The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 30, 1919, Page 11

¢ The Farmer and the Farmhand = What the Nonpartisan League Means to the Hired Worker on the Land—An Answer to a Correspondent g HE Nonpartisan Leader is in receipt of the follow- ing letter from an Iowa farm worker. and one of the leaders in a new ; : move to organize a union of farmhands. This new move should interest readers of the Leader both as employers and as members of an or- ganization for better economic condi- tions on the farm. The letter: = s “Newton, Iowa. “Editor Nonpartisan Leader: 3 “Reading some of your papers and being interested in my family’s wel- fare, I would like to find out as a farm - laborer just what benefit the average married farmhand Will receive from the Nonpartisan league. “We are talking union very strongly in: Towa at present, and there is a league or brotherhood of farm labor- ers that we could affiliate with. “I will give the reasons for organ- - izing briefly: : “l. Too much labor and too long hours for the pay received. “2. No holidays, legal or otherwise. “3. Inexperienced men receive as much ag experienced hands. . “4. No means of pleasure or travel furnished or kept. “b. Farmers’ alliance organizing to cut wages. “Unless something is done soon, . there will be no farm labor in this part of the world, at least. I will briefly state the demands of our embryo or- ganization and ask you to answer, preferably through the columns of your paper, if you consider them ex- ‘cessive: FARMHANDS’ DEMANDS OUTLINED BY WRITER “For Married Help.—A minimum wage of $560 a month, with 12 hours labor, including chores, longer hours to be. paid for at time and a half. House and garden spot, cow and chick- ens_enough to furnish milk and eggs for the family; 400 pounds of meat a year, or equivalent to the extras to be paid in cashat double wages. A means . 'furnished for a man to take his fam- ily ‘out ‘on Sundays or holidays. Two Sundays. a month off. All legal holi- days off, ‘or, if rushed, another day off: in" duller’ times. < “For- Single Men.—A minimum wage of $40 a month, with 12 hours a day “labor, including chores; horse kept or furnished; board and laundry furnished. % ‘'“Inexperienced men to receive $10 ‘less per month” while serving an ap- prenticeship of two years. ! “ROY PHILLIPS, - “Acting - Secretary Jasper Coun Farmhands’ ‘Association.” = . The Leader first of all” wishes to " point out one act that has been passed in North Dakota by the League legis- 2 lature ' and which should be of more ‘‘than a little benefit for the farmhands ‘of-the state. This is the home build- ‘ ers’ law,.which places'the help of thé state at the hands-of any person who ““wishes to purchase a farm or a home. ‘"The’ “state ‘requires only that the purchaser advance 20 per cent of the necessary money. : In another, but more indirect man- ‘ner, the Nonpartisan league will help the farmhand by helping the farmer. Tt is ‘the aim of the League to obtain for the farmer a fairer proportion of what his product brings on the market. * “If farmhands now are underpaid, it is - principally” because the farmers, too, ‘are underpaid. ‘When the owner of a farm is fairly paid, the ‘farmhands, too, will be better paid for this labor. 7= As for the aims of the farm labor .. organization, the Leader indorses the " 'plan - of organizing the farm workers |- for co-operation with the farmer to better conditions on the farm. ‘The task of building up an organization of farm workers is a difficult one, but no more difficult than that undertaken by the farmers who started the Non- partisan league. The embryo organization in Iowa, it ' may be said in passing, may rest as- sured that when the farm workers’ as- sociation becomes a national fact, it will find the farmers of the Nonpar- tisan league the first to recognize the union, and work with ‘it for better labor conditions on the farm. The question of whether the de- mands of Mr. Phillips’ organization are fair depends for its answer largely upon another question—whether_they will allow the employer to operate at a fair profit or force him to accept a loss at the end of the season.—THE EDITOR. GOLDSMITH WAS IRISH ‘Acequia, Idaho. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: i In the June 2 issue of the Leader, you printed a quotation from Gold- smith’s “Deserted Village” and in an explanatory note you said that the author was an “English poet.” Permit me to call your attention to the fact that Goldsmith was not English—he was an Irishman, born at Pallas, Coun- ty Longford, Ireland. P. O'ROURKE. The Leader confesses its error in classifying Oliver Goldsmith. Gold- smith was an Irish boy and received most of his education in Ireland, ex- cept his medical education, which he received at Leyden and other places on the continent of Europe. However, all his literary life was spent in London, where he was a close friend of Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and Sir Joshua Reynolds, the noted painter.— THE EDITOR. Aristocracy is always cruel. —PHIL- LIPS. ~__ADVERTISEMENTS CABBAGE WORM The green cabbage worm eats the leaves of cabbages, c¢auliflowers, tur- nips and other plants of the same family. Poisoning is the best methoc of control.” Of the lead arsenate paste use three pounds to 50 gallons of wa- ter; of the dry lead arsenate one and one-half pounds to 50 gallons of wa- ter, or of paris green one-half pound to 50 gallons of water. If soap (three or four bars) is dissolved in these mixtures they will stick to the leaves better. There is no danger of poison- ing from eating cabbage treated with these poisons. ‘The cabbage head grows from ° within. Cauliflower should not be sprayed after the heads begin to form. For a small quantity use one-half ounce of the powdered lead arsenate to a gallon of water and soap the size of a walnut. The cabbage worm is a little over an inch long, has a velvety green ap- pearance and is a voracious feeder. The moth that lays the eggs from which it develops is white, with black spots- on the wings, which have a spread of about two inches: HE accumulated manufacturing experience of over three-quarters of a century—and the judgment of ; over .20,000 Ideal owners— is back of the new, small 22 x 36 Ideal Thresher. You know the record and reputation of the larger sizes of the Ideal —there’s no farming community that hasn't its Ideal outfits with gheir satisfied customers, When we were called upon to build a smaller size separator, we didn't just “turn one out”—we built along the same lines as the Ideal, determined that our small threshers would be leaders in their class just as are the larger. So in the small as_well as the larger Ideals you will find those features that mean 'the difference between a’ “sure” and a “guesswork” job. Ideal thresher owners will tell you that. 2 '~ Bunching, or cylinder winding is unknown in the Ideal—because the Ideal is designed on the principle of a steady, even flow of straw through the machine from .the time it enters the cylinder until, free from all grain, it leaves thrdu_gh the stacker. First of all, we placed the Ideal grates exactly right in " relation to the cylinder.. Then we designed the Ideal trav- elling slatted rake to take the straw from the cylinder and carry it to. the straw rack. Result—more grate surface and - @ steady even flow of straw, making choking impossible, Ideal catalog. ; ; 55 The guaran teed _' ADVANCE-RUMELY THRESHER CO., Inc.) ol sy La Porte, Indiana 1 QOilPull Tractor is Minneapolis, Minn. Y 50 " built in sizes to fit ' tothe custom thresher. Shaking alone. wasn't a guarantee of complete separae tion, so we put sets of lifting fingers on the straw rack, ° that tear the straw open—rake it—beat it from beneath. Result—complete separation and no waste. Then, to take care of the increased capacity due to these inventions and to make thé Ideal do a perfect job of clean-"" ing, we put in extra chaffer area. The chaffer in the clean- ing shoe, with the adjustable sieve and our special system of wind control, guarantee a perfect job of cleaning with- out waste. Result—the kind of.cleaning that gets “no dockage” at the elevator. Such construction shows why the small 22 x 36 will handle up to 900 bushels of wheat in a day’s run—, the 28 x 44 up to 1,500 bushels. The Ideal is built in four sizes—22 x 36, 28 x 44, 32 x 52 and 36 x 60—standard in design and 'construction, and meeting all needs, from . the man who owns his own power and wants - todo hisown thréshing, Write -for a special