The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-11-13

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on strike, with coal stocks of various
cities depleted to an alarming ex-
tent, with the national United Mine
Workers under orders to withdraw
their strike orders, the majority of
the mines of the state are inopera-
tive as a result of Governor Fra
Tiers backing of Henry brennan,
district president in the industrial
condition which has resolved itself
into Il battle of the miners aginst
the ultimate consumer-farmer and
city man.
AS u result of the meddling in the
affairs by Governor Frazier and the
conditions arising as a result, it is
rumored 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 per week, drawing from
$3.50 to $3.50 a month. Miners
themselves did not have a grievance
and contemplated no action. Fra
Tiers telegram precipitated the cris-
is opening the way for a controversy
and ignoring the working agreement
! of the miners with their employers
effective until September, 1920.
! Just when or where such govern
> ment hearing will be instituted is
not stated.
i The Beulah mining company at
:! Beulah is the only large workings
now operative. Many small neigh
borhood mines in various sections Of
3 the state, however, are working full
= Iblast.
: The city of Mandan is in dire
straits. One plant furnishes GEN.
Z trail heat for about forty per cent of
L the business houses, electricity for
= the city homes and lighting system;
power for various industries and
. power for the pumping Of water into
Z the city reservoirs. This plant has
: only enough coal to last four days
AS u result the city has established
a temporary municipal fuel admin
Z ~istration board, and is checking the
E stocks of all concerns as we'll as
homes. The same condition is re.
ported from other cities.
Z Governor Frazier has issued a
e statement in which he asserts that
!: his entry into the affair was with
. the intention to keep the mines go.
Z ing, or the state take charge. The
= later would indicate that the chiefs
Of the Order of the Post Dated
Check have seized upon the present
z as the psychological moment when
= mine owning may be added to their
socialistic program of state owned
Z industry.
~ Meanwhile the rumblings indicate
= that farmers everywhere in the state
are highly incensed at the governors
z action in lining up with a walking
= delegate of the United Mine Workers
E to win a small organized labor vote
s at the expense and exploitation Of
2 farmers who placed him in his posi-
p ton.
~ One Northern Pacific engineer sale
;. today "If Frazier thinks he is win
= ming the votes of the organized labor
\ he has another think coming insofar
" as the railroad unions, the machin'
lists union or others are concerned
And the man who was shaving the
engineer added, 'I've been a member
of the BARRIERS union for fifteen years
and l believed in the unionization Of
the trades, but this isn't a strike q
real union man can have sympathy
with. It's a socialistic, Bolshevih
political trick"
The union printer who was waiting
his turn added; my wife and three
kids have moved over to my brother.
in-law's place. We haven't a quart
of coal dust in the house and couldn't
get any. Union, huh? So am l.
but it's come to a point where ]
know the publishers can't pay higher
wages without going broke and We
can't pay high prices for coal with
out going hungry. Show me the
printer that draws $3.50 a month for
eight hour a day work"
1t would appear that Governor
Frazier has not only enraged the
farmers but made hostile the union