The nonpartisan leader. [volume], June 30, 1919, Image 11

About The nonpartisan leader. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1915-1921

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HE Nonpartisan Leader is
in receipt of the follow
ing letter from an Iowa
farm worker and one of
the leaders in a new
move to organize a union
of farmhands. This new move should
interest readers of the Leader both as
employers and as members of an or
ganization for better economic condi
tions on the farm. The letter:
"Newton, Iowa.
"Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
"Heading some of your papers and
being interested in my family's wel
fare, I would like to find out as a farm
laborer just what benefit the average
married farmhand will receive from
the Nonpartisan league.
'"We are talking union very strongly
in Iowa at present, and there is a
league or brotherhood of farm labor
ers that we could affiliate with.
"I will give the reasons for organ
izing briefly:
"1. Too much labo? and too long
hours for the pay received.
"2. No holidays, legal or otherwise.
"3. Inexperienced men receive as
much aa experienced hands.
"4* No means of pleasure or travel
furnished or kept.
"5. Farmers' alliance organizing to
cut wages.
"Unless something is done soon,
there will be no farm labor in this part
of the world, at least. I will briefly
state the demands of our embryo or
ganization and ask you to answer,
preferably through the columns of
your paper, if you consider them ex
cessive:
FARMHANDS' DEMANDS
OUTLINED BY WRITER
"For Married Help.—A minimum
wage of $50 a month, with 12 hours
labor, including chores, .longer hours
to be paid for at time and a half.
House and garden spot, cow and chick
ens enough to furnish milk and eggs
for the family 400 pounds of meat a
year, or equivalent to the extras to be
paid in cash at double wages. A means
furnished for a man to take his fam
ily out on Sundays or holidays. Two
Sundays, a month off. All legal holi
days off, or, if rushed, another day
off in duller times.
"For Single Men.—A minimum
wage of $40 a month, with 12 hours a
day labor, including chores horse
kept or furnished board and laundry
furnished.
"Inexperienced men to receive $10
less per month'while serving an ap
prenticeship of two years.
"ROY PHILLIPS,
"Acting Secretary Jasper County
Farmhands' Association."
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The Leader first of all wishes to
point out one act that has been passed
in North Dakota by the League legis
lature and-, which should be of more
than a little benefit for the farmhands
of the state. This is the home build
ers' law.which places the help of th6
state at the hands of any person who
wishes to purchase a farm or a home.
The state requires only that, the
purchaser advance 20 per cent of the
necessary money.
In another, but more indirect man
ner, the Nonpartisan league will help
the farmhand by helping the farmer.
It is the aim of the League to obtain
for the farmer a fairer proportion of
what his product brings on the market.
Iffarmhands now areunderpaid, it is
principally because the farmers, too,
aje underpaid. When the owner of a
farm is fairly paid, the farmhands,
too, will be better paid for this labor.
As for the aims of the farm labor
organization, the Leader indorses the
plan of organizing the farm workers
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The Farmer and the Farmhand
|„What the Nonpartisan League Means to the Hired Worker
on the Land—An Answer to a Correspondent
for co-operation with the farmer to
better conditions on the farm. -The
task of building up an organization of
farm workers is a difficult one, but
no more difficult than that undertaken
by the farmers who started the Non
partisan league.
The embryo organization in Iowa, it
may be said in passing, may rest as
sured that when the farm workers' as
sociation becomes a national fact, it
will find the farmers of the Nonpar
tisan league the first to "recognize the
union,, and work with it for better
labor conditions on the farm.
The question of whether the de
mands of Mr. Phillips' organization
are fair depends for its answer largely
upon another question—whether^ they
will allow the employer to operate at
a fair profit or force him to accept a
loss at die end of the season.—THE
EDITOR.
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HE accumulated manufacturing experience of over
of century—and the judgment of
over .20,000 owners is back of the new,
small 22 36 Ideal Thresher.
You know the record and reputation of the larger sizes
of the Ideal—there's no farming community that hasn't its
Ideal outfits with their satisfied customers. When we were
called upon to build a smaller size separator, we didn't
just "turn one out"—we built along the same lines as the
Ideal, determined that our small threshers would be
leaders in their class just as are the larger.
So in the small as .well as the larger Ideals you will
find those features that mean the difference between a
"sure" and a "guesswork" job. Ideal thresher owners will
teQ you that.
Bunching, or cylinder winding is unknown in the
Ideal—because the Ideal Is designed on the principle of
a stoady, even Bow of straw through the machine from
the time it enters the cylinder until, free from all grain, it
leaves through the stacker.
placed the Ideal grates exactly right in
relation to the cylinder.. Then wo designed the Ideal trav
elling slatted rake to take the straw from the cylinder and
carry it to. the straw rack. Result—more grate surface and
Weady oven flow of straw, making choking impossible.
GOLDSMITH WAS IRISH
Acequia, Idaho.
Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
In the June 2 issue of the Leader,
you printed a quotation from Gold
smith's "Deserted Village" and in an
explanatory note you said that the
author was an "English poet." Permit
me to call your attention to the fact
that Goldsmith was not English—he
was an Irishman, born at Pallas, Coun
ty Longford, Ireland.
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PAGBBtEyEN
P. O'ROURKE.
The Leader confesses its error in
classifying Oliver Goldsmith. Gold
smith was an Irish boy and received
most of his education in Ireland, ex
cept his medical education, which he
received at Leyden and other places on
the continent of Europe. However, all
his literary life was spent in London,
where he was a close friend of Samuel
Johnson, English lexicographer and Sir
Joshua Reynolds, the noted painter.—
THE EDITOR.
Aristocracy is always cruel.—PHIL
LIPS.
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The moth that lays the eggs from
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Shaking alone-wasn't a guarantee of complete separa*
don, so we put sets of lifting fingers on the straw rack,
that tear the straw open—rake it—beat it from beneath..
Result—complete separation and no waste.
Then, to take care of the increased capacity due to these
inventions and to make the Ideal do a perfect job of clean
ing, we put in extra chaffer area. The chaffer in the clean
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of wind control, guarantee a perfect job of cleaning with
out waste. Result—the kind of .cleaning that gets "no
dockage" at the elevator.
Such construction shows why the small 22 36 will
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the 28 44 up to 1,500 bushels.
The Ideal is built in four sizes—22 36, 28 '44, 32 52
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