The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
Duluth Mayor Tries to Find
Excuse for Police Aiming
Against Farmers
IL. D. Is ACTIVE
Labor Defense Calls Mass
Trial of Moore, Police
Chief for Actions

Duluth, Minn.-Two Farmer
LabOrites on the city council here
have shown that their party name,
Farmer-Labor, is a lie, every let
ter of it. The two takers on the
city council, Bodin and Oustafson,
who are affiliated with the Farm
Labor party, proved themselves an
equal to the fascist Warren s.
Moore, who as public safety COM
missioner is head of the police that
brutally terrorized the st. Louis
county farmers Hunger march held
here recently.
Despite the fact that the Inter-
national Labor Defense proved
through photographs and evidence
that the Duluth police met the hun
ger marchers with machine guns,
ready for action in a bullet-proOf
car, with tear gas, riot clubs, an
ambulance, a patrol wagon and
squad cars, the city council at its
meeting on July IL did not even
censure Commissioner Moors for
his action, did not even offer one
WORD Of criticism,
"Sniveling" Snively
"Sniveling" Snively, the mayor
of Duluth, was grotesque in his
attempt to defend Commissioner
Moore's action. He called atten-
ton to a mob that lynched three
innocent Negroes in Duluth more
than 10 years ago and attempted
to compare that mob with the
march to Duluth of toiling farmers,
their wives and children. The I.
L. D. spokesman called attention to
THE fact that the police did nothing
to Interfere with the forming Of
the mob to lynch the three limo
cent circus hands and that after
Negroes were in the hands of the
mob the police that are SO handy
with their riot clubs when it comes
to clubbing workers made only a
faint effort to prevent the lynch
ing. The /. L. D. spokesman then
asked the mayor whether the po-
lice thought the hunger marchere
were on their way to hang the
county commissioners, but the dod-
dering mayor had no answer.
J Moore COmrnends Brutal Police
The fascist commissioner, Moore
on the other hand commended the
police for their action in the st.
Louis county farmers hunger
march and when asked about tear
gas, the bullet proof car, the am
: bulence and the other viciousness
: displayed, he tried to pass the
j buck 10 the chief of police saying
S that he was in charge of it.
The city council chambers were
b packed to the doors more than 400
: workers cheering the 1. L. d.
spokesman as he exposed the city
council members as enemies of the
: workers and poor farmers in their
struggles to obtain relief.
When the fascist commissioner,
: Moore, declared that the marchers
put women and children in the
front line of the march, the l. L.
D. spokesman pronounced him
liar and produced photographs
that made Commissioner Moore
eat his words. Commissioner
Moore proved himself not only a
fascist but a liar in other respects.
Duluth News Tribune Lies
The Duluth News Tribune whose
! representative was present at the
meeting was denounced for a lying
sheet. Until now they have Jumped
! together in their news columns the
: l. L. D., the United Farmers
: League, the Unemployed Councils
4 together and all of them "Com-
+ munists," attempting thereby to
brighten away the workers and the
: farmers from the meetings. But
= the meetings have been attended
by thousands despite the "red''
scare. Publicity was given to the
exposure of the commissioners by
The Tribune after the sheet was
denounced but in their news item
they twisted the facts by saving
that these organizations, while
having communists as members.
were in no way connected with the
Communist party. Although the
]. L. d. spokesman did not 60 into
detail into that phase of it, the
workers at the meeting and those
who read The Tribune are remind
ed that one of the six planls of
the Communist party platfrm this
year is that against terrorization.
Specifically, No. of the Commun-
platform is Against capitalist
terror; against all forms of sup
pression of the political rights Of
the workers" and that the /. L. ID.
is fully behind it, and in fact that