The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
500 In COURT ROO
Sugar Companies ORE
Militants Arrested
NCTTE PREJUDICE
Use Race Hatred to Bre
Ranks of Workers
INCTTE PREJUDICE

ANCAAAO Va w Va MI .
Denver, Colo, May Il
The number of work.
who daily join the strike
the beet fields and the splt
did spirit and determinati
shown by them have tn.
oughly frightened the gro
ers and sugar compan
who. are using every mee
at their command to def,
the strike. A sugar b,
strike is necessarily a brief c
unless the beets are thinned at
proper time they are ruined
there is no way to save tn
Knowing this, and as this weel
the critical time the forces of +"
and order" have launched an
feHsive of arrests everywhere.
Greeley 26, four of them won
were arrested and held "for inv
tigation while the county offic
met for the avowed purpose
combing the laws for water-ti
charge ON which to keep them
Jail. In Frederic, Is workers,
of them women, were arrested.
FIT. Morgan, 8 workers have b
held over week without char
In Swink all meetings of any K
have been forbidden. Three "
arrested when the workers deci
to defy the authorities and hol
meeting anyway. In La Junts
workers were brought to trial v
Comrade Patrick Toohey acting
attorney for the defense.
1900 In Courthouse Square
At the hour called for the
Junta trials, a crowd of 1000 ps
ed the courthouse Square, G
rade ToOhey Immediately took
vantage of this fact to hold
mass meeting and began speal
from the bandstand. So terri
were the authorities by the
and militancy of the crowd {
though they attempted to put
end to the meeting by senc
word to Toehey that the trial
about to begin when he insi
that the trial be delayed until
finished speaking, the ju
promptly agreed to do so. T
the local bourgeois press adj
frankly that the "size and ten
of the crowd was such that
authorities thought it best no
interfere with the meeting"
500 In Court
| The court room itself was D
led to the doors with a crowd
over 500. The prosecuting at
ney, himself a grower, ignored
Judge and harangued the crow,
behalf of himself and his fel.
Iexploiters. This gave Com
Teohey the opportunity to EXP
at length the strike and the |
ton of the beet-growers.
trial lasted five hours and c
rade Toohey thoroughly exp,
the inhuman starvation in the
fields, the exploitation by 81
companies, banks, merchants
rich growers of the beet-wor
and his family, and the role of
state, the courts and the soc;
relief and welfare agencies,
are acting as strihe-breakers
these interests. Against the
forts of the prosecuting alto.
to convict the workers on a cl
against intimidation of wor
on their Jobs" Conrade To.
cited law guaranteeing
workers "the right to orgs
; and strike and to encourage
, persuade other workers TO
them"
Although the Judge delayed
, cision until Saturday, the sple
mass meeting of yesterday
Comrade Toohey's exposure of
prosecuting attorney and the "
! state apparatus before the {
: room, filled almost entirely
beet workers, is a great wor
class victory.
Bosses Foster Race Hatre
The capitalists of Colorado
!. using another very vicious we
against the workers in this s
: which it is particularly neces
!. that the United Front use
e possible method to expose.
: years they have carefully cult
e ed race-hatred between the
d called Spanish-American wOr
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