The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1933, Page 3

R.E.C. Gives Two Bil NEW MEMBERS AS REPLY TO TALLAPOOSA FRAMEUP Deputies Only Persecution Witnesses; Labor | Defense Puts Up Militant Court Fight Appeal to Workers and Farmers of U.S.A. to| Make National Issue of Case eee Ti eee. eee i REELTOWN, Ala., May 1.—A meeting held in Tallapoosa County which was attended by Union from Tallapoosa as wel members of the Sharecroppers’ | as adjoining counties pledged to enroll 2,500 members into the union by August 1. This was the answer of th of the white landiords in rail- roading five of their leaders to the state penitentiary for long prison terms after a frame-up trial just concluded in Dadeville. Leaders of the union attending the meeting reported that the imprison- ment of Ned Cobb, Judson Simpson, Alf White, Clinton and Sam Moss will only spur the croppers to great-| er activity’ in building their union,) and appealed to the workers and farmers of the U. S. to make a na-} pS At Ra el LE mony was directed at proving the e Negro croppers to the action | complicity of both Cobb and Judson Simpson. These two were known to be leaders of the union and the State wes determined to “get” them. Ned Cobb was the chief witness | for the defense. He graphically and| boldly described the gathering of the croppers to prevent the taking of Cliff James’ stock. He said he told Cliff to let talk with the deputy and that he pleaded with the latter not to take| 1 James’ livestock, saying that James’ ‘Typical sharecroppers at work in the blazing sun on a field in Alabama Retail Sales Tax in N.Y. Raises Prices “Liberal” Lehman’s Blow at Living Standards of Consuming Masses Goes Into Effect NEW YORK,.—The increased offensive on the living standards of the tionwide issue of the frame-up. ened Highlights of Trial | taken away. Cobb said when Elder | remained determined to take the live- | family would starve if the stock was| | consuming masses of New York state went into effect yesterday, under the “enlightened” regime of Governor Lehman, in the form of a retail sales tax which will further raise the cost of food and clothing, which inflation lion Dollars to Banks and Railr Fight for Jobless Insurance at E CROPPERS PLEDGE 2,500 © Only 10 WASHINGTON, May 1.—As of | Corporation has loaned up to $2,260,021,956, Banks and trust companies were 31,039,269,599. Railroads received $336,809, BLOCK FARM SALE IN NEW MEXICO 3,000 Toilers, Farmers Act Near Portales ROSWELL, N. M. — The farmers and workers of the Unemployed Councils of all the Eastern New Mex- ico Counties combined with the Hol- liday Association and halted a fore- closure sale on the Bud Shackelford farm near Portales recently. Only short notice was given our different councils that Sunday night, but in- sside of two hours trucks and cars were on the roads and freight trains boarded for the foreclosure sale over 100 miles away. By 10 o'clock the | next day, 3,000 men and women were | in front of the Roosevelt County | Court House determined to prevent | further sales in ths scate. ; mortgage loan associations $104,738,810; a oernernee—e-@ insurance companies $85,497,312; Fed- P.C. Repaid April %, the Reconstruction Finance the largest borrowers, having received \eral land banks $19,800,000; livestock credit corporations $11,939,530; Fed- eral intermediate credit banks $9,260,- 000; joint stock land banks $6,036,056 agricultural credit corporations, $3,- 986,882; credit unions $449,653. Advances made to 41 siates and two territories for relief purposes totaled $268,121 ,654. Only about 10 per cent loans have been repaid. | Most of these loans will probably |never be repaid. The railroads have |repeid about $20,000,000. The Mis- | souri Pacific, which borrowed $50,000,- | 000, has gone vanxrupt. | The two billions loaned to the banks |and railroads and credit corporations | comes from the Treasury. That is, it is money collected from the masses. The money was loaned to banks which have caused losses to small depositors of more than $5,000,000,000 and the railroads which have thrown thou- land Post condemns farmers. Protest of these FARMERS 10 BE LE MARS, Iowa, May 1- oads; xpense of Bosses and Gov't Peaks, Roads Get _ Two Billion of R.F.C., Mass Arrests and Ar Fails to Break Spirit of Farmers Troops with machine guns, sent to Le Mars, lowa, to break brave fight by impoverished corn farmers against foreclosare sales of tigeir Troops with bayonets’ arrested ten farmers. American Legion against sending of troops rewhed fe Governor Herring of Iowa by International Lebor Defense. CIVIL COURTS SUSPENDED IN IOWA: @ COURT MARTIALED rival of More Troops olonel Glenn C. Haynes, commander of the DADEVILLE, Ala. (By Mail).— shot him in the side, just like I could| shoot you in the side!” | This was the answer of J. A. Alford.| Tallapoosa county deputy to a ques- tion put to him by Irving Schwab, International Labor Defense attorney, | to the circumstances of the shooting) of Negro croppers assembled.at the| home of Cliff James to help him pro- tect his stock from seizure, The only: witnesses of the prosecu- tion were deputies—four of them—) and all of them admitted shooting at) the croppers, three of whom later died of their wounds. Defense Attorney Schwab inter- rupted the deputies’ testimony to ob- ject to their constant and deliberate | use of the term “niggcr.” .The court} was non-plussed for a monient,- Even suave Judge Bowling did not know) what to say. But from that moment | on, the deputies were not so ready in their use of the word. Warrant Lost “Or Something” One of the witnesses called in re- yuital by the prosecution openly ad- mitted that he was in the mob that shet Judson Simpson and carried on @ murderous reign_of terror around Reeltown. Upon cross-examination of the} deputies it appeared that the warrant ior the arrest of Ned Cobb could not be produced. It was lost in the clean- ng of Dowdel Ware's suit—‘or some- thing” they said. The deputies admitted that within the 150 yards from their car to the house they were in clear range of the men in the house, and it would haye been a simple thing for thej Negroes to have shot the deputies as they approached. The deputies testified that there| were between 50 and 75 Negroes, and that they saw all five defendants/ there, though several of the deputies} admitted not knowing ther names. Cliff Elder, who lives in Reeltown, stated however, that he’s known all) the defendants all their lives. | “I know them as niggers,” the de-| puty replied in answer to the ques- tion. | ‘The weight of the deputies’ testi-| Boston Jobless Make 4 Councillor Bellow, | And Then He Crawls BOSTON, May 1.—A delegation of East Boston unemployed workers, elected at a mass meeting, confront- ed Councillor Barker in his home and Placed a demand before him for the esteblishracnt of a local relief sta- | tion in East Boston. So that unem- | ployed on the welfare lists of Boston should not have to tramp many miles down to Hawkins Street and then wait for hours more in line. Councillor Barker tried to act roughly with the committee, ordering them to leave his house, but they stood their ground and demanded an answer. Barker's attitude to the workers was displayed in his shouts that he is recorded in fayor of remoy- ing all aliens from the welfare lists. In a newspaper release, issued by Barker, he indicated his “support” of the demand for a local relief station, showing his fear of the organized anger of the workers expressed by the delegation. Roosevelt’s “Home Relief” Plan Relieves | Owner of His Home WASHINGTON, May 1,—Wolcott of Michigan added an amendment to the Federal Home Loan Bill now be- fore the House of Representatives. It enables the newly created Federal Home Loan Corporation to purchase ® small home owner's equity in his property for not more than 30 per cent of its assessed valuation. Since the present yajuations are far below the original purchase prices, the Roosevelt government will give che small home owner not more than 40 per cent of the present crisis val- aes. This the government calls ¢ ‘Home Relief” program, SUBSCRIBE yourself and get your succeed in their attempt. The deputy Elder then told them he would go get Sheriff Kyle Young and come back and “kill all the niggers in a pile,” Cobb testified. He quoted Elder as saying that “when Sheriff Kyle Young comes in, he comes shooting.” “About one o'clock the ‘law’ came. the house. We waited until the ‘law’ Walked up close, and when we saw them point their guns at us, we start-| ed into the house. I was shot three times in the back befcre I could get in, Cliff James was shot in the back, | too, John McMuliin was shot through | the neck and killed.” Incidentally, Sheriff Young was | wounded when a meeting of the| sharecroppers Was attacked in Camp Hill last summer, resulting in the as having said recently that he in- tended to resign soon as he is “sick | and tired of being shot up.” Defy Deputies | “Kyle Young and all his deputies| aren’t going to get the stock” Deputy | Cliff Elder quoted Ned Cobb as stat-| ing when he first visited Cliff James’ | house on the morning “6F Dec. 19th. Thereupon he left and returned! later with three other deputies—Mar- | shall Gantt, Dowdel Ware and “Stool” | Alford. These four deputies testified | that they parked. their-cat in the} voad and. walked the 150 yards to) James’ house. There they saw about | 12 Negroes in the yard in front of the house. Among these were Cobb,| James, Simpson, Clinton and Sam Moss. As the deputies approached! the Negroes drifted into the house. | To prove that Judson Simpson was | not at Cliff James’ cabin at the time! of the attack, Attorney Schwab put| Mrs. Simpson on the stand. She tes- tified that Judson had dinner at home| that day, and that they heard the shooting. He came in in the morning about 11:30 after cutting wood with} his boys, and after dinner she sewed) | and he read a paper in front of the fire. Simpson was still there toward evening when the mob visited their house. Mrs Simpson stated that Claud Rowel, deputy of Macon County, was the leader of the mob, and that they pushed into the house, hit her on the head with the butt of a pistol and shot Judson twice. Mrs. Simpson said she could hear Judson groan, Powell Apes Knight Her testimony was corroborated by her niece, Susie Mae Cotton. State Solicitor R. H. Powell, Jr., who show- ed extreme satisfaction, even glee, each time a witness said he didn’t know, and took delight in mocking their colloquialisms, tried to break down Mrs, Simpson’s testimony, but he failed completely in this, She re- mained clear and firm throughout his questioning, though he sought by the most vicious methods to confuse her. He continued to bait her until she showed militant defiance of his vicious tactics. Judson Simpson, first of the de- fendants to testify in their own be- half, told a clear-cut story. In the morning he stated he sawed wood with his boys in the woods and came home for dinner. Simpson said he ‘aw Deputy Cliff Elder and three others pass his house, going in the Uirection of the James’ house. Fif- teen minutes later, Simpson said, he heard shooting. He steadfastly main- tained he had had no part in the Shooting, although Powell tried to demonstrate that — because he was James’ brother-in-law he must of _ necessity have been there. Court Is Crowded with people, and with the forced ad- mittance of some 300 Negroes: There Were about 1,000 spectators present. Spectators crowded the aisles and the window ledges and overflowed into the platform and the space between it and the first row of seats. The at- mosphere in the court room for the the vicious press campaign carried on against the Sharecroppers’ Union. At the opening of the trial, Soli- citor Powell demanded that all wit- nesses leave the court room. Schwab demanded that this be applied to the deputies who were to testify, The judge refused to accede to this de- mand, and the deputies were permit- ted to remain in the court room and throughout the trial they dominated the proceeding. Kyle Young even as- Daily, ‘eHow workers to read the iisting the state in the selection o/| the jury | stock he told them they would not! -has already heightened to the breaking point. | At the same time that this tax wi the workers to its actual operation | and its disastrous effects on them.| {In one of the most demagogic |speeches recently made, Mark Graves, | president of the Tax Commission, | |tried to assure a radio-audience over | |a state-wide hook-up that the new! was also begun to blind the eyes of @———-——— Word was phoned by the different ent into effect, moreover, a campaign | Sheriffs that trucks loaded with pro- ta ats testers were coming from all direc- prices of food and other necessities,| tions, and the sheriff at Portales out of wages which the same admin-| Needed but little persuasion to see istration has been cutting to the} the light and conveniently remained bone! out of the way while the excitement According to their own figures, the; Was on. Tax Commission will provide graft| The state militia was also con- jobs as “investigators” to enforce | veniently missing. Hence at 10 o'clock Several of us were in the yard, near| Sales tax will have no effect on the| this tax to a small army of Tam-| the militancy of the crowd demanded |imposed directly on you. |consumer. The tax, according to| Many politicians, ward-heelers, etc. Graves, will be ‘perfectly painless’;And of the estimated $500,000 yearly because ‘it will be hidden in the price | Which will be obtained by this tax, of purchases,’ | $400,000 will “cover the expense of “Unless someone reminds you of it,” | administering the tax.” Graves said, “I doubt if you will know | there is such a tax, The tax is not It is im- posed on the retailer for the privi- lege of selling, but of course the re- tailer, in order to pay the tax, must FARMERS FROM TEN COUNT the sale be called off, which was done A barbecue and dance was then ar- ranged for the crowd, and photo- graphs of the first Sears Roebuck | sale in New Mexico were taken. TES MEET sands of railroad workers out of work, jand which have slashed wages Most of the money lent to the roads has gone into the hands of the | stockholders and bondholders. Farmers Organize cat Call of U.F.L. for 3.5 Cent Milk Price Against Increase in National Guardsmen on duty here, today notified city offictals of the ‘sue pension of their authority. The civil courts are thus suspended. Matin’ law prevails. Captain Haltigan of Des Moines has been appointed acting’ judge advocate, with powers to prosecute. Martial law is not new in the farm beit. Nor is the use of mélttery force against the farmers. ment is added in the present crisis by the actual abolition of the c courts. Governor Herring of lowa is opposed to letting any civil court function to any degree with martial law declared in the counties. “There is a question that if civil courts start to function it is a dec- laration that civil authorities are able to continue as usual and there is no need for martial law,” said the gov- But a new ele-@ ernor. Colonel Haynes has already designated nine members of his staff to compose the court martial to try 400 | the arrested farmers ‘The farmers are being arrested on Retail Prices PERTH, N. Y¥.—More than - farmers from Montgomery and Ful- 5 ton Counties Sanne a lowe and | suspicion of having been involved in producers’ meeting in the Perth High | the Abduction of Judge Bradley, t School recently where they were ad- | Serving as a pretext for a campaign death of Ralph Gray. He is quoted | add it to the cost of doing business and collect it from his customers.” What an obvious piece of dema- |gogy! The tax will not affect the | Workers at all, says Graves. All that j Workers will have to know about it AND LAUNCH OHIO FARMERS’ LEAGUE Propose All Farm Organizations Unite in the March On State Capital for Relief dressed by Charles Rivers, organizer | of the United Farmers League. Rivers | called for unity of action between the | destitute small and middle farmers | and the workers. The main question | taken up at the meeting was the ac- | of mass arrests designed to smash the militant movement of the farmers leaders are being hunted down ilitary posses, and with the pro- lamation of martial law, will be “dealt with” by drum-head courts martial. is that they will have to pay higher | MURDERER OF NAT BALLERO HELD Employed by:Hol- lander to Seab, Ter- rorize Workers | Ohio met here the last week in April t er’s dollar is worth only 49 cents now. | They see that Roosevelt with his farm “relief” bill and his inflation facties is Jeading tW@: farmers and | Workers of the country to lower levels of starvation. Demands: _ The delegates adopted the follow- In the “Newark | "8 demands: NEWARK, May : Sha reny Lyin | 1. A callshould BeSmade to all Ledger’ of April 29th there appeared| arn otganizations to-join in a state- a news item reporting that Rocco | wide march of Ohio farmers to the Capo, 35 years old, of 287 Littleton | state capitol demanding that the gov- Ave., Newark, was arrested in New| ernor convene the legislature to pass (nleans ir connection with the mur-| te following program for farm re- der of Natale Ballero, one of the| 2’ cash relief for all the destitute strikers of the J. Hollander & Co.,| farm families and farm workers to fur plant, on February 26, 1933. This| be paid by the state. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 1.—Rank and file farmers from ten counties in 0 form a fighting organization of farm- ers. These farmers organized to fight forced sales, foreclosures, tax sales } and evictions which threaten their homes. These Ohio farmers are in the last ditch, Farm wages have dropped to the lowest level in 33 years. The farm- League. Robert Hall, editor of the militant Farmers National Weekly, addressed the farmers, So did Chas. | Taylor, chairman of the United Farm- ers League. Resolutions were passed demand- ing the freeing of the Scottsboro boys, against war, and in support of the | Ohio Relief March of the Unem- ployed to Columbus on May 23. A jYesolution was also passed for a | united front with the Small Home | and Land Owners’ Association which |}vas more than 12,000 members in | Chie, tion of the Milk Board in refusing to | The military iron fist is ruling Ply- fix a minimum price for the farmers. | mouth County, and Crawford County The farmers passed the following | where nineteen farmers’ have been demands to. be. presented .to the jarrested in connection ¥ a pick- Board: eted farm sale. Troops were sent to- 1—Three and a half cents for milk |day into two more western Iowa that has 3 per cent butterfat for the counties, Shelby and Carr six months beginning with April 17| In Shelby County seven farmers | which is to-be mandatory. twere arrested. In Carroll County troops dispersed a mass meeting of 4 S i has | Sot eee es ey | farmers with fixed bayonets, and ar- more than 3 per cent butterfat. 3—Four cents for the remaining six months. 4—The increase to the farmer is not to be met by jacking up prices fox the consumer. The milk trusts must pay for this increase. A meeting of farmers is to take | place May 5 to hear the report of the delegation of 30 who meet the Milk Board. The Milk Board has , turned down flatly all the demands of the farmers. Woodehead, president of the West New York Milk Produc- ers Association, is trying to sabotage the ‘new strike the f: to go out on unless their granted by May 1. The U! ers League is out to t c of action to fight f prices, for, adequate ageinst foreclosures. | Rocco Capo was in the employ of J. Hollander & Co. for the specific purpose of strike breaking, spying on and intimidating the workers, and is the one who on the night of February 3. Heavy taxes on high inoomes, industries, corporations and financial middlemen to substitute for the oam- celled farm taxes. 4. Increased loans from #he Progress in All day the court room was jammed | most part was hostile as a result of |p: 26th entered the social club of which Natale Ballero was a member and shot and fatally wounded him. The news item further states: “Police assert the death of Ballero led to the explosion of a bomb in the automobile of Morris Langer, a Com- munist, at Summit, with fatal con- sequences to the owner, and to recent violence between the left and right wings of the Needle Workers Trade Union in New York, as the result of which one man is dead and a number wounded. One suspect, Morris Shul- to supply amounts in addition bys above. 5. Moratoriums on mortgages, im- | terest, feed and seed loans, taxes, | debts for furnishings for small farm- ers. 7. Abolition of defiicency judg- ments and immediate repeal of the deficiency judgment law. 8. An equity on all farms foreclosed | Singe 1928 to their prior farmiowners. | Sales for the failure to pay rent, in- | terest or taxes. man, is under arrest in connection |= with the death of Langer.” ance for all farm laborers, to be paid coming, the funds to be raised by graduated taxes on large incomes and the profits of big corporations and . reetin Ss 11. A price-regulating body control- g led by consumers and producers to be elected to reduce prices to con- NEW YORK.—The following con- | sumers and raise prices to farmers. tributions to the DAILY» WORKER | 12. Abolition of state militia and by. state until federal aid is forth- | ? | May Day | banks. were received: | rural highway patrol and no future N. HL - Syliva Waris -1© extension of the state police. Raa al ag j “18, 13: No reduction in the school year M. Martinaich :19, in Ohio, Jim Alan | 14, Local control of our public is iy | Schools by township boards. Mr. X John Marshall was elected execu- Mr. XX | tive secretary of the Ohio Farmers’ Alex. Sklar Paparian seal denser tes A ‘Lesiaaaet N, Kalinovitz 10H, Bagarian 225 Jack Witten 10K, Korhmatian 125 66 9 A. Ueberson 0) A Ke Mieiientan 35 ‘m. : ca 1.00 25) R,. Kiel M. Morewits Yudakenax NEW WAR MOVE Bi eavperdit 0 Frank Cornell (35 2» Brigadier Generals tS AL Askenazie 10) Back Campaign 19; . A committee of bosses and briga- ‘os| dier generals has gotten up a move- <30) M, Perehik -%5| D. Gorovoy 25/ I, Chachamoft 25) Joe Poluka H, Weinstein Mike Jankovich YP. Rosenberg 10) ment to supplement Roosevelt's labor a Rha Gi A3| camps by building up a “Legion of H. Mattson {10 | Cooper ‘io American Youth”, which is intended Niomi Abti +10| Women’s Club, to be a youth auxiliary of the Amer- Erma Sundvall 10 F. Ww. 1.0. 3 ican Legion. ! ‘nee Oh ‘io| ‘The war aims of this campaign are Jean Graham +10! Women’s C1 clearly revealed in the circular, which F. W, 1. U. 18) openly states it is based on the fact ORGANIZATIONS that “all boys love and splendidly re- act to the martial and the military”. ‘Funds are asked in the circular, to Work~ Commun 08) be made payable ta the Legion of Pobrano lt lin Sa eS ican Youth, care of the National Unit 3, Seo. 2 5.00 LW.O., Br. sng Cy Bale / 9. No evictions, foreclosures, or tax | 10: Federal Unemployment Insur- | Organizing Steel Mills Reported in Letters from Workers Workers Block Deduction from Wages In Slave-Driving Servel Company ‘Boss Gets Wind of Looming Walk-Out and Pays More Than Men Expected (By a Steel Worker Correspondent.) EVANSVILLE, Ind.—The Servel Plant is trying to put the new air-cooled break-neck speed, and pay nothing. Skilled Mechanics guarantees the men 80 per cent of their day rate unless they make more. They have a supposed-to-be group bonus system. No one knows the vate or hay much they are making until pay G&¥. Some of the depart- ments have been paid off at 80 per cent of their day rate. Attempts to Organize. | We are trying to organize all the | workers in the shop—but the Gen- eral Manager has a brother-in-law | by the name of Frank Taggart, who vhas a bunch of police and _stool- | pigeons reporting every word they | hear, and they have the men scared. Block A Deduction. But last pay-day, April 7, there were three depariments organized to walk out if the company failed to |pay day rate. Some of Taggart’s sleuths must of got wind of it, because | they paid the men day rate when they didn’t make it. The superinten- dent said, that the company was loaning them enough to make up their day rate, but that it would be deducted when they made a bonus. If these departments had walked out, we intended to parade through the entire shop and take them all out with us. ¢ 95 Percent of Employees on Relief. They also employ several hundred sirls, They pay them 17c to 0c per hour and work hell out of them. They pay such high wages that if a man is off for two weeks, he has to ge | end get relief from the county trus- tee, Texpect them to ask us to work | Electroiux unit on the market, therefore they have a short rush on in some | departments, but the conditions in this shop are terrible. They work you at on 32!,¢ per Hour. Wages for skilled mechanics is 32!s¢ per hour, and the company only | oo —— | ,;£00n in the factory for a grocery or- | | der. At least 95 percent of-their em- | | ployees have been living off rélief for ; the past three or four years during | | the fall and winter. | The workers of Servel should not fear old hog-face Taggart, as he is | | just a flunkey. |Workers Organizing Against 20c Per Hour, Exhausting Speed-up_ | (By a Steel Worker Correspondent.) LACKAWANNA, N. Y.—We, the shop unit in the Lackawanna Steel | Co. of this steel city, are trying our best to organize other workers and fight against wage-cuts, bad treat- ment and abuses, I have been work- ing here for six years, and after the big bosses made millions of dollars out of our sweat-shop, and we pro- duced too much—they pay us 20c an hour and we have to do twice as much work as when we used to make six and seven dollars a day. They call this “relief’—and I bet that in the near future, everything will be “relief”. We have been out already 50 per cent and if we don’t fight and orga- Stanley Works Shop Spreads Prepaganda For the Bosses’ War (By a Steel Worker Correspondent.) NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—Employees of the Stanley W ceived four gener percent since 1928, and now ing cut by departme dually, because there strong enough Steel and Metal Work- ers’ Industrial Union in New Britain The Stanley W important part fo: perialists, in spreading war ganda among its employees, by post- ing notices in nearly every depart- ment, The notices are with picture: of different articles manufactured by some Japanese concern, bearing the Stanley Works label stamped on them. Some workers already understand s of 10 are be- the American im- propa- this to be a scheme to prepare the | |minds of the workers to hate | Japanese and to lay the blame of the the cigpis upon the capitalists of Japan. ANOTHER WORKER RAZZES CHARLIE SCHWAB. (By a Worker Correspondent.) SCHENECTADY, N. ¥.—With gard to the letter in the “Daily last week entitled “Worker Razzes Charlic Schwab,” I herewith quote a state- ment from an Associated Press dis- patch to the Schenectady Gazette of March 16, 1932. is playing an| rested Ralph Neisle and John Leiehte, two farmers who are apparently to be framed as members of the crowd that tried to “edueate’ Judge. Brad- ley. TH is significant that Bradley, at first said that he eowld=not identify any of the men who attacked him, is now in conference with. the officers and military who are draw- ing up the list of suspects to be ar- rested. In Harrison County wo farmers, James Chew, fifty years old, ‘and Charles Clark, forty-eight, were ar- rested by the sheriff and turnedover to the military, Theodore © Bauer, chairman, of the Crawford County Laborers’ Association, was arrested at his home. The business of the troops in west~ ern Towa was described hy Attorne: General O'Connor as being to “re- store peace and order, arrest the ringleaders of the assault, and gather evidence against the men involved.” He has arranged these things in the order of their importance to “the bankers’ and merchants’ government which he represents. Piret, make things quiet again for the work of swindling the farmers out of their farms to be able to proceed without opposition from a mass farmers’ movement, Second, break the farm- ers’ movement by a policy of arrests and intimidation. The gathering of evid comes a poor third And as it should be, because e¥i- the least important fattor to make class justice—mili- or otherwise. The farmers will know how to meet t new attack with even better or- on and an even more militant J.D. Cope, 75-year-old farmers’ one of whose sons is being d by the guardsmen, was asked ‘ding the attack on Judge Brad- He got smart on the benth.” Cope replied. “He ordered the fafm- ers to quit smoking and take off their hats.” Didn't the farmers realize: they were in a cowt of justice,” he Jas asked “Cc n you get justice in court in_Le Des Moines, or any other county in the United States?” he re- torted What's this going to lead to, a revolution?” was the next question. a is a sort of revolution now,” he said, “These farmers will be here after the guards go. They won't | stand by and. see their homes taken from them. Of course they will fight in some way or another.” 4 ‘This conversation is typical of the county last Friday, fifty fis were overwhelmed by during a foreclosure dware stores in the Gis- farme! Ha sale tricis occupied by the troops report ammunition supplies are all sold out. | Farmers arrested at Plymouth: have | been removed to the jail in Stowx City, after the official heard.of a n of farmers to attack the de- tention camp and release theinicom- “ rades, the virtual bankruptcy ofthe farming population of the the loan sharks and mort- ders, bankers and merchants, are trying to throw the whole burden on the backs of the working farmers, |and are taking advantage of the crisis to expropriate the farmer from his farm, rob him of his live-stoek and tools, and turn him adrift. The farmers, unorganized and isolated, e stood for a lot. But now they are beginning to organize and fight back. They have stopped countless farm” sales by mass strength. They have put pressure on local officials to hold up mortgage foreclosures. Now | their movement is being met with open force by the government of their enemies, WASHINGTON, May 1.—An inter- esting foot-note to the campaign ef Schwab, at the meeting of the Na- | violence against the farmers in Towa tional Association of Waste Material | comes from the Department of Agri- Dealers said: “Any damn fool can ouyjture, where it is reported that a run a mill in times of prosperity, but | “erop replacement program” involy- it takes a real man to run a mill and) ing the destruction of part of the show profit in times like these.” crops now planted, may be recom~ ‘The shadows of the past must rise | mended by Secretary of Agriculture before Charlie these days, when he| wallace for enactment by congress, finds his mills down to 20 percent or ‘The problem of reducing surpluses is legs capacity.—A. W. T. to be met, not by feeding the hung- area ry and alleviating the present regime NOTE! | of misery and starvation, but by ure+ nige, they will continue the wage- cut. ‘The Unemployed Council already established in tis oity is doing vory good work, FF. Pri ig Letters from steel, metal and auto | ing the farmers to plow under por- | workers are publisited every Tuesday. | tions of their present acreage, amd | Get the lettars to us by the preceding replace it with grass ox other nome ‘ competitive crops