The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-24
NEBRASKA TO
FIGHT STRIKE
OF FARMERS
Governor Bryan Orders All
SheriftS Swear in Depu-
ties Army.
TEAR GAS IN BATTLE
Woman and Child Hurt in
Attempt to Run Picket
Lines, Is Charge.
BY T. w. NGOLDSBY
United Press stan Corresnondenf


United Press stan Correspondent
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 24.-Striking
farmers of Iowa and Nebraska to-
day extended their picketing opera
lions on a constantly widening front
while authorities took added pre-
cautions to guard against outbreaks
OF violence.
Governor Charles w. Bryan Of
Nebraska sent orders from Lincoln
TO county sheriffs in the Nebraska
strike area to deputize additional
men to uphold the law"
Sheriff Percy Lainson of Council
Bluffs, Ia, prepared to swear in
SeVenty-five deputies after strikers
angered by use Of tear gas bombs
disregarded his warning that he
would drive every picketeer from
Pottawattomie county roads"
Governor Issues Orders
Lainson announced dehantl ythat
Pottawattomie county would put
5000 men in the field if necessary to
break up the strike"
Governor Bryan's orders were is
sued to State Sheriff Endres. The
Governor told Endres to have all
county sheriffs from Douglas
county north to deputize whatever
number of men was needed. :"
Reports came from Sioux City. Ia.
that charges had been made that
mother and her child were subject
ed to physical violence while trying
to run the picket lines near there.
Five men, said to be farm pickets,
were arrested on complaint of Mrs.
George Lebeck, who said the men
twisted her arms, and otherwise
abused her and her child when she
left her automobile to remove bar
ricadeS from the road.
Complete control of roads leading
to Omaha was the objective of the
hundreds of farmers gathered along
highways near this city, one of the
major livestock centerS of the ma
ton.
Stop Produce From Iowa
After violent disorders early, all
truck shipments of livestock and
produce into the Omaha market
from the Iowa side stopped. Truck
ers no longer sought to break
through the lines around Council
Bluffs, Ia, just across the Missouri
river.
Most Nebraska highways leading
to Omaha still were open, but strike
leaders forecast complete block
ade as Nebraska trainers showed
increasing interest in the move
ment
At the Omaha stockyards it was
admitted that no truck shipment
had been received from Iowa for
several hours. Ordinarily, from
1900 to 1000 Iowa hogs are re-
ceived by truck.
Today only $50 were on the docks,
and all but three of these had come
in early today, escorted by special
deputies, sworn in by Sheriff Lain
son.
Tear Gas Is Used
Tear gas was used by Sheriff's
deputies as the angry pickets sought
to stop fleet of trucks being con-
voyed through the lines near Glen
wood. Ia, by officers.
Choking, their eyes streaming,
the strikers fell back for a mo-
ment. Then they reassembled on
the highway in a threatening group,
apparently ready to use any means
to cut off all access to the Omaha
market from the Iowa side.
The tear gas episode eliminated
a series of disturbances which re-
suited in arrest of three strikers,
firing of a shot by a Council Bluffs
(Ia) patrolman, and a free-for all
fist fight between officers and Strik-
erS
The fighting occurred when pick
cts invaded Council Bluffs in an eff
fort to cut off the Douglas street
bridge, which leads from the Iowa
city into Omaha.
Unload Car of hogs
Violence was not confined to the
Omaha area. AT Danbury, Ia, an
other attack on railroad property
was made by some fifty men.
Entering tn -ailroad yards, they
broke the seal on a freight car and
herded a load of hogs, destined for
the Sioux City market back into the
stock pens.
Load EN- up and take 'em back
home" the men told M Barry,
farmer who owned the stock. He
offered no resistance.
About 800 men and women
watched.
Strike leaders asserted that the
men who broke into the car were
enemies rather than friends of our
movement" They characterized the
action as a deliberate attempt to
diScredit the strike.