The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 24, 1919, Page 13

It doesn’t make much difference to the farmer whether he buys or sells, an example. When the farmer brings his pig to market, the packer giv is apt to be three or four times what he got for it. But, of course, the pac MINNESOTA 4 NNOUNCEMENT of a state- wide campaign to get slush funds to fight the Nonpartisan league in Minnesota is being made by the “Loyal Voters’ associa- tion,” an organization similar to the- North Dakota Independent Voters’ as- sociation of odorous memory. “Lieu- tenant” Dan -E. Richter, former pro- fessional agitator for the North Dako- ta bund, is secretatfy of ‘the new or- ganization and is asking for donations of anything from $10 up. ‘ * % % John Meints of Luverne, testifying " in his. own behalf in his damage suit ’ against 32 business men of the town, following a tar-and-feather party a year ago of which he was the victim, identified Rev. H. W. Bedford, former pastor of the Luverne Methodist church, as the man who beat him with a rope after he was tarred and feath- ered. Meints said he recognized the gentleman of the cloth because a hand- kerchief which the, latter used as a . mask had slipped from his face. * %k %k The Minnesota Society of Equity is facing a serious fight with the ap- proach of the annual meeting this month. Colonel R. A. Wilkinson, former state president and leader of _the reactionary forces of the society, is reported to be conducting a clan- destine campaign, framed up to oust President A. C. Welch, elected last spring, at the convention. > * * % The Working People’s Nonpartisan Political league will undergo its first test of strength.in Minneapolis when that city votes-on a street car fran- chise, advanced to give the company power to raise its fares. The politi- cal league is opposing the franchise. EDITOR MINNESOTA LEADER. ! \ WELCOME : (LL GIVE YoU 2 ¢ PER LB. FOR THE PORKER THE PACKERS.} IDAHO RGANIZED labor and the or- ganized farmers of the Twin Falls country joined hands in a great massmeeting recently and pledged their support to €ach oth- er for political and economic reforms. The Idaho Labor league was organized and pledged support to the farmers, who in turn unanimously indorsed sup- port of the principle of collective bar- gaining and the machinists’ strike now in progress in Twin Falls. & : £ * * The $50,000 suit of Ray -McKaig, League lecturer, against the Boise - Statesman and Frank R. Gooding is now being tried at Boise. A jury has been selected and several witnesses for the complainant have been exam- ined. Rev. W. W. Deal, master of the Idaho state Grange, virtually exploded the charges of the defense which ac- cused the Leaguers of being Socialists, and I. W. W.s. Rev. Deal, himself a former organizer, testified that he had been a Republican up to the time of his joining the League. EDITOR IDAHO LEADER. WASHINGTON ALTER THOMAS -MILLS, the noted economist and lecturer for the National Nonpartisan league, is quickening the League spirit among the farmers in the state of Washing- ton by some large daily meetings. * *® * - . Yakima county has determined that the politicians ‘shall not rule that county or the state after-the next elec- tion, and they are going to have a series of meetings covering the county thoroughly. They are appointing com- mittees from each district to look after that district and see that each and every one attends the meetings. They . TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE the profiteer gets him either way.' T WHAT THE ORGANIZED FARMER IS SHORT NOTES ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES IN LEAGUE STATES will wind up the series of meetings with a big rally at some central place in the county. Walter Thomas Mills will be the speaker. ¥ * * The Triple Alliance, which is in this state the railway brotherhoods and the American Federation of Labor joining hands with the Nonpartisan league, is organizing rapidly. WASHINGTON STATE MAN- AGER. MONTANA : ROM all parts of the state peti- tions for a referendum on the killing of the Montana primary law by the legislature are pour- ing in upon the state League head- quarters. Not dismayed by the be- trayal by the copper-colored legisla- ture, which slaughtered the primary after 40,000 voters had demanded its retention, the farmers and workers are laboring ‘with greater zeal than ever to defeat the odious “emergency” primary bill murder. ¥ * 3%k Precinct meetings throughout the state were scheduled to be held on November 22. Delegates appointed at the precinct meetings will gather at a county conference to elect representa- tives to the state conference, which will name the state ticket. A second county conference will nominate coun- ty officers. - * k% Intense enthusiasm is being shown at the series of meetings in the north- ern and eastern parts of the state be- ing conducted by B. K. Wheeler and A.Budden. Both farmers and workers are attending in large numbers and all evince a firm determination to “go over the top” in .1920. - EDITOR MONTANA NONPAR- TISAN. B — PAGE THIRTEEN KE IT LERVE (T BUT IT WILL COST 48¢ Per LB- o ) RUVPE . U < &?Iarr - —Drawn expressly for the Leader by W. C. Morris. he present spread of price between pig and pork is es him 12 cents a pound. But if he tries to buy back some of that pig as pork, the price kers don’t think their business ought to be interfered with through government regulation! DOING _ COLORADO RGANIZATION of a political O league of workers, similar to that effected in Minnesota, Dakota and other League states, has started in Colorado. The Workers’ Nonpartisan league of Col- orado has been formed as the result of efforts made in that direction last spring at the convention of the Colo- rado State Federation of Labor. The workers will affiliate with the organiz- ed farmers for political action. The platform of the new force in Colorado politics includes declarations favoring collective bargaining, minimum wage laws, compulsory education laws, res- | toration of the right of free speech, free press and peaceable assemblage, and the amehdment of the state in- dustrial commission law. * & % In an effort to rob the potato grow- ers of Colorado of their own markets and force them to ship to commission men at the latter’s own dictation, the commission men of the state have pre- sented a petition to the state utilities commission complaining against the “injustice of distributing cars to grow- ers that is now practiced by the San Luis Valley railroad.” The San-Luis valley produces about 4,000 cars of spuds a year, and this season, through co-operative methods, the farmers of the district were able to obtain cars and with them the full market for their produce. EDITOR COLORADO LEADER. NORTH DAKOTA terminal elevator to be erect- ed by the state mill and el-- evator association, it has been an- nounced by the state industrial coms mission. This means that the big RAND FORKS has been ‘ : awarded the state mill and mother plant of the state system: will e