The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 9, 1918, Page 11

.’Pohnd Cl;!nu— : 4 Biuu and I:M ADVERTISEMENTS Help make the Equity Co-Operative Exchange the largest selling agency for live stock on the Chl- ; cago market. : This is a bona fide farmers’ ' organization with over eleven thou-- sand stockholders, and a paid-up capital stock ‘of over $450,000.00. If you have live stock to shxp write for free market Ietter. If interested in organ- izing a real ‘co-operative ship-: ping -association, write for free by-laws. - If you have' cattle, sheep or hogs to market, and want full value for them, consign them to the Equity Co-Operative. Exchange Union Stock Yards, CHICAGO, ILL. We'll Stick—We'll Win. You Are Surely Entltled to the Full Market Value for Your Livestock If you do not get it, somebody else gets the benefit you should have. The day is passed when business is done on senti- ment, and only results in dollars and cents count. We want you to compare the Te- sults in dollars and cents we get . for yom with those received else- where. - A comparison will convince you that “Kirk Service” gets you the most money for your livestock. J. R. Kirk Commission Co., Inc. South St. Paul, Minn. Authorized Sales Agency of the ® American Society of Equity MONEY TALKS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE LAST CENT. Our salesmen will get it for you if you ship your live stock to The Independent Commission Co. So. St. Paul, Minn. Chicago, Il SHIP YOUR CRE AM ‘v Live l’onltry.’Drefi"an. Eggs, Beans ~H. A. ERTZ Alwa pay. highest’ prices : Checks dnily. ”ertz for price list and’ tags. St. Paul, Minn. 'Eurkeys, Chickens, Gme and Ducks No Commission Charged. License No. G-19453. We bank wiih tha mt and Security National Bank.. | G RKET HOUSE 705-700 mum-. opt. 6., . -Minneapolis; Minn, - ELM DRlVE FARM “tions. RSE.SMSL." Fa arm Records and Price-Fixing : Data on Production Costs Valuable for Fair Price- Fixing and Regulation S THE present price of wheat fair? - Does it cover the cost of produc- tion? There was a warm debate in congress the other day on these ques- A . government expert pub- lished : figures proving that it cost many farmers more than $2.20 a bushel to raise wheat. The secretary of agriculture immediately fired him and congress asked the secretary what .he knew about the cost of raising Secretary Houston admitted . wheat. “that the department of agriculture is without definite information on the cost of growing wheat and that as yet it has no practlcable machinery for obtaining this da Yet the department of agriculture furnished the price-fixing committee which finally set the $2.20 price with figures on cost of production which made $1.85 per bushel a good liberal price. They didn’t tell the committee that these figures were indefinite and undependable and if Doctor Ladd hadn’t been there with other figures $1.85 instead of $2.20 would have been the price set by the committee. Doctor Ladd didn’t get his figures from any department of agriculture. He got them from farms, such as the Cloverlea Farm in North Dakota. This is a farm run by a manager for other people, and the manager keeps books. Doctor Ladd couldn’t get fig- ures from the average farmer, for the average farmer has no figures—he doesn’t keep books. Of course the figures from the Cloverlea Farm gave the cost of production from a farm where, because of plenty of money and equipment and good management, pro- duction is most advantageously car- ried on and costs are lower than-they might be with the average small farmer. The farmer with high production _your production costs? costs didn’t get a hearing, because no- body could tell what it cost him to raise a bushel of wheat. He himself didn’t know. What do you know about How do you expect to put up a fight for a fair price unless you do know? We can’t talk generalities. We must have facts and figures. We can’t argue and prove our contentions on guess work. We must be able to prove our statements with actual figures. This is true concerning everything a farmer raises as well as concerning wheat. We must have figures on all field crops,’ dairy products, fruit, livestock, all farm products, if we are going to fight intelligently. In order to get these facts the edu- .cational department of the Nonparti- san league has a special proposition to make to a limited number of League farmers. It wants volunteers who will help get this data together. It wants a few farmers from each state of the wideawake, “we’ll stick” kind who will go through with the proposi- tion. The plan which the educational department has to propose will, while it costs little in time and expense, mean money saved to the farmer and the facts necessary to put up a real fight for a square deal in price-fixing. Those who are'interested should fill .out the following coupon and send it in: The Naticnal Nonpartisan League, Educational - Department, St. Paul, Minn. Please- send me full partxculars of your proposition on “production costs.” I want to help furnish the ammunition to fight the special interests. - Name $ecsecersceecsseccsssecoossee Address ccecseccsccnssssenscssseses Mob Outrage at Kent, Wash. League and Labor Organizer Brutally Attacked by Well- Dressed Mob Leaders—Prosecutions Planned NION labor of Seattle, Wash., and the Washing- ton Grange are prepar- ing to start prosecutions: against members of a mob at Kent, Wash., who November 7 attacked M. F. Mayhew, a Nonpartisan league organizer, and drove him out of Kent. Kent is a small town about 15 miles south of Seattle. The big local indus- try is a plant owned by the Carnation Milk company, the so-called “milk trust,” which controls the condensed milk situation in the Pacific North- west.” For years the company has been operated as an open-shop or anti- union concern. It has fought every: attempt to organize its employes so that they might secure befter living conditions ‘and ' décent- wages. + Simi- larly it-has fought:smaller independ- * ent condenseries. which -have ' offered better prices for: farmers’ milk. Its .influence at the’ state legislature of . Washington has been considerable and it has used this influence to fixarbi- trary. standards for condensed milk which the trust could meet but which could not be reached by independent operators. - Naturally the trust has been opposed to organization of farm- ers which threatened to get them a better price for their milk.. = milk trust has succeeded in ‘organizing ‘the Kent Commercial club to'its own satisfaction; and the commercial club has been against the workers: in at- = A’ the largest mdustry in Kent, the" been able te elect mayors and other officials friendly to its interests. Mayhew, a resident of Kent for some time, has been active in the in- terests of the farmers of Washington before he became an organizer for the Nonpartisan league. In 1916 he led a’ fight of the farmers for a fair price for milk, succeeding in getting an ad- vance of 40 cents per 100 pounds. DISPLEASED THE INFPERESTS . He also was interested in seeing labor get a square deal and helped or- ganize employes of the condensery at Kent into a union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. This resulted in a long fight. ' The company and its products: were placed on the " $unfair? list throughout the United 3 States, but today the employesare re- ceiving . approximately - double . the ‘wages paid when the fight started. Naturally these activities' did not endear Mayhew to the milk trust. On the day of the assault Mayhew came to Kent with a bundle of papers published by Seattle labor unions. was in the office ‘of Justice of Peace - Greenleaf of Kent when a mob ‘was notlced forming outside. “In' defiance of the :bone-dry law, liquor was being passed out.-among members of the mob, Mayhew says. 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