But when he talked to all the workers at his new plant in Fargo, North Dakota, he told them that something had happened to his home town.
Originally, he could depend on his crew there getting up early and working hard until quitting time. He'd built a great business, but he now couldn't find people like that any more in his hometown and so was moving production out. Fargo was the first stop in those expansion plans and he liked what he had saw. He told his employees to keep up the good work and not vote Democrat or Fargo would suffer the same fate as Duluth.
Long story short is that a railroad from Duluth to Minneapolis will only speed up the process of emptying out Duluth.
Jeno’s pizza (Jeno Pauluchi - sp?).
The great Jeno’s pizzaroll controversy of the early 80s. The residents of Duluth were of the mindset that the purpose of a corporation is to provide jobs. Jeno publicly stated that it was to make money. He moved a large factory out of Duluth.