The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-21
Labor Organizations Arrange to
Help in Harvest Fields. i
Party of 100 Plans to Enter
Fields This Week.
SITUATION CALLED DESPERATE
Western Fields Lack Over Two
Thousand Men.
Kansas City Employment
Bureau Rushes to Rescue.

Striking Topeka printers, binders
and pressmen are going to the harvest
fields, according to announcement to-
day by members of labor organiza-
tions. 1t is probable that a party of
100 printers and members of allied in
dustries will leave Topeka this week
to enter the wheat fields.
Members of the Typographical union
and kindred organizations discussed
the harvest demand at Labor hall
made that the men would probably go
to the harvest in a body. 1t is be-
lieved that not fewer than 100 men
will be in the party.
Follow Shop Men.
Action by the printers, binders and
pressmen followed decision of unem-
ployed Santa Fe shopmen to go to the
harvest.
1t is probable that 500 to 1000 un-
employed. shopmen will aid in gath
ering the wheat crop since announce
ment has been made by the Santa Fe
that such action will not destroy pri-
ority rights of the men. No definite
announcement has been made by the
printers as to the time when they will
start to the harvest. They will proba-
bly, seek direction thru the employ
ment agency in touch with conditions
and labor demands in the various
wheat counties.
Apparent relief from the harvest
! hand shortage is shown in telegram
to the industrial court from A. L.
tBarkman, United States field repre-
sentative of the employment service
Barkman asserts that 1900 men will
| be sent to the harvest fields each day
from the Kansas City district.
Harvest hands are declared to be
| leaving Kansas City at the rate OF
1000 a day, beginning this week
Previously the city distributing agency
| sent an average of 400 day to the
wheat fields. With help promised
from other cities tn new movement
from the Kansas City agency is ex.
pected to provide adequate relief.
Larned Offers SIS Per Day.
! Larned, Kan. JLne 21.-Wheat II
Pawnee county ready to cut and farm
ers have no men. Five dollars an6
/ board now Offered. At Larned three
farmers meet trains for every mar
freight trains. Hundreds of header,
tcannot start until men get here.
Situation Is Desperate.
Salina, Kan, June 21.-The harvest
/ labor situation in western Kansas Is
desperate. AT the local free employ
ment office this morning it was an
lnounced that 1000 men for the thirty
4 TWO northwestern counties IN the state
are wanted immediately. Farmers are
trying to keep the price of wages
down, but owing to the famine ir
harvest hands. wages in some places
are up to IS. .e-.sa. ...-t
! Thousands of acres of wheat are
cut. but unshocked, due to the
scarcity of help. This morning freight
/ trains brought 900 men into the city
but owing to the orders that buns viii
not be tolerated, the men did not ven.
ture up town. The employment office
made a desperate effort to get some OF
the men and out of the entire gang
there were eight, who were willing t.
work. all others boarded trains ant
went westward.
i 1000 Needed at Hutchinson.
Kansas City, Mo-. June 21.-Foul
thousand harvest hands are needed ii
Hutchinson territory with pay gen
orally at SIS day, according to a tele,
gram received today by Director Berk
man of the state and federal employ
ment bureau, from the federal sub
station at Hutchinson.
First call for men from Nebraskt
was received