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The Great Farmers Strike and a Rural School Reform
Herbert Quick argues a farm labor strike could starve enemies like the Kaiser and urges rural education reform. He cites Wright County Iowa’s Benson and Miss Jessie Field, showing ruralized schooling boosts farming pride and cuts urban drift, proposing nationwide vocational rural schools to end the long farmers strike.
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