Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-02
HARVEST WAGES
DECIDED UPON
AT CONFERENCE
Important Meeting Hell
Yesterday by Farmers
and Laborers.

Township delegates from Polk
county, North Dakota, ana Nelson
county, N. D., as we'll as a large num-
Der Of farmers from the various COM
munities were present at q meeting
OF IN Ntasara-Shawnee farmers and
laborers al Niagara on July 1. The
primary purpose Of the convention
was to establish a scale Of wages for
having, harvest and threshing. A
vote was taken by delegates and upon
completion Of the balloting q resolu-
ton was presented which was unan-
imously carried, providing that the
following scale Of wages be establish-
ID: For haying, $3.50: for harvest,
$500 n for threshing, $3.50 per
day. The resolution further provided
ina every delegate present would
maintain the provisions Of this reso-
luton and to extend them in their
own and other communities a. far az
possible. The resolution further pro-
vided that the proceedings Of this
convention be published in the news
papers Of the state with q view to
disseminating the information and
spreading the movement ~ far 90
possible.
A committee consisting Of George
ICrozier OF Nelson county. MI. wiles
OF Polk county. and o. A. Olson, of
Grand Forks county. presented a tele-
gram addressed to Director General
McAdoo. Washington, D. c., respect
fully requesting that the government
establish q reduced rate for laborers
to come to this section for harvest
and threshtng. This telegram was
forwarded to Washington Immediate.
ly following the meeting.
Resolutions Adopted.
adopted:
Whereas 1t is the policy Of the gov
eminent of the United States that
every able bodied citizen should be
engaged in productive labor continu-
ously in order that the Nation may
become highly efficient in the prose-
cution of the war, be it resolved that
we respectfully call the attention Of
others authorized to enforce the law,
to the so-called work or fight" order
Of the government and ask that every
effort be made to prevent loa1ng and
to cause every loafer to be put to
work.
The following resolution was also
unanimously adopted:
Whereas 1t has been brought to
our attention that citizens of towns
and cities namely the business men
clerks. craftsmen-are willing and
DESTROYS Of being of all possible as
sistance in securing the crops and
whereas these citizens are willing to
come into the harvest fields and
gather the crops il their services are
needed. not primarily for the wages
offered but as q patriotic duty, be 1t
resolved thai we meet the business
men half way and agree t o make the
best possible use of their services and
pay them in accordance with their
ability should their services be need
I'd to save the crop.
There were in attendance about
two hundred representative farmers
and threshsrmen who had been elect
ed by their neighbors ut various
called meetings in their respective
communities. It was the unanimous
sentiment Of those. present that the
presents above set forth be spread
over as wide a territory az possible
in order that the greatest good NAV
accrue from the establishment of a
uniform wage scale which has al
ready been adopted on state wide
basis in the states of Kansas and Ne
hraska.
Estate and county papers please
copy.) !