The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-06-03

the speakers were Charles w. Collier
OF New York, representing the Untor
| Hatters of America; J. H, Smith o1
/ the United States Department of La
Dor. and Miss Aldythe Ward, secre"
tary Of the state welfare commission
Sunday night the convention din
ner was served at 8 o'clock, at the
Waldorf hotel. to 100 delegates and
visitors. Following the dinner ad-
dresses dealing with organized Ia
Dor movements were given by Con-
son, Mr.. Collen, J. N. Hagan. COM
missioner OF agriculture for North
Dakota. Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Paskoe,
representative Of the organized Mine
Workers Of the nation. The diners
were entertained with songs by
George Humphreys Of Bismarck,
The election of officers. which will
be superintended by the nominating
committee. was scheduled to take
place at $3.50 o'clock this afternoon.
Committees appointed last night to
outline the work Of the convention
for today were announced as follows:
Auditing and credentials: Con
Meyer, William Dahlgren and J. N.
Johnson, all Of Fargo.
Resolutions: George Jones, Mi
not; Harry Pett. Burlington; Lee
Bundage, Minot; George T. Hum
phreys, Bismarck; Chester Wilcox,
Bismarck; James Garrity, Fargo; N.
e. Johnson, Fargo. and J. K. Salstad,
Oluf Warwick and G. H. Johnson,
Grand Forks.
egislative-Frank Milhollan, Bis
marck; Peter Maigan. Grand Forks;
John Helsing, Fargo; w. T. Bessner,
Fargo; Charles G. Johnson. Grand
Forks; Harry Conklin. Minot; A. w.
Bowman, Fargo; Albert Waddington,
Wilton; Frank Lehman. Devils Lake:
Carl A. Haywood. Bismarck; Miss
Aldythe Ward. Bismarck.
Officers Reports-Charles F. john
son, Charles Roigen and S. A. Kons-
mo. Grand Forks; e. H. Hall, L. R.
Conston and L. o. Gilmore. Minot;
Con Meyer, A. P. Messer and J. M.
Johnson. Fargo.
Constitutional LAVA. P. Messer,
Ned Henkle. w. B. Besserer VIM.
Dahlgren, Fargo; George Hum
phreys, Bismarck; J. Perzentkes.
George Chambers. Adolph Langseth,
Grand Forks; A. P. Gilmore, Edwin
Ball. H. E. McF'all Minot.
Organization-R. J.~Boyd, George
Deering, Fargo; Ole Hovick, Ben
Preston. Grand Forks: Oscar Grant,
Bismarck; Frank Lehman, Devils
Lake. P. j. Haas. Jamestown; Peter
Bodner. Wilton.
Resolution on Fargo Body
A resolution introduced by Frank
Milhollan Of Bismarck, Nonpartisan
league candidate for the state rail-
road commission, takes the Fargo
War Organization to task, and gives
support to The Fargo Courier News.
The resolution, adopted this morn
ing. follows:
I'VE, the members Of the North Da-
kotaa State Federation of Labor, as
sembled in annual convention at Far
go, June 2 and 3, 1918, do declare that
1t is our firm conviction that the
Fargo War Organization, in it's action
toward the promotion of boycott of
unnamed newspapers, whose loyalty
it questions, is not representative Of
the business men or the people of
Fargo nor of the general membership
Of the said organization but in such
action was deluded and dictated to by
a certain inner clique of designing
politicians, whose real purpose is po-
litical aggrandizement, and
Whereas, certain men composing
this inner political clique of the Far
go War Organization, using patriot
Ism IS a mask, have apparently sue
ceeded in inaugurating an advertis-
ing boycott of The Fargo Courier
News, and have accomplished this
puLpoSS ny 6IOSS misrepresentation
and unjust criticism of that newspa-
per for it's fearless stand on all
questions affecting the public welfare,
and
Whereas, The Fargo Courier-News
is known to all as a. patriotic publi-
cation of the highest type, has dem
onstrated its loyalty by supporting
all war measures advocated by the
national and state administrations,
"Resolved, by the North Dakota