The Ward County independent., 1922-07-27

offering a special rate of IS for fare
to any point in North Dakota from
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth and
Superior effective August l to Is.
Parties of five or more must apply in
group to obtain the special fare.
The special rate was secured thru the
activities of Governor R. A. Nestos,
who called a conference of general
passenger agents and traffic managers
of the Northern Pacific, Great North
ern, 500 and Milwaukee railways at
St. Paul last week.
'An enormous amount of labor will
be needed to handle the 1922 CROP"
declared Governor Nestos at the capi-
tol today. ''The Federal bureau of
crop estimates places ur prospect On
July at 94,000,0O0 bushels of wheat,
24,O00,000 bushels Of rye, 2O,OOO,O0O
bushels of potatoes and also big crops
of oats and barley. Preliminary sur
veys indicate that $4,000 laborers will
have to be obtained from outside
sources to handle this crop.
"The state department of agricul-
ture and labor, in cooperation with the
North Dakota extension division, has
mapped out campaign to bring the
necessary number Of qualified labor
ers into the state and distribute them
where needed. The reduced rate Of
fered by the railways, the first for
harvest hands since 1909, and the low
est rate for many years, should be a
big incentive for the young men of
the farms in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota
and Wisconsin to come to North Da-
kota, see what the country produces
and at the same time make a stake.
"We are carrying on an advertis-
ing campaign in newspapers in the
district from which we are trying to
draw laborers, and the state depart.
ment of agriculture and labor will es-
tablish headquarters at III Marquette
avenue, Minneapolis, where the men
will be directed to the points where
they are needed in this state. In this
way we hope to attract laborers who
will do an honest days work at a
reasonable wage. Even tho we have
bumper crop prospects, prices of
farm products at the present time are
so low that labor must be performed
efficiently and economically if the
farmers are to make profit on what
they produce"
J. w. Haw, county agent leader at
the North Dakota agricultural college,
will perfect organizations in each
county, working principally with the
county extension agents, to handle the
demands for labor and send them to
the state office in Minneapolis.
''Under our plan the county agricul-
/ tural agent will act as a clearing house
for the demands from the county,"
declared Mr.. Haw Farmers will
phone in to the county agents office
telling the number of men they need
and making arrangements to advance
the fares where necessary. The coun-
ty agent will wire to the Minneapolis
office, where men will be assembled
in groups OF five to fill the requisite
number and placed on board train
with their tickets to the particular
destination, where they will report to
the county agent and be distributed.
SIN the few counties which do not
employ county agents, orders will be
accepted and filled from bankers or
other responsible persons, but there
will be no special organization within
these counties to handle the situation,
and they will have to depend to a
greater extent on the regular floating
supply"
Thru the activities of the farmers,
business men, bankers and county
agent, countrywide labor board has
been formed for Cavalier county with
a paid secretary to handle the labor
situation, according to C. 3. Mcmillan
of Hannah, banker and farmer who
attended the recent conference at St.
Paul.
eve have an organization that will
work like clockwork in gathering the
requests for labor from each COM
munity, send in our order with the
cash advance for fares to the state
office in Minneapolis, meet the men
when they arrive here, and get them
out to the farms. We have already
set our wage scale for the season, So
per day for shocking, and for thresh-
ing wages 1925 for field pitcher, so
for, teamsters, $3.75 for spike pitchers
where two men are used to the rig,
and 81 where only one spike pitcher is
used. We feel that these are good
wages for the work involved, fair for
the laborer who has no swivel chair
job by any means, and fair to tee
farmer who has good crop to market
at low price," -.
r. G. Catron, deputy commissioner
of agriculture, will have charge of
the Minneapolis office Of the state de-
partment of agriculture and labor.
Governor Nestos today makes the
following appeal to the people of
North Dakota 4
"North. Dakota is about to harvest
the best general average crop which
has been grown since 1916. Practi-
cally every resident of this state is
directly or indirectly dependent upon