Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1908 — THE WORK IS NOT THERE. [ARTICLE]

THE WORK IS NOT THERE.

Labor Commissioner Says Men Who Seek Work in Harvest Fields Will Be Disappointed. St. Paul, Minn., August 11.—Following a visit made to North Dakota, and after a conference with Governor Burke and other officials of the State. Labor Commissioner Williams of Minnesota, says that instead of there being employment in the harvest fields for 15,000 or 20,000 men. 1,000 will be lucky if they can find jobs. “This thing of railroads asking for 15,000 and 20,000 men each year for harvest work in North Dakota and Minnesota is a snare and a delusion. It is downright criminal, for it is flooding the Northwest with a lot of hobos that will have to be taken care of by the municipalities and the States.’’ Mr. Williams received a letter from the mayor of Philadelphia saying that he had 5,000 idle men that he could ship to the Northwest. "I wrote him and told him they were not wanted,” he said.