The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 1, 1919, Page 10

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BISHOP & SON CO., Dear Mr. Bishop: " Plants and your Free Folder. 1080 Front St., Fargo, North Dakota. ; Please send me full details about your “Gate City” Electric Name TOWR' 4ivesessnssasosecascesinnesosaascnnnssassassonsoses 33 BT g e e S Ol 08 o b Mention the lude;jWhéF Writing Advertisers 2 More on the’ Fafnier and the F armhafid Writer Answers Leader Stand on Demands of Farm . Workers—The Editor’s Reply = | HE Leader is in receipt of #| the following letter in answer to another which appeared in -the Leader and the editorial com- ment made upon it. The letter has to do with the question of farm labor, which is becoming more and more a problem to the American farmer as well as to the farmhand himself. The letter: “Editor Nonpartisan Leader: “I find in a recent issue an answer to a letter regarding the farmer and the farmhand, which ends with the following sentence: “‘The question of whether the de- mands * * * are fair depends for its answer largely upon another ques- tion—whether they will allow the em- ployer to operate at a fair profit or force him to accept a loss at the end of the season.’ “I am bound to object to this state- ment. The farmer’s blanket is un- doubtedly too short for his bed, hut it is short at the other end—big business, not labor. point clear, because I believe it is the one thing that keeps the- organized farmers and the organized wage-work- ers from combining for success. Every union. workingman can see that the remedy-for his troubles lies elsewhere than in beating down the prices the farmer receives for his ecrops; but many farmers incline to the attitude of big business toward labor: ‘When profits fall off, reduce wages;’ not only in regard to his own help, but in such matters as the present railroad prob- lem.* They fail to see that the farmer who favors lowering wages to reduce prices or help profits is in exactly the same position as a laboring man who favors. forcing down the price of crops below the profit line to ease his own situation. Poor folks won’t gain by fighting each other. . 2 OWNERS AND WORKERS BOTH ARE SUFFERING “The farm workers who own the farms and those who do not are suf- fering alike under the oppression of those who farm the farmers. Both are forced to work longer hours than men should work, for insufficient pay. The Leader may justly argue that it is working to raise the whole industry to a plane of decent living and fair re- muneration. Nevertheless, it can not be stated as a matter of right and justice that a farmhand’s wages should depend on the profits of a farm, unless it is allowed that a coal mine may give the same reason for refusing a living wage to its men, or a depart- ment store for hiring girls at wages that lead to prostitution;- unless, in other words, it is maintained that labor is a commodity and that the buyer of labor is not concerned with the laborer’s existence and welfare. I am sure the Leader does not mean to advocate any such return to the dark ages.** “A man who is engaged in userul labor is entitled to a decent living and a chance in life for himself and his family. Nothing in the world can change this right; circumstance, facts, figures and arguments leave it un- touched. If he does not get it, he is wronged, cheated. The farmer who works on' his own land has this right in respect to his own labor; but when he becomes an employer he must rec- ognize that right in others, or he be- comes himself an oppressor of labor; and a small, unsuccessful oppressor is just as bad as a large, successful oppressor. “Every other right and privilege stands inferior to this one great right of human beings to live as befits hu- man beings. This is the principle, for I want to make this one . " ever? which the League is fighting, and it must not be denied. “H. H. GAGE, “Pyote, Texas.” *The Nonpartisan league since its very beginning has unalterably oppos- ed the reduction of wages of workers. The organized farmers recognize fully that the remedy for industrial condi- tions lies not in attacking another pro- ducing group but in assailing the superstructure of monopoly and prof- iteering. There is no difference in the aims of organized labor and organized farmer. Their interests lie in the same direction. 3 FAIR WAGE TO HANDS UPHELD BY FARMERS **We believe that Mr. Gage falls into an error in assuming that the Leader urged a wage based on the farmer’s profits. It did nothing of the kind. It did urge a wage. that would permit the farmer to operate at a . profit. This principle is recognized by the labor unions, whose demands are predicated, not only on the necessity for the higher wage, but of the ability of the employer to pay such a wage and continue operating. What would be the use of demanding such a wage as would force the employer -to ‘close his shop and cease paying any wage what- In addition to this, it will be noted that there was mno suggestion that the farmer opposed or the Leader favored any opposition to paying a de- cent and a living wage to the farm- hand. The Leader fully recognizes the short-sightedness of any proposal to pay the farmhand the lowest possible price for labor while assailing the same policy in greater industrial en- terprises. But it did say that the fairness of the specific demands made by the writer of the letter which ap- peared in the Leader depended upon the farmer’s ability to pay. That is a well-recognized economic principle and must obtain through force of its soundness. But the politically awak- ened farmer is just as anxious to ob- tain a square deal for the farmhand as for himself. He wants the farm- hand to live decently. ; North Dakota has taken hold of the farmhand problem in a new way. The legislators in that state, where the "League is in power, know that the way of emancipation for the farm- hand lies in making him an independ- ent farmer. For that purpose the home building association law was passed, by which the state will assist the farmhand to obtain 3 farm and a home on it. That is the most effective and broadest attempt to solve the question of the farmhand yet offered in any state in the Union.—EDITOR. FEED FOR LAMBS Ravages of thé stomach worm now . become apparent in much of the east- ern section of the United States. :To minimize them, it is well to wean the lambs rather early, and turn them on fresh pastures. This is advice from specialists of the United States de- partment of agricultire. Grain fed to weaned lambs, up to one-half pound a day, has proved prof- itable. Soy beans and cowpeas have been found the best catch crops for the purpose of providing fresh pasturage. Of the two, soy beans seems to make the best and most rapid growth. Six weeks in most cases is sufficient thme to secure a good growth of this crop. By utilizing these crops fresh pas- “tures for lambs are easily available for this most crucial period of the life of a sheep. : s : Can anybody, remember when the times were not hard and money mot: scarce ?—EMERSON. .