The Dickinson press., 1917-07-07

whom judgments are outstanding in
several Slope counties for sums ag-
gregating many thousands Of dollars;
an anarchist Of the stripe of Mr..
Bowen, who is such a good friend Of
the farmers that he mounted a soap
box during the Minot riots and told
his I. w. w. pals to let the farmers
get in their W crops, if they would
not pay exorbitant prices for incom-
and worthless, Sinking help;
or a man of the order of Thomson.
who has preached anarchistic and i'm
moral doctrines the length and
breadth of the state for years.
Governor Frazier, in making stops
the state, is following the ex-
ample of other governors in the
past, and following a custom which,
in our opinion, is just and proper"
say the committee members. Does
this make it proper, just because
other governors have neglected af~
fairs of state in the past, for Cover
nor Frazier to gallop about the COM
monwealth, making political speech
in this time Of crisis, one of a
magnitude never before confronted by
the nation? What North Dakota
needs at the present time is a cover.
nor who will stay in Bismarck and
attend to matters of import to the
state and the nation, not one who
about North Dakota and Min
nesota at the beck and call of
Townley.
Do the farmers of North Dakota
favor an agreement with the Agri-
cultural Workers whereby every mem
Der of that organization, faithful, in
dustrious toilers all, will receive a
wage Of 81 a day for eight
hours work, or at the rate Of $50 for
monthly work? We feel that the ma
jority of them will refuse to bind
themselves to such agreement. Will
ing they are to pay fair prices for
honest work, but what assurance
have they that they will get it from
the rabble which Townley is attempt
ing to foist on them? What assur-
ance have they that a dissatisfied
agricultural WORKER" many of whom
have never soiled their lily-white
hands by doing a days work, will not
temperamental and accident
ally place a chunk of iron in a shock
If grain, Dr. let a fork slip into the
What assurance have
hey that this riffraff will honor an
agreement after entering into it with
the farmers of the state? We do not
that the agricultural interests
If the state will be foolish enough to
allow Townley to forge another link
the chain which he is attempting to
bind about the farmers.
. Eight hours is sufficiently long for
l days work in many industries, but
harvesting time the matter takes
IN a different aspect. Every hour is
and the mar who has a crop
must bend every effort to harvesting
t as rapidly as possible. We have
yet to see a farmer of North Dakota
Who would be willing to sacrifice valu-
able time every day, simply at the
of a bunch of malcontents
Who have been anything but friendly
% him in the past, men who have
escorted to every meal at hand to
lelay the work, even wrecking valu-
able machinery, to gain their ends.
And we do not believe the grain
growers of the state are so blinded to
heir interests as to allow Townley
md a few of his anarchistic friends
O sacrifice them for their own person
Il gain.
An agricultural worker" of the
rand which Townley is boosting
would be better left out of harvesting
'lans altogether. If the I. w. W.
abble gained their end and received
minimum wage of 81 a day, they
would spend more of their time agi-
ating for an SO wage thereafter than
n pitching bouquets and shocking
rain.