The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-07-27

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sharks in the country prowling around
to gouge the public at the first OPP
portunity. This strike proposition
might not be so bad if it only would
affect the miners, operators and rail-
road owners themselves, but unfortu
nately when these strikes come along
the public has to suffer and it usual
ly hits the poorer class of people the
hardest. The strikes now in progress
will cost the men in wages lost mil
lions of dollars and when they get
through with it they will be worse off
than when they started in.
We do not know just what the ku
Klux Khan stands for but it is GER
tainy getting big grip in political
circles in the country. In the state of
Washington recently the candidate
running as a Klansman came within
few hundred votes of capturing the
nomination for governor, and Monday
of this week in Texas candidate
running for United States senator was
high man. There must be something
to this organization that appeals to
the people or it could not develop SO
much strength. We have always look
ed upon the Ku Klux Klan as an or
: ganization of men wearing white
: robes and masks who go out commit
ting depredations and sometimes muir
der at will. Maybe we have been mis-
taken and instead of all that the or
ganization has for it's fundamental
ideals of government that are worth
while. We would like to know more
of this khan and it's policies.
The national republican committee
at Washington is to be asked to keep
it's hands off North Dakota and to al
low the Independent republicans-or
regulars-to wash their own dirty
linen in the coming November election
In other words we are supposed to
elect a democratic senator instead of
the league republican. This of course
is highly pleasing to the democrats of
the state and nation because every
democrat elected to the United States
senate at this fall election brings the
democratic party nearer the goal of
getting back into power. The demo-
Gratis are already building up hopes of
securing enough seats in the senate to
wrest control of that body and if they
win a seat in North Dakota from a
political fluke that will make it so
much easier. This is great old
world we are living in and it is no
wonder every democrat you meet
wears a mighty broad smile-if they
can elect a democrat in North Dakota
this fall.
The following facts regarding the
work and pay of shopmen under the
union rules has been related to the
Times-Record. A rule of the union
states that any shop craft worker,
called for duty after leaving the shop
for the day, shall be paid for mini
mum of five hours, regardless of the
length of time he works. An incident
was related. A train came into the
division point in the evening with the
headlight out of order. To repair the
headlight would ordinarily require
about twenty minutes. There were
some bolts to be loosened and this re-
quired the services of mechanic.
There was tin jacket to be taken off
and this would require the services of
tinsmith, although there was no SOL
dering to be DONE There was loose
:, wire and this required the services Of
an electrician. All three of these men
were called and the headlight repair
y ed in about half an hour, each man
receiving pay for five hours work.
: Another short job showed up that re-
quired the services Of these same men
and they did that work in about the
E same time required on the headlight.
The rules required their payment for
+ another five hours work, making ten
: hours pay received by these three men
for less than an hours work, on jobs
that could have been done by anyone
+, with any mechanical ability whatever.
! This is condition which the railroads
6 are fighting in the present strike, the
, payment for unperformed services.
=, We are doing a lot of agitating
these days in regard to graduating
the barberry bush to stop the spread
y Of black rust, claimed to come from
,, the barberry bush. This is all right
and we think should be still prescott
- ed until every bush of that character
! has been uprooted and burned up or