The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
HANDING OUT
The ROAD JOBS
py HANS RASMUSSEN


renIv to a letter, which l
III 20 the State Highway Com
SEM MN " Sept. &c, as to how the
In.oI Employment Relief Commit
t .OC0, we're appointed, | received the
! giving wiz" information, signed by
IOHT d RAIDER, state highway en-
owe are anxious to see that
,",ittees are appointed winch
iii he fair to all parties con-
VIZ who'd The exact manner of the
csi n0intment of these committees
spp : matter for the people of the
= ,nrtv TO decide. | would suggest
t GSur' , good method would be to
'i nII meeting of interested citi-
San and elect a committee. The
LIN s thing is to see that the com
n,ittee is composed Of fair minded
li nj representative men and that
"I nalts Of. the county are given
smlal representation"
The contractor working under
chic "reIief" measure is governed
~ certain rules laid down, one of
,rbicb is: The contractor shall in
form the local employment relief
.ommittee of his need for labor
and request list of names from
~bicb he may select his require
ments Should the committee fail
f. supply such a list within AZ
hours after the receipt of such a
reouest the contractor shall be
free to employ any available labor,
nrovided, however, that, when
Ealified ex-servicemen with de-
dendents, or other labor living in
the county, adjacent counties, OF
in the state, shall be given pref
erence in employment in the order
named"
According to Mr.. RAIDERS letter
the committee should be elected
bv interested citizens" and shoulc
he "fair minded. In Plentywooc
the selection of this "fair minded
man was done by a few business
men. members of the Commercial
club They did not lose any time
selecting their man. If any jobs
were to be handed out to the farm
ers, the business men wanted tt
have the control of it. Although
the farmers and workers were tn
ones who would be most interested
in the jobs, they were not invited
to help electing this "fair minded
man, Free Morck. He was picket
BY the business men and pickle,
right out of their midst, is a typi
cal business man and work agains
the interests Of the farmers an
working class.
Fred MOrck is an ex-banker, h
lived as long as he could by squee
ing as much as he could out of tn
farmers until his bank busteC
Now he is a land agent and
doing some more squeezing where
ever he can get a chance. Alth
he is doing some radical talking &
times, he showed plainly two year
ago that he was against the WORK
ers and supporter of the Ana
COnda Copper Co., and other bi
interests.
At that time a petition was eli
culated all over the state for tt
purpose of getting a workmen'
compensation bill on the ballo
The bill would not be in any shaI
or form affect the farmers, bl
it would benegit the workers I
the big industries, and it would
some extent harm the big fellow
And Fred was paid by these b
fellows to go out and get signe.
against the compensation bill, ]
did what he could to defeat tn
bill, did what he could to keep Il
working people down.
That Oscar Collins has been p
to work on the road shows no
fair minded" the handing out
Jobs is being handed. While o
car is working there are othe
who have been turned down, WI
couldn't buy salt for an egg, al
who didn't have the egg.
Oscar Collins served in {
SSpanish-American war, if he d
his country any good by doing
we DO not know, but he is M
drawing a pension from the GO
eminent every month. He is a s
and a double-crosser, and he
given the job in preference to t
many honest working men W
needed the job much worse tn
ne did. 1t is said that Oscar
gong to be deputy sheriff if Ha
SMadsen is reelected, and Ha
aadsen has never denied it. 1t
nice to be on the good side of
prospective law enforce, so Csc
Is given a job on the road no m;
Yer If ne is fit for the Job or n
while others more needy c
starve.