52 OUR USE OF THE LAND 



Burleigh County 



FARMERS -WORKERS 



Mass -Meeting 



CITY AUDITORIUM 



Bismarck, Saturday, August 1st., P.M 



Our economic struggle has become unbearable, due to the condition of drought. 

 Starvation of humans as well as animals is facing us all 

 Something must be done immediately to save mankind and beasts from real suf 

 fering. 



This Burleigh County Mass Meeting has been called by The Burleigh County 

 Holiday Association, supported by The American Federation of Labor, The North 

 Dakota Labor Association, Inc., The State Unification Committee of WPA Workers, 

 The Workers Labor Club of Bismarck, 



This distress and condition for food is the people's question, and must be dis 

 cussed by the people. For this purpose this mass meeting has been called. This is 

 your meeting, you are expected to be present with all your friends and neighbors. 



TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED 



1. The immediate relief of food for man and beast 



2. An American living wage scale for all workers on projects. 



3. Pension for all old age people. 



4. Winter consideration, such as coal, shelter, clothing, food for humans as well as 

 animals. 



5. How can such mass meetings spread into every county of this state, and into 

 every state of this nation? 



6. Unification of all Farm Organizations and Labor Organizations, upon the ques 

 tion of The Right to Live, food, clothing, and shelter. 



7. Any other, non-political, question which concerns the farmer and the worker at 

 this time. 



Burleigh Comity Holiday Association, Fred Argast. President 



American Federation of Labor, Adam Voight, Chairman Bismarck Central Labor Body 



Burleigh County Labor Association, Frank Walker, President 



Workers labor Club of Bismarck, Gene Hunt, President 



Courtesy of the Farm Security Administration 



Farmers did not ta\e the hard'times of the early 1930's lying down. As farm 

 markets vanished and farm mortgage sales became daily more numerous, posters 

 li\e this began to appear all over the Middle West. 



