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%Wm The spirit of the late James J. Hill, £he Empire Builder, is the big thing that is steadily and most certainly win ning the railroad strike (or the Great Northern system. When the history of the Great Nor thern railroad is written the story of the St. Cloud shops and how the James J. Hill Veterans stood by the Great Northern railroad will be 020 of the bright pages. Headed by Superintendent Fred C. Lindt 577 men are tort ay working in the St. Cloud sho.:s. This is more than 100 per cent normal because 550 is the average number employed in these shops while last winter the av erage was 534. "We are James J. Hill Veterans," said William Lueck who has been with the road for 38 years, "and we are satisfied and we tbink we owe some thing to the people that have treated us fair for many years and that is why we are working." Peter Zierten, a 30 year veteran and John Glinski who has 26 years to his credit said they had always been treat ed well and expected the Great !Nor thern in the future would treat them fairly. "We are O. K.", said Mr. Glinski, "and we have two fine families. My oldest boy is in the University of "M:r nesota." At St. Cloud the Great Northern railroad did not try to break the strike any more than anywhere else but a OPINIONS OF NORTH DA KOTA EDITORS •3- *f Our Bumper Crop Do you know that North Dakota wheal than ?.N\ stilG in THT? union •IL Do%ou know that North Dakota will produce this_ yoar_ half of the flax grown in the United States? Harvesting is now we)! unr!«y vny in North Dakota, and nothing but ivail is to be: feared during the next few days. The crops are 'made" and •they promise to be bumper ones. The first threshing returns are available, and they a.e fully up to expectations. The rye harvest 1S at through with 'ut serious damage from rust and fulfilled the glowing pros pects of a month ago, hut the rew re turns available so far .show that vir ovei-running in It should not be the cause for gloat ing or boasting, but it should stir pro found gratitude in the heart of every citizen, and it should make the aver age man ashamed of discontent. This year at least we should have the most evenly distributed prosperity and the greatest freedom from actual want of any district on the globe. Surely such a state is worth claiming as a home. Surely such a state should in spire the greatest loyalty and the highest grade of citizenship.—Forum. Valley City Times-Record: Judge Amidon has handed down a decision a£out b,jco/ne its height, and •wheat and o'her grains are being cut: ir) all parts of the state. By the end of this week the wheat harvest will "be at its height. And not only have the crops come Hie Story of the St Cloud Shops. A Tribute to the Great Northern Veterans So. i. The Jllncknmlth Crew at the Great Norther* Shop, at St. Cloud that ft?,™™"™* h. ?e°ft^d S0per'ta"nde" t* of Great Northern Hallway Shops at St. Clond who refnned to strike. No. 3—W. P. Schmidt, Car Foreman on the lelt ana reo i,. i-inw, the St. Cloud Shop* of the Great Northern Hallway. These two men working together kept the St. Cloud xhops running more than a• oj the Htrike. Mnny of the men are Jnmett J. IIlll veterans and showed their loyalty by remaining on the Job. No. 4—A part of the Car Repairing Crew at St. Cloud that refuNed to obey any strike order. This crew of men was led by scores of James J. Hill veterans, many thorn Railway from thirty to forty years. They said they wanted to be loyal to their old employer. No. fr-A part of the machine shop force at the Great Northern Railway shops at St. Cloud who stuyed on the Job during the strike. All of them are old employes. look at the list of men and the time they have served the Great Northern railroad will show that no special race of men have been employed, that their long records prove they are satisfied and they are men of character and loyalty. Some of the men are Henry Seifen 31 years A1 Wen$trom 36 years John Shafer 36 years John Jandl 33 years Anton Kloske 41 years L. B. Schepers 31 years Matt Huff 31 years L. L. Bowers 35 years Joe Wise 30 years John Erickson 29 years Emmett A. Deaelar 28 years Henry Berkman 30 years John Ma terna 24 years Mike Reiter 29 years Charles Perlowski 29 years and John Perlowski 22 years. William Murphy, John Albers, G. E. Frank and scores of others who have served long terms with the Great Northern are proud to be at their regular places in the St. Cloud shops. Much of the credit for the stand taken by the men in St. Cloud is given to Superintendent Lindt, a James J. Hill veteran of 32 years. "We don't need any strike breakers in St. Cloud," said Superintendent Lindt, "we have loyalty and men of families who hate agitators." "The men are absolutely satisfied with the conditions and the wages and there are no outsiders among them— they are what we call "Home Brew" right from Stearns County. "A few of our men went out but |tn the effect that strikers can IP". onto railroad property and in a peaceful manner try to persuade strike breakers to join them, but they cannot go onto railroad property and use lorce, use obscene language or take lieuor onto the railroad property. The judge says that it is against the law for the railroads to segregate its the'unkm?"^ strike breakers to su^ndthem I„tIandi• A 7 a I ,such." is a HI*. sort wJ The decision fifty-?.. p.... -j„ The strikers can go on to the railroad property and mildly try to get the stiike breakers to quit their jobs but they must not get rough, while on the .other hand the railroad companies must not try to stop strikers by arm pub- Ule meantilTie tfie coal 6 V'elva Journal: At a mass meet cl in Yelvc. Satur- I fin L-he matter of agreeing on a scale of \vage= to be paid harvest hands a.id also the price per bushel for vhi-eshing gi.iin, were discussed. A resolution was adopted recommending that the wages for harvesting should tually ail grains are overrunning- in weight and the quality of the yields' 3-o0 per day will be in keeping with the quantity.! The. price per bushel for threshing North Dakota has real cause for( grain was .set at 12 cents for wheat thanksgiving this year. Probably no and rye ar.d 7 cents for oats and bar state in the union will be more for-1 ley. There has been some talk of tunate in the matter of crops. No' threshers charging 14 cents for wheat state will equal this in the per capita and rye. This was considered alto of new wealth produced from the soil, gel her too high by all farmers pres In a world toin with war, revolution, ent at the meeting and any thresher famine and pestilence, America stands out as the most favored na tion. And in the United States no state should .be more prosperops than our own during the coming 12 months. who boosts the wages of his men to the point where he will have to charge 14 cents will become mighty unpop|them. ular in this section, judging from the opinions aired at the meeting Satur day night. It seemed to be the opinion of all that threshing prices at 12 and 7 would allow the thresher to pay $2.00 for teams ar.d $4.00 for m6n and per haps a little more. This seemed to be a very fair wage and in keeping with this year's crop. These wages are on a par with those being paid in other parts of this state where similar meetings have been held. Ed Howe, the most famous of coun try editors, wrote this piece about North Dakota recently: There are two open barrels of of they have found that being a picket is a pretty lonely and thankless job. Our men have turned a. deaf ear to the pickets and there has been no trouble. "At the same time some of our boys that quit are at borne with heavy hearts and have never showed as pick ets. They are sad because they know that they owe it to themselves, their families and the Great Northern rail rdad to be back at work and I feel an ache in my heart every time I take a new man to replace one of my old boys that is simply afraid to come back. "I meet the boys on the street and we talk it all over and they tell me it is simply because they are afraid of names and abuse otherwise there would not be half a dozen men out in St. Cloud. "It is a fact that the James J. Hill Veterans took the lead in saying they would be loyal and the spirit of James J. Hill is steadily and very rapidly bringing the Great Northern men back to work all over the system. Proud of the fact that they are James J.. Hill Veterans and belong to the Veterans Association the men smilingly and gladly poset'. for their pictures so, as they expressed it, the world can see whether or not they are "scabs or honest veterans performing any hon est task in a loyal manner to an old employer." As the veterans began to rush into the groups to have their picture taken powder in North Dakota and ev ery firebrand hurled in that state lands in one or the other. And both sides are vicious mad, ready to fight. In traveling I lately ran across a North Dakota man in the smoking room of the sleep er. He talked in the husky voice of an orator just returned from a long tour speaking to large aud iences. It turned out he was not a public speaker, only a citizen. He had become husky of voice from arguing with everybody. He talked incessantly and every thing he said was exaggerated. The North Dakota row can be settled in a week if the men of both sides will grant the com promises that must finally be made. And what row couldn't be settled in a week, if both sides would make the necessary compromises? Rugby Tribune: The nonpartisan league candidate for governor of South Dakota, who, by the way, is a lady, wired a long. telegram to Presi dent Harding giving her views and presumably the views of the party she represents, on the strike situation, with regard to the coal mines and railroads.. The main point in her. plea was this: We urge that the government take over the ownership of the coal mines and the railroads and pay the strikers what they de mand. That is a plea that no doubt meets with the approval of the farmers of I the United States, whom the league was supposed to represent, primarily. It will no doubt make a big hit with What makes this suggestion the more startling, is the fact that after all of these weeks of wrangling, a simple way out like this should come from a mere woman! Why hasn't some bright politician thought of that before, or, having thought of it, expressed it in such understandable form? The more one'deliberates over the suggestion, the clearer it becomes that it is one of the simplest and most thoroughly pleasing methods that could be devised, and so simple! Why, it's just like snapping one's fin gers, and presto! everything is set tled. And the beauty of jt is, it can be followed down the line clear to the end, and everybody can be satisfied and made happy! The government Mm „t ihf reat many young men like Frank Wawak with 14 years service Peter Branten burger with 21 years and William Sauer with 9 years begged to be al lowed to pose with the veterans. So they allowed what they termed "the kids" to get into the group. W. P. Schmidt, car foreman P. P. Theisen, machine shop foreman Petei F. Miller, yard foreman S. S. Stelzig, foreman of the blacksmith shop and G. E. Tallmadge, storekeeper, all de clared they had a full force at work and that the men were almost unaware that there was a shopmen's strike go ing on. Henry Seifen, a veteran in discuss ing the strike said that the strikers were not clear on just what thej wanted. "We have everything we had be fore," said Mr. Seifen, "and the cut of 5 to 9 cents an hour is not a big item and had to be expected. There are certain things a man owes his employ er and the men of St. Cloud have rec ognized that thing which we call "loy alty." "When they write the story about St. Cloud," said Superintendent Lindt, "1 hope it will not be boastful because we do not feel that way. The men feel that right is right and that they are going to go along in their own way and say only one thing for me and that is that the old vets hate agitators —they don't like 'em.'" can' take over the farms and pay the farmers whatever they might demand, and the farm laborers whatever they might demand if factory workers de cided that they were not getting enough the government could take over the factories and pay them whatever they might demand, and why? there would be absolutely noth ing to it! In fact, we have never at any time seen or heard of any plan, outside of Senator Edwin F. Ladd's proposal that the government just strike off a few one thousand dollar bills and pass around among the sol dier boys, that appealed to us_ one half so much. If it has been claimed that every national crisis brings forth its great men—or women—and this great crisis seems to be no exception to the rule. Hands Off North Dakota "Hands off North Dakota" is good advice for the republican national committee, and if the men in charge of the party's national affairs are wise they will heed the advice. This is our fight in North Dakota, and it is not a fight in which the national committee should have any interest. As between Frazier and O'Connor, from an organization stand point, the republican party would be just as well off with a fair minded democrat as with Mr. Frazier. If the republican party has any doubt about that, it does not need to look further than Senator La Follette. Mr. La Follette's capacity for team work with the party he is supposed to rep resent is zero. He doesn't know the meaning of the word, and an open opponent of the republican organiza tion, if he were inclined to be reason able and fair in his attitude, would be far preferable from a purely party standpoint to another La Follette. This ir, the principal interest of the republican national committee—to add another republican senator. But in this case the label means nothing. It is not a choice between a republican and a democrat, but a choice between a recalled socialist governor and a democrat. Many thousands staunch republicans are going to vote for Mr. O'Connor this fall. Probably a ma jority of the republicans of the state will vote lot Mr. O'Connor. It be hooves the national committee, there tore' to display a little tact. It, of course, cannot be expected to support Mr. O'Connor, but it can keep its i, ••g...t, ^1,, i'i hands off North Dakota, and that would be the wisest thing it could do. This is our fight up here in this state and we don't need the advice of either "Wall Street" or the republican na tional committee on how to conduct it. We are going to finish the job this coming fall and any national com mittee that attempts to prevent the accomplishment of that is likely to be very unpopular in years to come.— Fargo Forum. Just prior to the time he was par doned from the federal prison at At lanta, Eugene V. Debs was described by his admirers as being a ''nice, kind-hearted, Christian old man." Speaking of the coal strike the other day, and referring to the riots at Her ein, 111., where more than 40 men were murdered in a most shocking manner, Comrade Debs said "there has been some slight disorder and a few scabs have been hurt." That is not the statement of a ''Christian man" and if the United/States government wish ed to do so, they could perform a Christian act by slamming Gene back in the federal prison again and' keep him there for the rest of his life. That is the only way in which the Harding administi-ation will be able to remove the blot on the republican party which it placed there by giving this "Christian old man" his liberty. —Divide County Journal. Grasshoppers Damage North Dakota Crops Fargo, N. D.—"Probably the grass hoppers are threatening greater dam age to crops in North Dakota this year than the people realize," said Stewart Lockwood, government ento mologist and grasshopper specialist formerly stationed at the N. D. Agri cultural College but now at Billings Mont. "Large numbers of grasshoppers are present in many parts of the western half of the state but owing to the abundant growth of prairie 1 Everything for the HOME grass this year they have not moved to the fields. The grain crops are mostly out of danger of grasshopper damage for this year but these large numbers of the insects present this year means that very likely there will be many grasshoppers next year and the stubbling in of rye is to be advised against in j/aces where grasshoppers are numerous," said Mr. Lockwood. "The reason for advising against stubbling in rye is because this makes an ideal incubator for grasshopper eggs. The adult female seeks a hard place and deposits her eggs in August and September," Mr. Lockwood said. "Several letters have been received from farmers who have noticed large numbers of grasshoppers," said It. L. Webster, entomologist at the Agri cultural College, today in discussing this subject.. "So far the grasshop pers have been satisfied in/ the native prairie grasses and have not mobilized for attack upon the grain fields. Weather is a factor in the grasshop per trouble and in seasons when enough rain falls to afford abundant growth of grass the insects Will not bother crops while in a dry year the same number of hoppers would move in and destroy crops." WINTER WHEAT TRIED WITH GOOD SUCCESS IN PEMBINA Bismarck, N. D.—Winter wheat is being tried out with good success in Pembina county, one of the state's northernmost counties, according to word received by C. R. Green, mana ger of the Bank of North Dakota, Mr. Green distributed considerable winter wheat seed. James Sharp, near Hamilton, who planted 50 different kinds of seed on his farm this year, reported that winter wheat on his farm had six rows of grain to the head. Winter wheat will mature earlier and rust danger is lessened by its use. Patronize our advertisers. WE-NON-CHA SUMMER RESORT THE BEAUTY SPOT OF SASKATCHEWAN In the heart of tiie Moose mountains, 158 miles north of Minot. Located on Fish lake, where the big pike and "Jacks" always bite. 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