The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1933, Page 5

ft DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933 Page ——___aaaennninnininnnnnnnunnnIn TTR ETEETERTTRTe “OUR STRIKE NOT AGAINST THE CITY CONSUMERS BUT AGAINST BIG DAIRIES”, SAY FARMERS; :; WORKERS! UNITE WITH THE FARMERS IN THEIR STRUGGLE AGAINST THE MILK TRUST ‘Salem Mill Strikers | Defeat U.T.W. Scheme | Vote Against Speed-Up |“Citizen’s Committee” Enters Strike; Workers | Vigilant, Solid in Refusal of Company Plan See cancel e Strike Against Forced Labor at Everett, Washington | Over d!Thousand at Strike Meeting; Red Cross Has 1,200 Sacks of Flour and Refuses to Feed the Jobless Strikers Wisconsin Farmers Battle Tear Gas EVERETT, Wash., May 12 (By Mail)—Food vouchers without work, | P a solid strike front, and the start of a campaign to remove the police chief | JOBLESS COUNCIL who gassed defenseless women—these are the week’s highlights in th Sno- | | & homish county strike against forced labor, A meeting called by the strike | oe committe¢'last night was attended by 1,200, Plans were made for a demon- FIGHTS A & A I N N) T | OHIO SALES TAX. stration to the relief board to demand | Latest reporis of the strike com- Farmer Laborites Give {an answer to the strike demands. | | They include: 50¢ an hour for relief | mittee show that Jess than 15 per cent| $1,500,000 for Armory; rked in the past 10 days; ninety | ee BP a ea cab ; SALEM, Mass., May 17.—Eighteen hundred strikers of the Naumkeag | Steam Cotton Co, (Pequot Mill) are standing firm in their determination to continue their struggle against the new speed-up proposed by the | management and the A. F. of L, officials which will not only increase the number of looms to be operated but will result in firing hundreds of women workers. @ McMahon, president of the U.T.W. and O'Connell, business agent while pretending to rem in the back- ground, are using underhanded schemes to get the strikers to return to work, Last week they mailed JOBLESS STRIKE ON R. I RELIEF own struggle under their own committee leadership. N.T.W.U. Declares Support The Textile Workers’ | Union declares its support of the work; increased vouchers; food for school children. Try to Defeat Strike. National 300 Stop Work to Halt. a Wage Cut WOONSOCKET, R. I—About 300 vnemployeds project workers here de- cided om ’Stinday to strike the jobs in orderMo-Gefeat a wage cut from | 40 to 30 cents an hour. Every effort will be made-to involve the rest of the 1800,ho.are forced to labor for their city.welief. The meeting de-} cided toaise the “lay on the shovel” method of, striking. They will go to, the jobss~but refuse to work until their demands are granted. There | will also bexpicketing of the jobs. The Right toikdve Club (unemployed or- ganizatioh).is expected to back up the strike-from the Providence end, 1500-EAID OFF ON LEVIATHAN” Gove’ tr ment Prepares Bi ye-ship for War WW “YORK.—The U.SS. Levia- is being taken to Hoboken to- y where she will be re-conditioned ov-riwbént expense. 1500 mem- crew have been laid off. The c: Were promised last year 4 if 4nd accepted a 10 per cent the#si#p ‘would be run continu- They accepted the cut and out of jobs anyhow. At the wee that this mess dismissal | Place, the seamen’s relief re cutting relief, claiming an improvement in con- jaihan is owned by the United Stnies: Shipping Board and | las beet le8ilig money. She was: not kept’ in good condition and the big ship ownetsthave been waging a cam- paign to dofce her to be laid up. They | clain: the saip is not in shape to be | d *: a troop transport, which, they | erst, y be needed at any time. The elimination of the Leviathan also | tnables them to raise passenger rates and cut pay on their ships, pleading | that the,Leyiathan is proof of their | paor financial condition. | The shipping board is closely! supervised by the navy. After being | retonditioned the Leviathan will be | turned a to the United States | Lines. ie U. S, Lines already of- | ered to run two short cruises if the | wmewards’ Would work for tips only. | THs was refused by the men. The | weviathan“will thus become a plum | ‘or the U.'S. Lines who will get the ship recéntiitioned at government ex- vense and profit by the government’s ase of it-in war time. ! food vouchers, per cent of all on relief are getting | Many ‘vouchers are) reduced in order to scare the people) back to work. Some are aroused in) Reject Jobless Needs | COLUMBUS, O., May 17—Appear- an effort to bribe the recipient back | ing before the Joint Legislative Tax- to work, A leading member of the! ation Committee of the State Cap- strike committee was offered a good| jtol, Frank Rogers, representing the | Weeks, job if he would quit being active. But all these attempts haye failed. Red Cross flour is not being given out in Everett, though 1200 sacks lie on the dock, and have been there for This is its contribution to} break the strike. Strike Gets Support The Unemployed Council in the small town of Anacortes rushed three | truck loads of food to Everett, where | a strike kitchen is serving from three to six hundred meals a day to pick-| ets. Other food has come from | neighboring farmers and Everett mer- chants. Partial paralysis has affected two of the women who were attacked by gas bombs, Police chief English is responsible for this. Many are still in serious condition while the throats | and lungs of all are injured. | The women are in possession of a} signed invitation from the mayor to) meet him at the relief board at the} very hour when the gas attack took place. They were waiting for the mayor when the attack took place.| The strike committee is calling on all| organizations in the state to support} the demand for the removal of the} police chief. Workers On Commitiee } In answer to the persistent demand | of the strikers for the removal of| three of the members of the relief | , board the Chamber of Commerce has | proposed to the strike committee that | three new members be chosen as fol- lows: One from the Chamber of Commerce, one from the A. F. of L., one from the workers, The Chamber of Commerce wants to meke a!l three of the selections. | The strike committee refused to make this deal. The strikers must} insist that the selection of the com- mittee be made by trade unions, un-_ employed organizations and other) workers bodies. So that the workers} themselves make the nominations and approve the members for the relief | Unemployed Council and Comrade Peen of the League of Struggle for | Negro Rights won great support from | the packed galleries of over 1000 workers and farmers and helped greaily to swing mass sentiment in favor cf defeating the sales tax. Great storms of applause, boos, and cheers from the galleries resulted in a threat to end.the hearing by Mr. Goodwin, chairman of the Taxation Committee. The Unemployed Council charac- terized the sales tax as an extortion plot of politicians to fill the bank- the masses of the working people and poor farmers. Against the sales tax (consumers tax) the Unemployed Council proposed a graduate tax on incomes of rich bankers and employ- ers to raise unemployment relief. Rogers also pointed out that a sales tax is a wage cut for the part-time worker and a relief cut for the un- employed. ‘The Unemployed Council calls for mass protest against this new bur- den being placed on the backs of the/ Ohio workers. In all cities mass dem- | onstrations must take place against the sales tax to make sure of its de- feat and to raise the slogan: “Tax the rich to feed the poor.” All protests must be connected with the prepara- tiors for a statewide relief march on Columbus June 25th, $1,500,000 for Armory MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Under provisions of an appropriation by the State Legislature approved by Gov- ernor Olson, $1,500,000 will be used for building a new National Guard armory in Minneapolis. This appro- priation received the support of the Farmer-Laborites as well as Repub- licans in the State Legislature. At the same time they refused to adopt a | single relief measure for the unem- 200 Grocery Drivers Strike to Increase Pay NEW YORK.—200 drivers of the Francis H. Ligget, wholesale grocers, | 20th and West 5th, struck yesterday | morning. The men demand $5.00 a week increase in pay and $1.00 an| hour for overtime work. The dismissal of a foreman who has been driving the men in the, work is also demanded. The sirike | Was called by the International | Brotherhood of Teamsters. | VETS: IN CAPITAL SPURN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) CONVENTION pers Jhese. aad is a traitor to the rank and .” The program fur- ther pot out treachery of Louis Johnson, Commander of the Ameri- can Le , Who proposed a 25 per cent redfiction in the compensation, and containing « slashing attack of the Natiorial Economy League and te United States Chamber of Com- merce whith attacked the vets. ‘The program concludes with an ap- peal for’ eal or rél ity, irrespective of politi- affiliation, race or na- proposes that the rank a hand in the affairs organization by electing in all local and state or- ganizations on the basis of the three points, It points out that political aspirants-and self-seakers have tried to use the veterans to their own en and now tie veterans must take mat- ters int@etheir own hands and fight. | ‘The ation of this program was allowed by the demagogue Woods, who.talked of a “red plot” and was,boged by the men. The sptéch made by Woods was calculated-to create a hostile atmos- phere outside the auditorium. Ay the entrance pf the hall, the le of ‘the Daily Workers was burned by a group of these fascist leaders among whom wag the disrupter Fayre. Cheer Negro Delegates Negro ‘delegates have themselvé8"at the Convention. Blan- chard of saying: “When ashamed ie delegate declared that one representing the ‘th Dakota, and said: is|by the house, and the senate, then go | am co: want compensation for our disabled | comrades.” During the morning session, there were reports from the delegation that had come to see their state senators, that various U. S. senators, as for instance from Georgia and Rhode Is- Jand would vote for the bonus, where- as the senators of Deleware will op- pose, Christianson of New York spoke for the three-point program. “You veterans act as if you were born vets and forget that you are workers and farmers. It is not that we ask only the cooperation of workers and farm- ers, but as workers and farmers we also need relief and unemployment insurance.” ‘The opposition camp, incidentally, has shown from the beginning its attitude towards the Negro delegates | by jim-crowing them into separate tents, Roosevelt Maneuvers ‘Yesterday afternoon, the Conven- tion Committee had a session with | Howe, Roosevelt's secretary, who took up the matter of the Convention, | ending by Monday, One of the de-| legates, the chairman of the ¢on- vention, Brady, stated that there was delay of the delegation on routes, that there was also detention of de- legates by railroads and public off- cials and therefore they asked for an extention. Thomas, a disrupter, reported regarding the conference with Howe: “I have information that it will be taken up but it does not come directly from the White House. I believe that if the bill is passed the President will the bill.” Regarding the “reforestation camps,” Sellers of the Committee de- clared that he would refuse to work at forced labor for $1. “As far as I .” he said, “I would say to hell with that kind of a tion.” plause. Whether the parade will be held tomorrow or not is still indefinite, depending on the c rangements thai will be madé with the District of | bonus, but we also Columbia officiais | ployed and the farmers. Gov, Olson, who pretends to have differences with the Legislature, approved this appro- priation which is a direct attack on the workers and farmers of this state, who know that the Governor in spite of his “friendship” for them will not hesitate to use the National Guard. against them as they have been used in Iowa. Illinois and Pennsylvania. MILWAUKEE S. P. LEADERS TRY TO BREAK STRIKE FORCED LABOR PROPOSAL potice sent Against Milk Strikers by Hoan (From a Daily Workér Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 17. — Ne- \tional Guard units of cavalry, in- | we fantry and artillery which are being of this, the farm pickets have the truck stopped and are dumping the mi lots to the strikers’ homes a: them to vote on the following ques- tion: “Are you in favor of returning to work as advised by your Interna- tional Union?” The ballots were numbered with the clear of using this means of di ing against strikers voting return to work. Call Mass Meeting But the strikers were not so easily | ders Farm strikers stopping a truck trying to run seab milk through their lines near Troy, Wis. riding with the scabs hurled tear gas bombs. Note th e gas cloud rising at the right of the picture, deceived and instead of replying to | these ballots called a mass meeting | | and took another strike vote. Over |800 workers participated and the | | vote was overwhelmingly in fayor of | |remaining out on strike. Only 42) Deputies In spite Ik, Striking Dairy | | Unemployed Workers Aid Striking Farmers Martial Law Rules Striking Area; Forest Against Strikers (From the Daily Worker's Special | Correspondent) | MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 17.—Com- i panies A. B, and F, and Headquarters | Were arrested near Milwaukee on the |Company of the Milwaukee National | charge of “inciting to riot.” They} Guard have been called out by Adjt.| were driving out of a garage in a} | General Immell to try and break the| truck on their way to picket duty.) ‘milk strike. They have been sent to) Militant workers are being pulled in | Shawano, Wisconsin, where 5,000| by the police all over the city. There |farmers had taken complete posses-|2r@ Teports of wholesale arrests of | sion of the town. Martial law rules| farmers from every point in the state. | in fact though it has not so far been | Mayor Hoan, the Socialist Mayor of jdeclared, as this great “liberal” state | Milwaukee, refuses to be interviewed | could not thus blemish its record. So|0M the strike, and continues to play |the guardsmen are appearing in plain | # game of “lie low and say nuffin”) clothes as special deputies, though | in the hopes that his silence will pro- \they are fully equipped with revol- | Vide a good enough mask to cover his | | vers, gas and tear bombs, Five hun-| active strikebreaking role. dred guardsmen have already lef! bets | | and five hundred more are preparing) SHAWANO, Wis., May 17. — An to move out of Milwaukee. | army of 1,500 State Troopers and! Farmers Take City deputies is now mobilized here. Many police, deputies and guardsmen. Twenty unemployed workers on outdoor relief and fifteen farmers | Farmers Fight Armed Forces Sent By the State | voting to return and 6 abstaining from the vote. The overwhelming sentiment of the | | Workers against the union-manage- | |ment plan for another drive against | their working conditions shows clear- | iy that they now recognize the char- | lacter of the present leadership of | their union. cess | “Citizens Committee.” | The latest group to enter the strike | {is a Citizens Committee which has | been organized by the Mayor. Such | committee, because it has been ap- | \pointed by a local politician will be | ers and sympathizers attacked a con-| filled with friends of the manage- | voy of eight milk trucks, and the)ment and enemies of the strikers. It | bleeding and bruised Waukesha dep-| Will therefore be another instrument uties only got away through a police| in the hands of the A. F. of L. of- rescue. Farmers of other states also| ficials who will rely on this Com- recognize that this is their struggle.| mittee to put over what they have | General Immell is worried about this. | failed to do. | “Many Indiana and Illinois automo-| But the workers, already recogniz- biles were seen in the state yester-| ; hi hey hi he aru | day,” he said, “and T believe that| ne, {st they have the power thru | organized strength to defeat | many out-of-state strike sympathi-| e | zers are gathering here.” the speed-up plan will be on guard | against any attempts by the citizen's | committee to send them back to their jobs to toil faster and harder for the bosses’ profits, The mass strength and solidarity of the strik- ers.and their determination to strug- gle will prevent any new attempts by citizens’ committees or other| enemies to foist a new slave driv- ing scheme on the backs of the workers. Against Dairy Trust; Air Service Used \lowa Farmers’ Fight Brings on Freedom for 12) | Twelve of the farmers arrested | jon. April 28 during a dolar) |ninety-eight” sale were sent- - « * | strike on the ground that a defeat of this speed-up plan and a victo: for the strikers will be a victory for all textile workers. It warns the workers not to believe the com. pany propaganda that it will shut down or move out of town pointing out that the company has big or. now wil not want to lose them and that it is too well equip- ped to move away. The main pro- blem before the workers is to re tain unity in the ranks and not permit the bosses to divide yon, says the letter. The letter continues as follows Letter From Union “Some people may warn you not to take this sound advice from the National Textile Workers Union. What kind of a union are we? It is an industrial, not a craft union which takes in textile workers of all beliefs, which has always fought honestly for the workers. Why then do the employers call us a “red Communist” union? Because these employers know that they can nei ther bribe, bully nor browbeat us into accepting their rotten condi tions and they therefore want. to scare the workers away from us. On the other hand the employers support Mr. MeMahon because Mr. McMahon supports the employers. But why should you workers run away from your best friends, the textile workers of other centers, why not let us help you as mych as we can, “The company may secretly send some flowery speaker into your ranks; to win your confidence, and then to settle your strike fer you behind your backs. Or they may set up their own hand picked “Cit- izen’s Committee” to represent “public opinion” to settle your strike for you. If you let the agents of the employers settle your | of the Troopers were given overalls| The militant Shawano farmers | and told to mingle with the pickets| | to discover the plans of the farmers | and act as provocative agents. In- | dians from the Memomenee Reserva- | tion have been deputized to bolster | closed every creamery in the place, while the Sheriff, District Attorney, the town officials and the deputies took to their heels and barricaded to all the demands of the farmers, who literally held and ruled the town until the guardsmen moyed in twelve hours later. The Forest Air Service is being | used by the state to spy on the picket lines, and to drop instructions to the | troops. As was reported in the “Daily | Worker” yesterday, Governor Schme | dermann has removed Sheriff Otto Druckery for “ineffiency” and now a new Sheriff, a former Army officer, | has been appointed, who is pushing | along an even bloodier atiack on the |farm strikers, | Strikers Defy Militia Snow plows, driving at forty miles an hour, are being used in the cream- ery townships to smash barricades, and high pressure hoses are being used against the pickets. The farm- ers moved on Shawano today shout~ jing—“Let ‘em call out the militia. "ll lick the hell out of ’em.. We |might as well die here as starve to} | themselves inside one of the cream-| eries. They were forced to surrender | used in an attempt to break the milk death on the farms.” When the dep-| | up the militia forces. Guards were on duty all last night, and searchlights | played continuously on the dairy | plants. | Waukesha County officials, in| whose territory the farmers braved} | tear gas, and routed the troops, have sent in a request for more gas bombs. Supplies are being rushed to them by} | airplane. | Picket Lines Firm | In spite of this army sent against | the farmers, the picket lines have helé =, and no milk has entered the 2... ‘cept that which the farm- ers had arranged to send in for the, needy and sic:*. Seventy seven farm strikers are in Jail today as a result of today’s series of bloody battles between the militia army and the picket forces. Pickets fought guards on a convoy of milk trucks across two counties, and then closed in on the Gridley Milk Plant, inside the city limits, and threatened | |to storm it. Reinforcements of de-| tectives and police saved the plant. Another crowd of 500 farmers be- | |been shown again. strike, are being assisted by hundreds | of uniformed city police “loaned” by | \the socialist Mayors Hoan, of Mil- waukée, and Baxter of West Allis. The officials of the Socialist Party | are silent, and by their silence ap- | prove the suspension of civil liber- ties, the vicious attacks of the police | on the workers, thé murderous at- | tacks on pickets which is resulting | in a constant stream of wounded be- ing brought into the Milwaukee Em- ergency Hospital, and the martial law | conditions now obtaining over a large part of the territory of thé state. | Raid Workers’ Homes Police raided the homes of work- | lers at Racine, and threw a cordon round four blocks, in an endeavor to protect dairies. The population |was kept off thé streets in this area, | | get his rights.”” |terms, but the farmers refused, de- | uty sheriffs started towards the pick-| sieged the house of W. H. Gifford, ap ets with their guns levelled, one offiical of the Progressive Dairy, at! farmer stepped forward and bared his| official and threatened to burn it. chest, saying “Go on—shoot. You! 'The strikers made short work of 30 don’t dare. I am willing to give up/ deputies armed with riot guns and my life.” Some of the strike pickets| tear gas, but when more guardsmen were appearing in steel helmets and) arrived, hurling gas bombs, the farm- gas masks, relics from the war days. | ers’ lines gave way. | Rocks were thrown, and clubs were! But the fighting mood of the strik- wielded freely by the strikers. ers is rising in the same measure ‘The farmers’ wives are actively sup-| that the attacks against them are in- porting the strike. “We're a hundred) ¢ensified. When they learnt of the per cent back of our men folks,” said| hundreds of militiamen sent into the the wife of one of the pickets, “we! strike area, the pickets said “thous- farmers must fight for our rights and| ands of farmers will arise to close I'm proud that my man is helping to} the creameries, cheese factories and | condensories.”” Everywhere the troops The Governor agreed to meet a|were sont, there the pickets were committee of the strikers on his| massing. Other States Aid manding to be recognized on their! ‘The great strength of the farmers own terms, The big dairies are using | jn ‘this fight is the solidarity which provocateurs to discredit the strike.|has been shown them by the city {and to spread rumors from time to, ‘Barge Life Told | in Story Series by J. L. Spivak “They call them barge captains but they are really laborers with a highsounding title, and there are 4,000 of them in New York harbor, Half of them have their families on board with them, emaciated women and sickly children. Most of them live in indescribable filth and squalor and all of them exist from hand to smooth.” This is how John L. Spivak, vet- eran newspaperman and author of “Georgia Nigger” begins a series of feature articles describing life on the East Side waterfront. The first article will appear in this Satur-, day’s issue of the Daily Worker. The series will be illustrated with photographs taken by the writer himself. Do‘not miss any of these ar- | tieles? time that the strike is about to be) | called off, | Bombs and Milk i | Patol wagons from the Milwaukee | police department are being utilized | as ammunition cars, Hundreds of gas bombs are being pire from Cleveland, Ohio, to the | sheriffs and state militia. There is | good evidence that this has been} | going on for several weeks already in| preparation for the strike. These} tear gas bombs, Mark ©. N. and D. N. cost around ten dollars apiece and mainly contain arsenic and chlorine. | Milwaukee is now on a fifty per) cent of normal milk retion, and even) ae will have to be cut from day to) lay. | Farmers, Workers Unite | Large demonstrations by the Un- | employed Councils ave taking place in| Milwaukee and Racine counties in| front of the dairies. One of these) pickets of unempleyed workers, fifty | strong, were attackes by guardsmen on the Racine Highway. ‘nemmloyed | workers throughout the whole state, | | who are displaying % magnificent sc- | |Veovity vith the striking farmers, ats | nee | Special varget fer arrests by the workers and unemployed. In Mil- waukee a crowd of 200 enraged strik- ‘Milk Strikers | Fight Dealers; 1 Feed Workers | | MILWAUKEE, Wis. May 17.— Farm leaders in the milk strike| that is tying up all milk deliveries | in Wisconsin declared today “Our | | strike is not against the city con- | | sumer but against the big da‘ries.| We have been charged with want-| | ing to starve the city worker, and | with wanting to shed the blood of | | innocent persons,” they said. “We are showing who it really is wh wants to starve the city worke) The farm leaders have been fur- nishing milk to the sick, the hun- | gry, and the children. The grocers | have sent up the price of canned milk from 5 cents to 7 cents. The Milk Pool at Racine has, ‘turned over the distribution of milk by the Unemployed Councils, || mr? she Racine workers are re- | Sn milk, jenced by Judge Fuller to one} |year’s imprisonment, and then |immediately released on parole. |The agents of the bankers do not dare, in the face of the milit- | ant mass movement of the| farmers, to place these men in| | jail. The strength of the farmers’ | | Council of Action, which was| |shown when they forced the in- |surance companies to proclaim a |moratorium on mortgages, has | “The Forgotten Man on Fighting,” the Fa | In a letter addressed to the Strike Committee and the strikers, the National Textile Workers’ Un- ion with headquarters in Provid- ence, R, I. greets the splendid | struggle of the workers against the speed-up and lay-off plan and pro- | mises to rally the support of the textile workers of other centers |to back up the strike financially |and morally. It upholds the right | of the rank and file to strike when they see fit and to conduct their | strike then they will defeat you. | You can stop this by clearly re- membering: That only your owe | Strike Committee cam negotiate for | you with the company. That only | poliey means victory.” SUBSCRIBE yourself and tellow workers ite read Worker. | Five thousand new YEARLY seb- seribers by September 1, the Farm Is rmers Write PARMBRS TIRED WIS. FARMERS ARE FIGHTING FOR A OF WAITING FOR LIVING PRICE, SAYS FARMER'S WIFE RELIEF ACTION Expenses Continue to Rise, Letter Points Out (By a Farmer Correspondent.) ALBANY, N. ¥.—The farmers are | no longer forgotten. The watchword came from Washington: “Patience, wait a little longer”. At the same time they raise the price of cattle and chicken feed from $2 to $6 a ton, I use a ton a month to feed my 400 chickens, but now I have to de- liver i42 crates more eggs to pay my feed bill, This rise in expenses took the last cent from us and from the dairy farmers also, SO President Roosevelt expects us to wait a little longer. As a farmer | who has grown old at his work, I am afraid that Mz. Roosevelt is wanting [us to wait a little too long. Lots of farmers are living on farms on which there is no tax or interest paid on the mortgage. They are in an ugly mood, but they ave trying to keep the struggle up. But the end has come, Everything President Hoover tried in the farm line ended in a debacle. And how about President Roosevelt? He should have rank and file farm- ers from behind the plow hew to cure the ferm ailments. They Letter Deser ibes Determination to Stop ‘All Trucks and Trains Hauling Milk to Trusts ~ ‘History Was Made in | 'S. Dakota on May Day (By a Farmer Correspondent) | ABERDEEN, S. D.— About 450 | workers and farmers on May First | stopped a farm foreclosure, and | forced the Insurance Co. to make a | satisfactory settlement: At noon a parade, led by the Uni- tei Front May Day Committee, marched threugh the main street of Aberdeen. “Solidarity” was swung, }and banners of all kinds were car- ried, denouncing fascism, imperialist | war, ete, This parade marched in the Muni- , cipal Auditorium. The Unemployed Council of Aberdeen served a free speeches were given by Clarence Sharp, Julius Walsted, George Maki | and others. A large committee went to the R. F.C. office, presenting demands for cash to be paid on jobs, a minimum week. The officials told the Com- | mittee to see the County Commis- sioners at the next meeting. Because of recent heavy rains, the |eountry roads were imnassable, so |our demonstration was ne. as large as it might have been. At that, we made history in South Dakota on May Day. ALS. {could teli him directly the quite simple fact that the farmer's budget must meet expenses, that farming is the basic industry of the country. | Some more free depression and the jfarmers will see to it that we get tell him | back prosperity through a Labor and every Thursday. ) Parmer Governmeny lunch for the marchcers, and militant | | of 30 cents an hour and 30 hours a | a a Nee BUILDING UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE Arrested Leader Goes on Hunger Strike a Farmer Correspondent.) MOSINEE, Wis.—In the last two months the United Farmers’ League, newly organized in Marathon County, centering around Mosinee, has been active in getting relief for poor and needy farmers. In this part of the county, cows starve to death because ot the drought. Because of their small milk checks the farmers were unable to buy hay for their cattle and horses. | The farmers paraded in Watisau, | the county seat, headed by Jackson | of the United Farmers’ League. They | forced a thousand dollars from R. FP, C., through County Agent Rogan, to | feed the cows. . | On April 29 we had a double ac- | tivity. A parade of farmers’ Kids ed the Tocal Red Cross for shoes and clothes, while the farmers, as well as | cheir wives, attempted to stop a farm | foreclosure sale at Wausau. Farm- jers from four counties were present. | At this sale Forrest Jackson -was arrested on a charge of vagrancy ope put on $150 bond. He was in jail for | three days, and went on a hunger |strike. The farmers secured bail, jand he was finally released. * NOTE Letters from farmers are published Get them to ug by (the préceding Monday,