The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-26
ONLY MILITANT STRUGGLE CAN WIN
AGAINST THE MILK TRUST

The miitancy of the Iowa dairy farmers around
Sioux City is bearing fruit in the impetus which has
given to the strike movement turnout the country 1t
has also borne fruit however, of another kndthe at
tempt on the part of the capitalist class and especially OF
the milk trust rob of that mltancy which alone can
win results
Milo Reno, member of the executive committee of
the National Farmers Holiday Association asked by
the Associated Press for his the picketing
around Sioux City His answer was Much better, OF
course would be having each farmer picket on his own
farm Then the farmer will be the control point for his
own products.
This means Just one thing. The militant picketing
of the farmers their most effective weapon IN the strug
GLE Staying at home the control point, so-caled-
means depriving them of this weapon. The control
out where the milk is being shipped. The control
point is out on the highways and the railroads.
point is not on the farms of those who striking bur
among those who have not yet been drawn into the
struggle. Militant picketing preventing the milk
from reaching the trust but it also spreading the
strike to include hundreds of other farmers who still
influenced by the capitalist press against their
terests.
The farmers of Iowa. as turnout the of the coun-
try must picket if their struggles to be effective
Pcketing only preventing milk from getting
into Sioux City or any other collecting but il
means spreading the struggle 1t getting the
masses of farmers active in their struggle and
leaving it to the discretion of some few leaders, to
spread if they and to settle it when they and
on the they think proper, whether these terms
satisfy the farmers demands not.
Aiding the milk trust from another side the po
lice representatives of the capitalist class Sherfs have
tried to break thru the picket lines They have
the farmers of going the pen they picketed mill
family.
1t is not only the police representatives from the
local. county and state governments who have stepped
in to aid the milk trust. The Assistant United States
District Attorney Omaha has also warned the farmers
Militant picketing means this HooverWa Street rep
resenative entering conspiracy in restraint of inter
state commerce by binderng, delaying, preventing
shipments.
The laws against restraint of interstate commerc,
were originally passed the trust busting days foo
the masses into believing that something being dom
to curb the monopoes. The only time when these law
have been used effectively though has been against tn
workers when they organized for higher wages short
er hours Now the capitalist class promises bring then
into use against the farmers also when they strike efec
lively.
These threats by the sheriffs and by the Assistan
u s. District Attorney being made in order to crus
the militancy Of the farmers and the profits
the milk trust.
When the strike was originally started the loce
main street petty capitalists thought it only gestr
and approved it. But that they see that the farm
business, that the strike is becoming effective
they are preparing withdraw their support and
fight against the farmers the side of the milk trust
And now. along of the most viciou
enemies of the farmers Governor Floyd B. Olson Farm
erLabor chief of Minnesota, with his support for tn
strike The capitalist press reports an interview with
son as follows:
II would be willing to join with governors
of other agricultural states in any plan, how
ever arbitrary, which would tend to raise the
price of farm commodities"
n Asked what he meant by arbitrary the
governor said he might be willing to "cal out
the national guard and declare martial law to
make the strike success.
First must remember that this Mr. Olson is Il
very same one under whose administration in Minneso
the Rural Credits Bureau has evcted thousands Of farm
ers from their lands because they could not paw the
terest the Rural Credits Bureau demanded for the BON
holders of the state.
Does MIR Olson want martial law for the farmers
MOI re is showing the capitalists the step that the