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to establish a headquarters.”

“I don't need any clerical service,” he said, “I can write myself. I can talk. They can't read anyway. It's got to be done by telling them. I'll get around.”

He interviewed a dozen farmers and many workers. He decided that what was vital and basically wrong was the wage. What was making so much trouble, making the farmers at war with each others as well as with the wandering agricultural workers, was this great difference in wages, and the fact that wages changed overnight. The wage would be so many cents one day and the next day in the same farmer's field on the same crop the wage had dropped. The workers would settle themselves down, planning on a certain wage, and then it would change. He decided that what was needed was some stability in the wages. We all agreed to that, had for a long time agreed to that.

I've forgotten how many hundred miles he covered in his Ford car in just a few days. By the end of a week he had been all around the place. He was smart as anything. It was just as though he was moving an army in to take over. He went to the local newspaper editor's office. Those country towns in California all have a little sheet - daily or weekly. He went right to see the editor and he let everyone know through the press that General Glassford was