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THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE
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ized workers, with the result that wages were raised, grub was improved, and hours shortened. Those farmers who have had full I. W. W. crews have been highly satisfied, and many stated that from that time on they would hire none but I. W. W.

And, so it has been with the agricultural laborers since 1915. Nearly every man who is eligible throws his whole spirit into the work of organizing and agitating his fellow man and many thousands of new members are taken in every year.

The I. W. W. came as a mighty boon to the harvest workers. What they have done for themselves in the past few years is but a marker in comparison to what will be accomplished in the future. With a considerable minority of farm laborers and harvest workers, organized and educated, with the knowledge of the principles of the Industrial Unionism, the rest of the world will be asking the Industrial Workers of the World, "What are we going to have for breakfast in the morning?"