Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-08-05
L. W. ORGANIZERS
ACTIVE in MANY
PARTS OF STATE
WobbIes Reported From Mi
not, Grand Forks, Red
River Valley and Slope
Counties-No Trouble in
Stutsman County.

Minot, n d. August 3.-Charles
Gray, |. w. w. organizer, who has
been spreading propaganda and or
ganizing laboring men against ac-
cepting the going wage. was this
afternoon sentenced to 10 days Ia
Dor on the streets, by Judge Lynch
in municipal court on the charge OF
vagrancy.
Inability to pay a fine and costs
of $23.70 made the labor sentence
operative.
Gray is a man 28 years Of age.
who testified that for the past seven
years he has been member OF the
I. w. w. Literature to poison the
mind of the laboring man was found
on him. Receipt books on his per-
son indicated that 1856 had been
sent to headquarters in dues July
and $525 on July S.
Bismarck. N. D. Aug. 3.-The l.
w. w. menace to farmers is begin
ming to assert itself, according to
reports from various parts of the
state and from other states where
the grain harvest is under way.
Literature has been found in some
parts of the Slope country. but the
activities of the 1. w. w. now ars
mainly confined to the Red River
Valley, where the harvest is earlier
than in the western part OF the
state.
Sometime ago l. w. w. pamphlets
were found in Dickinson, and 4
group of men believed to be propa-
gandists for the "wobbies" were en-
countered in Bismarck by police Of
ficials.
Twelve men employed on the Geo.
Fowler farm near Casselton, in Cass
county quit work on the advice of
l. w. w. leaders, according to
news dispatch from that town. They
demanded higher wages, and when
they were refused. left the binders
standing in the fields. When an ef-
fort was made to run them, it was
found that piece of drive chain, Il
bolt or necessary wheel, had been
| removed.
Offer Standard Wage
The mon had been getting Is cents
an hour and they demanded 81
day. Farmers of the western part
! of Cass county held a meeting and
! offered standard wage Of 40 cents
an hour and board and room for
! harvesting and thresnins. The men
have the privilege Of working rs
many hours as they desire.
Appear in Grand Forks
= Organizers for the 'wobblies"
have appeared in Grand Forks It is.
said no meetings have been held but
copies of Solidarity" several broad
sides, handbills and pamphlets were
found in the waiting room Of the
Great Northern station and in other
places about tho city.
1t was rcported that emissaries of
the I. w. w. are trying to force a
farm labor shortage in the Red Riy-
er Valley, despite the fact that more
men are coming into the district for
| harvest work than in recent seasons.
| Headquarters of the I. w. w. are
said to be in Fargo, and emissaries
! have been sent from Fargo head
quarters to the smaller towns and
communities in the state, il is said,
| work at less than six and seven
dollars per day. It is also reported
that I. w. w. representatives. during
the last few days have been taking
! employment tickets from men sent
agencies, warning them that "scab"
| labor Will not be tolerated in the
fields Of the state this year
| Advocate Resolution
In one of the l. w. w. leaflets dis
tributed here is found "The pream-
| bic of the Industrial Workers of the
World in which the following sem
tences appear:
Instead OF the conservative
motto, A fair days wage for
fair days work. we must in
scribe on our banner the revolu-
{ tionary Watchword. Abolition
of the wage system,."
III another leaflet is found an ar
! ticle entitled, '"The IDEAL" at the
top Of which drawing appears
showing two men trying to hammer
the idea into the head Of a labor