The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-03
A rhSGRACEFUL FALSEHOOD.
The Wadena Pioneer Dishon-
Ors Journalism.

The Wadena Pioneer Dishon-
Ors Journalism.
When the gang wishes to crush out
any reform organ or agency they get
some obscure fellow to publish a
defamatory article against them.
This is copied into other papers.
From that time on the denials and
the proof of falsity obtain but slight
circulation in distant sections and a
blemish is thrown over people who
are absolutely innocent, which time
can never remove. The following
article recently appeared in an issue
OF a paper called the
wADENA PIONEER.
Published at Wadena, in Wadena
County, this state:
The GREAT WEST is the name of a
Farmers Alliance and labor reform
paper being published in St. Paul.
This paper makes a great hue and
cry because farmers and working
men do not receive better pay for
their labor, but the proprietor of
The GREAT WEST does not think of
the two or three girl compositors
working in his Office who are receiv-
ing about So or 81 a week for their
services. These labor reform fellows
are most generally the persons who
pay the least wages and demand
most work.
This miserable lie has been pub
lished in other papers ofcourse, every
one OF which is naturally indignant
at us, knowing that no decent man
would publish such dirt unless it were
true.
The GREAT WEST is published by
men who have throughout their lives
paid their help better wages than the
market about them-and no man or
woman who has worked for us, either
in the Chicago publishing house, at
Glenwood, Mimi, or at St. Paul, but
has secured good pay and every cent
promptly paid, and will bear cheer
full testimony to our liberality.
We have had four young women
working in this office. One is an ap-
prentice, and has worked four or five
weeks at the trade.
Ascend who is in poor health, and
did not succeed well in "holding a
case'' on that account, had worked
at the trade for one and one-half
years-half the regular apprentice
period. She never received more than
SO a week till she worked in this of
flee. With us her wages have been
never less than So, and after the first
two weeks not less than $3.50 and
from that it went up to $685. the
GREAT WEST has been published
twelve weeks.
A third has worked at the trade
three years. She never received more
than IS week until employed in
this Office. Here she has never re-
ceived less than $3.50 and from that
up to $1,000, with extra pay at an
increased rate for all over hours.
COver hours" has occurred but
once.) A fourth worked one week at
$3.50. 1t was the highest she had re-
ceived. Then was absent for time;
came back and has since received an
average of $1.29 day.
Besides this the GREAT WEST has
given work to printers when it did
not need them-and in at least one
case advanced more money than his
"dupes" amounted to for week
and those dupes have never been
measured!
We do not claim to be millionaires
but were never yet so poor as to
grind laborer. We will put this Of
flee against any Office in the country
for pleasant work, for it's large lighted
room on ground floor, and for the
happiness and satisfaction of it's
force. There has never been a
"string" yet pasted that was not
Overmeasured.
This grievous wrong which this
slanderer has put upon us without
cause will be followed by punishment.
The old game OF the gang will get a
set back right here. Either the edi-
tor or Business Manager will go to
Wadena next week to institute pro-
ceedings against the auther. Those
who have republished that vile false
hood can do no less, in justice, than
tO n,1h1iSh a simn1o cto toroopt II, oo