The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-18
FARMERS VS.. UNION LABOR

Der or the nOnpartlZan league, wei
to do farmer of the Nampa neighbor
hood, was cured of the idea that 9Th,
farmer and the union laborer are ont
and what helps one helps the other,
popular propaganda Of the nonparu
IAN league organizers.
This farmer believed the propa
ganda and accepted it in good faith
He joined the nonpartizan league
paid his initiation fee of SIG or SIS
took stock in the nonpartizan news
paper, The Leader, which recently
suspended publication, and became a
regular fellow" DESTROYS of helping
the cause of labor and of the farmers
as well.
Nampa is probably the strongest
union town in Idaho. Everything is
governed by the labor unions there.
The clerks in the stores have union.
The meat cutters have union and
they absolutely control. This armCr
went to Nampa and bought bill OF
groceries and some meat. He left the
market, the proprietor being a close
personal friend of the farmer, and
drove out into the country on an
errand. He had blow out and did
not get back to Nampa until after $50
which is closing time for the unions.
He drove to the meat market and
found it closed. The proprietor was
found and asked to open the market
and let the farmer, who lived many
miles from Nampa, get his groceries
and meat and proceed to his home.
The proprietor of the meat market
refused He said: bill, I'D do any
thing | could for you, but | cannot
open that market until s o'clock to-
morrow morning. The union won't
let me- That was a puzzler to the
farmer, who asked: Don't you own
the market?' The proprietor replied:
Yes, I do, in a way. l pay the bills
and stand the losses but I cannot open
the door after $50 p. M, nor before
a. M and l have very little to say
about the management of the bust
ness"
The result was that the farmer was
compelled to remain in Nampa until
8 O'Clock the next morning before he
could get his meat and groceries and
go home. Any farmer can imagine
the frame OF mind of this man. He
went to the office of the Leader, in
which he was heavy stakeholder,
told his story to the editor and de-
manded that things be changed. He
asked the editor to call the attention
of people to this gross abuse" but
here he met another surprise.
The employees OF the printing office
all stopped work, lined up and listen
ed to the conversation and then in
formed the irate farmer that there
would positively be nothing doing"
in the way of publication or denunci
alton of the acts of the union and they
advised the farmer to "trot home
and raise more crops and attend to
your business and we will attend to
running things in town"
The farmer went home 1t is re-
ported that he offered his stock in
the nonpartizan newspaper at a very
low price and announced his with
irawal from tho nopartizan league.
This is not a fairy tale. 1t is a re-
port of what actually happened in a
Town controlled by the labor unions
with the nonpartizan league.
1t occurred in Idaho, and many SINH
ar stories come from the same place.
IA Pr ~
J. M. Reid, of Pullman, favors the
new state of Lincoln being formed
With the "panhdandle" Of Idaho, a
ion of Oregon and eastern Washing
on to the Cascade Mountains. BY in
luding Oregon Mr. Reid would add
,ne more state legislature whose con-
ent would be necessary to the for
nation of the proposed new state and
laking the total Of legislatures to
,ass upon the bill, four. This would,
f course, increase the difficulties
which are already regarded as insur