The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-13
|. ". ". APPOINT
COMMITTEE TO
MEET .LEAGlIERS
Agricultural Branch in Kan
sas City Meeting, take
j Cognizance of Request
"COME ON, FOUR
/, HUNDRED" is CRY
Will Mean GA Number of
Things New in Agricultur-
al Industry" This Year

Arthur LeSeuer, former Socialist
mayor Of Minot, attorney for the In
CiustriaI Workers of the World in the
Minnesota iron range labor distur-
Dances Of last year, and attorney for
the Nonpartisan league of North Da.
kota, representing the latter organiza-
ton before the Agricultural Workers
organization, an affiliated unit Of the
]. w. W., obtained the appointment of
a committee at the Kansas City con-
vention, last week, to confer with a like
committee from the North Dakota Nom
partisan league to discuss the question
of wages, conditions of labor, and hours
OF work, to be effective in the North
Dakota harvest fields. next fall.
! A minimum wage Of 81 day will be
/ demanded by the Agricultural Workers
! Organization, and $50 a month for gem
eral farm work, according to the pro-
ceedings as reported in the Industrial
Worker, official newspaper of the
body, published at Seattle, Wash.
Recognition of their power in the
harvest situation is the construction
the Industrial Worker" places upon
the action Of the Nonpartisan league
as ny lllC uScl0A1AE9 OA TAG NOAA-
vention report:
Farmers organization sends attor-
ney as tribute to /. w. w. power; in
creased demands"
Arthur LeSeuer, attorney for the
NonpartiSan league, composed OF
North and South Dakota farmers, for
his clients asked for conference with
representatives Of the /. w. w. For
est Edwards, Ted Fraser. J. J. McDon-
0cf nj Arf1n RnnGA
appointed on a committee for that pur-
pose," is the manner in which the IN
dustrial Worker" reports the conven-
tons action.
"a minimum wage Of 81 a day was
decided upon for all harvest work, and
$50 a month for all general farm work.
J The matters of living and working con-
ditions were gone into exhaustlveiy
and abuses which had their inception In
the unorganized conditions of the work.
ers are to be eliminated" continues the
publication.
mat the Agricultural Workers Or
ganization has in mind some right in
feresting developments for the farmers
OF the northwest is indicated in the
Industrial Workers report Of the kan-
sas City convention proceedings.
The convention of Agricultural
Workers Organization has sketch
ed out the broad lines OF the activ-
tiles Of this industrial union, which will
dominate the agricultural industry
within a short time, according to all
present indications. The details will
be effectively filled in by the harvest
hands. This year when they say, come
on, four hundred, a number of things
new in the agricultural industry will
occur.
The League Committee.
Action looking to the placating OF the
Industrial Workers of the World, was
taken at the Nonpartisan league con-
yention in Fargo on Friday, June l.
The Nonpartisan league committee,
appointed to confer with the Agricul-
tural Workers Organization commit
tee, comprises John N. ,Hagan, COM
missioner of agriculture for the state
of North Dakota, Frank B. Wood, of
Deering, member Of the leagues exc
cutive committee, and N. e. Whipple,
Eckelson. member of the state legis-
1ature.