The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26
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ed to Mr.. Strand at $500 per month
| sumbitted bid at $4,000 and wisl
to ask the school board to please
state publicly why they turned me
down who has driven this route fol-
number of years and gave it to q
higher priced man? | have an abund.
ance of good horses and feed to
handle this job, am as competent a
driver as Mr.. Strand, had four child.
rem on the route so was personally in
terested in safety to all, and nv bid
was $5zper month lower. | have paid
school taxes here for 16 years, nv
school tax last year being $4,000 and
will probably be higher this? How
much has Mr.. Strand paid to schools I?
l have driven this route when it was
two or three times as long as now,
taking in every child of school age
west of town. I furnished my own
covered rig, stove, robes, etc., and
got $4,000 per month, doing this work
at loss to myself for the sake of
getting these children to school. When
| asked raise of wages, / was told
there were no available funds so con-
tinued to drive at the same prices as
the board could find no one else to
take the job. Last winter / rented a
house in town for my, children and
there was no school bus run, num-
Der of children not getting to school.
Last spring | again took this Job
at $50 per month (the price paid at
Homestead) but told the board plain
ly could not handle it myself dur
ing spring work, nor could I afford
to hire man at $500 month 1.-THE
going wage last spring. and furnish
my own rig for this sum; but would
put on good, fast gentle team with
Marion as driver as my children were
going to school at any rate. And let
me say here, Marion can and has
handled two, four or six horse team
better than most of the men in these
parts. Marion drove the remainder
OF the term apparently satisfactorily.
Now l understand was turned down
because some others on the line pro-
tested against giving me the job. !
Why?
| drove when DO degrees below zero
and not a child ever had a frozen
finger or toe in the bunch, nor could
they point to a single instance where
a child had been injured in any way,
while riding in my rig. Then why
protest? Because some of them
wanted to land the job for their rela-
ives and friends of their own rela-
:ionship now that the route was
shorter and price higher. There are
a children school age on this route
IS proposed: five of them are Bakers .
md four mine, making nine of the /
ourteen. Am l not as vitality inter- {
'sted in my children as they are in ]
heirs? If the outfit was safe for
nine, was it not safe for theirs? Why i
id they not submit bids if dissatis- ]
led. ,
Why did the school board let these Il
title kaisers tell them what to do? S
;ould they not use their own judy
nent or what are they there for? If /
hey are to be dominated by a few
lsinterested parties why call for O
called bids at all as any one whom a
nese autocrats do not approve of t
Ill be beaten before he starts. When f
here were only two going to school a
rom this road, Marion drove and
'ok Nora Mogan to school for up Fl
ards Of two years, free of charge,
II. Mogan never having taken them h
ice that can remember. The rig "
as safe then. She has since taken n
LA Rued for upwards of one year p
Id at one time was given the NUM- d
cent sum of $1.00 for her services. b;
e did not want pay from them but R
ought they would have appreciated Ct
enough to at least keep out as they J,
d not submit bids or care to handle C
e route themselves. Mr.. Mogan has c.
w no children of school age. Mr.. re
nutson has no children of school 81
e. These gentlemen should have az
d no say whatever. Mr.. Knute dt
lompson has two of school age and fl
Z. Rued three, a small minority OF OF
ose going. Mr.. Baker and I stayed of
me and let the board use their own ge
1gment(?) If Mr.. Stands bid had Gu
IN lower than mine they might have ia
IN justified but now where is our lie
asted American liberty and justice ne
all. Pretty much liberty and on