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

NAJA w pSASSAS Va AN WV -
on strike, with coal stocks of various
cities depleted to an alarming OK
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
zier's 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 umor 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
Y Beulah is the only large workings
. now operative. Many small neigh
borhood mines in various sections Of
y the state, however, are working full
= Iblast.
The city of Mandan is in dire
: straits. One plant furnishes CEN
Z trial heat for about forty per cent of
I 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 a result the city has established
temporary municipal fuel admin
Z ~istration board, and is checking the
stocks of all concerns as we'll as
+ homes. The same condition is re
ported from other cities.
Z Governor Frazier has issued 9
II statement in which he asserts thai
s 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 wher
= mine owning may be added to theil
socialistic program of state owned
Z industry.
q Meanwhile the rumblings indicate
& that farmers everywhere in the state
are highly incensed at the governor:
z action in lining up with a walking
8 delegate Of the United Mine Worker:
to win a small organized labor vott
= at the expense and exploitation O.
z farmers who placed him in his posi-
= tion.
II 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
Y as the railroad unions, the machin
lists union or others are concerned
And the man who was shaving thu
engineer added, 1--WE been a member
of the BARRIERS union for fifteen year.
and I believed in the unionization Of
the trades, but this isn't a strike {
real union man can have sympathy
with. It's a socialistic, Bolshevil
political trick"
The union printer who was waiting
his urn added; my wife and three
kids have moved rel to my brother.
in-law's place. We haven't a quart
of coal dust in the house and couldn't
get my. Union, huh? So am 1
but it's come to a point where ]
know the publishers can't pay higher
wages without going broke and W.
can't pay high prices for coal with
out going hungry. Show me the
printer that draws $3.50 a month fo1
eight hour a day work.
1t would appear that Governor
Frazier has not only enraged the
farmers but made hostile the union