The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 1, 1932, Page 4

4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932 Farm ‘Strikers’ Pleasant But Determined in Iowa Milo Reno, President of Asso- ciation, Defends Picket- ing Operations This is the first story in a se- ries of five by Bruce Catton, staff writer for NEA Service and The Tribune, who was sent to the midwest corn belt what the “farm strike” about. to find out is all CATTON SA Se: 1—Along the this busy | By BRUC (Copyright, 1932, N. Sioux City, Ia., trunk highway Ticuitural ma: sroups of men in blue denim—hu: purposeful, deeply-tanned men, tilt soile s over their : when the sun i and swing their brawny arms indolently as they saun- | ter from one cluster of shade trees io another. They are the men in the front line |* of Towa’s famous ‘farmers’ | tre str! an almost complete stoppage of the movement of farm produce to the market in the hope of lifting the} corn belt out of the depres | They are good but they} mean busi that ap-| g telephone s with long intervals a on the pave that will s stopped | ee if it contains it does not, it If it does, it m produ lowed to prod goes back Parmer: ers into activity “We propose {the money lords. | {The milk producers were ge “We are ready and willing to con- tinue to provide food for all groups of society,” he declares, “but we ask that all other groups concede us the same consideration they ask for them- selves—namely, the cost of produc- tion.” | Reno insists that the farm strike is not the sudden outgrowth of unex-j pected adi y. Instead, he says, it} stems back through more than a/ decade of agricultural distress and | disappointment. ery promise made to agriculture | in the last 12 years remains unful-} filled,” he asserts. Seventy-five per! cent of the farm values have been} destroyed by and in the interests of | mer now has the oppor- emonstrate to himself and e nation that he has the eco- power in his own hands to} force his demands for recognition and | ju: In organizing the strike at Sioux City, Reno showed a good deal of | ‘egiz ability. | oux City already had a “milk before the farm strike began.} a dollar per weight for their milk, and they said that twice that sum would more than a fair price. A bi the Sioux City market wa lished, and Reno immediately lear i and coupled the gencral to it. 1 strike was immensely farmers in the Sioux! and thus the general| farm strike got an impetus that it} would not otherwise have received. And once it got started the idea took hold so that the farm strike as al whole overshadowed the milk strike. | Now the farm strike goes on inde- | pe strike, which has bee a compromise price| en the milk prod | The milk popular am City territo. ers and the miik buyers, | x ee | If you want a closeup story of what | Ki to the and) ers in| and floppy straw! ad with several such men} farm | im their barn yards and one of them | duced by the le gave me a cl x of the strike er refuse to del. ‘alues must mined by the nal our of our deflation, farm ’ s instead of forcing them into the in- dustrial areas to swell the army of unemployed.” The farm result Reno declares, is of any ed people ie goods are jen truck does nol pro- t i is the real le thing,” h he losses caused by the low es of that period caused a good cal of suffering, and nothing was! ever done to prevent that agricul-| | tural depression from continuing and} j setting we e. 1 | a result, the icultural peo- | ‘ple, especially in the western part of | the country, have had everything | taken away. This applies to tenants, | \owr everyone. We're not bank- rupt but we know where it’s all] leading to. | | During the last 10 yea |Gucers of agricultural commodities ihere have tried to get hold of the jma ry of marketing so as to n: get for their goods and the price consumer pays. Their efforts ave failed, partly because of thei: | the gre {hands the “So, as a background to this NO QUARTER | longer. r, forceful explanation | iy le r .! go on, and the other go back.” ‘you have a feeling of desperation. ‘GOVERNMENT PROBES and they're ready to try anything. #2 @ “What is it going to mean? No one knows how far this thing will go, any more than they knew back in Boston that the battle of Bunker Hill was going to lead to the revolution. “The farmers are fearless because they know they have nothing to lose. They can’t go on as they are any Often nowada a farm doesn’t produce enough of an income; to pay the taxes. And the meaning! of what's being done now may be} more far-reaching than anyone can see at the present time. | “Thi immedi of farm produce. I hope it will, but} we can't be sure. But I do know; enough about economics to know that there ate only two wa: price of any given co: must either increase the amount of money in circulation or decrease the | a ount of that commodity that! ‘ket. i here has been no apparent rea-! son to ii Any’ se the amount of mont deep-seated thing to change the monetary system, dit} can't be done in a short time. So we're trying the other y. ‘Who's at the head of this move- Go to any of these ask who's in charge ‘ou'll find out. There's no head —because everybody feels exactly the ut it. Everybody's une thir boys out on ines aren't in earnest. They ook at them—and sce if you can find one who hasn't got a forearm too th thumb and fing used to pitching got their musel ith your boys are y haven't Automobile Picture Will Be Shown Here} ‘The part the automobi \ nas played j strike may not have much jditions of virtual slavery” on Missis- ate effect on the market price | sippi GRO CONDITIONS | ‘Investigates Charge That Vir- tual Slavery Exists in Flood Control Work Washington, Sept. 1—(#)—Charges that negro laborers work under “con- ver flood control projects again. were subjects of a federal investiga- tion Thursday. Brigadier General Harley D. Fergu- the Mississippi river commi making the inquiry by direction of Major General Lytle Brown, chief of engineers, It was ordered by Secre- tary Hurley after complaints to Presi- dent Hoover from the National Asso- ation for the Advancement of Col- ored People. This organizatioin, in a statement by Roy Wilkins of New York, assist- ant secretary, said a special investi- gator surveyed construction camps be- tween Memphis and New Orleans. ‘These camps are operated by contrac- tors doing flood control work. “Abuses found to be general” oc- cording to the association investigator, were: Long hours, wages as low as 10 cents an hour for 12 {9 14 hours work daily, overcharging through camp commissaries, unsanitary living con- ditions and physical violence. Brown said Ferguson's report would provide “something reliabie on which to work and something on which to act if necessary.” HEAD WITHOUT BODY The palolo, marine worm, is said to sever its head from its body when full of eggs. The body floats to the top of the sea, bursts, and scatters the eggs about. The head then grows another body. 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