Show i sF ill i S V ARMY ARMY ClEAt s UP L CROPS i 4 Great Greal Industrial Gathering Harvests Har Bar p vests Yest Big Dig Wheat Yield I GLASS F FARM RM HANDS l Thirteen Thousand Thousand Mon Men From Many Parts of United Stat States Dispatched S Into Oklahoma They Oklahoma They Bring Fo Forth th Wheat Crop of and Oat r Crop of Oklahoma City Thirteen thousand men flow ninny parts of or the United Suites States were dispatched into the harvest fields of ot Oklahoma during the first three t weeks In June by the Oklahoma Olahoma department of ut labor and a record breaking h handling of or the wheat and andI I oat at crop resulted a aNever aNever Never Xe before etore In the southwest was such a large lurge body of or laboring men moI rao- rao I d and dl dispatched l to their places r.- r. of labor laboi lu In- Inso so o short a time and with S 4 t f little little- friction Men lIen covered ered freight t trains like blackbirds They tumbled J. J off ua by hy the score II at sit t towns along the theline line Ilse and ind were ere picked up by wagons fi and harried Into the fields and the whole whole- suite was cleaned up like magic 5 Two int hindrances were en en- 5 z countered u bv by the generals of ot the department department de de- of or labor At Enid a large contingent of the assembled laborers were were- Influenced by the Industrial Workers of or the World who persuaded a of If them to La bold hold out for t J i i wages K than those offered by ac t. t l farmers 2 mid ind 25 2 50 a 11 day with board boards s j f said and place The other bin bin- drance was by liy farmers along the rail rail- r i- i roads loads running west est from Enid who ignoring the thc carefully laid plans of ot the Ule ther r r d tl I picked off men as they 5 SS pa passed pad d slung along on ou their way to other j points to III which they were consigned In S. S t filling 01 orders deis for tor men regularly filed fled r. r F with the department William im m G G. Ashton assistant comy com com- ff tv t y ml of I labor bor who directed all the movements of or the campaign overcame over over- i came the In influence of or the L 1 I W W. Wi W W. r t. t s i workers m lit Enid within a si few tew b hours urs a jp The men who had Laad been pulled away i were promised two meals a day and andr f. f r i 54 other considerations while the they a await walt if t cd ed disposition under higher wage 5 terms In order under that this scheme i j might be carried out the leaders were to appear before the county commissioners sand and ask usk that provisions is n be be supplied the men u a majority of whom were we're without money mOlley v Simultaneously ne Ashton went before i rd the h ssi uel stud lUll explained that thit s h his s dep depa department nt tn had ball places for 1000 5 men at ut once at wages of 2 to a aLay d Lay ln v the 1 he es refused to toS toY S a Y make n ke an appropriation for food and J the be ranks of ot the the- strikers soon dwin- dwin k j si t died died That same slime day the rebels were 1 pacified and were sent out on trains rv f Into the fields t r v Enid was made the distributing point L of UlO most t of ot the northwest counties and l about men were handled out of or oi ja that place Enid is the thc seat seit of a state employment agency agency and the largest ti f city In the till whole wheat belt Bus Busi- 1 mess ness became became- so heavy heay at nt this office however that other office office- were openS opened open open- S r ed tad J nearer the wheat areas arcus of the farther far I ther northwest one at Ava and one at Woodward In n l each ach of these thee towns about 2500 men were handled Two or three weeks before the sea G 5 i son opened the department of or labor had hud learned the opening dates in the several subdivisions of the wheat belt elt and men and nUll boys were assembled no no- not t f 5 cordingly Representatives of or the department department deo de de- o visited every county In the thea a wheat belt and ascertained the approximate approximate ap ap- proximate number of men that would y be e needed This Information they ot ob- ob 5 tallied by bv personal Interviews by tele tele- I b S phone and through co corn com organizations The D new spa t i r pern aers took up the call and spread It ItI Ita I a Into every ever county and the United J J Staten department of or labor placed plad it Int in inconspicuous v t t conspicuous places in many parts of ot 55 w the country g- g J v Assistant Commissioner Ashton es es- es S. S te that t the entire campaign campal ost cost f the department only and the men harvested a n wheat hent crop valued II at t 30 sand and an oat t crop ClOp valued nt at 15 U Business Business s men give gave I e up UI their work r t I t to assist us f says fys ys Mr Ir Ashton Bank t Sifters ers hunts editors lumbermen i 1 real estate dealers ers mid and others co co ed ed d with us me In ev every er possible way way k The eagerness with which I t hands hand tress 11 gathered up bj by ln l lS h In the till railroads Is illustrated tIIu S Commissioner Commissioner Ashton r. r There There Thell were were- frequent among f farmers l to tott pet get tt hold of ur th the men l unloaded h he lit says ns n's This wn was true es al it Woodward n a tar fir western which h our men reached late Isle I 1 Isow It f t i sow ti II to several I time 1 one hll X a ii s tai to soil e owns hum i mother r ti r farmer tin n of if them au vv i I I Jo in the a a 8 ass a H of till the Hotel potter porter mm non II hr I held ld H I. I u. u hIs I i men tJ o lu their grill u- u his hl s r Y iiron n its III he hit inn rota n II t of farmers T trying to grab i ib the till prey rL 4 t tsee Isee tit I vS r mill near Euld were r see iU hundreds of on un i sal Ui t. t theft h r-ii r k Odds fields on 1111 their theli II to wc points i b j. j and they west were lute late hi h In theta t crops ire of Some Solute of I theta them Y tit tin t. f iV l rents cent to 1 1 1 n II div over Jer over the es of tin till wheat r F belt belt Static Some 1 l ll men not 1111 wanly three I. I square II i a slay 1 iv hilt hat Ih Ih t- t tand and then were wert- wert 01 others who whua t wets wc a willi Plim m to oh inn prosecution f for foi t of I tin tin- hi 11 law liw wi h Iv n II Tw f cold Nit lust tle T a as extra ments 1 f |