Emmons County record., 1917-07-19
FARMERS HALT
PRICE FIXING
Townley Unable to Swing l.
w. w. Frame-Up. Far
MGR; Balk

ne IA N-cn-nc.aldcd Irame-up De-
tween the l. w. WIS and the Nonpar-
tisans is all off. After trying to get
the farmers to "ratify" his scheme at
meetings held at Minot, Bismarck and
Valley City, A. c. Townley found that
he had at last broached something
that even he wasn't man enough to
put across on the farmers of North
Dakota.
Townley, aided and abetted by few
of his lieutenants that were prominent
!. w. W.'s before they decided upon
Saving" the farmers for handsome
remuneration, planned a scheme which
would make North Dakota a paradise
to the "Wobblers." 1t would no long
er be necessary for them to be herded
into pens like cattle to keep them
from creating reign of terror as is
the case in Arizona. They would have
been lifted from the criminal tramp
class in which they now exist and
would have been put upon the higher
plane of respected minions of orga-
nized labor to be looked up to by the
ordinary tillers of the soil.
If Townley could have succeeded
in making the deal stick, the farmers
of North Dakota would now be pledged
to pay the Won't Workers minimum
wage Of four dollars for ten hours and
with bunch Of frills in the way of or
ganized "rights," overtime, board and
lodging, ETC., the price of labor to be
automatically advanced according to
the advance in grain prices.
Any fool knows that shortage of
grain will advance the price. Thus,
if the farmers were to suffer partial
crop loss, the price would be that much
higher, and they would also have the
added load to carry Of still more ex-
horbitant prices to pay for help, a la
Townley.
When Townley first became notori-
Gus in this league business, the Rec
ord called attention to the fact that
the farmers are employers of labor
and that Townley is by training the
walking delegate type of labor union
list. Therefore, his friendship for the
farmer or his friendship for the labor
unionist must be assumed. With their
interests opposed, it is impossible for
him to champion the cause Of both. 1t
would be just like lawyer hiring out
to both sides in lawsuit.
Many farmer has openly stated
that if Townlcy made the l. w. w.
deal stick they were through with him.
We warned our readers at the start
that their league was permeated with
l. w. w. interests and to look out. We
were boycotted, abused and threatened
in hus!neys way for our pains.
Heretofore, the Record has taken
chances of extinction in an honest de-
sire to warn the people of what was
being attempted among the big guns in
political circles. From now on we be-
lieve that the public actions of the
men themselves will 90 the farthest to
wake up the people to their danger.
If they persist in trusting absolutely
without question to Townley's desires
and the whitewashings delivered by
such willing tools as his man Harding
they will have troubles yet to endure
that are so far greater th:n those
of which they have already to COM
plain that there can be no comparison
And, if they succeed in running out
of business all the newspapers that
have ben exposing them, these l. w
w. frame-ups and other frame-ups ir
, our state government can be pulled
! off right under the very noses of the
people who will pay the bills-and
they will be none the wiser.