Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-11-20
CAPITAL MEMS NOTES
By Earle H. Tostevin, Sec. N. d. p. A.

CAPITAL MEMS NOTES.
By Earle H. Tostevin, Sec. N. d. p. A.
With 30 per cent of the coal miners
on strike, with coal stocks of various
cities depleted to an alarming extent,
with the National United Mine work.
ers under order to withdraw their
strike orders, the majority Of the
mines Of the state are imperative, as
a result of Governor Frazier's backing
of Henry Drenan, district superin>
tendent in the Industrial condition
VIII ch has resolved itself into q battle
OF the miners against the ultimate
consumer-farmer and city man.
AS result Of the meddling in the
affairs by Governor FRAZER and the
conditions arising as a result, it is ru-
mored about the state house that a
grand jury hearing is imminent. The
Federal Department of Justice says
the rumor will probe the why's and
wherefores Of the injection of politics
into the strike situation.
Miners at the Wilton works were
working eight hours per day and six
days week, drawing from $3.50 to
$3.50 month. Miners themselves did
not have grievance and contemplat-
ed no action. Frazier's telegram pre-
cipitated the crisis opening the way
for controversy and ignoring the
working agreement of the miners with
their employers effective until Sep
tember, 1920.
just when or where such a govern
ment hearing will be instituted is not
stated
The Beulah mining company at Beu-
lah is the only large working now
operative. Many small neighborhood
mines various sections Of the state
however are working full blast.
The city of Mandan is in dire straits
One plant furnishes central heat for
about forty per. cent Of the business
houses, electricity for the city homes
and lighting system; power for vari-
GUS industries and power for the pump
ing Of water into the city reservoirs.
This plant has only enough coal to last
four days. Az result the city has
established temporary municipal
fuel administration board, and is
checking the stocks of all concerns as
well as homes. The same condition is
reported from other cities.
Governor Frazier has issued q state
ment in which he asserts that his en-
try into the affair was with the inten-
tion to keep the mines going, or the
state take charge. The latter would
Indicate that the chiefs Of the Order
Of the Post Dated Check have seized
upon the present as psychological
moment mine owning may be added
to their socialistic program of state
owned industry.
Meanwhile the rumblings indicate
that farmers everywhere in the state
are highly incensed at the governors
action in lining up with walking del
egate of the United Mine workers to
! win small organized labor vote at
the expense and exploitation of farm
ers who placed him in his position.
One Northern Pacific engineer today
said: IF Frazier thinks he is winning
the votes Of organized labor he has
another think coming insofar as the
railroad unions, the machinists unions
or others are concerned"
And the man who was shaving the
engineer added, "I've been member
of the berbers' union for fifteen years
and believed in unionization of trades
but this isn't strike real union man
can have sympathy with. It's So
cialistic, Bolshevik, political trick"
The union printer who was await
ing his turn added, "My wife and three
kids have moved over to my brother
in-law's place. We haven't quart
of coal dust in the house andd couldn't
get any. Union huh? So am /, but
it's come to point where l know the
publishers can't pay higher wages
without going broke and we can't pay
high prices for coal without going
hungry. Show me the printer that
draws $3.50 a month for eight hours
day work!"
1t would appear that Governor Fra
zier has not only enraged the farmers
but made hostile the union men as
well.
H. J. Hagan and P. r. Sherman.
president and cashier of the Scandi-
navian-Amsrican bank at Fargo,
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