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THE PRODUCERS NEWS
Published weekly at Plentywood, Montana, by
The Peoples Publishing Company, Inc.
Official Organ of the
UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE
Official paper of the City cf Plentywood, Montana
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ERIK BERT, Editor
HANS RASMUSSEN, Business Manager
.( I
Friday, November 18, 1932
OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY
With this issue the Producers News completes
one year as official organ of the United Farmers League.
It is significant that this anniversary falls within a few
weeks of the Farmers National Relief Conference and the
Organizational Conference of the United Farmers
League. The first year of the Producers News as
cial organ of the United Farmers League has in some de
gree made possible both the Relief Conference and the
Organizational Conference.
offi
We have witnessed during the past year a rapid de
velopment in the radicalization of the impoverished farm
This development found the United Farmers
masses.
League and the Producers News unprepared for it when
this broke out in the struggle around Sioux City.
The United Farmers League was unprepared or
ganizationally for the strike and did not rally sufficient
forces during the course of the strike around Sioux City
to take an organized part in the strike.
The Producers News was also unprepared for the
intense struggle that developed around the demand for
higher prices. It first saw this struggle solely as a strug
gle which might be directed by the capitalist class against
the city workers. This was changed immediately
farmers around Sioux City showed by their actions that
it was incorrect.
as the
During the past year in many localities, vririi such
outstanding example as in St. Louis county, the farm
under the leadership of the United Farmers League
has conducted struggles for immediate relief.
Since the strike for higher prices ebbed the farmers
have rallied for struggles against evictions, foreclosures
and forced sales.. In some localities these struggles have
been conducted under the leadership of the United Farm
ers League, in others by the local Farmers Holiday Asso
ciations.
an
ers
In either case hundreds of non-members of these
organizations have showed a ready willingness to fight
against the attempts of the bankers to rob them of their
homes, their cattle and their machinery.
In the year that lies before us we can expect more
intense struggles on the part of the impoverished farmers
in defense of their homes and chattels, against the rob
bery of the great food monopolies, and for immediate
cash relief from the capitalist class.
It is absolutely essential that the Producers News
play a more important role in these struggles than it has
played in those that have gone by. Thru our official
organ we can win thousands of farmers to the struggles
for their immediate demands. We can get in touch with
farmers whom we will be unable to reach in any other
Thru the Producers News we will be able to reach
Way.
them for organization within the United Farmers League.
But this spreading of the Producers News to new
thousands of farmers means active work on the part of
the members of the United Farmers League, individually
and thru their locals, and on the p*art of every reader of
the Producers News.
The question of spreading the Producers News will
be taken up at the Organizational Conference. Before
that it is essential that every effort be made to use the
Producers News in the work of the Farmers National Re
lief Conference.
e
The Conference is being called by a committee or
ganized by the Rank and File committee of farmers a*
Sioux City. The United Farmers League will however,
partake in the conference thru such of its members as are
elected by the farmers to attend the Conference.
It is the duty of the members of the United Farmers
(League who are going to the conference as delegates, and
(of the locals of which they are members to see to it that
[Ae Producers News is used along the entire trip to popu
larize the Conference and to build the United Farmers
of the farmers.
League among the mass
Every member of the United Farmers League on the
trip should take with him a bundle of Producers News, a
subscription book, and a number of 25 cent subscription
cards. There will be ample opportunity along the route,
among the farmers with whom the delegates will stay
and among those whom they will meet to win new read
ers for the paper.
In addition to spreading the Producers News along
jthe trip it is the duty of the members of the United Farm
ers League to discuss with the other delegates to the
[ Washington Farmers National Relief Conference the pro
,gram of mass struggle that the United Farmers League
supports.
Effective work along the route will be one of the
best means for making of the first anniversary of the
'Producers News a real forward step in the organization
if the fanners. It will also be a real first step in the or
ganized effort for rallying the farmers for struggle that
<vill be undertaken in the Organizational Conference of
he United Farmers League.
Doings of the
Advance Guard
Now that the election is over we will have more
time to devote to the paper and organization work, it is
up to every one to get busy and do all he can. The
farmers are willing to listen. It is up to us to furnish
them with something to listen to and something to read.
The need of protecting themselves from eviction and
foreclosure is everywhere. The Producers News can
tell them how the farmers go about it in many states and
get results.
Every farmers' delegate going to Washington for
demonstration Dec. 7 should have a bundle of Producers
News along, hand them out along the road where they go
and boost for it at every meeting. We can spread our
ideas thru a paper better than in any other way. Organi
zation work must be followed up by our paper in order
to hold it together, the farmers must know what other
farmers organized for the same purpose are doing in the
other states and what results they are getting. They are
interested in reading letters from other farmers. The
'Producers News is their paper, it is up to our Advance
Guard to give them » chance to read it.
DOINGS OF LAST WEEK *
Gottfried Lang, Perrysburg, N.
Y., subscribes for one year.
Stephen Fritsch, Trenton, N. J.,
subscribes for
, . , , (<TT , ,
other recerpt book: Had a ™*t-,
mg Friday and organized another
U. F. L. local with u members,"
Wlllis
Willis Hibner, Buhl, Idaho, sends
another six subs and orders an
writes.
FARMERS SHOULD HEAD
'NEWS'
Elsie Hasse, Anacortes, Wash,
subscribes for hte paper, and
orders a sub book. "This is a
wonderful paper which every
farmer should take," Elsie says.
C. N. Rude, Gheen, Minn., sub
scribes.
Arthur Dalback, Roberts, Mont.,
subscribes.
LIBERTY WAS NEVER
HANDED DOWN FROM ABOVE
G. V. Pearson, Ruthven, Iowa,
sends one sub and orders a sub
book sehit to his sister. "He
writes "Some of the farmers are
getting their eyes opened, but
there are also a large number
that seem to b* writing for
someone to come dowki from
above to help them out of their
economic difficnltleo."
Workers Center, Tacoma, Wash,
pays for copies received.
Workers Book Store, Chicago,
Ill., sends us names of prospec
tive subscribers.
Martin B. Larson, Harmony,
Minn., subscribes.
MASS PROTEST OF FARMERS
PREVENTED TWO FORCED SALES
(Continued from Front Page)
When the farmers drove up be
fore the court bouse and got out
of their trucks, excited county of
ficials peered out of the court
house windows, wondering what it
was all about. They soon found
out.
The sheriff was just coming out
of the court house and was imme
diately surrounded by farmers.
His first thought was that there
would be a riot. He said "Be
peaceable, don't riot** He wm told
that we didn't come to stage a
riot, but to protest against fore
closure sales. The sheriff then
went to sot the bank's attorney,
who would give a talk on why
they sell mortgaged property.
Upon the arrival of this man,
all farmers poured into the court
\ouse. about 300 strong.
ATTORNEY USES SOFT
SOAP
Mr. Attorney for the banks got
np and tried to soft soap the
farmers into believing that the
banks had a perfect right to con
fiscate the property of the farm
ers, and leave them without the
means of livelihood. However, he
didn't make it work as angry
farmers called him on his bluff:
FARMERS TALK BACK
Statements by the farmers in
cluded the following:
"The bankers akid bosses have
been telling us prosperity is just
around the corner, now let them
wait for their money until pros
perity does come around the
corner.
"Why do the bankers take in
money until just a few hours
before a baink goes busted." The
attorney admitted that this was
unjust.
Others got up and said "If the
banks have a right to foreclose
on the farmer, why can't the
farmer foreclose on the bank?"
- , . T „ ...
Laufenberg, a FHA leader told
them several times in tones not
pleasant where the whole bunch
of bankers fitted. One member
pointed out that the bankers and
losses didn t do aryttong toward
r 1 th ® ihî ''8*
were going to sell, the things that
e farmers had life long labor
The bankers
wonld dump them Into the ranks
■««J 16 «ÎITÎ 7 ° f to
- their P°° r creditors."
FIGHT PAY SLASH
IN AUSTRALIAN
NAVY* 200 STRIKE
Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 8.—
Two hundred sailors of the Royal
Australian Navy walked ashore to
from veSselg nwored the
nava j
pier and held a protest
meeting against reduction of pay
under the financial emergency act.
Officers urged the men not to
do anything that would suggest
mutiny, but some of the spokes-j
men of the sailors threatened that,
unless their grievances were reme
died definite action would be taken j
hy 3,000 of the sailors affected by |
the pay cuts.
As a result of the protest meet
ing, the men formed a welfare
committee and were induced by the
leaders to return to the ships, j
which are due to sail for Jervis i
Bay in the morning. It was said
.. . - , A1 _ ,
j* hat furthe f meetings of the wel-jbers
fare committee would be held Fn- \
day when the ships arrived in Jer
vis Bay.
-
„ xirkT Tr . A v PTTI , wn p n
0Aim HUHUAi 1 U.WULU
r rifv M 10 _
Ertanrion of the Ne^da bank hali-1
. # th t weeks was !
ordered bv Governor Blazar in a
Z
nf io nf tVi«» -f-t«»- ofi Konirc
stfrted the "holiday" '
started the holiday.
Forward to the Farmers !
National Relief Confer
ence, to be held in Wash
inerten H f* f>rr T fn In
mgton, D. C.. Dec. 7 to 10
590 GATHER
The farmers gave them to un
derstand that they were there to
bring the cows back, that had been
taken by the sheriff from the
Nobel farm, and that they aimed
to stop all foreclosures, und didn't
mean maybe.
With this they left the court
room, piled into their trucks and
cars and left for the Fred Jacobi
farm, at Granton, where they were
going to demonstrate for the sec
ond time within two days the
stopping of a foreclosure sale.
About 15D0 farmers had gath
ered at this place from three coun
ties.
REFUSE TO BID
A speaker got up and told the
farmers not to bid on the prop
erty as they were not going to
allow the sale to take place.
The spirit and militancy of the
crowd was aroused to a high pitch!
and when the banker made his way
to the chairman he was surround
ed by a crowd of hostile farmers,
who told the banker what they
When he got to the chairman he
called the sale off, stating he
would advertise another sale.
Immediately Walter Brocker
took the platform and spoke to
the farmers in the name of the
UFL. He pointed out that the
banker had called off the sale;
that this was another victory of
the farmers thru mass action; and
called upon them to prevent a
future sale of Jacobi's property.
He called upon them for greater
struggles to prevent the expropria
tion of the farmers.
He called upon the youth to
participate in the struggles,
tre future belongs to them. At
this point the older folks let out a
saying "That's the spirit,
what we need is more youth of
this kind."
yell
as
FHA GIVES SELF ALL
THE CREDIT
The local press in carrying the
story told how the FHA took all
the credit in stopping the sale,
The leaders gave stories to the
press to this effect
However it was the UFL they
consulted as to how they should
about the stopping of these
sales. It was the UFL that
bilized the largest crowd.
Som e of these FHA members
are badly disillusioned and that
means the members of the UFL
have some work on their hands.
mo
WYOMING FARMERS TO SEND DELEGATES
TO THE WASHINGTON RELIEF CONFERENCE
(BY MERTON WILLER)
Torrington, Wyo., Nov. 12.—
The movement for the Farmers'
Relief Conference is well under
way here. Rank and file mem
bers of the Republican and Demo
cratic parties are helping to or
ganize the farmers for the march
in spite of the fact that those par
ties do not favor the movement.
Rank and file members of the
Socialist party, which has gotten
entirely away from the tactics of
the great Debs, are among the
best organizers of the movement;
but the party itself tries to tell
the farmers that all they need do
Is to vote the Socialist ticket and
finally kindly, painless legislation
will do for the farmers what Debs
said could not be done except by
militant mass organization and
finally by the force created by
such organizations. But Debs'
tactics have naturally been for
gotten by the present well-to-do
leaders of the old party which has
already fallen into the lap of the
middle class and will, from now on
recruit many members from the
wealthy class who see the old par
ties being deserted.
COMMUNISTS AND FARMERS
The Communist party and all of
makers are helping the farm
erg ^ their attempt wrest Some
concessionS fr0m t h e coming con
g^g These members neglected
the election campaign in order to
d() gQ 0ver half the campaign
literature Was not distributed, and
made to
jvery little attempt was
influence the election results. Ac
tion must come first ^ the C om
munist party. Action is what
t be f armers îmd workers need, and
want< The Co mmuni st party is
helping get it ^ good> old
Debsian style,
Many of the rank and file mem
,.
of the old parties are waking
up to the fact that now the elec
tions are over, legislation for the
farmers will come only as the re
suit of mass action, and they are
welcoming the help being given
their move ment. Many of these
same men are beginning to fear
PwoeroUe P»rty, M by
Roosevelt, a man who has never
***" either a farmer ° r WOrker m
"fn ° f **" 7* " d "S'
b y other men of the same cab
lbre - such as Miller * the wealthy
[incoming governor of Wyoming,
[will continue to be ruled for Wall
street, and upheld in their actions
by the Capitalist.press which make
T* ?,**"! the ÎS™
to. , m , .
They are beginning to see that;
money rales, and that while all
money is the product of the toil
of the workers and the farmers, it
" " ST h .f 8 J?" T'
not be used by them m influencing
government. They are rapidly
turning to mass schon.
CABINET PROSPECTS
n * _ v a a,
Capitalist papers show that the
move to cottinue the exploitation
already m full
awing. Owen D. Young, a banker,
oc T ? er U°f Secr *5 ry
of State; Melvm Traylor another
big banker, a gettmg favorable
TT° n jL 0r ™ ^ r. T y
mo rïîv trc8£ury: Wm J .1
t ' a year president of the
American Federation of Libof, for
secretary of labor. The two bank
ers, will continue to protect the in
._. , „ , 5 . ., ,.
terests of the banks and the big
industrialists and thru Wm. Greer
they hope to continue to control
the workers as neaceful slaves
TW* mon have hv «ref
These men have all by get
ting mto their own hands as much
as possible of the earnings of U
bor. Is it not too much to expect
that they will'change just because
they become members of Roose
velt's cabinet? They have the
habits and the desires of exploit
ers. They konw exactly how it is
done.
LOCAL OUTPOSTS OF
WALL ST.
this in Wash
happening
ington, many farmers fail to see
that such happenings reach out
clutching, grasping hands to the
farthest corners of the ' United
States, including our State
Wyoming. Our local bankers are
controlled by the big bankers who
in turn control the grain exchang
es, the packing plants, the grain
pits, and the millers. Thru the
local banks grain and livestock is
forced to market after prices have
been manipulated, down and up,
after it is in their hands.
Many times the farmers and
stockmen of Wyoming have at
tempted to form organizations by
which they could retail for them
selves fore of the earnings of their
labor. Always these attempts have
failed. It is "on the books" that
they should fail. Why? Because,
if the farmers were attempted to
organize strongly in real farmers'
cooperatives and the workers in
effective unions, their huge profits
would cease to be. If the farm
ers, at all times, got good prices
for their labor, as they should and
the workers always got good wage
for their labor, there "would not be
so much left over for the bankers
and other exploiters. In fact per
fect organizations of workers and
farmers would leave nothing at
all for them. The exploiters know
this and, as a result, use the ter
rific power of vast fortunes taken
from the workers and farmers to
Resolution Adopted
' unsr ïicsÂ
Resolutions adopted at Farmers' Mass meeting at
Moore's Springs school house, Goshen county, Wyoming,
October 31, 1932:
Whereas, the market price of all farm products is far
below the cost of production, due to the depressed condi
tion of industry which has thrown millions out of work
who are now unable to buy the necessities of life;
And Whereas, all .so-called relief for farmers, which
has so far been offered, tends only to put them deeper
into debt;
And Whereas, we now realize that these mortgages,
taxes and interest cannot be paid under present condi
tions, and that a readjustment must be made before these
obligations can be met, either by a rise in prices of farm
products or by a lowering of mortgages, taxes and in
terest to conform to the market price of farm products.
And Whereas, we realize that if the above mentioned
adjustment is not made it will become necessary to escape
utter ruin, for the fanners to repudiate all of these obliga
tions;
And Whereas, we realize further that every foreclos
ure of mortgage or tax sale of farm property, which takes
away from the farmer his only means of living puts an
added burden upon those farmers Who have not yet been
foreclosed upon or sold out for taxes.
Therefore be it Resolved, that we demand an immediate
moratorium on all mortgages and interest, and such taxes,
the collection of which would call for a tax sale which
would result in the issuing of a tax deed or sale of the
fanners personal property under a distress warrant. We
further demand that this moratorium become effective
at once and remain in effect until the above mentioned
adjustment has been made.
Be it Further Resolved, that we demand an immediate
pledge from all law enforcement officers that they refrain
from executing any evictions of fanners for
ment of mortgages, taxes, interest or rents.
And be it Further Resolved, that in case any attempt
is made to evict any farmer or dispossess any farmer for
the non payment of any mortgage, taxes, interest or rent,
that we will resist such eviction or dispossession by united
action, until such time as farm prices are restored to
normal.
re
non-pay
And be it Further Resolved, that we hereby indorse
the Fanners National Relief Conference called to meet
at Washington, D. C., on Dec. 7-10, 1932, and pledge
support to any action that may be taken by this Confer
ence inasfar as such action agrees with our demands.
Note: The above meeting was adjourned at 12 o'clock
to reassemble Nov. 14, for the purpose of electing dele
gates and other matters pertaining to the Conference,
our
breab up or make effective any at
tempts to control prices and the
wa g es . However, at such times as
the present one, new organizations
are springing up the total aims of
w bich are not to grow better hogs
make two planta grow where
one grew before, or to try to con
trol legislation for the farmer, but
* »y mass action what is im
risible without it—real relief for
the ^employed and for the im
p0 verished farmres.
THE SACRED BEET TARIFF
j Mt before the recent election
i here *• *<*«"<*"* P-* °« *
big drive to make the beet farm
believe that il their pet tariff
wag rem(Jyed b th Demccrata
the factories would not be
ablc to operate. But the farm
«»t seem to care a great
dea , „ hether or tb J
^ For , nuœber J ' earSi J
tw «n the exploitation of local
banks, merchants and the sugar
tariff, they have been growing
beete at a loaa . Tb a l«
^ tbe faet ** the American
workm ^ famerg „ , wboIe
y we|1 oyer J300,000,000 for a
tariff which protected those who
produced onl / 17 cent o( the
conramed .
They finally realized that they
Dave been producing beets for the
ben€fit o{ ^ |oc f, baake thc
.
T ^ r „
' . . ^. s0 were _ m , ..^
compelled to put their small chil
... - , . . , ; .
^ mstead of in
.°,. 086 , amei !,
who , were aWe hire workers will
n<>t ab ^ 6 to pay them after the
banker and ^ merchants ^
- ,_ _ " r~:
**** ° ff from ^ D" 1
owners
WONT HIT EXPLOITERS
Of course, Mr. Roosevelt's "sci
entific" tariff will not take them
out of the hands of the local graft
ers, while well organized, local
mass action would. He will fail
also to do something about the
fact that when a beet farmer,
beet worker or a factory worker
a
buys a sack of sugar from a local
factory or store, he must pay tKe
freight from N. Y. (Wonderful,
. .
the efficiency of the cap
<rfjsystem, for someone be
sides those who create all of the
nee< is of life). He will continue,
with local hel P. to permit the to
^ factories to pay the farmers as
low a P rice as-possible unless the
farmers take matters into their
own hands. He will continue to
guarantee the right of the rail
roads to charge the same old rate
of freight to move 25 cent wheat
ai )d two cent hogs. In fact he
help the railroads do this and
w ^ guarantee them 6 per cent
their investment while doing
'dll guarantee the farmers,
wh at? The great capitalist privi
le £ e ®f carrying on their backs
those who^ "toil not, neither do
they spin."
THE MAN ROOSEVELT
FORGETS
One promise of Roosevelt's has
struck home to a few farmers
here, but not to those farmers who
are class conscious enough to de
mand that they have legislators
selected by them from their own
class and unhampered by any of
the profit-takers. It is this: He
has promised to help the "forgot
ten man. Just how he will do,
tins is not quite dear. Will he
lorce the big interests to cease
on
so.
making huge profits off the farm
er? Will he, with the help of the
local Democrats, insist
duction of rents, taxes, and in
terest rates ? Will he pass laws
which will enable the farmers to
get production plus prices for the
crops? Or will he merely loan the
farmers more money and thus
drive them farther down into mort
gage and loan slavery? It is not
possible to find any laws in the
constitution or in the laws of any
state which protect the fanners
against less than the cost of pro
duction prices or any laWs which
protect the workers from less than
a living wage.
TAKE THE BULL BY THE
on a
re
HORNS
Yet, all of the laws protect the
millers who, last year, made one
of the greatest profits in their
history by paying the farmers one
third the cost of production for
wheat, and the big tobacco inter
ests who made the greatest profit
in their history by paying the to
bacco farmers less th an the cost of
production for their tobacco. It
didn't matter that the farmers'
children could not have the needs
of life;' it didn't matter that the
farmers lost their farms or they
dropped into slavery. But it did
matter that the big millers and
the big tobacco barons lived in
winter and summer palaces and
drove their wives, children and
mistresses in Packards and yachts.
With slight variations, the Demo
crats, who will be in charge in a
few months, will continue the same
policies UNLESS the farmers
wake up and take the bull by the
horns.
AWAKENING FARMERS
The farmers are waking up.
They are beginning to realize that
they never have had government
"of the people, by the people, for
the people." They are beginning
to demand government "for useful
people," by useful people them
selves and other workers.
and west and south they are ris
tas*
ful brains
From coastal plains of the Pa
cific; from the mountains and the
plains; from grain fields and beet
fields; from the fields of the north
Out of the fog of corruption,
clean men are rising; Vrith hands
of toil they are tearing apart the
veils of musty lies; thru their
are running clear
streams of thought. So we must
all think. We must pull apart the
haze of misinformation, of clever
lies, of spitefulness toward
fellows; we must blast as false the
race hatred that splits our ranks;
we must rise up beyond the nar
row boundaries of our little selves
and reach out, unhindered by the
minds of narrow selfishness, to
ward each other. Then, and then
only, can the imagination ramble
out beyond the narrow confines of
one childish brain, and grasp the
truths of other minds. Together,
we must think and act, for if we
do our minds will clarify and
P^d and gather in the fruits of
fine intellects everywhere and
ac t* will be right and thus pow
orful.
WY a UT vo «ttt , ran
OMING WILL BE THERE
Here in Wyoming, farmers ARE
getting together. They are for
etting their petty differences in a
great, common need. They are
reaching out toward a common
use
our
ex
our
[brotherhood with labor
Resolutions printed adjoinb*
a witness of this. Meetings w her#
£her and similar resolutions S
be made are to be held at hÏÏ
Springs, Nov. 10; at Iowa Ca
N ov 11 ; a t Empire scCi
nut Valley, Nov. 12, and 'an^
at Moore's school house,
Ft. Laramie, Nov. 14. °*
a Whol e>
as
ars
The farmers of this
Wyoming will soon be
march.
Part of
on the
Editor's Note: Comrade „
leaves two impressions that
think he does not wish to W.
In the first place neglecting the
election campaign, leaving half
of the campaign literatur
distributed and making very Ut.
tie attempt to influence
election results,
rnunist "actions.
Wilier
we
e un»
the
are not Com
To our mny f
it was a task that should ha; e
been dokie, and now that U wa»
not doUe we should not try to ex
cuse it on the grounds that this
was not "actioln" but that what
other
activity these comrade«
conducted was "action." £ 1 ^.
tion campaigns are places for
actiob and if we don't act
have missed
ve
au opportunity that
wont come along next week
next month. That does not
course meah that sine« we have
missed qut we must wait for the
next election campaign. We must
carry on more intensely to make
up for our past failures.
or
(J
And secondly, if it U "in the
cards" that any farmers' actions
for higher prices are doomed, is
it not also "in the cards" that
struggles against foreclosure»
and evictions are also foredoom
ed to fail?
Because we wont overthrow
..the capitalist system at one full
swoop doesn't mean by a lot we
can't make them come
with some of their bloody pl m -
der.
aéra»
"It's in the cards" that if
don't fight we will sink to tfce
i levels of Chinese coolies. Com
; rade Wilier and the other siili*
tants in Wyoming are carrytig
on the struggle for relief and
against capitalist plunder de
spite tbe wrotig theories which
have been developed. We hops
that they'll understand why the
theories are wrong. If not, we
hope they will tell us where
they disagree and we can theta
thresh H out more completely.
we
FRAMED NEGRO
(Continued from Front Pag«)
murder of the Scottaboro boys
should proceed Without further de
lay.
Even as the court was in ses
sion, a militant demonstration of
several hundred Negro and white
workers ' was held on the capitol
grounds yesterday afternoon. De
fying the police, who had mobi
lized to prevent picketing, work
ers battled with them as they held
their banners aloft demanding:
"Free the Soottsboro Boys."
Twelve were hurt, including
several policemen, and 13 of the
workers were jailed.
Five hundred police patrolling
every inch of the capitol grounds,
launched a tear gas attack on the
picketers. The capitol was
armed camp. Motorcycle polie*
patrolled all roads entering the
Plaza. The picketers marched in
the face of drawn revolvers in the
hands of police. Only a gat at'
tack and four-to-one mobilization
of police dispersed the workers.
as
MILK TRUCKERS
STRIKE ON CUT
,
Milk Trust Demands
Be Called to Put Across
20 Per Cent Cut
crush the strike of
In order to
Ohio milk drivers a committee fw
has asked that
the milk exchange
the militia be called out
milk dealers are also arming
guards to ride on the trucks
The demand for national guaro^
men was made to Adjutant
eral Frank D. Henderson of w
Ohio National Guard.
asked to take up the matter **
Governor White.
The strike was called when
milk trust tried to cut the wag*»
of the drivers 20 per cent,
the dairy farmers were on
picketing the roads, the
truck drivers were forced to
the risk of the'
of the
fka
the
strike
milk
their cars thru at
lives and the lives
own
picketing farmers. u*
The milk trust which robs
dairy farmers is trying to
the exploitation of the truck
Only united struggle
truck drivers and of the
and of the city worker»
the milk trusts.
ers.
farmers
can win against
Forward to the Farmers
ti oktal Relief Conference,
7 to 19.
to be