A.W.I.U.NO.IIO BALLOT COMMITTEE REPORT, .tawdry 9. 1923 +. F,lthe undersigned members of the Ballot Committee elected by

o5 thJ™IS°fan ?“f Seidel. hereby 8Ubmit °ur rep°rt “d tabulati™

anrfCo^r^+Prf f!^eraA;C,Linn waf suddeniy taken ill with appendicitis and operated upon, and was unable to function on the Ballot Committee.

the ballot?!'lninS members aPP<>inted W.F. Lowe to help them tabulate

For Secretary-Treasurer

Candidate Field

Tom Wallace James Kelley % Hanley

Br.

- Chi. Hall Omaha Br, Sioux Ctyy/Mpls Br. Total

Albert Hanson Fred Mann John O'Brien J.A. Lee Sam Oberman Joe Murphy Wm Dawson

Robert Hall Frank Clark J.P-. Allen Sam Domb Jos .Levine

Amendments

186

35

38

85

90

434

95

22

6

27

11

161

45

5

For G.O.C .

12

10

7

79

202

43

43

53

67

408

167

41

37

72

68

385

170

38

31

75

70

384

174

35

27

48

39

323

159

16

21

47

49

292

136

39

24

31

50

270

127

12

Alternates

26

56

45

266

149

12

15

40

35

241

83

32

12

39

26

182

87

12

10

35

28

172

70

14

9

22

36

151

50

10

3

20

15

98

l) 51

7

3

10

9

80

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4

18

Del, Conv,

43a

20

New By-laws No. 1

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

328

97

48

15

32

25

56

34

69

31

310

22

52

4

51

4

82

16

87

13

281

41

48

9

44

11

77

23

84

13

184

125

31

21

28

16

48

39

55

34

96

7

5

18

15

v 67

13

17

9

24

114

34

33

82

64

280

37

51

3

33

8

77

12

86

6

313

18

56

3

50

3

95

3

95

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185

130

41

14

32

20

55

36

68

29

230

83

44

11

35

18

63

26

69

25

302

58

97

Total Ballots Cast.

343 62

Ballots Void.

For Secretary -1 For G.O.C.- Too late to be counted -22.

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141

130

326

29 381 229

Entirely -4

With best wishes, we remain

Yours for the I.W.1

Tom Murphy, 238077 W. Sever in, 253089 W.F. Lowe, 813307

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"An Injury to One Is the Concern of All" AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO.IIO OF THE I.W.W. BULLETIN No . 1

Chicago, II T_. _ January 18, 1923.

Fellow Workers:

EXPERIENCE TEACHES

The new officials' of the A. 17. 1. U. No. 110 have nowassumed control of affairs at headquarters, and the General Organization Committee is in session preparing the main details for the 1923 membership drive. This general program will be based upon the program outlined by the Minneapolis' convention.

In line with this preparation by the officials, there should go forward in the branches and among the members such discussion and activities as will bring to the spring convention such suggest io; and recommendations as experience in other years would prompt their adoption. .

It is the capacity of the A.W.I.U. to learn from its ^exper¬ ience and to profit from its mistakes that has been such a factor in enabling it to reach for and attain new records every year, so that each succeeding organization campaign is more fruitful than

those which have preceded. As a consequence we find the A.W.I.U.

gaining in power and influence, and winning for itself and the I.W.W. a definite place in labor history.

In the final analysis, the capacity of the A.F.I.U, is more correctly accounted for by its delegate system than any other factor among its functioning organs. These delegates constitute the heart

of the A.W.I.U., and, to the extent the delegates are plentiful, _

sound and active, the energy and success of Industrial Union No. 110 is measured. So vital is the delegate system that work toward building it up should be continuously maintained. There should be no letup in the recruiting of delegates in any part of any year.

One of the necessary preparatory steps for the 1923 campaign is to recruit and instruct delegates from nfcw on. Every available member — and every member should be available — ought to be urged to take out the 1923 credentials without delay. The way to do things is to do them, and the way to become a delegate is to take out credentials. If you have no credentials, it is your duty to take them out. If you have credentials, it is your duty to prevail upon 0th°r members to take them out, With a strong force of delegates working to a plan we shall be prepared to line up agricultural workers in a manner that will astonish even the veterans of many drives. Preparation is the key to success, and by preparing npw_we can make 1923 the banner membership year in the A.w.I.U.

New membership is the lifeblood of organization. Now is_.gur time to hacrln training our young blood how to function as delegates,.

There is splendid material in The old membership which has never

undertaken delegate's work. Most of these have had the excuse that the work was beyond them because of inability to fill out the forms necessary for enrolling members and reporting upon the business don. But, now that the Educational Bureau is preparing a course on this very feature of organization, those who desire to function will no longer be able to offer this excuse.

T.Pt nc; p-et down to business seriously and the measure of our a,H pqrVipqtness ' wTIT~ be marked in 'the monthly reports ° nr fyf garta" years have taught us many reasons! but

n^pf^he^most important is .that unity will control circumstances whichwill put thf disunited to rout. A theoretical training in the halls will qualify the membership to meet and to successfully handle situations that may arise.

Hoftflnuarters will do its part and at all times function in the interest “thl organization. The duties of officials are

clearly defined and .ill be carried «* “

harmony, cooperation and coordination of effort »inbin the mgani- zaticn the a.W.I.U. will march confidently to the gr^a-est ye^r in the history of an I.W.W, organization.

Buildup the delegate system and other things will take care' of themselves. Recruit delegates. Educate delegates*, ihis is tnen one best way to face 1923,

JOB

N E V! S

CALIFORNIA

.TOCKTON, 12-26 Land clearing job 14 miles out in the oountry. Work' for Kc Laughlin. All hiring done at Williams Employment Office. Work nine hours, wages $4.50 per day, board $1.20 (R 302)

DINUBA, 1-4-23 Grapevine pruning about to start here. This •'ill be mostly day work. Wages will be about 40 to 50£ per hour. Fellow workers, you do not need fur-lined coats here; but we need more members on the job. Letts do it now. ( G 381)

PASO ROBLES California Almond Growers Asso. on the

Southern Pacific R.R. Planting trees, pruning, etc. .Experience not necessary. This job starts immediately after the rain starts in January. Employing from 50 to 150 in about six camps. Sentiment Coward the I.W.W, fair. Job lasts £rom one to three months. Wages from $2.50 to $7.00 per day. Nine hour day. Blankets required nitary conditions and board fair. $1.00 per dav for board.

Hired at Paso Robles office. (J.K.)

_ Kirkaan Nurseries Co. Nursery work. No experience

needed in most cases. Nurseries near Fresno, Mo java, and Los Angeles. Stock yards all over the state. Tying trees in bundles, pitting, trimming, packing, . etc . This work should be starting; in soon. Employing at Fresno about 35, Mo java about 20, dos Angeles about 30, Job lasts all winter and well into the summer. Wages vary for the kind of work. Nine hour day. Camp sanitation and board fair. Blankets required. Hired at State Tree Employment office. ( § 843079).

N 0

ICE

The following delegates will please get in touch with the main office at once., VERY IMPORTANT.

Frdd Alkire G 881 Fred Behrend G 885 Tm Compton G 190 Jack Doyle G 586 Win E. Gleason G 168 Aner Jackola G 667 Jili. Me MilTen G467 Milton Nelson G 245 Joe Smith G 209 Mn Younker G 346 Alfred West G 81

Henry Allard

G 267

Fred Berg

G 668

J.E«. Conway

G 987

Geo . Drennow

G 489

H.O. Hanson

G 244

Rudy Lee

G 657

L . R . May

G 1014

Jos. Hemphill

G 171.7

Cl eve Severns

G 536

Ernest Swan

G 571

Bert Walker

G 1757

Harry Anderson G

John Callahan G

E . B , Damon G

C.J. Driscoll G

Otto Hanson G

Royl Link G

Clay Maxwell G

F. E. O'Neil . G

G.H. Polk G

Joe Siverson G

G. Vf. Tryor G

411

265

1051

462

85

672

574

45

494

947

168

"THE I.W.W.

From the Republican. "Fresno, Calif. V- , J

men struck here, Friant, Calif . vester^av- in Three hundred

warren Construction Co/for more^Igls LoSter C*Ps+of the *

working conditions, and the released?' the Fellow < jails of California and other places. Xlow Workers from the

"By night the campfires of 1 the railroad and other roads for

;he pickets could be miles. "

seen dotting

Telegram received January #Stop publicity. Strike won.

13th by main Details later.

office of I.U. rike Committee

310:

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO. 120 0? THE I.R.W.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT JANUARY let TO JANUARY lGr.h, IP S3

Initiations 150.00

Dues 770.00

Other Unions* — Inits • 130,00.

•Organization Stamps ' ' ' '• 40.50

Bond Stamps 3..0C

• Defense Stamps 1355,00

Personal Deposits 20,00

Uirinecpolis Bi. Propa, Fund Depbsit 50,00

. Card Ca'ses 3,50

Buttons 8 cCO

Literature 27,05

Duplicate Card Receipts • (D.O ,R. 1 s) 17.50-

Monies Paid on Aoc’t Br , Secy's, Dels.pG.O.C. 703,41 Papers ' 106,73

Dupllcat e Cards 17. CO

General Defense Donations 5.G0

Sybs f . g, CO

Use of Mimeo 10.25

Joint Account Receipts 40.73

Return Postage Received . 10

Total 2587.87

Expenditures.

Sub s 5.00 Commission on Inits and Literature 41.48 Rages, Br. Sec 'ys, Dels, $ G.0,0. 412.00 Mileage 27.55 Allow, on Reports from other Unions 293.30 Monies Adv, on Acc't Br. Sec 1 ys, Dels, G. 0, C. 934,29 Papers 287.08 Exp. and Adv. General Defense 104,19 Main Office Salaries ■ 215.33 Rent, Light, Heat' ■ . 312.12 Stationery & Fixtures 31.33 'Postage, Express, Wires • 42,04 Withdrawals Mpls Br. Propa. Fund 30.00 Eoint Account Expenditures 3.75 Portland Strike Donations & Exp. 602,65 Calif, C.S. Fund Withdraw!® ■ • 50.00 Industrial Wo»feer, Monthly donation 1 25.00 ■I.U. 310 Conv. Assmts- 15,00 Auditing & Ballot Committee, Wages 114.00

Total 3546.11

S U M MARY

Total Receipts 2587.87

Cash on Hand January 1st 9442 .OS

Grand total 12029,93 Total Expenditures 5546.11

8483.82

T.om Doyle,

Sec 'y-Treasurer .

Cash on Hand January 16th

NOW IS THE TIMS TO ACT

The Supreme Court of Iowa has just reversed the decision of the lower court in the case of Henry Tonn, who was convicted of alleged criminal syndicalism. The Supreme Court did not remand him j.or retrial. The prosecution has ten days in which to apply for a re- gjjt. \ hearing.

State after state is gradually either declaring the law uncon¬ stitutional or the Supreme Courts are reversing the decision of lower courts. All but California.

Hundreds of fellow workers are awaiting trial there for charges I ranging from vagrancy to criminal syndicalism. In Los Angeles the fellow workers are working day and night to"keep the ball rolling". ? Over a hundred and fifty have been arrested in that county alone. Others are selling the Industrial Worker and Industrial Solidarity on the streets unmolested. Others are distributing defense litera¬ ture as fast as it is sent there; and at times they print their own leaflets.

However, they are short of funds. The General Defense Committee has been sending funds to various points in California and at the same time keeping up the amnesty campaign, which has practically depleted our treasury. We are short of funds. Unless we get immediate help the various campaigns will be set back for some time.

If you cannot go to California to help in the fight, then surely you can help raise funds to support those courageous fellow workers who are blaming the trail for a bigger I.W,Wr. in California.

Send in for a receipt book today. Write for a number of General Strike Bulletins. This bulletin contains valuable organization matter,

General Defense Committee, 1001 West Madison Street Chicago, Ill,

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

Albert Hanson has been elected Chairman of G O.C. I

able to SIS” *° Ind“strlal "o-HO s&ould be made pay¬

ing Sath;iJ SlfpUaeftaK ^e.m°Ve<l *° 3°2'®‘h St’ Me"beIS Anyone knowing the whereabouts of C.H. Polk Card

All 1932 due stanps have been called t-f same should be sent in immediately If y°U have an^ on hand>

All 1922 delegates of the A.W T tj shmna • a.

mam office immediately. All I.U lio credi^fli ln touch with the seriai letter "G» have no expired. New”?edmtS?RCarrr?g, the "AG", are now in the field. credentials, ssrial letter

old credentials immediat ely^md^list of^unnl 1 should send in thei:r ^counts can be transferred. Delegates shnnmPiles 0n hand* so their their 1922 account or a statement ofsame^t^noe^ a clearance 011

Get your literatur stationary delegates

J.H. Snyder Joe Fisher Sam Murphy Emil Stelzner Vfci Hall

supplies, etc. from the branches or

Box 531 * Minneapolis,

BOX 306 *111 1'R&svn m

Minn, ’llliston, N.D. Modesta, Cal.

With best wishes, we remain Albert Henson, Chairman, •S-W; -

t.i.I.U. m.UO. ’ Sec y“Treasurer

'An Injury to One Is the Concern of All'

AGRICULTURAL TORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO.IIO OF THE I.F.U. BULLETIN No. 2

P : icago. Ill. _ _ January 34, 1933.

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SPECIAL G.O.C, ISSUE Fellow Workers:

The first meeting of the General Organization Committee adjourned on Tuesday,, January 23rd, after having been in session eight and a half days and during which time it disposed of all business brought before it.

As soon as the G.O.C. had organized itself, it was decided to make the California situation a special order of business, because of the importance of the struggle now going on in that state and the large number of active I.U.110 men who are involved. The fight in California is being waged to resist the denial of funda¬ mental working class 'rights — the right of wage workers to organize into the I.W.T7. , the right of freedom of speech, and the right to peaceably assemble. Without these rights organization is greatly hampered and protest under every circumstance is beyond the workers. The extent to which, and the manner in which, the' working class in California have been deprived of these rights amounts to legal terrorism and institutes a condition of virtual slavery among the wags earners. Hundreds of workers have been victimized, necessitat¬ ing such measures of defense as will tax the I.W.W. to the limit. Steps taken by the General Defense Committee to provide legal defense and financial relief, or its equivalent, were endorsed by the G.O.C,

Uith the California situation attended to for the present, the Committee dealt with other matters contained in the correspondence and resolutions submitted to it.

The minutes of the 1922 A.w.I.U. Convention were next taken up and the Committee went on record urging support for the I.U.w. press. The manner in which it is proposed to win support for the papers is by having delegates carry subscription books, and secure subscribers whenever possible. The A.r.l.U.IIO has always been a strong supporter of the I.v.w. press, but this method should ' increase the circulation of the Industrial Worker and Solidarity by thousands of regular subscribers. It •ill, moreover, bring the importance of the press more to the front than would any other kind of assistance.

The form of convention having been changed, the G.O.C. decided that the interests of the A.^'.I.U. would be served best by holding the Spring Mass Convention at Oklahoma City, on April 18th.

Oklahoma City was selected as the convention town because many 110 members, now engaged in organization activities in California, would, in all probability, find it difficult to make it over the hump so early in the year to attend a convention at any point farther north. It was the opinion of the G.O.C. that these members would be willing to come to Oklahoma City, and that, in all fairnes. , those who were on the California firing line should be given every opportunity to have a part in deciding the harvest policy of I.U.IUC. California also will thus be provided with representation direct from organization work in that district, bearing new experiences of Value to the A.T’.I.U. Moreover, there are many members in the South who never come north of Kansas. 3y holding the Spring Con¬ vention in the South these members will have an opportunity to add their share and have their part in the deliberations that means so much to agricultural labor.

Delegates are the vital factors in the upbuilding of the A.f.I.U. and the I.i’’.W. and it must be the aim of the industrial unions to provide themselves with as many and as capable delegates as can be secured. Delegates, like other workers, must have some means by which to live, and the G.O.C. is of the opinion that the

In considering this year's organizing campaign the Plan of Action adopted by, the last A.F.I.U. Convention was taken up point by point, considered in its every phase and aspect, and concurred in.

Districts were tentatively outlined for the summer's drive, the consideration of which occupied the greater part of the time SiKe G.O.C. was in session.

Organization work in California will be directed by the G.O.C. member already there. All members are urged to give him their best and fullest cooperation.

The G.O.C. instructed the Chairman to secure and place a capable travelling delegate inthe state of Washington. If such a man is not placed in this state by April 1st, a G.O.C, member will take charge.

The G.O.C., from data placed before it, decided also to place a travelling delegate in the. state of Michigan for a period of sixty davs, this period to begin not later than May 16th. If the delegate succeeds in showing results, he will be retained there during the balance of the season.

In the matter of literature, the G.O.C. concluded that a few leaflets, each adapted to some particular part or phase of the drive wouxd supply the needs of the A.w.l.u, if they were given wide and judicious circulation. Papers, pamphlets, etc. are to be handled as in previous years.

In accordance with the instruction of ,the Minneapolis Convention, one thousand dollars (#1,000.00) was donated to the Work People's College, at Smithville, Minnesota, This sum will be paid in edch erly lnstallmeTrts of two hundred and fifty dollars (£250.00)

Qf0^n|nJ° changed conditions, the G.O.C. decided to hold the loan of .1,500.00 to Q.w.I.U. #230 in abeyance until the Spring Coiiveriti

jssssr. o ;islv.vs .

““ 601116 5°-5° by the *•>»■«. ani

spirit of cooperation will guide determined that this

other industrial unions and the I | | This I ? ^

bind the workers into that solid formation mm W1“

ance of labor from economic bondage JvaUs? the dellver~

The following o if fee at once.

delegates will please VERY IMPORTANT.

get in touch with the main

Fred Alkire G 811 Fred Behrand G 885 Wm Compton G 190 Jack Doyle G 586 Wm E. Gleason G 168 Aner Jackola G 667 J.L.Mc Millen G 467 Milton Nelson G 245 Jos Smith G 209 Alfred West G 81 Ben Younker G 346

Henry Allard Fred Berg J . E . Conway Geo. Prennow H.O. Hanson Rudy Lee L . R . May Josl Hemphill Cleve Severns Ernest Swan Bert Walker

G 267 G 668 G 987 C- 489 G 244 G 657 G 1014 G 171? G 536 G 571 G 1757,

Harry Anderson John Callahan

E. B. Damon C.J, Driscoll Otto Hanson Hoy Link Clay Maxwell

F. E. O'Neil C.H. Polk Joe Siverson

G. W. Tryor

G 411 G 265 G 1051 G 462 G 85 G 672 G 574 G 45 G 494 G 947 G 168

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO.IIO OF THE I.W.l.

^ FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR frlsCAL PERIOD— FgB, 1, 19S2 Iro JAN. 16,1933 .

Report of Auditing Committee Account Torn Doyle, Sec'y-Treas.

Turned over by Albert Anz

to Tom Doyle: Distributed as follows:

In bank

In Safety Deposit: Spring Drive Deportation Fund

C 7,739.91

5,000.00 1.500. 00

On hand Feb. 1,1923 $ 7,739.51

Redeposited:

* May 26,'22 Spring Drive 5,000.00

* Nov, 22 Deportation Fund 1 ,500.00

Total $ 14,239.91

Total $ 14,239.91

RECEIPTS

Initiations I.U.110 $

Due s " "

Initiation's Other I.U.'s Dues " "

Organization Assm'ts ""General Defense Assm'ts bond Assm'ts Card Cases and Pennants Buttons, Pinsv Etc,

Literature

Monies Paid on Acc't by Br.Sec'ys,Dels,G.O.C, Papers, Magazines, Subs Duplicate Cards

Duplicate, Card Receipt s, ( D. C .R . ' s)

Personal --IDeposits

Dept, of Educ,,Lit. Receipts

Donations General Defense

Donations Jail Fund

Donations Papers

Donations Educational. Bureau

Misc. Donations, ( Strikes, Def,,Lit, Etc.)

Use of Mimeogpaph Joint Account Receipts Refunds

Refund, Wages Dels to Gen. Conv.

Gen. Hdqts, . Refund Mileage Dels Gen. Conv.

» » Bal. Due 110, on all Accounts Dec. 31, '22

I.U. 310 Conv. Assm'ts ‘Deportation Fund Redeposited ‘Spring Drive Fund n (1922)

Deposit Acc't Chicago Hall Fund " » Calif T C.S. Fund

" " 1923 G.O.C. Emergency Def. Fund

" " Minneapolis Branch Prop. Fund

Return Postage Received Phonograph Records -Returned Check Error on Checks Joe Murphy, Reported Twice I.U. 460 Delegate Report Duplicate Money Order ( J. Stine)

Account Supplies Lost

31282.00

38159.50 3566.00 6758.00

2466.50

11407.50 457.00

98.50

308 . 50 1726.92

33769 .72 4052.39 501.00

1088.50 1327.67

88.04

375.47

62.69

7,50

102.00

53.35

46.50 253,63

16.80 28.00 117,28 172.44 48. Od 1500.00 5000 . 00 500.00 1000.00 1000.00 50.00 .32 5.00 12.00

4.00

13.50

4.00

Total $ 147,431.27

EXPENDITURES

Page 3

Per Capita Gen, Hdqts Supplies Gen.Hdqts Organisation Stamps . Commission on Initiations and Literature ’"ages, Br.Sec'ys, Tr. Dels, G.O.C,

. Mileage

Allowance on Reports TO other Unions " " FROM ■ "

Monies Held on Acc't by Br.Secl'^s, Dels, G.O.C, Papers, Magazines, Subs

General Defense, Acc't Stamps, Donat ions, Etc.- Main Office Salaries R ent , L i;:ht , H eat

Stationery and Fixtures Postage, Express, Wires Literature

Personal Deposits Withdrawn

Joint Account Expenditures

Craft Cards Received. as Initiations

Jail Fund

Educational Bureau

Donations to Papers

Donation, Russian Famine Relief by Omaha Conv.*21 Rise . Donations ( Strides, Def . .Lit . , Etc . )

Monies Deposited Acc't Lights (Omaha Hall) Duplicated Reports I.U, 310 ConV. Assm'ts Reports for other Unions Typewriter Repairs Storage

Exp, Omaha Conference Card Returned D.C.R. to I.U. 310 Loan to C-en. HdqSs Translation and Writing Leaflet Expenses Account Defense Equity Ptg.Co, Printing Auditing Committee, Wages & Mileage Acc't f Distribution of D.C.R. 's Donations Industrial Worker (monthly)

Portland Strike Hetch Hetchy Strike Chicago Hall Fund Calif. C . S . Fund Gen, Def . Comm. for Publicity G.O.C, 1923 Emergency Def. Fund Per

Spring Drive Fund (1923) "

I.U, 230 Loan n

" 510 " n

by Mpls Conv,

ii ii ii

( Deport .Fund) 110 M]ols Conv

A. W, I.U, 110 Conv. Expenses, Wages, Mileage, Etc. Expenses Dels, to Gen, Conv, " " ' "

Credits Voted on Acc'ts by Mpls Conv, Chicago Hall Fund Withdrawals Calif, C.S.Fund "

Minneapolis Prop. Fund Withdrawal

11048.41

3016.34

17,00

7376.83

14668.35

2229.51

4618.52 4308.15

36797.11

4515.10

11937.36 7660.46 3466.57

1202.72

2339.72 567 . 44

2370.12 547.75 133.00 27.60 1931,95 7.00 500.00 28.20 20.00 54.00 48.00 19,65 17.50 10.00 59.95 2.50 3 .00 50. OC 15.00 675.00 644.13

418.55 1071.00

50.00 1507.93 500,00 500 ..00 1000.00 1500.00 1000.00 10000.00 500.00 2500.00 1422.39 789 . 28

139.55 150.00 675.72

30.00

, s u K M J

On hand Feb.l, 1922 Total Receipts

Grand Total

Total Expenditures

Bal . cm Hand Jan. 17, 1923 In Safety Deposit

Turned over to Tom Wallace

Total & 146,687.36

R Y

8 7,739.91

... 147.431.27

155,171.18

146.687.38

8,483.82

10.000.00

$ 18,483.82

A , C , Linn, #407217

- — Togl Murphy. #238097

W. Sever in. #2H308q

AUDITING COMMITTEE.

JOB EE? S

CALIFORNIA

STOCKTON, 12636 Land clearing job 14 miles out in the country. Uork for Me Laughlin. All hiring done at Williams Employment Office. Work nine hours. Wages $4.50 per day.

Board $1220. ( R 302)

PI NUBA, 1-4-23 Grapevine pruning about to start here. This will be mostly day work. Wages will be about 40, to 50c> per hour. Fellow workers, you do not need fur -lined coats here; but we need more members on the job. Let’s do it now. ( G 381)

PASO ROBLES, _ California Almond Growers Asso. on the

'South erri~Pac if ic R.R. Planting trees, pruning, etc.. Experience not necessary. This job starts immediately after the rain Starts in. January. Employing from fifty to one hundred and fifty men in about six camps. Sentiment toward the I.W.W. fair. Job lasts from one to tjwsee months. Wages from $2,50 to §7 .00, per day.

Nine hour day. Blankets required. Sanitary conditions and board fair. $1,00 per day for board. Hired at Paso Robles office. (J.K.)

FRESNO , CALIF. Kirkman Nurseries Co. Nursery work. No

experience needed in most cases. Nurseries near Fresno, Mojava. and Los Angeles. Stock yards all over the state. Tying trees in bundles, pitting, trimming, packing, etc. , This work should be starting in soon. Employing at Fresno about thirty-five,

Mojava about twenty, Los Angeles about thirty. Job lasts all winter and wall into the summer. Wages vary for the kind of work. Nine hour day. Camp sanitation and board fair. Blankets required. Hired at State Tree Employment Office. ( #842079)

Fellow Workers:

The berry harvest is now on in the state of Texas

and it is only about two months away in the state of Missouri.

No doubt a great many I.U.110 members will be heading down country in the hear future, and it will greatly assist this office if all members going south this spring would, not only take a small amount of literature with them, but would keep in touch with this office at all times, so that late papers, etc. can be sent them.

This will be of advantage to all as it will provide the member with the papers and bulletins before they become ancient and will be the means ofadistributing machine such' as the A.t-.i.u. needs in the southern fields, if they are to take full advantage of opportunities such as should exist in the berry fields this spring.

LITERATURE

A good supply of free literature is on hand at all branche- and will all stationary delegates,. Members not in touch with any of these will please write direct to this office for same. Success is the fruit of preparation. So, let us start now and be tvell prepared.

MAIL '

There is mail for the following in the main office.

George Brady Gharlie Brooks John Carpenter Pat Clancy Thomas Dunne

Jack Egan Gust Hamilton

V/.C. Moo die Frank Norman John A. Sandberg A. Vernon

EVERYONE ON THEIR TOES

From all indications the fight that is being waged by our fellow workers in California is not going to be a mere waste of • energy. From various reports coming to the office of the General Defense, the fellow workers in all parts of Cal are not shirking o,>. iota in doing everything possible to carry the fight to the persono responsible for the persecution against the organization.

The 'weight of the fight is proving too big for the small handfu.. of fellow workers who are so courageously carrying on tne light.

They are not complaining, however, only in regard to the . jail condi¬ tions. They are denied~the necessary food to keep them in lit condition. But "the spirit couldn't be better they write.

Fellow T”orkers Sing Their Y'av to Cell

Ten fellow workers were last week sentenced to from one to fourteen years at Sacramento. After sentence was pronounced, they sang their way back, to jail. The Judge asked each one if he had anything to say before sentence was pronounced. They all did; and it caused the Judge to make remarks that even surprised the friends of the defendants. He is reported to have said that the workers hav ; a right to change conditions, but that he was forced thru oath of office to carry out the mandates of the state; The Sacramento Star prints an article to the effect that trial Judge would in all pro¬ bability ask the Governor to commute the sentences of all members now serving time under the Criminal Syndicalism law. The Judge also reduced the bail from one thousand dollars to $250. for each defendant.

Fellow workers who are now on trial at Los Angeles are conduct¬ ing their own trial. We are in receipt of letters from attorneys in Los Angeles that they are conducting their defense like trained lawyers. Latest news in reference to them Ban be found in our organization papers.

MORE MEN AND FUNDS NEEDED

The fight in Calif, is now in critical period. As we have stated before, ^he weight of the fight is liable to prove too much for the small bunch of fellow workers who are carrying on the fight. Foot¬ loose members are needed there immediately to take the places of those who are being arrested for distributing defense and organizati literature. If you are not footloose and Unable to gg, then surely you can get a receipt book and raise funds to help them get the necessities of life.

- — ■ General Defense Committee.

NOTICE

Joe Murphy has been elected permanent field chairman of G.O.C.

The Minneapolis raffle was won by Elmer Louis. Thi winning ticks- was serial #16, ticket 19.

H. Marshall, G 162, send your address to Leo Me Caffery, in care of this office.

IMPORT ANT*1167 * Send y°Ur address t0 Chas* Hawkins care of this offic

All 1922 due stamps and duplicate card receipts should be sent in at once «

„ __ A?-1 delegates, still carrying credentials with serial lett :

lmnediately> together with a list of supplie. credentials-serialhletterC"AG" ? ^ ^ new 1923

Get sup^ii4?rltfrm the sLfaLdslegat

Joe Fisher 515 N.16th St., (Box 107) Omaha, Neb^?’

it? ®;-,Flrst St ’ •> Minneapolis , Minn.

Sam Murphy Emil Stelzner Hn Hall

Box 531 Box 306

Williston, N.D. Modesta, Cal.

Albert Hanson, Chairman

A.w.i.u

Yours for the I.W.W.

,TA ■’Tallaoe> Sec'y-’-Treasurer NO, 110.

'An Injury to Qne Is the Concern of All

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO. HO OF THE I.’".VT. BULLETIN No. 3

Chicago, 'Ill. _ January 31, 1933.

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Fellow ’workers:

A union has one mission — to organize workers; and one function — to safai-uard and advance the interest of the working class. Whenever a union'is nor reaching out for the unorganized workers, it is not fulfilling its mission.

Unionism implies ordered arrangement, with needful discipline, programs carefully made and systematically carried out. __ike member¬ ship of a union is responsible for its progress, or its failure to progress. They are the ones who must arrange programs, impose dis¬ cipline and carry on the work which adds to the membership and in¬ creases the influence of the industrial union. It is they ’who deal with the issues that arise in the working place; it is they who make the laws by which the union affairs, are administered. The officials are merely the servants of the organization who function lor the con¬ venience of the membership. They have no power greater than members who are never heard of in connection with union affairs. Such is the I.W.T7. conception, and such is the A.W.i.u.

But in the past there has been a tendency to be neglectful of. important agricultural sections, ana to concentrate ^the organizing efforts of the A.F.I.U. upon the small-grain belt of the central states. The circumstances surrounding and forcing the A.^.I.U. in bygone years left little or.no option in this regard. It is time, however, to realize that 110 has now reached a stage where it can safely undertake to move farther afield and win the workers in other agricultural sections as it has won them in the grain belt. There are thousands of workers in the eastern states who have never met an A.w.l.u. delegate and to whom the I.r.w, and the A.F.I.U, are almost entirely unknown. The fruit and vegetable industry in some oi the eastern states employs thousands of workers in the harvest season wr.om the A.w.I.U, cannot afford to neglect, and this prospect should open a vista of opportunity that should be explored anyhow.

But it is to California that we must turn at the present time. In this state the range of cultivated crops runs from rice and small- grain to a variety of vegetables and fruits which makes for harvesting and planting simultaneously over a greht area. This state provides more regular agricultural employment for longer periods than perhaps any other cultivated area in America. Moreover,’ there are other industries in which correspondingly large numbers of workers find em¬ ployment. The industries in California are dependent upon a labor supply that is constantly in motion. The climate . induces the "out-of-work" in more rigorous winter states to migrate to Sunny California, where the Climate suits the clothing", and where occasion- ?„1 employment helps to tide over the winter season.

The large orchards and extensive packing sheds employ thousands ^ starvation drives to catch the pennies laboriously earned and grua - in-ly paid. The poor wages and inhuman conditions are no inducement to remain at work, so that there are, in working class parlance, "three cans- jobs" — the gang at work, the gang leaving, and tne ga g corning/' There is not a job in this state in agricultural employment where any worker ever decided to remain longer than just l^n= enou^ to make a "road stake". They desire to find better jobs ..na 'c“ey move around in search of them. If, instead of trying to nnd better jobs, the workers would decide to make these jobs better, - s ep

in advance would be taken. The only cure for the conditions tnat afflict labor in California agriculture is I.w.r. organization.

The employers of California saw that ye-rs ago a»d made preparations then. The result of their preparedness is the Criminal Syndicalist law which is r. eant to terrorize the workers in that state from join¬ ing the i.r.r. But they know that workers in jail will not plant or

harvest the crops. If the workers organize and. iispla; y sol lidarity they will smash the C.S. law to smithereens, and, wi th t he; pas sint of that infamous measure, the death knell of present day labor dondi- tione in California will sound.

"Organization" should be the watchword footloose rebel should head that way and funct

The touch or organization will evoke the sluiubering xabor spirit, and, in the test of strength, the employers of California will |0 down before the weight and power of tne organized workers. Organi¬ zed in the I.r.v, the workers will open the gates fifFoison.

San Quentin, and every calaboose in the state. It -all reach ova the state line and turn the locks in Leavenworth, >-alla Valla, and Me Neil's Island. It will improve the jobs, swell the pay _ envwl opes and shorten the hours. Organization is the answer to the industrial - lords of California. Organization will preach the funeral oration over the grave of the syndicalist law and place the feet of the wor leers on the path that leads to industrial freedom, and justice.

Get in the game, men of the A.W.I.U.l Delegates m every sectio members on every job, organisation everywhere! VIhen labor asserts itself, the masters will cringe because they must.

"Organize California" is the watchword, and to realize its mission the A.W.I.U. is now on the job there. When the roll is called, let every footloose rebel answer "Here"!

IMPORTANT

Extract from the minutes of the 1933 Convention:

"That the secretary-treasurer be instructed that when the 1933 accounts are closed in January he advertise by card number and by delegate number all delegates whose accounts are not clear. "Amendment. That the list be put out March 1st."

"That a month prior to putting out the list in March, the secretary- treasurer shall notify through the Bulletin all delegates whose accounts are not clear to get in touch with headquarters. All delegates whose accounts are straight are not to go on list."

(Note) This is not a delinquent list but merely an effort to get all accounts straightened out between delegates and headquarters.

The delinquent list will not be issued until August 1st as usual.

All 1923 delegates whose accounts are still open and who have not yet received a statement of their account from headquarters should write in at once and obtain same.

The following delegates will please get in touch with the main office at once. VERY IMPORTANT,

Fred Alkire

G 811

Henry Allard

G 867

Harry Anderson

G

411

Fred Behrend

G 835

Fred Berg

G 668

John Callahan

G

265

V'.n Compton

G 190

J.E, Conway

G 987

E . B . Damon

G

1051

Jack Doyle

G 586

Geo. Drennow

G 489

G.J. Driscoll

G

463

wm E. Gleason

G 168

H.O. Hanson

G 344

Otto Hanson

G

85

Aner Jackola

G 667

Rudy Lee

G 657

Roy Link

G

673

J.L.Mc Millen

G 487

L , R . May

G 1014

Clay Maxwell

G

574

Milton Nelson

G 245

Jos, Hemphill

G 1717

F.E. O'Neil

0

45

Joe Smith

G 309

Cleve Severns

G 536

C.K.Polk

G

494

Alfred West

G 81

Ernest Swan

G 571

Joe Siverson

G

947

Ben Younker

G 346

Bert Walker

G 1757

G.w, Tryor

a

168

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LITERATURE

A good supply of free literature is on hand at all branches, and will all stationary delegates. Members not in touch with any of these will please write direct to this ifice for same. Success the fruit of preparation. So, let us start now and be well prepared.

is

OB NEWS

CALIFORNIA

IMPERIAL VALLEY, 1-27, Lettuce and asparagus will soon be ready In the Imperial Valley, Wages what you can make them. Climate can't be beat for the rest of the winter. AG 4

DINtTBA, 1-4. _ Grapevine pruning about to start here. This

wirrTe mostly day work, Wages will be about 40 to 50£ per hour. Fellow workers, you do not need fur-lined coats here: but we need more members on the job. Let’s do it now! ( G 381}

PASO F-OBLFS Calif. Almond Growers Asso, on the Southern Pacific ETR. Planning trees, pruning, etc. Experience not necessary This job starts immediately after the rain starts in January. Employing from fifty to one. hundred and fifty men in about six camps. Senti¬ ment toward the l.W.w, fair. Job lasts from one to three months. Wages from $2.50 to s$?i00 per day. Nine hour day. Blankets require^ Sanitary conditions and board fair. Cl. 00 per day for board.

Hired at Paso P.cbles office. (J.K.)

FRESNO, _ CALIF , Kirkman Nurseries Co, Nursery work. No experience needed inmost cases. Nurseries near. Fresno, Mo java, and Los Angeles. Stockyards all over the 1 state . Tying trees in bundles, pitting, trimming, packing, etc. This work should be starting in soon. Employing' at Fresno about 35, Mo java about 20, Los Angeles about 30. Job lasts all winter and well into the summer. Wages vary for the kind of work. Nine hour day. Camp sanitation and board fair, blanket s required. Hired at State Tree Employment Office. ( #842079)

SI IOWA

SIOUX CITY, 1-30-22 Ice harvest on. Paying 25£, but there is talk of raising it to 351’. Several wobs on the job.

There is n& job news coming in at present. Members on the job and branch secretaries should try and gather news of different jobs and send to this office. This news must come from the field.

Fellow Workers:

The berry harvest is now on in the state of Texas, and it is only about two months away in the state of Missouri.

No doubt a great many I.U. 110 members will be heading down country in the near future, and it will greatly assist this office if all members going south this spring would, not only take a small amount of literature with them, but would keep in touch with this office at all times, so that late papers, etc. can be sent them.

This will be of advantage to all as it will provide the member with the papers and bulletins before they become ancient, and. ■vill be the means of creating a distributing machine such as the A.w, l.u. needs in the southern fields, if they are to take full ad¬ vantage of opportunities such as should exist in the berry fields this spring.

Following the recommendation of the last convention, the G.O.C. passed the following motion at their meeting:

"That we put a G.O.C. member or travelling delegate in the state of Michigan for at least 60 days, starting May 15th, and if favorable results are obtained he be kept' there indefinitely." The G.O.C. also decided to place a travelling delegate or G.O.C. member in the state of Washington early in the spring.

All active members should get in touch with headquarters and cooperate with the movement to organize the agricultural workers of these states. There' are many members of I.U. 110 in Washington and they should hold meetings if possible, and send in their ideas and suggestions on this important matter.

FELLOE TO RKERS fftTG THEIR vfAY TO CELL

Ten fellow workers were sentenced, from one to fourteen years at Sacramento. After sentence was pronounced, they saig their way back to jail. The Judge asked each one if he had anything to say before sentence ivas pronounced. They all did; and it caused the Judge to make remarks that even surprised the friends of the defendants. He is reported to have said thar the workers have a right to change conditions, but that he was forced thru oath of office to carry out the mandates of the stats. The Sacramento Star prints an article to the effect that trial Judge would in all probability ask the Governor to commute the sentences of all members now serving time under the Criminal Syndicalism law. The Judge also reduced the bail from one thousand dollars to £250.00 for each defendant.

Fellow workers who are now on trial at Los Angeles are conduct¬ ing their own trial. we are in receipt of letters from attorneys m Los Angeles that they are conducting their defense like trained j-awyers. Latest news in reference to them can be found in our organization papers.

MORE MEN AMD FUNDS NEEDED

v10-FrtT.Ihe4.£lght-1LCailf' is.now in critical period. As we have stated , t e-u v4?ifh^,of -ight is liable to prove too much for the ] nnoo °f fellow workers who arecarrying on the fight. Foot-

-ho arfi Sn! are nfe!e2 thefe immediately to take the places of thosi literati1 ?T? tSd for^ distributing defense and organization

; n,ot footloose and unable to go? then surely

f.ecssKtfes It utl*" IalSe funds »« help the" «« **•

NOTICE

NOTICE

NOTICE

shoulfbe'sent^n f^oLV dUplicate °«d receipt and delegates should secure

the pS'ss^n ayfewWd4ys? “hefwiS be^hfL0,0^ nti°nS wil1 be off as that has proved to%e a mo£t convent "S last year’

harvest starts! h0ne&for the^berries0 on^fo^Ok? Jeaflets before the one dealing with the ten hour rtav n °ne °*lailoma and Kansas, anc ;1 3S e leaflets wilfplaase wn?7in Svinfhi suggest ions’ for

go m the leaflets. * giving nis i&eas of what should

Ml members and delegaterLTre.ueeted to send In job news.

Get your literature stationary delegates J.H. Snyder Joe Fisher - Sam Murphy

©nil Stelzner Box 53l"

Wm Hall 30x 306

supplies, etc. from the branches or 1219 -4th St., sioiir t

fill: JSyit(3ox ls >

7 . St St,> Minneapolis, Minn.

John K, Peterson 610 Main. St.,

Yours for the I.w,

1^1 list on, N.D, Modesta, Calif. Kansas City, Mo.

Albert Hanson, Chairman

A.W.I.U. NO .110

'■'allace, Pea'y-Treasurer,

2An Injury to One Is the Concern of All'

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO.IIO OF THE J.W.F.

BULLETIN No. 4

Chicago, Ill. _ _ _ February 7, 1923

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ON, TO THE DRIVE I

Fellow Workers:

Sincerity without intelligence is like an auto with a defective steering gear. It may travel at a rapid gait, but is very liable to wreck itself and injure the motorist. It travels without steady and dependable direction. And Q& it is with a union. Unless its parts' are balanced and symetrical, and well coordinated, it cannot be depended upon to function to the best advantage and to achieve the best results.

Everything which a union undertakes should be well considered and thoroughly organized in advance. The well-planned and system¬ atized activity can be relied upon to bring the results desired and aimed at. Preparation is the first requirement for success. When well-thought-out plans are faithfully adhered to, and energetically carried out, the organization is sure to succeed in its undertakings

Now is the time to prepare for the 1923 drive. An architect draws his plans before the foundation is dug. Then, for each special task in construction thoroughly trained workmen are secured. Every contingency that may arise is provided for in advance. In like manner, we, too, must prepare.

For a successful drive, many well trained delegates, imbued with the working class spirit, are necessary. This is the time to recru.H and train them. Where the members come into contact with one an¬ other, and with unorganized workmen, the summer drive should be topic of conversation. Plans should be discussed and new ideas garnered. From unexpected sources good ideas may be advanced, and these should be communicated to headquarters, so that they can be passed on to the membership in this Bulletin. The time in which to prepare is already short, and growing shorter every day. Every mem¬ ber who proposes to take in the harvest should be up on his toes now, Get delegates first, and then instruct them in the duties of dele¬ gates.

Classes for the instruction of delegates should be formed wher¬ ever I.W.w. members in the A.w.I.U. or other Industrial Unions get together. The first lesson of the course which the Work People’s College will issue is now ready for the printer. Delegates who understand how to function are far more effective than if they are handicapped by a lack of knowledge. Even without the aid of these lessons there are always members around the halls and meeting places who are competent to give such instruction, and thus assist in bring¬ ing the delegate system that much nearer to perfection.

Thfm there are members who cannot act as delegates who are well qualified to do other things necessary for a successful drive. The distribution of leaflets, literature, sounding out groups of workers and find&fcg out those who favor organization. They can advise dele¬ gates coming into a section about the sentiment prevailing, etc. Without being delegates, these members are a necessary part of a thoroughly organized delegate system.

Industry is all the time providing incidents which can be used to illustrate the class character of the struggle going on in society. Deal with these things when in company of workers. Endeavor to make them class conscious, for every class conscious worker is potentially an I.W.W. delegate.

From berries to beets in the Central states, wherever fruits and foodstuffs are grown in the United States should be covered by our campaign. Let us all get down to business, each one lending the best

• qpnse so that we can approach

that is in him in an “Banizati^ sense, aiiy diyposed, well

this season with a host ot delegates s * ation this year we trained and disciplined.^ With thorough prepara #i10.

shall add to the record for annual gams m

Systematic work will °ar^y^e “^^ganizat ion work, we shall systematize the drive. Organized for g the delegates will

be invincible. Build th^dele^^fSd^veryo^n"i^ place, a build the union. A place for everyo. © functioning. System,

function for every member and every me • words of the success- order,- discipline, work. These are the watchwords ful. On to the drive!

T ll P fl R T A n

Extract from the minutes of the 1923 convention.

"That the secretary-treasurer be instructed ^a^whenjhe^ie^ ^

accounts are closed m January he advertise y clear

delegate number all delegates whose accounts are not cie .

Amendment: That the list be put out Larch 1st.

"That amonth prior to putting out the list treasurer shall notify through the Bulletin ^deg accounts are not clear to get in touch with headquarters. l delegates whose accounts are straight are not to go on 11s . ,

( Note) This is not a delinquent list but merely an effort to get . all accounts straightened out between delegates and deadquartes.

The delinquent list will not be issued until August 1st as usua .

All 1922 delegates whose accounts are still open and who have no yet received a statement of their account from headquarters should write in at once and obtain same.

The following delegates will please get in touch with the main office at once. VERY IMPORTANT.

Fred Alkire

G 811

Henry Allard

G 267

Harry Anderson

G

411

Fred Behrend

C- 885

Fred Berg'

G 668

John Callahan

G

265

Wm Compton

G 190

J.E. Conway

G 987

E.B. Damon

G

1051

Jack Do.yle

G 586

Geo. Drennow

G 489

C.J. Driscoll

G

462

Wm E. Gleason

G 168

H. 0. Hanson

G 244

Otto Hanson

G

85

Aner Jackola

G 667

Rudy Lee

G 657

Roy Link

G

672

J.L.Mc Millen

G 467

L, R. May

G 1014

Clay Maxwell

G

574

Milton Nelson

G 245

Jos. Hemphill

G 1717

F. E. O'Neil

G

45

Joe Smith

G 209

Cleve Severns

G 536

C. H. Polk

G

494

Alfred West

G 81

Ernest Swan

G 571

Joe Siverson

G

947

Ben Younker

G 346

Bert Walker

G 1757

G.W, Tryor

G

168

Extract from minutes of regular business meeting, Omfcha, Nebr . February 2, 1923. Eighteen members present.

"M & S. That this branch go on record as being opposed to holding the spring convention in Oklahoma City and favor Omaha for said conference. Carried.

"This motion was made as the members of this branch believe that most of the active members and delegates are in the north at the present time and will not go to Oklahoma for a convention; and that very few of the members in California will make the long trip over the hump. Also that the date is too early."

The G.O.C. has gone on record to issue three leaflets before the harvest starts: one for the berries, one for Oklahoma and Kansas, and one dealing with the ten hour day.

Any member having suggestions for these leaflets will please write in, giving his ideas of what should go in these leaflets.

JOB NEWS

CALIFORNIA

IMPERIAL VALLEY, 1-27 Lettuce and asparagus will soon be ready in TThe Imperial Valley. Wages what you can make them. Climate can t be beat for the rest of the winter, (AG 4)

DINUBA 1, 4. Grapevine pruning about to start here. This

will be mostly day work. Wages will be about 40 to 500 per hour. Fellow workers, you do not need fur-lined coats here; but we need more members on the job. Let's do it now! ( G 381)

PASO ROBLES Calif. Almond Growers Asso^ on the Southern

Pacific K.C Planting trees, pruning, etc. Experience not: necessary. This job starts immediately after the rain starts in January. Employing from fifty to one hundred and fifty men m abou • six camps. Sentiment toward the I.W.W, fair. Job lasts from one to three months. Wages from (£2.50 to ?7,00 per day.^ Nine hour day. Blankets required. Sanitary conditions and board ^air' yl>00 per day for board. Hired at Paso Robles office. ( J.K.)

FRESNO Kirkman Nurseries Co. Nursery work, No experience _ ^

needed in most cases. Nurseries near Fresno, Mo java, and Los Angele Stockyards all over the state. Tying trees in bundles, pitting primming, packing, etc. This work should be starting in soon. Employing at Fresno about 35, Mojava about 20, Los Angeles about 30. Job lasts all winter and well into the summer. Wages vary for the kind of work. Nine hour day. Camp sanitation and board fair. Blankets required. Hired at State Tree Employment Office . (#842079 J

IOWA

SIOUX CITY, 1-30-22 Ice harvest on. Paying 250, but there is talk o"f raising it to 350. Several wobs on the job,

There is no job news coming in at present. Members on the job and branch secretaries should try to gather news of different jobs and send the same to this office. This news must come from the field.

While there is little work in a great portion of the localities in which our members reside at this time of the year, the interest of the members should not relax and each- should keep m touch with the main office at all times, so that a Bulletin may be sent them.

All suggestions or recommendations on any question pertaining to the organization should be sent in for publication.

Following the recommendation of the last convention, the G.O.C. passed the following motion at their meeting:

"That we put a G.O.C. member or travelling delegate in the state of Michigan for at least 60 days, starting May 15th, and if favorab results are obtained he be kept there indefinitely. The. „

also decided to place a travelling delegate or G.O.C. member in the state of Washington early in the spring.

All active members should get in touch with headquarters and cooperate with the movement to organize the agricultural workers these states. There are many members of I.U. 110 in Jashington and they should hold meetings, if possible, and send m tneir ideas and suggestions on this important matter.

A good supply of free literature is on hand at all branches, and with all stationary delegates. Members not in touch with any of these will please write direct to this of i ice for same. Success is the fruit of preparation; so, let us start now and be well prepared.

WWETKE T)Q YOU SjUUjDjL

. ^h* b-’ine waged in California by

The result of the present fifent J=d on the cooperation

a handful of fellow workers will ra.rg< Sx _ f California. This

they get from their fellow workers ,r , + being waged by the sr.ial.i is not a confession of failure. Ox+ one efforts' are beginning

group of fellow workers, but, ins ,eaa, - citizens of

to bear fruit. Petitions are being cixoulateu o/^ hav(3 b9en

that state asking the repeal 01 .-ne r "I *at -no Law be modified introduced in the state houses, one ao.....ng ^ al, her. This and the other asking for the repeat Ox_« surpriSingly small is the result of the fight being made */ theyPcan hold out against number of fellow workers, feet her cr_^" ‘ 3

the forces arrayed against them is a question.

This forces us to put the matter qquarely before you.

Are you willing to help the small group force the repeal of that vicious law?

Do you think it fair to throw the whole fight on their, shoulders?

Do you sincerely believe that "An injury to one is an injury to all."?

Are you aware that the law as gander in Pali for ni|^afg|ts the organization in other states, and th&t if the * P

,it will make it easier for, us in other peaces .

If you believe all of these things, then are you willing to do your share in the fight?

There are various ways in which you can help. If you are foot ■ .oose, then take up the work where those who. have fallen were . lorcec. ■0 quit. We must not under any consideration let-up on organization jork. If you are unable to go, then you can help by raising funds 3ep the fellow workers in prison supplied with the comforts

, xnen you ucin uv xuuu

o keep the fellow workers in prison supplied with the comforts iecessary to keep them in fit condition. Write in tor a receipt *ook, and in the meantime, take up a collection amongst yourselves.

Write today. Every minute of delay helps the opposition.

General Defense Committee, 1001 West Madison St, Chicago, Ill.

The new credentials are now in the field and all members- eligible to do so should immediately secure same. It is not a privilege, but the duty of every qualified member to be prepared to not only explain the doctrine of Industrial Unionism but to be prepared at all times to enroll wage workers in the only organiza¬ tion which will allow them industrial expression no matter where the. may be working.

All 1922 due stamps, defense stamps, and duplicate card receipt should be sent in at once. 19,23 defense stamps are now in the field and delegates should secure same from the main office or branches.

The new by-laws of the A.w.i.ti, No. 110 are now off the press. Every member should write in for one and study it thoroughly.

The hall in Fargo will bo opened April 1st.

All members and delegates are requested to send in job news.

Get your literature, supplies, etc. from the branches or sta. delega J.H. Snyder I213-4th St. Sioux City, la.

Joe Fisher 515 N. loth Sfc.(Box 10?) Omaha, Nebr.

Sam Murphy 14s S. First St. Minneapolis, Minn.

Emil Stelzner Box 531 Williston, N.D.

Wm Hall Fox 305 Modesta, Calif.

John K. Peterson 61C Main St. Kansas City, Mo.

Yours for the I.F.w.

Albert Hanson, Chairman Tom Wallace, Sec'v-Treas.

A.W.I.U. Ho. 110.,

AGRICULTRUAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO. HO OF THE I.W.W.

"An Injury to One Is the Concern of fill"

BULLETIN No. 5

Ghicago, Ill .

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tf eoruary i* ,

-qqC' Wt

February 14, 1933.

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Fellow Workers:

THE MIGRATORY WORKER

The migratory worker is pre-eminently fitted for the work of organizing his. class. Thrown upon his own resources at^ski.early age, torn by force of circumstances from the environs oi iixsd society, he becomes a student and critic of conditions among. the workers in every phase of industry. Having no special vocation, ne is led through necessity to try his hand in one industry after an¬ other until he has made the rounds of them all. Being the first be weeded out in times of slack work, he finds himself burdened witn time in which to think. In these times he becomes the real student of society and begins to devise ways and means of bettering the conditions for himself and his fellow workers. It is_but natural that he be among the first to grasp the idea of organizing according to industry.

But, while the migratory worker is best fitted to point out the weak places in modern society, and while he is the first to grasp the remedy, in his wide range of experience he acquires . ohe - habit of acting for himself in emergency. This induces a liking 101 individual freedom of action, and a corresponding hatred for all forms of restraint. Ability to act he has developed to a high de¬ gree, but to act in concert with his fellows in carrying out a plan of action he must acquire organization.

past.

t- ..v.™ +>iTona'h nTssaiiTe from our enemy we have been

to surpass all former

Organization of the migratory wqrkers Means protection for the migratory workers.

SPRING COURSE AT WORK _ PEOPLE'S COLLEGE

The Work People’s College will conduct a special one month course, lasting from March 15th till April 15th, for the special benefit of the lumber workers, as well as for all other fellow workers who can attend. The total expense to the student for the month will only be ^39. 00, and the attention of all those fellow workers who have been working during the winter months, and would very likely put in several weeks before looking for another job, is called to this fact.

The I.r.w. is a self-reliant labor organization, and its strength consists in its intelligent membership. The more members we get who can function as capable and efficient delegates, _ or who can "put a punch" into their speeches and a "kick" into their v\rritings, the stronger gets our organization.. Forceful speaking, effective writing, and efficient organizing work, are as much a matter of technique and practice as anything else. It takes time and effort to become good at anything. No full-fledged A 1 delegate: and speakers ever fell out of the sky. Thisspring course has been devised to show the fellow workers who attend it the way toward developing their latent possibilities.

More detailed explanations of the course will appear in Solidarity and the Industrial Worker. All those fellow workers who are interested are asked to write to the

MANAGER, WORK PEOPLE'S COLLEGE, BOX 39, MORGAN PARK, DULUTH, MINN.

IMPORTANT

Extract from the minutes of the 1922 convention:

"That the secretary-treasurer be instructed that when the 1922 accounts are closed in January he advertise by card number and by delegate number all delegates whose accounts are not clear. Amendment: That the list be put out March 1st.

"That a month prior to putting out the list in March, the secretar treasurer shall notify through the Bulletin all delegates whose accounts are not clear to get in touch with headquarters. All delegates whose accounts are straight are not to go on list." (Note) This is not a delinquent list, but merely an effort to get all accounts straightened out between delegates and headquarters. The delinquent list will not be issued until August 1st as usual.

Following is a list of the 1922 delegates who have never made a report for any business done on their credentials and who are stil. carrying the credentials and supplies. These delegates should make a report to headquarters of the business done ( if- any) and should turn in these supplies and credentials at once. Any member meeting one of these delegates should endeavor to find out what has been don: with these supplies.

Name

Card No.

John Callahan

X 25823

Wm Compton

837746

J.E. Conway

837569

Jack Doyle

729615

H.O, Hanson

721213

Rudy Lee

720927

J.L. Me Millen

X 45638

L.R. May

826712

J.E. Merrifield

X 30581

Milton Nelson

X 3938

F.E. O'Neil

840547

Jack Scully

X 26935

Joe Smith

813842

G.W. Tryor

Del, No.

Supplies

Issued,

G.

-265

$ 40.00

7-12-22

G

190

80.00

3-18-22

G

987

60.00

8-25-22

G

586

117.50

8-14-22

G

244

60.00

8-19-22

G

657

10.00

7- ^-a2

G

467

82.50

8-30-22

G

1014

180.00

9- 8-22

G

798

60.00

9-13-22

G

245

99.00

7-11-22

G

45

50.00

7-17-22

G

1052

70.00

10- 7-22

G

209

60.00

6-20-32

G

168

20 .00

8-20-22.

WHERE DO YOU STAND ?

The result of the present fight being waged in California by a handful of fellow workers will largely depend on the cooper at ioi. they get from their fellow workers in and out of California. This is not a confession of failure of the fight being waged by the sn:- • group of fellow workers, but, instead, their efforts are beginnij; : to bear fruit. Petitions are being circulated by the citizens of that state asking the repeal of the C.S. law. Two bills have bee-, introduced in the state houses, one asking that the law be modifi' and the other asking for the repeal of the law altogether. This is the result of the fight being made by a surprisingly small number of fellow workers. Whether or not they cam hold out again: the forces arrayed against them is a question.

This forces us to put the matter squarely before you:

Are you willing to help the small group force the repeal of that vicious law?

Do you think it fair to throw the whole fight on their shoulders?

Do you sincerely believe that "An injury to one is an injury to all"?

Are. -you aware that the law as it stands in Califmmia affects the organization in other states, and that, if the law is repealed it will make it easier for us in other places?

If you believe all of these things, then are you willing to do your share in the fight?

There are various ways in whieh you can help. If you are foot-lopse, then take up the work where those who have fallen were forced to quit. We must not under any consideration let-up on organization work. If you are unable to go, then you can help by raising funds to keep the fellow workers in prison supplied wit the comforts necessary to keep them in fit condition. Write in x a receipt book, and, in the meantime, take up a collection among.- ! yourselves.;

Write today. Every minute of delay helps the opposition.

GENERAL DEFENSE GOMMITT; '

1001 West Madison St., Chicago, Ill.

NOTICE

At a special business meeting of A.W.I.U. 110 members in Seattle, February 2nd, 1983, it wai decided to call a conference of 110 members in Seattle about March 1st. The purpose of this conference is to outline a plan of organization for the north¬ western states. Many other matters of importance will come up.

All 110 members in that district should endeavor to be present. Exact date has not reached this office yet, but will be announced as soon as possible in Solidarity and the Worker. All communicat'd and resolutions for this conference should be sent to Joe Bauer, Box 365, Seattle, Wash.

On March 1st a delinquent delegate list of A.W.I.U. 110 will be put out to include all delinquent delegates from 1917 to 1921 inclusive. All members should write in and obtain one.

The new By-laws of the A.W.I.U. 110 are now off the press. Every member should write in for one and study it thoroughly.

The hall in Fargo will be opened APRIL 1ST.

Get your literature, supplies, etc. from the branches or_sta, aelegai J . H . Snyder Joe Fisher Sam Murphy W.F. Bates S.H. Straw Ed Anderson

Albert Hanson,

A.W.I.U. No. 110.

1219-4th St., Sioux City, ia.

515 N. 16th St. (Box 107) Omaha, Nebr . 144- S. First St., Minneapolis, Minn.

Box 531 Williston, N.D.

Box 306 Modesta, Calif.

General Delivery Fresno, Calif.

Yours for the I.W.W.

ntiai Tman Tom Wal 1 ana Rpn 1 v-Trp.a r

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"An Injury to One Zb tn« Concern of All"

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO.IIO OF THE I.W,W, BULLETIN No. 6

•Chicago', Ill. _ _ February 31,. 1933.

Fellow Workers:

In spite of all ^the talk of prosperity at tfts present time, the boss by reducing the payroll, or cutting it off altogether, i3 providing a fruitful field for organization work; and the time has arrived when' all members of the organization who are eligible should have credentials Snd supplies on hand, and be ready at all times to initiate a prospective member.

Th§ members of I.U. 110 are, and always will be, classed as ffllgidtory workers; and despite all ideas to the contrary, this . SlaSs is dUe to grow by leaps and bounds. The time is approaching Miefi thousands of Workers will leave the cities for the spring and summer . If every member of 110 who is eligible would get three or four new members by summer, we would have a great army of separated individuals welded into a compact body, which will greatly sliminate competition for jobs thru having them imbudd with the Jig idea, "All for one and one for all".

In a short' time the berry harvest will be on in Arkansas and Missouri i A G.O.C. member will cover this district for 110, and all members making the berries should get in touch with him, or the main office, so they may be supplied with credentials, litera¬ ture, etdi

From the few scattered reports coming in from this district, things neVer looked brighter from an organization standpoint.

The 1923 Defense stamp is now in the field and every member should fry to Have at least one in his card, The General Defense is badly in need of funds to carry on their work,

FRESNO, 2~ 14 Kirkman Nurseries Co. Nursery work, No experience needed in most cases. Nurseries near Fresno, Mo java, and Los Angeles. Stockyards all over the state. Tying trees in bundlee, pitting, trimming, packing, etc. Employing at Fresno about 35, Mo java about 20, Los Angeles about 30. Job lasts all winter and wall into the summer. Wages vary for the kind of work. Nina hour day. Camp sanitation and board fair. One delegate on the job. Sentiment fair. Blankets required. Hired at State Tree Employment Office. (#842079)

Excerpt from the minutes of Educational Bureau meeting:

"M & S, That this body go on record as recommending the dis¬ continuing of a separate Educational Bureau until finances are in- better shape, Yes 9, nO 4. (No's Carrol, Latchem, Miller, Hanson,)

"M & Si That. these minutes be submitted to the membership thru the General Office Bulletin.

Amendment: Th.g.t. copy of these minutes be sent to all the different unions for publication in their bulletins. Carried,"

Organization is the lifeblood of unionism.

SPRING _ COURSE AT WORK PEOj

PEOPLE'S COLLEGE

The Work People's college wm r“ "th SD°cial

course, lasting from March 15th tiH _ April? ^h, - feiiow

henef it of the lumber workers, as well as for all other ie o workers who can attend. The total expense to the student for .tip onth will only be 539.00, and the attention of h wmJd

workers who have been working during the winter months, ory likely- put in several weeks before- looking for another jOD, is called to this fact.

The I.w.W. is a self-reliant labor organization, and its frength consists in its intelligent membership. The more “embeis •e get who can function as capable and efficient delegates, or who can "put a punch" into their speeches and a kick mm me 1 writings, the strongerg gets our organization, iorceful sp-.akin^, effective writing^., and efficient organizing work, are as mu matter of technique and practice as anything else_. it takes time and effort to become eood at anything. No full-fledged A 1 delegate.- and speakers ever fell out of the sky. Thisspring course has been devised to show the fellow workers who attend it the way toward developing their latent possibilities.

More detailed explanations of tin Solidarity and the Industrial Worker . who are interested are asked to write MANAGER, TORE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE, BOX 39,

; course will appear in All those fellow, workers ;o the

„ MORGAN PARK, DULUTH, MINN.

IMPORTANT

. Extract from the minutes of the 1922,-:conyention:

"That the secretary-treasurer be instructed that when the. 1922 accounts are closed in January he advertise by card number and by delegate number all delegates whose accounts are not clear. Amendment: That the list be put out March 1st,

"That a month prior to putting out the list in March, the secretary- treasurer shall notify through the Bulletin all delegates whose accounts are not clear to get in touch with headquarters. All. delegates whose accounts are straight are not to go on list."

(Note) This' is not a delinquent list, but merely an effort to get all. accounts straightened out between delegates and headquarters. The delinquent list will not be issued until August 1st as usual.

Following is a list of the 1922 delegates who have never made a report for any business done on- their credentials and who are sti carrying the credentials and supplies. .Tljese delegates should, make a report to headquarters of the business, done ( if any) and should, "turn in these supplies and credentials at once. Any member meet Inf one of these delegates should endeavor to find out what has . been df with these supplies.

Name _ Card No. Del. No. Supplies _ Issued.

John Callahan

X 25323

G 265

§ 40.00

7-12-22

Vm ComptOn

837746

G 190

80.00

3-18-22

J ;E . Conway

837569

G 987

60.00

8-25-22

Jack Doyle

729015

G 586 .

117 .50

8-14-22

H.O. Hanson

721213

G 244

60.00

8-19-22

Rudv Lee

720927

G 657 •

lO.v.OQ

7- f-2%

8- 30-22

J.L. Me Millen

X 45638

G 467

82.50

L.R. May

826712

G 1014

.180.00

. 9- 8-22

J.E. Merrifield

X 30531

G 798

.60.00.

9-13-22

Milton Nelson

X 3928

G 245

99.00

7-11-22

F.E. O'Neil

840547

G 45-

50.00

7-17-22

Jack Scully

X 26935

G 1052

70.00

10- 7-22

Joe Smith

G.W. Tryor

813842

G 209

G 168-

■60 ;00 20.00

6-20-22

8-20-22

LET'S start now,.;

Attempts are being made .to clear up all ce.ses that remain from the drive of last year. There still remain in Independence live fellow workers who have served their six months sentence and are now serving their fine according to a telegram received to¬ day from the Sheriff. Attempts shall be made to sue a writ for their release.

All are out at Carthage with the exception of fellow worker Fischer and Nye, and they are to be released this week.

Fellow worker Clancy has been released from the county jail at Me Pherson.

The Supreme Court of Kansas has reversed the decision of the lower court in the case of Fellow worker William Murphy.

Fellow Workei Murphy was sentenced at the same time as Harry Breen and was given from four to forty years for alleged criminal syndicalism. This makes two C.S. cases that have been reversed by the Kansas Supreme Court, and will go a long way towards making it safe to organize in that state in this year's drive.

All briefs have been submitted to the Supreme Court of South Dakota in the case of Fellow worker Frank Godlasky. You wil. recall that he was sentenced to fifteen years for alleged man¬ slaughter. Attorneys for the defense are of the opinion that fellow worker Godlasky will be ordered released.

Fellow workers Blair and Matson have been released on one thousand dollar bonds. Blhir is to go to Canada and Matson agree o to leave the country in sixty days. These fellow workers have been held for deportation.

Two big jobs confront the General Defense Committee . There are in the neighborhood of fifty fellow workers still confined m Leavenworth and over a hundred at California. With a little ™°Te cooperation from the members we should be able to effect the re¬ lease of the political prisoners, and force the repeal of tne California C.S, law. In the latter campaign various bodies are actively engaged in trying to secure the repeal of the law.

We call upon all members to give whatever spare time they - TF haven't a defense receipt

have to these two campaigns. If you book, then write for one today.

GENERAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE.

There are duplicate cards at Fresno for M. Crisp and C.D. White , also card for Eugene Murphy which was found, write to stationary delegate at Fresno for them.

Blank credentials AG 317, 318 and 319 were lost in or near Hoxie, Ark. February 16th. If found send in to mam oifice.

Get your literature, supplies, etc . from the branches or sta. deleg- J.H. Snyder 1219 -4th St. y Sioux City, la.

Joe Fisher 518 N. 16th St. (Box 107) Omaha, Nebr.

Sam Murphy 14± S. First St. Minneapolis, Minn.

W.F . Bates Box 531 Williston N .D.

S.H. Straw Box 306 Modesta, Calif.

Ed Anderson General Delivery Fresno, Calif.

On March 1st a delinquent delegate list of A.'*\I.U. 110 will be put out to include all delinquent delegates from 1917 to 1981 inclusive. All members should write in and obtain one.

The hall in Fargo will be opened APBIL l3t.

With best wishes, we remain

Yours for the I.Wf.W.

Albert Hanson, Chairman Tom Wallace, Sec '7-Treas.

A.w.I.U.No.110.

1

the Concern of All1

"An Injury to One Is

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO.IIO OF THE I.W.W.

BULLETIN No. 7

Chicago, Ill, February 28,1923 , _

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Fellow Workers:

The G.O.C. by a referendum vote has changed the date of the spring convention of the A.W.I.U. No. 110 to May 20th at Oklahoma City. This will be a mass convention and every member who can possibly attend should make it his business to be there.

The most important business of the convention will be the devising of ways and means of carrying on organization work throughout the summer. Now is the time for all members who may have ideas or suggestions for making rhe 1923 drive a success to send them in. "Members attending~branch meetings should pre¬ sent their resolutions to them for approval, and all who are not in touch with a branch should send them to headquarters for pub¬ lication in the Bulletin, so that others may have a chance to study them before the convention.

We would like to have all resolutions for the convention sent in to the main office as early as possible, by May 1st at least. This will enable the office to segregate them and get them in shape for the convention to work on. The more work that can be done before the convention the less there will be for the committees,, and the routine work of the convention will be dis¬ posed of easier.

IMPORTANT

Extract from the minutes of the 1922 convention:

"That the secretary-treasurer be instructed that when the 1922 accounts are closed in January he advertise by card number and by delegate number all delegates whose accounts are not clear. Amendment: That the list be put out March 1st.

"That amonth prior to putting out the list in March, the secretary-treasurer shall notify through the Bulletin all dele¬ gates whose accounts are not clear to get in touch with head¬ quarters. All delegates whose accounts are straight are not to go on list . "

(Note) This is not a delinquent list, but merely an effort to get all accounts straightened out between delegates and head¬ quarters. The delinquent list will not be issued until August 1st as usual.

Following is a list of the 1922 delegates who. have never made a report for any business done on their credentials and who are still carrying the credentials and supplies. These delegates ^ should make a report to headquarters of the business done (if any. and should turn in these supplies and credentials at once. Any member meeting one of these delegates should endeavor to find out

Name

Card No.

Del. No.

Supplies

Issued.

John Callahan

X 25823

G

265

2 40.00

7-12-22

’rm Compton

837746

G

190

80.00

3-18-22

J.E. Conway

83 7569

G

987

60.00

8-25-22

Jack Doyle

739015

G

586

117.50

8-14-22

H.O. Hanson

721213

G

244

60.00

8-19-22

Rudy Lee

720927

G

657

1C. 00

7- 7-33

J.L. Me Miller

X 45638

G

467

82.50

8.30-22

L.R. May

826713

G

1014

180.00

9- 8-22

J.E. Merrifield

X 3C581

G

798

60.00

9-13-22

Hilton Nelson

X 3938

G

245

99.00

7-11-22

F.E. O'Neil

840547

G

45

50.00

7-17-22

Jack Scully

X 26935

G

1052

70. OC

10- 7-22

Joe Smith

813843

G

209

61 . iG

6-20-22

- '. Try or

G

163

2D .GO

.TOR NEWS California

Fresno. 2-14 Kirkraan Nurseries Co. Nursery Work. lNo_ experience needed in most cases. Nurseries near Fresno, i-lojava and bos -neeles. Stockyards all over the state. Tying tree,, in bundles itting, trimming, packing, etc. Employing at iresno about o5,

'o java about 20, Los Angeles about 30. Job _ lasts all winter ana i'll into the summer. Wages vary for the Kind or work. Nine ur day. Camp sanitation and board fair. One delegate on the job. Sentiment fair. Blankets required. Hired at "tate Free Employment Office. ( w 842079)

Nebraska

am aha. 2-24 Paying 30 and 35 cents on the ice. About ten- days' -ork left. Several members on job. Two delegates. Sentiment good. AG 123.

NOTICES

The 1923 Defense stamp is now in the field and evay member should' try to have at least one in his card. The General Defense is badly in need of funds to carry on their work.

Blank credentials AG 318, 319 and 320 were lost in or near Hoxie, Arkansas on February loth. If found send in to main office.

On Harch Ist’a delinquent list of A.^.I.U. No. 110 dele¬ gates will be put out to include all delinquent delegates from 1917 to 1921 inclusive. All members should write- in and obtain one.

The hall in Fargo will be opened APRIL 1st.

Get your literature, supplies, etc. from the branches or stationary delegates:

J.H. Snyder Joe Fisher Sam Murphy r.F, Bates S.H. Straw Ed Anderson

1218-4th St. ,

515 N. 16th St. (: lit? S. First St., Box 531 Box 306

General Delivery

Sioux City, la© c 107) Omaha, Nebr. Minneapolis, Minn. Williston, N-. D. Modesto, Calif. Fresno, Calif.

r ith best wishes, we remain

Yours for the I.W.W.

Albert Hanson, Chairman Tom Wallace, Sec’y-Treas.

A.r.I.U. NO. 110

'An Injury to One Is the Concern of All1

AGRICULTRUAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO.IIO OF THE I.W.W. BULLETIN No. 8

Chicago, Ill, _ March 7, 1933.

****♦♦♦♦*» ♦ '**.>.*♦* *********** Y

THE BERRIES

Fellow Workers:

Strawberries are now for sale in the so-called better groceri and markets. They are slowly trickling in from far southern cej. ters of early production. It will not be long before the season will be on in the Ozark region of Arkansas and south-western Missouri, from Horatio to Sarcoxie,

The picking season will start at Horatio, Ark. about April 1st; at Anderson, Mo. about April 15th to 20th; and I'.round Pierce Cit; and Sarcoxie, Mo. about May 1st. Starting at Horatio a man may finish picking there and still be in time for the northern fields.

Last year we were not properly prepared to do effective organization work in the berry fields. In fact, the opportunities of organizing among the berry pickers were underestimated. Still, in spite of lack of preparation, more than 200 new members were lined up. A little effort in the line of a drive ought to net i's 1000 new ones this year. THEY ARE THERE — all re have to do to get them is show the determination to do so.

Befdre long the various railroads traversing the berry fields' will have posters at their depots, in and around there, giving the names of the. towns and the number of pickers needed in each; also, the Berry Growers Associations of these towns will be ad¬ vertising for pickers. Let us heed the call when it comes and go there.

In order that the members who may decide to take in the berei : may not be deceived as to conditions, wages, and climate, it may be well to describe the typical conditions of the berry zields and 'just about what a berry picker will have to put up with unti l we shall be able to make conditions to suit ourselves.

First thing to do is a little reducing of the number of picker » called for in the advertisements and posters. For instance, the little town of Anderson, iio. - a typical berry town on the K.C.S.- had posters out calling for 9,000 berry pickers. This figure wa^ based upon the number of acres planted, to strawberries in tnat district, and was nearly correct. However, this does, not mean that 9,000 outsiders were needed, but stands for the total number of pickers necessary to harvest tne crop. Inasmuch as the home- guards pick berries also it means that only 3 to 4000 extra pick :. ■ were needed. Plenty at that, and all these little otherwise sleepy towns of the Ozarks turn into teeming metropolises when to berries are on full blast.

A good. many of the employers in the berry fields are of the "beans, cornbread and. teat-ham" variety, but that need not unduly worry a prospective berry glommer because prices lor picking are zo much per quart box of berries and does not include board. The berry growers will on the average, however, lurnish cooking uten¬ sils and go good for groceries. You cook your food, in the majority of places, all'ee samee Hobo, beneath the sheltering branches of a tree. Wood is furnished free. Some growers have bunkhouses and cooking sheds, but they are as yit a minority.

Others hire a new gang of pickers every morning, having no accom¬ odations for the pickers on their farms. They have trucks or cars to bring the pickers to and from .he patches. Many pickers pre¬ fer this arrangement.

The length of the picking season depends upon the weather. If

it be a hot dry spring the season is short- Ir it rains too much it is bad. The ideal is a good shower of a night about twice a week. Last year the season was good.

The price for picking is set by the Berry Growers Asso¬ ciations. It is the same in all patches. Should a farmer pay above the fixed price he suffers further loss by haying his berries penalized at the receiving sheds. Taking this ■trict discipline within the berry growers into considera¬ tion it will readily be understood that only organized eff¬ orts on the part of the pickers can change price and condi¬ tions. 'No use railing against the individual farmer. It is the Association we must fight, and not only in one town but 'oe whole district.

There is room for a world of improvement in conditions in general. We should demand bunkhouses and cooking sheds -ntil such a time as we are strong enough to demand that the price include board. We should further demand a sliding scale for picking based upon the size and quantity of the berries. i;,hen picking first starts, tnat is after the first day or two of "scrapping", the berries are large. However, as the picking progresses they get smaller, and towards the last farther between. The sliding scale should be intro¬ duced as a compensating, factor.

As a place of conditioning for a hot, strenuous summer, the berry fields of the Ozarks cannot be beat. Ideal camp¬ ing places beneath sheltering oaks are aplenty. The springs are clear and cool. Bass and trout leap the brooks for those able to catch them.

Furthermore, the miners from Joplin, Pittsburg, eastern Oklahoma and the antracite fields of Arkansas come there; and . this year we may expect a lot of has-been Shopmen to take in the berries ■ also. Let us go there in a body and show these people whom we have preached Industrial Unionism to this winter that we practice what we preach and that the I.W.W, does m 'fact reach into all parts of industry.

(E.E.A; )

I.U.IIO SEATTLE CONFERENCE

* A conference of 110 members in the north- *

* west win be held on March 86th in Seattle, *

* Washington. This conference is called for the*

* purpose of outlining a plan of action for the *

* northwestern states. All 110 members in that *

* district should endeavor to be oresent. Mem- *

* bers having resolutions for the* general 110 ' *

* M°nVonti0n t0 be held in Oklahoma City on *

* Hay 20th should present them to this confer- *

* ence for its approval. Send all resolutions *

* *nd communications for this conference to *

* Joe Bauer, Box 365, Seattle, Wash. *

A.W, I.U.

SPRING 00 NVTnMTTfyi

The general convention of the A.W.I.U 110 will be bald in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on May 20, 1323. This year 110 has gone back to the old form of mass convention, and every mem- resolutions^6 °PP°r™.nity to present his own ideas and

Send in your resolutions and suggestions tion for publication in the Bulletin so that able, to study them before the convention. •

for the conven- others may be

The Kail in Fargo will be opened APRIL 1st

JOB NEWS

CALIFORNIA.

Asparagus picking will start around Sacramento about the 20th of March. Haying early in April. When this work opens up the dull season in California will be over for the rest of the year. There is every prospect that the C.S. law is on its last legs, and with this law on the shelf organization work in California should boom. (AG 4)

FRESNO, 33:14 Kirkman Nurseries Co. Nursery work. No experience needed in most cases. Nurseries near Fresno, Mo java and Los Angeles. Stockyards all over the state. Tying trees in bundles, pitting, trimming, packing, etc. Employing at Fresno about 35, Mojava about 30, Los Angeles about 30. Jcb lasts all winter and well into the summer. Wages, vary for the kind ox' wor.. Nine hour day. Camp Sanitation and board fair. One delegate o.i the job. Sentiment fair. Blankets required. Hired at State Free Employment Office. ( # 832079)

IOWA

MC CALLS3URG Farmers are hiring men for general farm work. Wages £55.00 and $60 . 00 per month, if you stay all summer. Not much organization among the slaves. Sentiment poor. ( AG 115)

ARKANSAS

HORATIO Strawberries will be on around Horatio and DeQueen about the 20th of March. Fair crop. ( AG 3.)

All members and delegates are requested to send in all job news available pertaining to agriculture as spring work will soon . open up. Unless it is sent in there can be no jjiob news.

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

The delinquent }.ist for I.U. 110, including all delinquent delegates up to and including 1931, is now on the press. Send i.. and get one, and make it your business when meeting a delinquent delegate to find out what he is doing towards squaring up. They will be out by the 10th of March.

Fred Fisher and Fred Nye have been released from jail at Carthage, Mo. John Cheesebrew and Julius vBohlem are also out at Independence, Kansas.

Blank credentials AG 318, 319 and 330 were lost in or near Hoxie, Arkansas on February 16th. If found send in to main office

The 1923 Defense stamp is now in the field and every member should try to have at least one in his card. The General Defense .is badly in need of funds to carry on their work.

Get your literature, supplies, etc. from the branches or stationary delegates:

J.H. Snyder Joe Fisher Sam Murphy W.F. Bates S.H. Straw Ed Andersen Fred L, Fisher

12 19 -4th St.

515 N, 13th St. (Box 14.V S. First St., Box 531 Box 506

General Delivery 714 Me Gee St . ,

Sioux City, la. 10'7) Omaha, Nebr. Minneapolis, Minn. Williston, N.D. Mcdesta, Calif. Fresno, Calif. Kansas City, Mo.

With best wishes, we remain

Yours for the I.w.W.

Albert Hanson, Chairman C.O.C. Tom Wallace, Sec'y-Treas.

A.w.I.U. NO.IIO.

'An Injury to One Is the Concern of All1

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO.IIO OF THE I.V.U. BULLETIN No. 9

hiicago, Ill,

Harch 14, 1923,

SUGGESTIONS ON THE SPRING CONVENTION Fellow Workers:

Oft times among the members of the I.W.W. there have been lengthy discussions in regard to .ways and means - of how, when and where we as members can improve and obtain the proper plan for the best interest of the organization as a whole. The* ques¬ tion in mind is to us of vital importance, and must be acted upon intelligently.

There is nothing more detrimental to the I.r.F. , or any other labor organization. .than to bring before a body of workers a plan icr the advancement or betterment of the organization, whicn, tho sanctioned by the majority of the members, when the appropriate time arrives for the necessary action, finds the members scattered broadcast. It is thoroughly understood that the place and time has been set aside for the coming spring convention, and undoubt¬ edly many members will congregate there for the sole purpose of organizing the workers. In the past it is known beyond the shadow of a doubt that the majority of members as well as job delegates have come cut of the harvest fields with less than they have entered, and practically became a burden upon the members who were fortunate enough to accumulate a few dollars.

The question than arises: Uhy didn't we, as active members, and. many others in the same boat come out staky? Kindly grant me the privilege and I will try to analyze or explain. First, it may be that some members are a trifle more submissive to the master, and are more agreeable with the conditions which really exist. Gecond, but a few who are running at large cannot and will not submit to tne same conditions on the job. Between these two . elements there is friction and dissension which in my mind causes disruption and criticism.

Fellow wo'rkers, what the membership of the I.F.F, needs is unity and discipline, "hat I mean by discipline is not of the character of force but of the plan whereby the members may be governed and abide with any decision that may be put before them.

It seems to me that the members dQ not come to a mutual understand¬ ing, for we know to be a positive fact that we cannot agree among ourselves on vital questions. Then, if we cannot agree among our¬ selves, how are we as members going to express our attitude to¬ wards the unorganized workers as to the true meaning of industrial form of organization?

I wish to make a few suggestions which I think will be bene¬ ficial to the spring convention. Lex us use a little discipline in regard to bringing: the members to strategic or centralized points where they will be in constant touch and communication with the officials of the G.O.C. and abide by any suggestions or plan vhich has been inaugurated by the spring convention, „nd put all She energy available to make th3 drive a success.

Another suggestion I would like to make is that the commission on initiations be abolished entirely. Also, that we do away with issuing large amount of supplies to delegates. Let each and every member who is elieibie carry supplies not to exceed five cards and the necessary amount of stamps accordingly. This will eliminate a great deal of controversy and will enable the member to go on the point of production and accumulate a few dollars to purchase the necessities of life.

lloral — then you are broke, you are a joke, or Out of the jungles, on tne job.

(G.F. #336566)

*** meetings, ***

Extract from mtinutes of Sioux City business meeting March 6, 1923 at which eleven members were present.

K & S. That we do not concur with the G.O.C. in selecting Oklahoma City as a place to hold spring convenuion. Carried.

M & S. That this branch goes on record_as being opposed to the spring convention being held in Oklahoma City and are in favor of holding same in Omaha. Carried.

M & 3. That this branch goes on record as being opposed to the spring convention having legislative power. Carried.

K & S. That the last three motions be published in the next A.W.I.U. 110 BulHetin. Carried.

M & S. That we instruct the Br. Sec'y to send a copy of these minutes to Omaha, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Chicago. Carried.

M & S. That we elect a committee of three to draft a letter explaining why this branch does net concur with action of G.O.C. Copy of letter to accompany minutes, and to be publish¬ ed in the Worker and Solidarity. Carried.

A. Vernon, #238963 Chairman, H. Bennet, #794762 Rec. Sec.

Sioux City, la. March 6, ’23.

Fellow Workers:

The A.w.i.u. #110 Sioux City , la. Branch are opposed to Oklahoma City being selected for the spring convention and recommend Omaha, Nebr., as Omaha .is more convenient for the majority of the members, and the convention can be held there for considerable less expense to tne organization.

We also consider that one convention a year with legislat¬ ive power is sufficient, as two will cause more or less con¬ fusion to say nothing of the additional expense.

(Signed by the Committee.)

Resolution adopted by the Sioux City branch of the A.,rM.U.#110 on February 19th:

we recommend that A.w.I.U. 110 issue a loan of ^1,000 to the California District defense through the office of the General Defense.

ic5fXtfaC^ f?°5? minu“g3J0f Omaha business meeting March 8, at which twenty-two members were present.

' !f/uSi^hat4.ve d0 not concur the Sioux City branch,

of holding the mass convention in Oklahoma City and re- commend that it be held in Omaha. Lost. ‘ J

with the Sioux Gity branch as bein* opposed that the mass convention be held in Oklahoma Citv and recommend that it be held in Omaha. Carried.

John Downs, Chairman Geo. Williams, Rec. Sec’y.

A.W.I.U, SPRING CONVENTION

The general convention of the A.w i u TTD m<ii wi in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on May 20 J 1923 Sis a fo has gone back to the old form of mass convention and Sve-v member will have the opportunity to present his'own idels ana resolutions. vn iaeas

Send in your resolutions and suggestions for the conven¬ tion for publication in the Bulletin so that others be able to study them before the convention. uay

The hall in Fargo will be opened APRIL 1st.

To the G.o.C. of A.W.I.U. No. 110. Fellow Workers:

Whereas here in the Northwest a big part of the agricultural industry is being to a great extent neglected by the A."', I.U.

This is a lot of agricultural work from early spring until late autumn. Much of this work is done by the migratory worker; in the spring there is orchard work, pruning and spraying; in . ne summer, haying and harvesting; and in the fall there is the enormous apple crop, together with other fruit. Besides these three kinds of agricultural work there are many others to numer¬ ous to> mention here. What are we going to doabout it? The ans¬ wer generally is "send out a G.O.C. man". Can you imagipe a more pitifully weak solution for such an important guest ion? The thing that is needed is some kind of permanent organization and right here - not in Chicago- come plan whereby the members here can discuss and act on local problems immediately.

Right now there is a crying need for propaganda. Discontent was never as sweeping among the wage workers of she Northwest as right now, To take advantage of this situation the branches of Seattle have recently elected a Propaganda Committee, which al¬ though badly handicapped by a lack of funds has been able to con¬ duct some very good and well-attended meetings; and incidentally, it has been proven that when preparation is made good speakers appear.

Different conditions call for different kinds of tactics. The agricultural workers of this district do not ream over as much territory as in the grain raising states of the Middle-west. They are more stationary. One kind of work follows closely on the heeis of another. What we need here is branches with a central, conven¬ ient point where members can meet and form plans dealing with local affairs.

Is the A.W.I.U. 110 flexible enough to meet this situation? _

The members in this part of the country know what the situatio.. is and some are trying to call a conference for the purpose of outlining a plan of action. It id a little late now because a great many will soon be leaving, for the East; but the ground worm must be laid if possible.

When the I.tt.w. was under the pei-capita system of handling finances a local group could start a branch and build up a rund for handling local affairs. Now, we must call on our Industrial Union hdqts~for finances. A conference should meet soon and draw up plans if we are going to get anywhere. The G.O.C., or travel¬ ling delegate should be elected from this part of the country so as toinsure cooperation. Having no money here, he would have to be paid by Industrial Union headquarters.

In the meantime there is something we could do. The Seattle ’T w Propaganda Committee is routing speakers; money raised at _ bi ^'meetings is used to finance meetings in places where tne col¬ lections are small and do not defray expenses. We, 11 110 does out on a well organized drive here, are going to get results irom "their good work. The Propaganda Committee could do lots more, only for lack of money. This committee is not on pay. 110 has not all the money in the world, but don't you think we could spare *200 in order to buildup the-'I.w.W. in general, and 110 in parti¬ cular, c.nd since we have £10,000 for the spring drive, this North¬ west propaganda being an important part of the N.W, organization drive, and as the speakers will hold meetings in many localities that are 100 $ agricultural towns , , . .. .

.Therefore, be it resolved that Sec'y-Treas. oi 110 be instruct? > to send to the N.w, propaganda Committee, for the purpose of rout¬ ing speakers, two hundred dollars. (Signed by 18 members).

T-TT-IIO NORTHWEST CONFERENCE

At a special business meeting of I.U. 110, held in Seattle larch 9th to discuss the spring conierer.ee o, I.U. 110 members m the northwest, in was decided to change tne pl&ce SEATTLE to SPOKANE, -r.d the date tq^ APRIL 2nd, 19c0 . This con¬ ference is called for the purpose of outlining a plan of action '*rthe northwestern states. All 110 members in that district should endeavor tc be present.

■t n r n E fr 5

- CALIFORNIA

Asparagus picking will start around Sacramento about the SOth of March? Hayimr early in April. T'hen this °p®£® upT^e pull

season in Calif, will be over for the rest of the year. There is every prbsuect that the C.S. law is on its last iegs, and with this law on the shelf organization work m Cain, shouidjoocm.

FRESNO Kirknan Nurseries Co. Nursery work. No experience need- eT'irf'most cases. Nurseries near Fresno, Mo java and Los- Angelas. Stockyards all over the state. Tying trees in bundles^ pitting, trimming, packing, etc. Employing at Fresno about ho, no java _ about <30, Los Angeles about 30. Job lasts all winter and we-1 in¬ to the summer. Wages vary for the kind of work. Nine hour bay*

Camp sanitation and board fair. One delegate on the job. senti¬ ment fair. Blankets required. Hired at State Free Employment ■ Office . ( #832079)

MC CALLSBURG Farmers are hiring men for general farm work. T‘ ages £;bo. 00 and 260.00 per month if you stay all summer. Not much organization among the slaves. Sentiment poor. ( AG lib/

ARKANSAS

HORATIO Strawberries will be on around Horatio and De Queen about the 20th of March . Fair crop. ( AG 3)

KANSAS

HALSTEAD, 3-9 Spring work opening up. Oat and barley sowing on. Farmers offering ?30.00 oer month. Not much demand for help,

(#728086)

All members and delegates are requested to send in all job news available. pertaining to agriculture as spring work will soon open up. Unless it is sent in there can be no job news.

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

The delinquent list for I.U.IIO, including all delinquent delegates up to and including 1921, is now on the press. Send in and get one, and make it your business when meeting a delinquent delegate to find but what he is doing towards squaring up. They will be out by the 20th ox March.

Credentials AG 548, issued to E.O. Halpans, were stolen in Denver. Duplicate credentials were issued to him on March 12th. Take up the old credentials on sight.

Credentials AG 108, issued to F.B. Keller, were confiscated by R.R. dicks at Sedalia, Ko. Duplicate credentials were issued March 14, 1923.

Get your literature, supplies, etc. from the branches or stationary delegates:

J.H, Snyder Joe Fisher Sam Murphy V’.F. Bates S.H. Straw Ed Anderson Fred L. Fisher

1219-4th St.

515 N.lSth St. (Box 14* S. First St. Box 531 Box 3C6

General Delivery 714 Me Gee St .

Sioux City, la. 107) Omaha, Nsbr. Minneapolis, Minn, ^il list on, N.D, Modesto, Calif. Fresno, Calif. Kansas City, Mo.

With best wishes, we remain

Yours for the I.F.W.

Albert Hanson, Chairman Tom. Wallace, Sec'v-Treas A.M.U. No. 110 - S’

•An Injury to One Is the Concern of All'

AGRICULTURAL WRITERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO, HO 0? THE J.W.w,

BULLETIN NO. 10

Chicago, Ill.

_ March 21, 1923, _

Fellow r-orkers:

The Industrial Pioneer is to gjppear again on Kay 1st, and we are taking this opportunity to appeal to the membership of the A.^.I.Ui No. 110 for the same support to the Pioneer in the future which was always accorded it in the past.

Reissuing the Pioneer is a big undertaking and lots of assis¬ tance is necessary if we are to make the magazine a success.

Every one can help who will. First, you can help us build up a good-sized subscription list by subscribing yourself, or you can get others who may be interested in a working class magazine to subscribe. The rates for the new Pioneer will be iz.CO a year.

Cl. 10 for six months, and $.60 for three months. Bundle orders of five or more copies 40 per cent discount, single copies 20£,

In order to expedite matters, also to make the securing of subs or donations easier for the delegates and members, we have had triplicate receipt books made. These receipt books are now off the press and we are waiting orders to send them into the field, ’’ben ordering these receipt books, don't fail to identify yourself as to card and Union numbers, also delegate number, if any. Non-members not well known here at Headquarters will please enclose recommendation from someone whom. we can identify - pre¬ ferably a member. These triplicate receipt books are consecutive¬ ly numbered, as are too, the series of individual -receipts in each book, A credential is placed on the inside of first left-hand cover, space being designated therein for the signature of the rightful holder, and another space alioted for signature of Business Manager. If full instructions are followed out in each case, and the triplicate receipt books are filled in detail, there should be an absolute minimum of mistakes, and a maximum of protection to all. It will be found too that space is provid¬ ed for on these receipt books to show whether the money collected is for subscription, donation, renewal, or bundle-order, thus making this a convenient and efficient form for the man in the field. It is necessary in using this form to leanheqvily enough on the pencil to get three ;:cod clear impressions, Ee must have good, live subscription agents - the sooner and the more of them the better.

For the purpose of an ever wider and wider distribution of our educational propaganda, it is vital that all branches and individuals who will, "give u's the werd to send them bundle orders. The sooner the better , "that we may easier compute the total number of copies to print for the first issue. ‘These bundle orders can of course be increased or diminished from time to time as the requirements of each place so ordering may necessitate. Tne 40 p reduction of retail rates offers a splendid inducement to news¬ dealers, book stores, and street' vender s, also added incentive to the branches seeking further finances with which to extend local organization work. "The wider the distribution of the Pioneer, the ~reater its propaganda value - and to this end the bundle orders are a -wonderful opportunity.

All branches should bring the good and welfare of the Industrial Pioneer up at their meeting, and all suggestions and advice will be thankfully received and considered by the manage¬ ment. Ways and means to raise donations to help start the Pioneer off to success, should form no small part of the dis¬ cussion of each brancr. meeting. Always there is some way - per¬ haps an ent srtainaent , -a (Ln.ce, a raffle, oi a picnic. The main thing is to rally t: the Pioneer now when it needs your help, the most 7 I* branches will canvas the newsstands ar.a newsvenders in their respective towns wit- a view to placing bundle orders in

• ayuv yuu ucin. ox iviio w cOLdu wuu unu -1'- ^ u ~ ~ ~ - - - •

fiction vsith real educational merit?. Oh, there, s lots to do,c.nd plenty of us to do it, if only we each and all get our shoulders to the wnesl and shove the Industrial Pioneer clear 9ve^ “fls as the best revolutionary working class magazine published in tne English language.

1?,hen sending money to rhe Pioneer remit if possible oy ^ post office money°order. And in event it should so happen after a reasonable time, by any of the many causes, tnat you do not receive a receipt for same, please be certain to notify us. All patrons of the Pioneer are ashed, too, to please notify us any change of address. Write addresses as plainly and correctly as possible.

And to the end that we may achieve tne success which this exceptional oppartunity offers as a medium of propagandising the working class, we are always, as before, relying on the workers themselves to carry on the great task of emancipation from slavery; and we know you wi^-l therefore swing into line and put the Industrial Pioneer in as many hands -as- you possibly can.

The INDUSTRIAL PIONEER can, it must, it IS going to be the

Yours for Education,

Harry 0. Clark _

Business Manager .

Harry G, 01

MEETINGS

Omaha, Nebr., -March 15, 1923.

In the regular joint business meeting held in Omaha, 28 members in good standing present, this motion was passed:

F.W. Raymond Henry, Chairman, Albert Frane, Rec.Sec'y,

b &S, That we the members in the joint business meeting assembled, go on record demanding from the G.f.B. if the I.W.W, put out the referendum ballots to‘ the membership in regard to compulsory organization stamp be put out for organization

~ 1 1 TTP HQOQ

purposes

I.U.IIO NORTHWEST CONFERENCE

FOR— THE-BERPY_?lELDg NOy:

The

HOW YOU CAN HELP, IN OUR »T)RK

The General Defense Committee has set aside another date for a nation-wide demonstration for the release of political prisoners. To date (the best response has cdme from the churches. V’e have received letters from various clergymen to the effect that they would deliver a sermon on that date, and that their subject would be "Political Prisoners". Encouraging us in mak¬ ing the day a success are various religious papers vrho are re¬ printing our appeal and calling on all of their readers to co¬ operate with us on that date. The liberal element have also signified their willingness to make April 29th one that will never beforgotten.

The response from our down branches is not what it should be, and we call on all members who read this appeal to bring the matter to the attention of their branch as soon as possible. The sentiment for the release of the politicals was never better.

Let our slogan "We never forget" be a fact.

California

Whether or not the criminal syndicalism law of California will continue for long will be ans\vered shoftly. We have told you in previous bulletins that a move for the repeal of the law was under way and that a bill had been introduced in the legis¬ lature urging its repeal. 4 public hearing has been granted and the following committee will speak for its^repeal:

Chester H. Rowell, regent University of California,

Irving Martin, Railroad Commissioner, Dr. David Starr Jordo.-. Stanford University, Eustace Cullinan, prominent San Francisco attorney, John F. ileylan, attorney, '"arren Olneyrn, former Supreme Court Justice, Rev, Edward L, Parson of Episcopal Diocese. William Kent, f Dinner Congressman, Mrs. Dane Coolidge,

Mrs. Duncan He Duffie, Mrs. Jas. Ellis Tucker.

What the legislature will do is a question, but there is no question but that the publicity in the past few months shows effective results. With the cooperation of every member in California and out of California, the law can be defeated. Co¬ operation can be given on tne job as well.

Kansas .

The three remaining fellow workers in Independence have been released, leaving but two in prison in that state. Fellow Worker William Murphy should be released shortly as our attorney,

Harold Mulks, has received no word from the court that the state has applied for a rehearing. The state had twenty days in which to file application. If Murphy is not released soon the attorney will be instructed to sue a writ for habeas corpus.

South Dakota

Argument before the Supreme Court in the case of Frank Godlasky, alias Frank Daring, will be held April 4th. Attorneys for the defense will be C.A. Kelley, Mayor of Huron, South Dakota, and Harold 0. Mulks of Chicago. Everything look - favorable for the defense.

As Usual

The defense is in need of funds. ,,7ith a number of cases springing up in the Northwest we find ourselves handicapped be¬ cause of ’lack of funds. Will you get a receipt book and give us a lift?

General Defense Committee 1001 1,rest Madison St.

Chicago.

The delinquent list for I.U. 11C, including all delinquent delegates up to and including 1921, is new out. Send in and get one, and make it /our business when meeting a delinquent dele¬ gate to find out what he is doing towards squaring up.

CALIFORNIA

Asparagus picking will start around Sacramento about the 2Qth of March. Haying early in April. When -this work opens op the dull season in California will be over for the. rest of the year. There is every prospect that the C.S. law is on its last legs, and with this law on the shelf organization ’work in California should boom, (AG 4)

FRESNO Kirkman Nurseries Co. Nursery work. No experience needed m most cases. Nurseries near Fresno, Mo java, and Los Angeles. Stockyards all over the state. Typing trees in bundle! pitting, trimming, packing, etc. Employing at Fresno about 35, Mojava about 20, Los Angeles about 30. Job lasts all. winter and well into the summer, Wages vary for the kind of work. Nine hour day. Camp sanitation inti, board fair. One delegate on the job. Sentiment fair. Blankets required. Hired at State Tree Employment Office. (#8320790

IOWA

MC CALLSBURG Farmers are hiring men for general farm work. Wages #55.00 and #60,00 per month if you stay all summer. Not much organization among the slaves. Sentiment poor. (AG 115$

KANSAS

HALSTEAD. 3-9 Spring work opening up. Oat and Barley sowing on. Farmers offering $30. per month. Not much demand for help.

(#728086.)

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

The General convention of the A.W.I.U.IIO will be held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on May 20th, 1923. This year I.U.110 has gone back to the old form of mass convention, and every member will have the opportunity to present his own ideas and resolutions .

Send in your resolutions and suggestions for the convention for publication in the Bulletin, so that others may be able to study them before the convention.

The hall in Fargo will be opened APRIL 1st.

Credentials AG 548, issued to E.O, Halpans, were stolen in Denver. Duplicate credentials were issued to him on March 12th. Take up the old credentials on sight.

Credentials AG 108, by R.R. dicks at Sedalia March 14th, 1923.

issued to F.B. Keller, were confiscated , Mo. Duplicate credentials were issued

Get your supplies, stationary delegates:

literature, etc. from the branches or

J.H. Snyder Joe Fisher Sam Murphy W.F. Bates S.H. Straw Ed Anderson Fred L, Fisher

I219-4th St.,

515 N. 16th St. (Box 107) 14| S'. First St.

Box 531 Box 306

General Delivery 714 Me Gee St.

Sioux City, la. Omaha, Nebr . Minneapolis, Minn, Willi ston, N-.D, Modest a, Calif. Fresno, Calif, Kansas City, Mo.

with best wishes, we remain

Yours for the I.W.W.

Albert Hanson, Chairman Tom Wallace s*o -TrMB

A. V. I. U. NO- HO ®aS

'An Injury to One Is tbs Concern of All"

'AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO.IIO OF THE I.W.*. BULLETIN No. U

Ouioago, 111. _ March 28, 1923

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I.U.IIO must stiffen the line;

fellow-workers-: -

The members of A.^.I.U, #110 must not overlook the latest developments in agriculture. The goernment is now boosting the formation of co-operative farm marketing associations, and a government agency is now furnishing farm and market credits thru various channels. The leaders of the new co-operative associa¬ tions are bankers, large farm, plantation, and orchard owners. Government loans are made to the big fish in the agricultural industry.

Agricultural marketing and financing is being organized on a big business basis, vhen these problems are solved, the ind¬ ustry will be stabilized so that big business can enter the field of production in this industry in the same manner that it now functions in all other industries.

The Morgan bonanza farm in Montana, which was operated on a factory basis during the war, produced 17, COC bushels of wheat per man in 19 3B. That is much higher than the average, and large capital cannot long resist this opportunity once farm marketing and finance has been placed on an organized business basis.

Fellow workers who are members of A.F.I.U. #110 must not only realize what the present trend means for the future, but also of the effect on present conditions. The formation of these organized groups of bankers and other large owners into co-opera¬ tive marketing and financing associations will enable them to organize their attacks against the -workers. YOU MUST MEET THIS BY STIFFENING UP YOUR ORGANIZATION. MORE AND BETTER ORGANIZATION IS THE ANSWER t

I .U . IIP NORTHWEST CONFERENCE

A conference of 110 members in the northwest will be held on April 2nd, 1923 at Spokane. If you can’t attend, send in your ideas and suggestions pertaining to 110 organization work in the northwest. Send resolutions and communications to Bob Ilall, Box 1689, Spokane, Washington.

The general convention of A.7M.U, No. 110 will be held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on May 2Cth, 1923. This year I.U. 110 «s gone back to tag old form of mass convention, and every Wn.baz will have the opportunity to present his own ideas and resolutions .'

Send in your resolutions and suggestions for the conven¬ tion for publication in the Bulletin so that others may be able to study them before the convention.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports, the storm of March iPtn ur.d 30th caused practically no damage to the strawberry crop cf Arkansas and Missouri.

Several members are already arour.d Horatio and DeQueen,and the next few weeks should mark the opening of the first seasonal -work for 110 in the middle west. Members taking in the berries should writs the main ofiice for literature, supplies, etc., or get in -touch with the G.O.G. member in that district.

WASHINGTON

GFOKAIIF, 3-20 Lends ' $35 . 00 and (AG liG)

Wages for married men on ranches $100, Ranch up, ohoremen *35.00, milkers for 24 cows L75.00

IOWA

Farmers are hiring men in Iowa at ’.••ages from $35.00 to $60.00 per month. According to reports most of them want to pay 'a bonus of five or ten dollars a month if you agree to stay a] 1 summer .

SPECIAL MEETING OF I. U, #110, CHICAGO, ILL.

Meeting called, to order by branch secretary Miller at 2:30 P.M., March 25th, 1923.

Conductors report 33 members in good standing and 17 visitors present .

Reading of communications and minutes from Omaha,

Sioux City, and Minneapolis branch.

M & S. That we concur with the G.'Q.C, as to place of holding the spring convention - OklahomaCity - and also date- :;ay 20. Carried: Yes 35, No 3, Read, Cooper, Elsassar re¬ corded as voting no.

L & 8. That we concur with G.O.C. in their decision to not call in two alternates to their meeting. Carried.

Yes 23, No. 2, George Read and Cole recorded as voting no.

Read moves that spring convention shall have no legis¬ lative powe.r. No second.

Tom Doyle, Chairman James Lance, Recording Sec'y.

0 f o? the following are on hand at the Minneapolis

gr^nen, A,U',I,U.110. ’rite to Bam Murphy, branch secretary, r4f S. First St,, for these cards.

I.U.11G - Ben Gonia, William Shore, Stanly Hummack, Theder Keris, Osc^r Hallbeck, Barny Larson, Harvey '"alkey, John Mills, ; “urPby , -ii-ls rontenot, B.W. Sorensen, Roy Widener, Tho% r° Madden, D.J. Maloney. Fred Thorpe, Albert, Lrrokson, henry Nelson, Louis Kc John Mason,.. P.J. Cunningham, William Tu Franx warns, -Wm Ai lls, S.C. Fitzgerald.

loney, Fred Thorpe, kcbuick, Jn. Connell Turner, Tlios. Conway

„ - - - Fitzgerald, Roy Mckay,

enables -iorty , George Zimmer, Raymond Connet

I.U.120- Robt Burns, Frank Hidiko, Ben F. Johnson, Neal Cannon, u. Olsen. ' ’

I.U. 310- Carl Gustavson, Joe Dahl, Toug.Gargel, Geo. Pasco *

I.U.330 - C.V, Downs.

I.U, 520 -.Frank Harmona, 8.S. Secudany.

NOTICE

Fellow Worker Wm Smith, oard $ X 30172, was found dead this week in Minneapolis. Anyone knowing Anything about address please write this office or Sam Murphy, branch secretary. 14$ S. First Street, Minneapolis.

The following delegates whose names appear on the last delin¬ quent list have settled their account in full and have been issued clearances: R.E. Massey, A 605 (1921^, J. Coleman, A 960 ('?

R.S. Day, write to C-.J. Terrell, Box 1013, Los Angeles, Calif, or care of county jail. Important, The following members should also communicate with G.J. Terrell: Blackis Rogers, Joe Garner, C.L, Johnson, Loui6 Renwall and Titanic Slim.

There are duplicate cards at Fresno for the following:

C.D. White, Fred fi.Smith, L. Gordon, R.F. Stone, Neal Hanley,

John F. Hartman, Anthony Brown, John Noonan. Also Eugene Murphy's card which was found and turned in. Write Ed Anderson,

General Delivery, Fresno, for these cards.

In issuing the delinquent list all delegates whose account did not balance either in supplies or in cash on the books at Hdqts were placed on the list. Your name may be on it. Look the list over carefully. Probably there are names on the list that do not belong there. Sometimes supplies are turned in at a branch or to a traveling delegate and the supply bill does not reach Hdqts. If your name is on this list and you think it should not be tnere write in giving us all the information you can, and let's try and get straightened out. If your name is not on the list and you know anyone who is, make it your business to find out what he is doing to get squared. Remember that whatever is owing to the organization is a debt to you as a member.

Fellow Workers

VJhat are you doing to help get the class-war prisoners out of the penitentiaries? Fifty-three are still confined in the federal war-opinion cases, 49 of which are I .F.F, members; eight fellow workers are locked up at V'alla Walla, ’''ash. doomed to spend most of their lives behind the bars for defending themselves at Centralia; and scores of other fellow workers are in prison in Calif, under the state's criminal syndicalism law.

Three kindred movements are to be noted at this time:

1 the plan for observance cf General Amnesty Day on Sunday, April 29th: 2, the writing of letters to President Harding by labor or¬ ganizations in various foreign countries; 3, the agitation for a general strike to compel the release of all class-war prisoners here. Local committees in many cities are arranging demonstration for April 29th, and a large number of clergymen will preach amnest sermons. Much attention is being paid bo the amnesty question by the religious press.

Once more we find ourselves handicapped for money, Tnis, of course, is always our greatest need, for publicity work must be not be stopped. We must keep up a constant outpouring of litera¬ ture and news matter. Send us all the. cash you can spare. Help us to gather money from others. If you haven't a defense recei. ..

book send for one at once. . . , . _

General Deiense Committee.

The hall in Fargo will be opened APF.IL let.

Get your supplies, literature, etc . from the branches or stationary delegates: ,

J.H. Snyder 1219-4th St. Sioux City la.

515 N . 16th St. (Box 1C?) Omaha, Nebr. 14w S. First St., Minneapolis, Minn Box 531 Williston, H.D.

Box 506 liodesta, Calif.

General Delivery Fresno, Calif.

714 Me Gee St. Kansas City, Mo.

Joe Fisher Sam Murphy F.F. Bates S.H. Straw Ed Anderson Fred L, Fisher

Yours for the' T.’-'-W,

Albert Hanson, Chairman G.O.C. Tom "'allace, Sec'y-Treas.

A. v, I. U. NO. HO.

"An Injury to One Is the Concern of All"

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO. IIO OF THE I.F.V.

BULLETIN No. 12

CaicdEQ . Ill . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ April 4, 1923 , _

ALL TOGETHER FOE THE 1933 DRIVE ■

Fellow- workers:

The Agricultural ’-Corkers' Industrial Union No. 110 drive is no-.; under way, impelled by a determination to make 1933 the banner year in the history of the organization. Every member has a duty to perform, and as each does his bit earnestly and zealously the success of this year's drive will be measured and the benefits accruing to the agricultural worker be determined.

More delegates are going into the berries this year than ever before in preparation for t.ie advance on the harvest fields of Texas and southern Oklahoma from the Arkansas and Missouri berry patches. Berry picking lasts up to the opening of the harvest in Oklahoma and southern Kansas. The berry pickers of the Ozark region are among the first arrivals in the grain belt. This year we are going to see that they arrive as an organized force.

While, as heretofore, I.U, 110 is centering upon the grain harvest of the central states, we are this year attacking ihe agricultural employments in the coast states with an organizing campaign which must result in strengthening our position in California and Washington. The employers' offensive in California is weakening and is near a breakdown, while our forces are strengthening their morale and gathering new strength. There has never before been a year when I.U. 110 approached the opening of a drive with such prospects as now offer.

This is the time for all eafnest members to get in the harness and pull for the organizing success that means better living and a brighter future for the migratory workers. The man who does not take out credentials now is not playing in true form. The drive is the members' business. It is they who win in its success, or lose in its failure. The degree of organiza¬ tion attained depends upon the number of delegates as well as upon the way they work. There should be one delegate at least with every group of workers on the trains, in the ^ungaes, and around each town. The members are tne ones who must maxe dele¬ gates . They must be the delegates.

Have you credentials? If not, why not? Get them today.

Today is the day of action. Faat you do today is already pre- pared for tomorrow. Wherever you are, get delegate s credentials NOT. Get the other fellow worker to take out credentials, ine "sooner we have our delegate list made up, the sooner we can cis- pose of our organizing force to advantage. Remember that we means you as well. It is our business -- yours, mine, and the - rest of us. Let us see that it is well done.

"Take out credentials" is the slogan now. Let us carry^ it out* Then we are • in a position to iiiove forward, so that e/ery step brings us closer to success - organization, better w»ies, conditions, and hours. Get in line for credentials .

A good supply of free literature is on hand at all branches and with all stationary delegates. Members not in touch with any of these will please write direct to^ this of iice ior same. Success is the fruit of preparation, well prepared.

so let us start now and be

JOB NEWS

CALIFORNIA

Calif. 3-30 Kirkman nurseries near leader a, Tulare, Brentwood, •ianada, and Me Fan* land. Tending to young orchards, noeing, irrigating, cultivating, etc. Wages 32.00 per day and up with

• card. Tractor and truck drivers, and skinners, <#>2,50 per day end up, with board. Mine hour work. Rill be ten when nursery

• oik starts. This outfit gives 50d a day raise in August and takes it away in January. "Hire at free employment offices and ranches. Blankets required. Board and sanitary conditions fair. ( AG 242)

LINDSAY., 3-37 Orange picking will be on by the 1st of April. 5ll piece work. No price set but probably about 8; per T>ox. -'embers scarce, but plenty of unorganized workers. ( AG 104)

WASHINGTON

SPOKANE, 3-30 Wages for married rnen on ranches $100. Ranch hands 335.00 and up, choremen 035. 00, milkers for 24 cows #75.00. ( AG 112)

IOWA

D4VENPQRT , 3-30 . Considerable farm work going on. Wages for single men from #40.00 to #60.00 per month with board. Members making Davenport should call at 609 W. 4th St, (#493776)-

OREGON

THE DALLES, 5-25 Ranch hands being hired at from #45.00 to -65.00 per month. The bigger the ranch,, the smaller the pay. Sheep herders and la&bers #75.00 to #100.00. ( AG 550)

ARKANSAS

The cold weather in Arkansas and Missouri is holding the strawberries back. Picking will start around De Queen and Horatio about April 20th. ( AG 5)

— » Notice -

Arrangements have been made with the Industrial Pioneer, which is to resume publication, whereby members out of touch with t-he branches and stationary delegates may secure the maga¬ zine direct through the main office, "if you are interested in obtaining the Pioneer, which will contain news of all the latest developments in the class struggle together with much of edu¬ cational value, send your name and address to the main office and the magazine will be forwarded to you.

The Pioneer will be off the press about the 25th of Awril. To insure your getting the first number without fail, we advise all members interested to get in touch with the Gain office as soon as possible.

Motion Passed hy the regular business meeting of Sioux City branch A.W.I.U. 110, March 36, 1923.

'That the Sioux City branch of the lord in favor of establishing an eight hour fields this summer . " Carried Yes 5 No 2.

A.W.I.U. go on re¬ day in the harvest

H.L. Thurman, # 3S6312 to be recorded as voting no.

- ? ■ The following delegates whose names appear on the last delinquent list nave squared their account and have been issued clearances:

James Farrell 555 H ( 1920), G.R. Wasson 573 F (1919)

On April 29th peopls of various olasses will hold demon¬ strations for the release of the remaining political prisoners and fellow workers held in state prisons.

The General De fense Committee is in receipt of letters from a number of branches who will hold meetings of protest and will elect committees to distribute literature dealing with all class war prisoners. Ford has come from several southern cities that a parade will be held and a number of banners will be carried by the paraders. Slogans dalling for a general strike to free the remaining class war prisoners will be the most prominent. Minneapolis has assured us that a committee composed of various organizations have decided to hold a large mass meet¬ ing on April 29th and has asked for 25,000 pieces of literature dealing with the contemplated general strike.

Hardly a branch of the Industrial Workers of the Vorld has failed to respond to the call issued by the General Defense Committee. Co-operating with the Committee are liberals who have assured us that they will also hold meetings . Clergymen of different denominations have written to the effect that they will deliver a sermon on April 29th and that their subject will be the "Liberation of Political Prisoners".

Several hundred thousands of leaflets dealing with the con¬ templated General Strike is being printed by the organization, and we call on all committees to write in for them immediately.

Be sure that you have a well organized committee for distribution so that none of the literature will go to waste.

General Defense Committee.

NOTICE ’ NOTICE NOTICE

Card numbers : X 30085, X 40315, X 49618, X 49634, X 49635 have been lost at De Npya, Okla. by delegate AG 115. Send m to the main office if found.

Fellow-worker Arthur Hogan was killed by a train in Fargo on March 29th. Anyone knowing the address of his relatives notify this office at once.

Fellow-worker Ed Williams, delegate G 682, please write in to the main office at once.

The general convention of A. w, I, U, No. 110 will oe held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on May 20th, 1923. Tms year I.U.110 has gone back to the old form of mass convention, and every member will have the opportunity to present his own ideas and

Send in your resolutions and suggestions for the conven¬ tion for publication in the Bulletin, so that others may be able to study them before the convention.

Get your supplies, literature, etc. from the branches or stationary delegates:

J H Snyder 12lS-4th St., Sioux City, ia.

Joe Fisher 515 N. 16th St. (Box 107; Omaha, Nebr.

Sam Murphy U S. First St. , Minneapolis, Minn.

W.F. Bates Box 531

S.H. Straw Box 306

Ed Anderson' General Delivery John K. Peterson 504 F. 7th St.

John O'Brien 110 Front St.

Willi st on, N.D. Modesta, Calif Fresno, Calif. Kansas City, Mo. Fargo, N.D.

Tours for the I.W.w,

Albert Hanson, Chairaan^ ^.Wallace, Seo'y-Trsasuxer.

'!An Injury to Ore Is the Concern of All"

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO.IIO OF THE I.w.W. BULLETIN No. 13

Chicago, Ill, • April 11, j,935.

PREPARE NOW,1 LINE UP! DELEGATES.

Fellow-workers:

Opportunity depends upon the readiness to seize ‘And act upon a favoring development. Unless we are prepared to take advantage of a chance no opportunity exists. And, where groups are concerned, the unorganized are always unready. For the group which is facing and dealing with a situation organization is the very first requirement of effective preparation.

Industrial situations not only affect some members of a working group but all members of the group. Prospects are favorably influenced and beneficial results secured. in proportion to the ^ extent of organization obtaining in the group and the degree of intelligence with which .its energy is directed. Its experience is the guide of the organized group. Now, experience is not simply the process of going through different situations, but of gaining knowledge .from and by having gone through them. In this respect the A.w. I.U. #110 is equipped with an ample fund. The time is now here to draw upon it.

This year we are facing the greatest chance in the history of the organization. Are we prepared to take full advantage ot it' Preparedness is the price of success and our success this year will be that which we have prepared to secure.

Here is the outidfek at present:

1. There is a general revival in industry.

This will create an above average demand for -wage workers, but .offers advantage only where the workers are organized - and then according to how they are organized and conduct their affair:

2. The inflow of emigration is meagre in comparison with that of former years.

This means that labor, when organized, is more favorably situated in the labor market than ever before.

3, The reported grain acreage is larger than in previous years and the crop outlook is promising.

Such a situation implies a great demand for harvest labor, which will occur at a time when ocher industries, preferred by the average worker, will likewise be bidding ior wage workers, ine employers villi compete with another, this summer and fall anyway.

Out of this situation we should win great improvements for agricultural labor. And we will, if we marshall our forces, use good judgment in their disposal, and bend ourselves earnestly and wisely in advancing our demands. Necessarily, our . be wherever there are harvesters. They must be with them going . .. the harvest, in the jungles, around the towns; and they must accompany them in their movements within the harvest belt, as organization is the first step in the direction of progress and success, so is a thorough and competent delegate system tho first step in organization.

Look the prospect over, fellow workers, and then jump for credentials. Now is the time to be up and doing. This summer isours to harvest from the seed we have been sowing for years.

Let us organize ourselves and make a thorough 30b vi it.

V%en, moreover, we know that craft unionism is completely

males a supreme effort in this summer s ha

Industrial conditions have dealt us a ^^them^ll? economic trumps. The question is: ^a11 PlayLS us now The game is ours, and the stakes worth winning. Let us get busy. And the first order of business is - Report for credentials. Get your credentials y* lhe

organize ourselves to organize the workers ^d P_ means

mployers and our unorganized fellows that organi strength, success, and security. • "i

Get vour credentials now. Foresight wins. Hindsight only regrets. Do it now. Get credentials.

JOB NEWS

CALIFORNIA

CALIF. 3-20. Eirkman nurseries near Madera, Tulare, Brentwood* Plana da, and Kc Farland. Tending to young orchards, hoeing, irrigating, cultivating, etc. Wages 33.00 per day and up with - board. Tractor and truck drivers and skinners «;:3.50 per day and up, with board. This outfit gives 50d a day raise in August and takes it away in January. Nine hour work. Will oe ten when nursery .■ork starts. Hire at free employment offices and ranenes. Blank¬ ets required. Board and sanitary conditions fari. I AG 343;

LIBBSAT. S-27 Orange picking will be on by the 1st of April. All piece work. No price set but probably about 86 par box. Members scarce, but plenty of unorganized workers. (AG 104)

WASHINGTON

SPOKANE, 13-20 Wages for married men on ranches $100._Ranch/han(?B . 1-35.00 and up, choremen £35.00, milkers for 24 cows -575 .00 . ( AC112)

IOWA'

DAVvnpORT, 3-30 Considerable farm work going on. Wages for single men from (-40.00 to £-60.00 psr month with boar a. ^embers making Davenport should call at 609 W. 4th St , ( # 493776)

OREGON

THE DALLES, 3-35 Ranch hands being hired at from £45.00 to 6o5.CC per month. The bigger the ranch, the smaller the pay. Sheep herders and lumbers £75.00 to $100.00. (AG 550 )

ARKANSAS

According to reports coming in the berries will be on around Da Queen and Horatio, about the 20th of April, and a little later arpund Bald Knob. Members making the berries should get in touch with the G.O.C. member in that district cr with the lain office, so they may be supplied with literature, etc,

SOUTH DAKOTA

ABERDEEN, 4-7-23 . Good demand for farm help. Wages £50.00 per m cat-1 Not many men. (AG 141)

NORTH DAKOTA

FARGO , 4-9-33 Plenty of demand for monthly men at from 640.CC to vbO . OC per month. ( AG 7)

*** NOTICE ***

All job and stationary delegates should send in a report of the amount of supplies on hand May 1st. This will enable the main office to make a complete report of the standing of all subordinate parts of the organization to the convention in accordance with By-law v 30.

NOTICE

NOTICE

NOTICE

The general convention of A.w.i.u, No, 110 will be held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on May 20th, 1925. This year I.U.11Q harj gone back to the old form of m&es convention, and every member trill have the opportunity tc present his own ideas and resolutions.

Send in your resolutions and suggestions for the conven¬ tion for publication in the Bulletin, sc that others may be able to study them before the convention.

If you have not received a copy of the delinquent list s?.nd in to headquarters or the nearest branch and get one. It is time that something was done with these accounts. You may know -'One one whose name appears, on the' list. Appoint yourself a committee of one to find out what effort he is making to get square. That which is owing to the organization should be of interest to every member.

Walter Barager, delegate A 211, whose name appears on the 1921 delinquent list, has settled his account in full and has beep issued a, clearance,

Jack Egeland, card iL- 822378, died last week in Minneapolis Anyone knowing his home address please writs the main office or to Pam Murphy at 14^ S. Fiist St., Minneapolis.

Cards for the following are on hand at the Minneapolis

branch, A.w.I.U.IIO. Write to“Sam Murphy, branch secretary, at

14{r S. First St. for these cards.

I.U.110 - Ben Gonia, William Shore, Stanly Hummack, Thedsr JKor is, Oscar Halibeck, Barny Larson, Harvey Walkey, John Mills, W.P. Murphy, Mills Fontenot, B.W. Sorensen, Roy Widener,

Mike Moran, Thos.Mc Fadden, D.J. Maloney, FredThorpe, Albert Erickson, Henry Nelson, Louis Kobu&ck, John Connell ! John Mqson,P.J. Cunningham, Wm Turner, Thos Conway, Fr.Harn Vfc Aills, S.C. Fitzgerald, Roy Mckay, Chas.Morty, Geo.Zijams Raymond Connet .

I.U.120 - Robt. Burns, Frank Hidiko, Ben. F. Johnson, Neal Cannon.

D. Olsen.

I.U,310 - Carl Gustavson, Joe Dahl, Toug.Gargel, George Pasco.

1.11,330 - C.V. Downs I,U. 52C-Frank Harmond, S.S. Secudany.

There are duplicate cards at Fresno for the following:

C . D. White, Fred E. Smith, L, Gordon, R.F, Stone, Neal Hanley,

John F. Hartman, Anthony Brown, John Noonan. Also Eugene Murphy s' card which was found and turned in. Write Ed Anderson,

General Delivery, Fresno, for these cards.

Get your supplies, literature, etc. from the branches or

stationary delegates:

1219-4th St.

N.ieth St, (Box S. First St.

Box 531 Box 306

General Delivery 110 Front St.

504 W. 7th St.

Sioux City, la. 107) Omaha, Nebr

J.H. Snyder Joe Fisher Sam Murphy W.F. Bates S.H. Straw Ed Anderson

Minneapolis, Minn.

williston, N.D. Modesta, Calif. Fresno, Calif. Fargo, N.D.

John O’Brien John K. Peterson

Kansas City, Mo.

With best wishes, we remain

Yours for the I.W.W,

Albert Hanson, Chairman Tom. Wallace, Seo'y-Treasurer

A.W.I.U. No. 110

!An Injury to One Ig the Concern' of All1

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION KO.IIO OF THE I.F.F. BULLETIN No. 14

Chicago, Ill. _ April 18, 1023.

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LET US BE READY

Fellow workers-s-

The steel kings have raised wages twice within a few months. The textile barons have also granted wage advances.

Even the Landis Committee in Chicago is among those who have announced wage increases. So have “the packing bosses. Every¬ where wages are going up as the employers strive to secure ade¬ quate working forces for their industries.

These wages increases have been advertised as showing the considerateness of capitalist concerns toward their employ¬ ers and the virtues of company unionism. But the fact of the matter is that the labor market condition is dictating this policy to them. Thus does capitalist policy seek to make a virtue of necessity. They are raising wages not because they like to, but because they have to. If there are any among the wage workers who are so dense as to believe that these wage in¬ creases indicate a change. of heart by the capitalists, such are indeed hopeless.

For us the question is: If the labor market condition can squeeze wage raises from the capitalists where the workers are unorganized, what would be the measure of these advances if the workers were thoroughly and scientifically organized? We do not know exactly, but this much we do know - that they would be greater than they are.

With wages going up all around agriculture, in all the' other industries, there is likely to be a real shortage of farm labor, with the farmers bidding against one another for the help they must have. High wages are cheaper than wasted crops. The opportunity to organize agricultural labor is greater this year than ever before. Not only will it be easier to organize the harvest workers, but it will also be easier to win concessions at which we have aimed for years.

The sign painters in Chicago have established a five day, forty hour week. Why should the harvesters work more than ten hours per day, or even that long? This summer we should at least be able to secure the ten hour day throughout the grain belt.

Not only is. there an encouraging prospect for agricultural labor but for all labor. Perhaps it is only because it is brighter for all labor that it is so bright for farm workers. However, we need waste no time speculating upon the " why s" and "wherefores". The opportunity is here, and if we make ready we shall win organization and industrial advantages from it.

We should be preparing now to do our utmost. Experience teaches us that an organization drive depends largely upon the number and quality of our delegates. This year, with such a promising outlook, we must strive for a delegate representation • ample enough to meet every requirement and win advantage from every favoring circumstance. There is just one certain way in which this can be done - every qualified member must take out credentials.

Conditions will make propaganda and do the agitating this year. The sentiment for organization will be stronger and mors widespread than ever before, without the restraints and _ handicaps that have hampered us in the past. The season for wnich we have longed is at hand, and the A.W.I.U. should come out of

JOB NEWS CALIFORNIA"

CALIF. , 3-20 Kirkman nurseries near Madera, Tulare, Brentwood, Flana da, and Me Farland, Tending to young orchards, hosing, _ irrigating, cultivating, etc. Wages $3.- 00 per day and up with board. Tractor and truck drives, skinner's $8,50 per day and up with board. This outfit gives 50$ a day raise -in August and takes it away in January. Nine hour work. Will be ten when nursery work starts. Hire at free employment offices and ranches Blankets required. Board and sanitary conditions fair, ( AG 243)

LINDSAY, 3-37 Orange picking will be on by the 1st of April.

All piece work. No price set, but probably aDOut 8$ psr box. Mem¬ bers scarce, but plenty of unorganized workers, ( AG 104;

WALNUT GROVE, 4-11-23, Haying in on around Walnut Grove, Modesto, and Turlock. Wages Cl . 75 and up. ( AG 4)

WASHINGTON.

SPOKANE, 3-30. V'ages for married men on r ahe he's $100. Ranch hands $35 . 00 ' and uo. choremen $35.00, Milkers for 24 cows $75.00. ( A.G 113)*

IOWA

DAVENPORT, 3-30 Considerable farm work going on. Wages for single men from $40.00 to $60.00 pps month with board. Members making Davenport should call at 609 W. 4th St , ( # 493776)

OREGON

THE DALLES, 3-35 Ranch hands being hired at from $45.00 to $55.00 per month. The bigger the ranch the smaller the pay.

Sheep herders and lambers $75.00 to $100.00 ( AG 550)

ARKANSAS

According to reports coming in, the berries will be on around De Queen and Horatio about the 20th of April, and a little later around Bald Knob. Members making the berries should get in touch with the G.O.C. member in that district or with the main office, so they may be supplied with literature, etc.

SOUTH DAKOTA

ABERDEEN, 4-15. Farm work is being held up for lack of men. Wages $50 .00 per month. ( AG 141)

NORTH DAKOTA

FARGO , 4-9. Plenty of demand for monthly.-men at from $40.00 to $50.00 per month. ( Ag ?)

*** NOTICE ***

All members and delegates should send in all available job news, as spring is here and agricultural work has opened up. Unless reports are sent in, there can be no- job news.

Organizing activity is the life-blood of unionism.

DEFENSE NEWS

Protests against the continued imprisonment of workingmen, six of whom are Britishers, in American penitentiaries £d.e war- opinions are being made by labor organize - ions and public-spirit e'' individuals thru-out the British Isles. These protests are belli,, sent in most cases to the nearest American consul, but in various instances appeals have been sent direct to President Harding at Washington.

There is reason to believe that action in behalf of the political prisoners in America will shortly be taken by the labor members of the House of Commons in view of the steadily growing agitation by working class organizations. In Liverpool a mass¬ meeting was lately held, these present demanding that immediate steps be taken in the release of their countrymen and the other 4V workers confined in American for opinions. This meeting called upon the Transport and General Workers' Union, the National Sailor, and Firemen's Union, and the Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union to abstain from working on United States ships or handling goods from that country until the politicals were liberated.

Similar expression was voiced by the Smethwick Branch of the National Unemployment Workers' Committee Movement, which pointed out that the American government had set free' all spies and profiteers, and that all other nations had released all men held for war opinions.

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

All job and stationary delegates should send in a report of the amount of supplies on hand May 1st. This will enable the main office to make a complete report of the standing of all subordinate parts of the organization to the convention in accordance with By-law # 30.

The general convention of A. W, I. U. No. 110 will be held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on May 30th, 1923. This year I.U. 110 has gone back to the old form of mass convention, and every member will have the opportunity to present his own ideas and resolutions.

Send in your resolutions ana suggestions for the conven — tion for publication in the Bulletin, so that others may be able to study them before the convention.

If you have not received a copy of the delinquent list send in to headquarters or the nearest branch and get one. It is time that something was done with these accounts. You may know some one whose name appears on the list. Appoint yourself a committee of one to find out what effort he is making to get square. That which is owing to the organization should be of interest ,to every member.

Get your supplies, literature, etc. from the branches or stationary delegates:

J.H. Snyder Joe Fisher Sam Murphy W.F. Bates S.H. Straw Ed Anderson John O'Brien John K. Peter son

1219-4th St.

515 N. 16th St.( 14$ S. First St. Box 53L Box 306

General Delivery 11.0 Front St.

504 W. 7th St.

Sioux City, la. 107) Omaha, Nebr . Minneapolis, Minn, wiiiiston, N.D. Modesto, Calif Fresno, Calif. Fargo, N.D.

Kansas City, Mo.

With best wishes, we remain

Yours for the I . w . V .

Albert Hanson, Chairman Tom Wallace, Sec 'y-Treasurer

A.W.I.U. No. 110.

"An Injury to One Is the Concern of Ail"

MmiaptVItytfL WORJffiRS INDUSTRIAL yWIOM MO. no Of THB I.W.W. BULLETIN No. 15

Chicago, Ill. April 35, 1935.

SPRING WORK OPENING UP WITH'' LABOR SHORT- AGE Fellow workers:

Spring work is opening up in almost the entire agricultural industry of the country, and now is the time to give I..U. 110 your cooperation by sending in for credentials and supplies .■ This is the year to break all recordB for No. 110.

The United States Department of Agriculture is out with an announcement of a farm labor shortage, in which they state that last April, 1932, there were 111 men for every 100 jobs on the farms of this country, .while in April 1923 there are only 88 men for every 100 jobs. The shortage of labor is greatest in the northern industrial belt, extending from the New England States west to the Mississippi River, and will be least felt in the Mountain and Pacific States, The Department also announces that the farm prices of the principal crops advanced 3.2 per cent during March.

Members of No. 110 take a tip! Higher prices and a labor short age will make for a situation that should prepare many of the unorganized for a card. Now is the' time to start the 1923 drive! Don't wait until wheat harvest, but get out among the farm laborers and line them up to better their conditions, while there is a labor shortage on. The farmer does not overlook a crop shortage to get his. Inform the farm laborers that they should not fail to take advantage of the labor shortage, which will enable them to get theirs.

Berry and orange picking' is on, and this is the best time to start a drive for new members. Berry picking in northern Arkansas and southwestern Missouri will last until wheat harvest starts in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas. NOW is the time to start lining up new members for the wheat harvest drive.

It is a duty you owe yourself and fellow workers - to take out credentials at once and- start the drive now. Don't wait for some one to come along and ask you to take out credentials, but set in touch with the organization at once and inform us that you are going to help in the 1923 drive, ASK FOR CREDENTIALS N0W1 .

The general convention of A.W, I.U. No. 110 will be held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on May 20th, 1923. This year I.U. 110 has gone back to the old form of mass convention, and every member will have the opportunity to present his own ideas and resolution;

Send in your resolutions and suggestions for the convention for publication in the Bulletin, so that others may be able to study them before the convention.

All job and stationary delegates should send, in a report of the amount of supplies on hand May 1st. This will enable the main office to make a complete report of the standing of all subordinate parts, of the organization to the convention in accord¬ ance with By-law # 30.

A 210 hall has been opened in Salt Lake City at 253 West Broadway. Members coming from the Coast oan obtain literature, supplies, etc. there.

JCB_NEfS

CALIFCSESIA

3RAVLEY, 4-31 Having and hay baling paying $3.00 to $5.00 per I".y . Rcrr.i'yots w‘j th“bo?.r d, ec.« to^d vcnrc^.t. 1 Oi.a:j ore coarcs early car.teiopes will be ready to pick May £0th. They will start pulling onions in the Coachella Valley about May 1st. ( AG 4)

~T;RE, 4-16 Haying is on around Tulare and Tipton. $2.50 . day, ~7Tt Delano lettuce picking at 35 ana 40$ per 3£o%j.(AG 4)

IOWA

.fQP.T DODGE, 4-21 Farmers are hiring monthly men at from 40. CO to 550. per month. (AG 129)

CLEAR LAKE, 4-20 Some farm work at c,2.C0 per day and board.

No’ organization. A delegate could do good work here. (#419513)

NORTH DAKOTA

FARGO? 4-9 Plenty of demand for monthly men at from 540.00’ to 550.00 "per month. ( AG 7)

MINOT, 4-17 Seeding is on between Carrington and Minot,

340. DO to $45.00 per month. .Men scarce. Between wolf Point and Malta, Mont, wages are $50.00 per month, but the farmers are broke. ( AG 555)

SOUTH DAKOTA

A3EP.DEFN ,^4-22. Farm help very scarce. Farmers offering ieoO.OO t.o 530.00 per month. ( AG 141)

ARKANSAS

PE QUFEt-H 4-22 . Berry picking on at 35 per box. Some few offer 45. Scarcity of pickers here. ( AG 8)

L-LD KNOB , 4-23 Berries will be on about May 1st. Men very ‘scarce. Sentiment good. ( AG 156)

CANADA

WINNIPEG, 4-20 Farmers are hiring monthly men at $35.00 to c40.00 per month if you sign a contract for seven or eight months. Otherwise, no job. ( X 38011)

All members and delegates should send in all available job news, as spring is here and agricultural work has opened up. Unless reports are sent in, there can be no job news.

*** MEETINGS ***

Lindsay, California, April 14, 1923.

Meeting called to order 1Q:15 A.M. by delegate AG 4. Present: Ten members in good standing.

Carried.

M' & S. li Sz S ,

That the floor be opened for discussion. That the discussion be closed. Carried.

.i. & S. That a committee of three be elected to Carried a reso^utlon Pertaining to the voluntary bond stamp.

M Sc S. That draw up a resolution.

MEETINGS

( Continued)

That we suggest a two dollar voluntary bond staup to take up two spaces till we get the debts paid, ana we farther suggest that all Industrial Unions take the same action.

That we suggest to get the bond stamp in the field as soon as possible.

The reason why we are opposed to the compulsory' bond stamp is because it conflicts with the principles of the I.F.W. constitution.

That we recommend all G.O.C. members to instruct all delegates to push the voluntary bond stamps and to be published in all I.w.r, publications.

li &' ’S'.'-" That we accept resolution. Carried.

M & S. That we suggest to the delegate to the spring conference to lay aside" three to five tnousand dollars for the drive in California this coming fall. Carried.

M 6c S. That we instruct the G.O.C. .to bring it up before the convention to have a paid literature agent in Qalrf, Carrie;

h & S. That we have these minutes, published in all I.t'.w, publications. Carried.

Adjourned 1 P.M.

Chairman AG lla Recording Sec’y A@ 274

Horatio, Ark. April 16, 1923. Meeting called to order by G.O.C. member. Conductors report 7 members in good standing.

M :& Si- That those not carrying- cards be seated without voice or vote. Carried.

M & S. That report of G.O.C. member be accepted as progress. Car Resolution.

Pereas, the I.V.W, as a class’ organization has always stoo-- firmly for the workers, and

Fhereas, the I h". w, , as - a rank and file organization, realizes that the striking shopmen have put up a long and hard fight with their old form of unionism.

Therefore, be it resolved that we, the members of the A’.Wy-I.U. No. 110 of the I.'w.w.-, welcome the striking shopmen to the 'berry 'harvest with an interchanging of cards, and

Be it further resolved, that we assist these workers in every way possible. ( # 734067)

M & S. That we concur with resolution. Carried.

M 6L S. That all members cooperate by keeping one another posted as to the conditions on different jobs in these fields and by informing the delegates as to where they can function to the bes; interest^of the organization. Carried.

K & P. That this body go on record as standing firmly opposed to any move intended to change the proposed location of the 110 spring convention, Which is dated for Oklahoma City, May 20th. Ch...

M & S. That we hold these business meetings on the jobs or where ever there is sufficient members and keep I.U. 110 hdqts posted directly from jobs as to progress being made, and we lose no opportunity in advancing tne interest of the I.F.W. Carried.

M oc S. That this body go on record as standing in favor of G.O.C. members drawing full pay wnrle functioning in tne agri¬ cultural industry in these fields. Carried.

Several good talks on good, and welfare.

Chairman K: Moore Recording. Secretary Jas. Dwyer.

tWFF.HSE . MOTS

The General Defense Committee, thru its legal counsel, will carry to the u.S, Supremo Court upon a writ of error its appeal from the injunction against the Industrial Workers ;of the World which has prevailed in Kansas ever since June 24, 1930. Preparations for this move are in the hands of Attorney h'.S Julian, who formu¬ lated the brief on which the case went to the Supreme Court of Kans.g. Until the United States court ps.sses upon the writ of error, matters concerning the I.w.w. in Kansas will remain in status quo * in other words, matters concerning the I.W.W, in Kansas will oe the same as while the appeal was pending in the State Supreme Court.

The injunction applies to Henry Bradley and all other officer; agents, and members of the I.W.W. While on its fact it purports to restrain that organization from committing " depradat ions against property by criminal syndicalism and sabotage", it has been employed repeatedly to prevent. i.w.w. members from getting others to join the I.w.w, and from selling I.W.W. newspapers, which enjoy second - class mailing privileges granted by the federal government.

Attorney General Richard J. Hopkins of this state applied for¬ th e injunction following the remarkable success of the I.w.w, in solidifying agricultural and oil workers in Kansas against exploit¬ ation for months preceding the final week of June 1920. Both the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union and the Oil Workers Industrial Union were named in Hopkin's petition. Hopkins declared that with¬ in a few weeks previous large numbers of I.w.w, members had come into Kansas and had"oonspired and confederated together to stop work in the wheat fields and oil fields of this state, by criminal syndicalism and sabotage, as defined in the statute'1.

In appealing from the injunction, which was granted by Judge A. T. Ayres of the district court of Butler county, the lawyers ior the I.w.w. voiced these, contentions: "That a court of. equity has no jurisdiction in matters of crime; equity can deal with none but property rights; no property rights of the state of Kansas were threatened; the injunction was an attempt to inflict involuntary

on members of the I.W.W.; and this proceeding was viola- ^ £ constitutional rights of the defendants under both state

and federal statutes".

„_+e *1 was Pointed out that such an injunction against the defend-

^S,rL U?erllU°USJ.that,lt was nnnecessary because there already t!e!?ein criminal syndicalism law in Kansas, which provid ed a penalty ^of 10 years m the penitentiary and a fine of $1,000 ■SSm?ft*irt0Un(lhSU1ity 2£ Cli“inal syndicalism or sabotage. If arr statute. a ' Iemedy lay ln Pr°secuting him under the

It *a?8aS Supreme Court nevertheless upheld the injunction

Iqtatf vV Vlrtus of a previous court decision in the case of the If™ XnthS VerSUS AJexander Howat. The text of that decision i. not given in the supreme tribunal's ruling but it sav<? that n nn

p“tition°statedf aga^gV” ^ hdds U,

petition stated, a case of actionjis against all the objections urge,

ouent listfhaieWSt+?^efhte- whose nasies a?pear on the xast delin- ances: B.M.* Shields, A 3518.“ ?92?)fLS?i

3S&&Z Sf St 22-Si

have been isoied Fellow wofker Bar™. t0wn* DuPlicate credent!. -

■’rite the branches or stationary deles-at^ fr-r , .

J.H. Snyder 1219-4^5? 6 ^ Lies, iiterature, c

Hi l07^ »;lSth St .Omaha, i&.U'

Box St St' Minneapolis, Minn.

Bo* a™ WiHiston, N.D.

GenPrSi npi • Modesto, • Calif.

504 ’• Sag; lit;,

Joe Fisher Sam Murphy w.T. Bates S.H. Straw Ed Anderson John O'Brien Jn.K. Peterson

Albert Hanson, Chairman Toni e , _

A.w.l.u. H0.iS aila.ee, Seo'y-Treas.

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'An Injury to One Is the Concern of All

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 1JO.IIO OF THE I.w.W. BULLETIN No. 16

Chicago, Ill. 'May 2, 1923 .

IN ORGANIZATION IS OUR SECURITY

Fellow workers:

The bright May sunshine is not more promising and comforting than is the prospect whih opens before American labor for the coming months, provided that the workers do not fritter away the opportunity which they bring.

In field, garden and orchard green shoots and bulbs denote that vegetable life is responding to the influences of springtime. Even the unattended and waste places are clothing themselves with verdure. It is the natural law.

So, also, is it in the world of labor. The blizzards and frosts of industrial depression are being succeeded by balmier economic conditions, -arid, in obedience to a similar law, the hopes aspira¬ tions and ambitions of the wage working class are beginning to. send up shoots that enliven the barrenness and dreariness which has marked the labor’ world for the past five years. The storms that hurled themselves with such destructive fury upon the organized labor movement have spent themselves. For the present they have tapered into a cooing zepher breathing a seductive note of "mutuality", under the influence of which there is danger that labor may be lulled to sleep at a time when alertness and activity are necessary to bring to fruition those advantages wnich are as yet only in the bud.

In the times of industrial depression- times when unemployment is rife and the labor spirit at low ebb - the employers combine and actively engage to take advantage of the. workers' adversity.

They have no compunction. It is strictly according to the rules that govern warfare, economic as well as military. And the struggle between the classes is war, bitter, unceasing and relentless war.

It is poor generalship and criminally neglectful to fail to take advantage of any and every opportunity to strengthen the class position. So believe the capitalists, and so also must the workers come to believe. .What we neglect on our own behalf we abandon to the enemy for his benefit.

An idle summer stores no winter supply, and a labor movement which gathers only what falls into its lap is indeed an. idle and worthless body. Everywhere, all about and around us, the spirit to protest against present conditions is discernible among the workers. And there is, likewise, evident a distinct recognition by the capitalist employers of their comparative helplessness in the face, of the industrial situation which now confronts them.

Before an organized labor opposition, even tho it falls far short of 100 per cent, they have no option but to conciliate the workers. They have now no considerable reserve army of unemployed from which to organise .strikebreaking forces. If labor rises to its Opportunity now, the way of its future will surely be made easier. Of themselves the capitalists have never been able to resist labor. It is only by taking advantage of labor surpluses, and arraying bodies of workers against one another, that they have been able to win to the vantage point where they are the virtual dictators of society. The workers have whipped themselves. The time is hers to eliminate division and to close up the ranks of labor. We, ourselves, must do it.

So far as the A.W.I.U.IIO is concerned this spirit is in evidence to a greater degree than ever before. The organization appears to

sense its opportunity and the number of members who have taken out credentials is a very hopeful sign that there will be no sleeping when the drive is on.

But the A.W.I.U. is not the I.W.W., and the I.W.W. is not yet the working class. Only as our class rises and is made se¬ cure can agricultural labor- be secure. Therefore, we must re-, late our own activities to those of the laborers in all other in- dustfcies. In all the Industrial Unions we are -first I.W.W.'s.

The organization holds all there is of hope for the workers. Wherever we come in contact with other workers, in whom the sun of a labor demand is awakening the consciousness of class desire, we must strive to do all in our power to cultivate that feeling and crystallize it into organization. This is the spirit that builds, and this is the spirit of the I.W.W.

Agricultural workers all over the world are moving forward, This is the year when the A.w.I.U. should go ahead more rapidly than ever before. The position we shall achieve can only be held when othex workers are also brought into the I.W.W. When, and as we help to bring them we shall have started on the march, forward that will lead to the industrial democracy in which alone is to be found peace and security .for the world and its workers.

JOB NEWS

CALIFORNIA

BRAWLEY, 4-21 Haying and hay baling paying $3.. 00 to $5.00 per day. Some jobs with board, some board yourself ., Members scarce. Early cantelopes will be ready to pick May 20th. They will start¬ pulling onions in the Coachella Valley about May 1st. ( AG4)

TULARE, 4-16 . Haying is on around Tulare and Tipton. $2.50 per day. At Delano lettuce picking at 35 and 40<J per hour.(AG4)

LINDSAY, 4-36 Orange picking now on at 6 to 9£ per box. Plenty of slaves. ( AG 104)

IOWA

FORT DODGE, 4-21. Farmers are hiring $4O.O0 to $50.00 per month. ( AG 129;

monthly men at

from

CLEAR LAKE, 4-20 Some farm work at $3.00 per day and board. No organization. A delegate could do good work here. ( #419516)

NORTH DAKOTA

FAR!

tb i

4-9 Plenty of demand for r7tJ0 per month. ( AG 7)

monthly men at from $40.00

MliOlA^-L7. Seeding is on between Carrington and Minot. $40.

ff^00 per scarce> Between Wolf Point and Malta,

Montana, wages are $50.00 per month, but the farmers are broke.

SOUTH DAKOTA

(AG 555)

ABERDEEN, 4-32. Farm help very scarce, to $60.00 per month. ( AG 141)

Farmers offering $50.00

ARKANSAS

DE QUEEN, 4-32 Berry picking on at 3£ Scarcity of pickers here. (AG 8)

per box.

Some few offer

BALD KNOB, 4-23. Berries will be on about May 1st scarce. Sentiment- good. ( AG 156)

Men very

HORATIO, 4-29 . Growers paying 3 can easily be raised as pickers

£ for bsrry picking, but this are scarce. ( AG 323)

All members and delegates should send in all available job news, as spring is here and agricultural work has opened up. Unless reports are sent in, there can be no job news.

DEFENSE NEWS

William Murphy, delegate for #110, whose conviction under the Kansas criminal syndicalism law was reversed some time ago by the state supreme court, has finally gained his liberty, but only after arduous efforts on the part of the (General Defense Committee. He came out of prison in precarious physical condition, following a long hunger strike. Murphy was serving a 40 year term.

After the Supreme Court had reversed the conviction, the prosecuting attorney of Trego County, where Murphy was convicted, side-tracked the mandate for his release, and did the same thing when the second mandate was issued. It was finally necessary for the Supreme Court to send the order for release directly to the warden of the state penitentiary at Lansing.

Then when Murphy was out of prison on April 33, he was im¬ mediately rearrested by deputy sheriffs from Trego County and was taken to Elmwood Hospital for the Insane, at Leavenworth, on the pretext that he was a dangerous man and might hurt somebody. Tele¬ graphic protests from the General Defense Committee to the hospital superintendent revealed that there was no reason for putting Murphy in an asylum, and the superintendent agreed to release him as soon as some one was sent to care for him, in view of his physical condition. The General Defense Committee sent a represent¬ ative who brought Murphy to Chicago, where he will be placed under medical care.

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

The following resolutions carried at the regular business meeting, Sioux City Branch A.w, I.U. 110, April 34, 1923:

Be it Resolved, that the A.w. I.U, #110 in convention go on record to put up a prize to the delegate of A.W. I.U. #110 that gets the most subscriptions for the I.W.W. publications, to be decided in dollars and cents. The prize to be a three months course at the Work People's College, to be paid for out of the A.W. I.U, #110 treasury. Contest to start 1st of June 1923 and close the 31st day of Dec. '23. Amended to read June 1st till Nov. 13th, 1923.

Resolved, that the A.W. I.U. #110 secure a new form of receipt for delegates, where there will be a space provided to show whatever the total deficit of the delegate (if any) is, and said total be put on each and every receipt.

The general convention of A.W. I.U. No. 110 will be held in Oklahoma Ci*ty, Okla. on May 20th, 1923, This year I.U. 110 has gone back to the old form of mass convention, and every member will have the opportunity to present his own ideas and resolutions. Send in your resolutions and suggestions for the convention for publication in the Bulletin, so that others may be able to study them before the convention.

All job and stationary delegates should send in a report of the amount of supplies on hand May 1st. This will enable the main office to make a complete report of the standing of all subordinate parts of the organization to the convention in accordance with

By-law #30 . -

Several members have had their cards torn up by bulls at Claremore, Okla. Members should be on the look out in going through

there. - -

Write the branches or stationary delegates , for supplies, literature.

J.H. Snyder Joe Fisher Sam Murphy W.T . Bates S.H. Straw Ed Anderson John O'Brien JN.K. Peterson

1219-4th St Box 107,515 N, 16th St 14^ S. First St.

Box 531 Box 306

General Delivery 110 Front St .

504 W. 7th St.

Sioux City,

, Omaha, Nebr. Minneapolis, Minn. Williston, N.D. Modesto, Calif. Fresno, Calif. Fargo, N.D.

Kansas City, Mo.

Yours for the I.W.W.

Albert Hanson, Chairman, Tom Wallace, Sec'y-Treas. A.W. I.U. No. 110.

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'An Injury to One Is the Concern of All1

AGRICULTURAL WORKER 3 INDUSTRIAL UNION JTO.IIO OF THE IfW,W. BULLETIN No. 17

Chicago, Ill. _ _ _ May 9, 1923 _

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OPPORTUNITY BECKONS IN THE NORTHWEST

Fellow workers;

California has given impetus, to the I.W.W. in all the.

Pacific Coast states. The splendid fight which the organization in that state has been putting up for fundamental principles and constitutional rights has won. the favorable attention of all fair- minded and freedom loving people on the Coast and elsewhere. The workers in particular are more inclined to regard the organization with respect than ever before. It must be our effort to crystallize into organization this feeling and thus win power on our own behalf.

In Washington, from the start of pruning and cultivating the orchards, work in the Yakima and Wenatchee Valleys, and/the adjoin¬ ing states of Oregon and Idaho continues until well on into the early winter months. This year we may expect a shorter than usual labor supply, and it is our duty to bend every effort to win higher wages and better conditions. In a rising labor market the disposi¬ tion to organize grows among the workers. We should therefore be prepared to carry on an intensive propaganda and organizing campaign in the states of the northwest, centering, of course, upon those localities where the greatest numbers of workers congregate.

About the latter end of May strawberries will be ready at Kennewick and White Salmon, Washingon,' and around the Hood River district in Oregon as well.

Alfalfa haying will start around Toppinish, Washington and Echo, Oregon about the middle of June, Then grain-hay cutting starts just before the grain harvest - about the last of June in the Walla Walla Valley and the Pendleton district.

Threshing immediately follows the harvest and will last until the end of September, depending upon the acreage and weather conditions.

The aforementioned harvests will draw men, and our delegates should be on hand prepared to line up men in greater numbers than in any previous year, In the harvest and threshing the work is hard under the hot, burning sun and, with impure water, will wear down the stoutest men. There will be much discontent on these jobs and, where men are not too plentiful, there will be a marked tendency to organize. Delegates will find plenty to do and greater satis¬ faction when prggress is being made. This is our year if we do not lay down on the job.

Fruit Picking

Cherries will be ready to .pick along the Snake River about the last of June. Lewiston should be a good center for work and a good place for delegates to enroll membership.

The peach harvest will start in the Yakima Valley toward the end of July; apples will be ready for the pickers the last of September and will afford employment until frost comes. This is also true of the Wenatchee Valley. Men, women and children flock into these sections for this work. They come, in autos from Seattle, Spokane, and other cities. These are enjoying a "vacation", living uncomfortably and working like hell for miserably small wages.

They are not satisfied, but they are at a loss what to do. We must educate and organize them so that they can remedy the conditions that bear so harshly upon them and us. They are like ourselves - they want better things - but they must be taught how to get them.

A.W.I.U.110 delegates and active members will find in the

northwestern states great numbers of ^contented workers whom a -rnie of the right kind of agitation will make over into thorogoing unionists. Let us take the northwest w-n this time when economic pressure is relaxing, and *

uie results far beyond our most sanguine expectations . A s in other sections it will require a sufficient number of delegates - and more than a sufficiency even would not be one too many . if sou are going into Washington, _0re_gon

credentials, supplies, and literature. strong and the way to be strong is to enlist an. army of delegates so that wherever workers are in the northwest there also shall be our men to educate and organize them. Take out credentials, fellow workers. Do it today. Opportunity beckons m the northwest. Let us heed the signal. Delegates, delegates a-hd then more delegates is the answer. See that X2J4 have credentials

JOB MEWS

CALIFORNIA

BRAWLEY. 4-21 Having and hav baling paying $3.00 _to_ $?5.00 per day: Borne jobs with board, some board yourself. Members scarce.

Early cantelopes will be ready to pick May 20th.- They . sta;r-t pulling onions in the Coachella Vally about May 1st. ("G 4;.

LINDSAY, 4-26 Orange picking now on at 6 to 9£ per box. Plenty of slaves . T AG 104)

IOWA

CLEAR LAKE. 4-20. Some farm work at $2.00 per day and board. No organization. A delegate could do good work here. (#419516)

NORTH DAKOTA

MINOT, 4-27 Seeding is on between Carrington .and Minot .

$40.00 to $45.00 per month. Men scarce. . Between Wolf Point and Malta, Montana, wages are $50. per month, but the farmers are broke. (AG 555).

FARGO 5-5 Plenty of demand for monthly men at from $40

to $50 per month. Potato cutting will start about May. 10th at $3,00 per day and board. Conditions rotten. ( X1306)

SOUTH DAKOTA

ABERDEEN, 4-22 Farm help very scarce. . Farmers offering $50.00 to $60.00 per month. ( AG 141)

ARKANSAS

DE OUEEN, 4-22 Berry picking on at Z<p. per box. Some few offer 43. Scarcity of pickers here. ( AG 8)

BALD KNOB, 4-23 Berries will be on about May 5th. Men very scarce. Sentiment good. ( AG 156)

HORATIO, 4-29 Growers paying 3£ for berry picking, but this can easily be raised as pickers are scarce. ( AG 323)

MISSOURI

ANDERSON, 5-6. Berry picking will be on by the 15th. Good crop and men very scarce. Growers estimate that 5000 pickers will be needed. (AG 8-AG 141)

NEOSHO, 5-4 The berries will start about May 15th. Fair crop.

(AG 901)

All members and delegates should send in all available job news, as spring is here and agricultural work has opened up. Unless reports are sent in, there can be no job news.

NOTICE

BOYCOTT ALL CALIFORNIA MADE GOODS. KEEP AWAY FROM MOVING

PICTURES PRODUCED BY CALIFORNIA CONCERNS.

DEFENSE HEWS

BALD KNOB, Ark. — Two dslegates of the A.W.I.U,, Joe Mac Cojjmach and George Hart, were menaced by members of the Ku Klux Klan here a few days ago, because of their activities in organizing berry pickers in this vicinity.

MacCormack was standing in front of the railroad station about ten o'clock on the night of May 3, when he saw a mob of about 200 men heading for him. He was seized and searched, but at the moment his organization supplies were elsewhere. Notice was served upon Mac Cormack by local officials of the Ku Klux Klan that berry growers of this district "would not stand for any more forced raises in picking prices", and that the I.W.W. was not welcome here. Then they released their prisoner.

Next morning MacCormack and Hart walked down Main Street, and found the citizenry so hostile that they decided to move on. Hart, meanwhile, had picked up his supplies. While the two were waiting for a freight train the K.K.K. appeared again, seized both men, took them to a vacant hall and searched them, confiscating Hart s suppliesl Both men were ordered to leave the state.

Similar treatment ’was dealt out recently to another #110 dele¬ gate, F.W. Brisco, near here. The Arkansas Gazette, published at Little Rock, mentions that the mob "invited attention to recent happenings along the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad".

The mob which threatened MacCormack and Hart expressed great interest in the whereabouts of another #110 delegate,

George Williams, whorji, however, they did not succeed in locating.

Next. morning when Williams was leaving Kensett for other parts, he came upon the remains of a huge cross, still smouldering, closs to the railroad tracks.

The general convention of A.W.I .U. No. 110 will be held in Oklahoma City, Okla. on May 20,1923, This year I.U.110 has gone back to the old form of mass convention, and every member will have the opportunity to present his own ideas and resolutions. Send in your resolutions and suggestions for the convention for publication in the Bulletin, so that others may be able to study them before the convention. ********

All iob and stationary delegates should send in a report of the amount of supplies on hand May 1st. This will enable the main offic. to make a complete report of the standing of all subordinate parts of the organization to the convention in accordance with Bylaw voU.

Subscription book #1252 of Industrial Solidarity was lost or stolen in Kansas City about April 28th.

The following delegates whose names appear on the last delin¬ quent list have settled their accounts and received clearances.

R.Mc Lester, 2141 F {1919) -^Joe^Higgins 46 A (1921)

Blank card # 95050 was confiscated by the law at Neosho, Mo. Watch out for this card as some fink may make use of it.

Write the branches or stationary delegates for supplies

literature, etc. Fred Mann Pat Noonan Chas.Gray Ed Johnson S.H. Straw Wm Morreau Jn.K. Peter son

1219-4th St.

$15 N , 16th St. (Box 14-g S. First St. General Delivery Box 306 110 Front St.

504 W . 7th St.

Sioux City, la. 107) Omaha, Nebr. Minneapolis, Minn. Fresno, Calif. Modesto, Calif. Fargo, N.D.

Kansas City, Mo.

Yours for the I.W.W.

Albert Hanson, Chairman Tom Wallace, Sec'y-Treas.

A.W.I.U. No. 110.

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