The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-07
.HARVESTERS GO
into FIELDS AT
$S,BUREAUS SAY
I. W. W. Officer, However,
Says Members Still Hold
Out for S. a Day
DEMAND HEAVY
MEN IN PLENTY
That is Condition" Up to
Date-Traill County
Men Fix Basis

All points in North Dakota are
well supplied with men who are
willing to take to the field at 50 a
day, according to information given
out this afternoon from the Fargo
employment agencies.
Twenty three calls were received
at the Fargo Employment bureau
this morning and every one filled.
We are not having any trouble in
getting plenty Of help to care for
the harvesting and threshing opera
tons in North Dakota" said George
Anderson. proprietor of this agency.
Farmers are willing TO pay So, but
not any more"
The calls for help came today from
Wolverton, Mimi; Hendrum, MINI. :
Mayville, Christine, Reed and Hope,
North Dakota towns. Shelley, Mimi,
also asked for a few laborers.
Many Around Bureaus.
Conditions about the headquarters
of the Industrial Workers Of the
World are not what they were about
a week ago. Instead of many mem
bers hanging about the office, today,
there were only about fifty. 1t seems
that most of them who were de-
handing IS a day found that it was
impossible to obtain that price in
North Dakota, and some, it is re-
ported. have taken work at SO a
day
James r. Parker, secretary of the
Fargo branch of the Industrial
Workers, left for Minneapolis the
first of the week to attend an eXecu-
charge of the office G.. J. Berg OF
Kansas City, who stated this after
noon that the organization was still
holding for IS a day and denied that
any Of the members were working
for less than "a or $3.50.
To Limit Wages.
Information reaching the Fargo
employment agencies stated that a
meeting was held at Hillsboro Mon
day night and that 400 Trail coun-
ty farmers agreed to resolutions
binding the members of a new
organization not to pay more than So
per day for harvest labor and not
more than $3.50 during the thresh-
ing season. Carl DaIrymple, on of
the largest farmers in the state
presided over the meeting which
was called at the instance Of the
Hillsboro Commercial club and which
is conducting free employment
l.
furnish fifty men on a minutes
notice if necessary.
Transfers for county work are be-
ing offered $50 a month in Cass coun-
ty, and plasterers 35 cents an hour.
Blacksmiths can get $45 a month
and ditchers Is cents yard, accord
ing to cards in front of the labor
bureaus. Shockers are being offered
So a day and cooks SIT a week.
Few reports have reached the
agencies of threshing. in the state.
Most of the work is now in the
harvest fields and will be at least
two weeks before threshing opera
tions begin in earnest.
In some parts of the state, in the
vicinity of Valley City and from
there west to jamestown, harvesting
has just started.
II is claimed that the eastern part
of North Dakota and the Red river
valley is a week to ten days farther
advanced in farm work than any
other portion of the state.
Police Get Letters.
That the state of North Dakota
will not experience a labor shortage
as had been anticipated is shown
in the letters which have reached
the police from individuals who are
making inquiries as to the time
when the harvest will start.
Chief Dahlgren and \ Sergeant
Sydness are giving all those letters
their personal attention and direct
ing truthful reports to the men who
want to come west this fall.