The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-07-27

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NEEDS HARVEST HELP
As an incentive to secure labor for
the harvesting and threshing Of North
Dakota's bumper CROP, railways are
offering special rate of s5 for fare
to any point iii 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 act
ivities of Governor r. "A. Nestos, who
called a conference of general passen-
ger agents and traffic managers of
the Northern Pacific, Great Northern,
500 and Milwaukee railways at st.
Paul last week. y. Il. S& ~. %>...,
''An enormous amount of labor will
be needed ii handle the 1922 crop"
declared Governor Nestos at the capi-
tol today. "The federal bureau of crop
estimates places our prospect on July
l at 94,000,000 bushels of wheat, a.
100000 bushels of rye, 10000, 1000
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 ofaagricul-
ture and Labor, in cooperation with
the North Dakota extension division,
has mapped out campaign to bring
the necessary number of qualified la
borers into the state and distribute
them where needed. The reduced rate
offered by the railways, the first for
harvest hands since 1909, and the low
est rate for many years, should bring
big number of young men of the
farms in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and
Wisconsin, to come to North Dakota,
see what the country produces and at
the same time make stake. ~.
eve are carrying on a advertising
campaign in the district from which
we are trying to draw laborers, and
the state department Of agriculture
and labor will establish headquarters
at 1T 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 economical
ly if the farmers are to make pro-
fit on what they produce"
j. W. Haw, county agent leader at
the North Dakota agriculture college
will perefct organizations in each
county, working principally with the
county. extension agents, to handle
the demands of labor and send them
to the state office in Minnesota.
"Under our plan the county agri-
cultural agent will act as a clearing
house for the demands from the coun-
ty," declared Mr.. Haw today. Farm
ers will phone in to the county agents
office telling the number of men they
need and making arrangements to ad-
vance the fares where necessary. The
county agent will wire to the Mime
apolis office, where men will be as
semble in groups of five to fill the
requisite number and placed on board
train with their tickets to the partic-
fular destination, where they will re-
port to the county agent and be dis
tributed.
''In 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 float
ing supply" 55- = =. T. -.
Thru the activities of the farmers,
business men, bankers and county
agent, a county wide labor. board has
been formed for Cavalier county with
a paid secretary to handle the labor
situation, according to- c. B. McMil-
lar4 Of Hannah, banker and farmer
who attended the recent conference in
ST. Paul. r. ~..s t5y5.. u s.ss:. b.
"We have an organization that will
work like clockwork in gathering the
requests for labor from each commun-
ity, send in our order with the cash
advance for fares to the state office
in Minneapolis meet the mem whers
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 threshing wages
$3.25 for field pitchers, $3.50 for
teamsters, s3.75 for spike pitchers
where two men are used TO the rig and
Sd 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 the
farmer who has a good crop to market
at low price s5s-. ID
r. G. Catron, deputy commissioner
Iof agriculture, will have charge Of
the Minneapolis Office Of the state
department of agriculture. sss
Governor Nestos today makes the
following anDeal to the people of this