Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-03

ing Company Are Not Residents Of
this State, Pay No Taxes to the State
and Have Ne Interest in ANY 4 !. Com on
munity in This State.
When the Knight Printing Com
pany has completed IT'S contract will
the state, its temporary plant, which
will be found in a dingy basement in
this city, will be closed, and its EN-
p.oyes, who are now, being paid from
the treasury Of North Dakota, will
return to their natural places of abode
outside the boundaries of North la
kota, and the knight Printing Com
pany will not require their services
again until another two years roll by
whe,. they will again appear as "low'
est bidder" on state printing, and will
of necessity again 60 outside the state
for it's Temporary employees" for the
reason that the character of people
rho appeal to Ne knights business
acument are not to be found within
the boundaries of North Dakota.
In Bismarck, the Capitol City OF
North Dakota, and in other cities OF
this state, there are many we'll equip
Led, we'll established business insti'
tutions, conducted upon a fair and a
legitimate business ~ basis-institu'
tons which do much to advertise the
resources of the state and~to promote
the well-being and prosperity of Its
people. These publishing houses &C.
cord reasonable treatment !! to- their
employees, afford decent surrounding
and sanitary conditions under which
they are required to work, and are
satisfied with the results secured
through this method of operation. Yet
IN entering their bids for state print.
ing, they are required to enter into
competition with the cheap labor and
cheap business methods pursued by
the knight Printing Company, which
gathers its employees haphazardly in
other states, because. the manhood
and womanhood of those who consti'
tute the printing fraternity in this
state rebels against its methods,
which are neither supported by civic
pride or natural patriotism. -.
In this country today there is pres
,ent a period of industrial strife. In
many states and communities an in.
,dustrial revolution actually exists.
There is in existence an association.
known as the Industrial Workers of
the World-an organization for which
no self-respecting, l%aw.abiding, home
loving, patriotic citizen can have the
least semblance of respect. An or
ganfzation: which is doing more to
hamper and destroy legitimate trade
unionism than any other known in.
fluence. -
Is this consistent with the spirit OF
progress and Of fair play with which
the people of North Dakota and every
other tate in the union is imbued? =
There is scarcely, If at all, 2 state
in the whole sisterhood of states,
which does not require that state
printing contracts shall be let to well
esta blished resident bidders, with the
additional requirement that union
labor be employed in its production,
and the sentiment of the progressive
citizenship of North Dakota is surely
no exception to the general rule.
Keep North Dakota Money in North
Dakota" =
! In your neighboring state-Mon.
tana-the law requires, and has so
required for the past fifteen years,
that bidders upon state printing must
be able to place the union label upon
state printing. The same is true in
other states.
The letting of a contract to such a
firm as the Knisah: Printing Company,
with its temporary, nonresident EN-.
ployes, whose salaries are now being
paid out Of monies paid=into the state