lit out. We found the feller out bi the rode fillin' up hiz seeder with Feed D wheat. Az sune as the preliminaries wuz over the young feller tole our bizness. AT FIRST HE WOULDN'T “Well, you're jist wastin' your time with me,” he sed, pickin' up the lines an’ fixin® to drive off. “Now jist hole on a minnit. We've got sumthin to tell you,” sed the young feller. “Well, I haint got no time to listen,” sed the farmer, “I've got to raize a big crop uv wheat.” . “Yes, you'll raize a big crop uv wheat an’ you'll maybe git $2 a bushel fur it and the speculator'll git four dollars an’ you'll pay five dollars a sack fur the flour you buy back.” “This organizashun,” sed the organ- izeer, “iz goin’ to see to it that you git a price for your wheat in propor- shun to what the consumer haz to pay. We're going to put the middlemen outen the game an’ then you'll git a higher price fur your wheat and the consumer will pay a lower price fur hiz flour.” “Well,” sed the farmer, sorter hemin® an’ hawin’, “ef it's goin’ to do all that it'll do it jist az well without me az it will with me, so why shud I jine?” Then the big artilery turned loose wn’ the brestwurks begin to fly. “You're willin’ to git the high prices fur your produce, you're willin’ to have the wurk dun an’ the fite maid, but you're not willin’ to do your part, iz that it?" - ast the young feller, heatedly. “Do you know what you air?” he went on lookin’ the farmer strate in the i. “You're a ‘scab’.” That's what we call a feller that wurks on the ralerode that won't jine the union. A feller that wurks on the ralerode ‘an’ won't jine the union sune finds hisself outen a Job. Ev'ry union man maiks it his bizness to give him the cold shoulder. It’s the saim way in big bizness.: The little feller that won’t cum into the trust iz sune put outen the gamae. That’s whur we lurned it—from big bizness. We're follern’ thur tackticks. “We've got to do it to exist an’ hold our own.” The farmer begin to scratch hiz hed an’ look sheepish. THEN HE DID The organizeer had took a bunch uv township plats outen hiz pocket an’ stepped up to the farmer. “Now lookey here,” he sed, turnin’ over sheet, after sheet. ‘“Theze air the townships in this county. The naims that air checked off with a red pencil air the wuns that have jined. Now here's your township. Ev'ry man’s naim iz on the list but your'n. All the rest uy ’em have jined—even theze two boys ' that jist bought thur farm two weeks ago. Thay sent in thur dews without the organizeer comin’ ‘round. Thay’'re willin’ to co-operate with all the rest uv the farmers in tryin’ to better the farmer’s condition.” ; The farmer wuz gittin’ mighty in- turrested by this time. He turned back to hiz own township plat an’ red each naim carefully. “Yes, you've got 'em all but me, al< "