Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-08-05
WANTS TO KNOW.
Prominent English Newspaper Man
Will Help Garner Dakota's Grain.

Will Help Garner Dakota's Grain.
Minneapolis Tribune: ]. A. Black.
ledge, who, as a representative of a
London, England, daily paper, is trav.
cling through English possessions and
the United States for the purpose OF
obtaining an idea as to the possibili.
| ties of industrial examination, is in
Minneapolis for short time.
He has come to this city after hav.
ing passed through various interesting
experiences. Even now he is ready
to plunge into the Dakota harvest
fields as a common harvest "hand"
that he might by SO doing be able to
learn the real life of the American
laborer.
Mr.. Blackledge started from London
two months ago with the idea in mind
to see everything that pertained to the
industrial development of various
countries. He has traversed Canada
from the coast, west as far as Manito-
ba, and has taken a circle throughout
the United States. Nearly every
state in the union has been visited by
him and at present he Is devoting his
attention to the northwest country.
From time to time he sends back to
his home paper articles descriptive of
his travels.
Only a short time ago Mr.. Black
ledge went "haying" near Robbins
dale as a regular hand" He pro-
nounced the experiment a huge sue
cess and highly enjoyable.
Within a day or two he will go into
the thick of the Dakota harvest fields
and there, for short space Of time,
will hustle with the rank and file of
northwest harvest hands"
my purpose" said he, Gin work
ing in the fields as a common laborer
is to learn the inside life of the Ameri-
can laborer. I wish to find out what
he does, thinks, says, and what his
ambitions are. wish to compare
him with our English laborers.
while, of course, my 'haying trip
proved to be productive of hard work,
did not dislike it. I found that the
average American harvest hand is
somewhat of the shiftless order. He
earns money fast and in goodly quaint
ties. He spends it just as fast and
with little regard to the future.
! "The American la]borer is sought
for by those who have work to be done
and he is more or less an independent
man. The English laborer has to look
for his work. He is steadier and less
on the spendIthrift order than his
American cousin.
I'm America If a man Is out OF
work he does not worry for he knows
he can get it whenever he so desires,
In England if laborer is out of work
he is disagreeable man to be near
He makes life unpleasant, not only for
himself, but for those about him.
1.-THE American laborer is ever
ready to pick up his traps and travel
a thousand miles or So The English
laborer thinks a twenty-1nile trip is
quite an undertaking. The American
Is rover. while the Englishman is a
great man for home and its comforts.
I'm England one seldom sees a
laborer sitting on a curbstone. He is
too busy looking for work. In Amer.
lea thousands Of men are daily to be
seen on the streets of large cities.
Tn this country employment men
are suspicious of men dressed in fairly
good clothes. Yesterday / went to
one of your minneapolis employment
bureaus and asked for work in the
harvest fields. I wore white collar
and fairly good clothes. I was re.
fused.
| Il went to my hotel and changed
| my clothes for those OF a workman,
| Wearing blue flannel shirt and rough
outer garments and ! readily secured
work and shall ship with a gang Of
men for the Dakota harvest fields IN 4
day or two.
How long will lork in the fields
y. OF course. merely q matter OF how
hard the work is. / want to find out
Tor myself and then / can. tell my PEG
pie In England. through my paper
what the life Is like"
BESIDES looking into the Iaborer,s