The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-23
POuCECALLED
Farmer Pickets Rout Three
Carloads of Deputies;
Enraged at Arrests
6 ARE SENTENCED
$500 Farmers of Hardin
County Organize to
Protect Homes
6 ARE SENTENCED

Twenty-four pickets were arrest
ed on Highway 20 on Thursday,
Sept. Is, after a battle of 35 pick
cts with sixty deputies under COM
cand of Sheriff Davenport. In the
fight which occurred just east of
Sioux City on the Correctionville
road the pickets and deputies
fought with sticks and clubs.
Many striking farmers and dep
uties were reported beaten severe
ly in the struggle. The strikers
who were captured were placed
under arrest and taken to the
county Jail.
In order to aid the deputies
squad of Sioux City police were
sent to the scene of the conflict
armed with riot guns and tear gas
bombs. After the strikers were
arrested the deputies removed two
large tents which had been used
as headquarters by the strikers
along the road.
The pickets were taken before
Justice John d. Beardsley who
held them on charges of unlawful
assembly under bonds of $500.
Two farm owners among those ar
rested, H. Holtke and T. G. Rolls
of Lawton, Iowa, signed the bonds
for those arrested.
! Several of the pickets were
charged additionally with resisting
an officer.
Unlawful assembly is a misde-
meanor and carries "a sentence of
not MOTE than 80 days in the coun-
ty Jail.
When the cases came up on Sat-
urday before Judge Beardsley four
: of the arrested were released be-
} cause they said they had been
spectators and two cases were
taken under advisement. The cases
of the remaining 18 were held over
. until Thursday, September % or
, the plea of the defense counsel.
/ After the "a arrests had beer
made the sheriff sent out three ca
loads of deputies late Thursday
! afternoon to keep the road open
e When the deputies got to the pick
ct lines the farmers who had beer
enraged by the arrests bombardet
!. the deputies with stones and brick
The windshields Of the deputies
cars were smashed to pieces.
1t has been reported that tn
- deputies used tear gas against tn
picketers before the latter reptile
with stones and bricks. One DEP
uty is reported to have drawn
gun on the farmers.
At a mass meeting Thursda
night, after the arrests and afte
the routing of the deputies, thu
: farmers decided to send delegate
to all highways to urge that a
highways be picketed to the full
est extent possible. By Friday a
highways were closed tight and I
trucks could pass through. So el
. ragged were the farmers that NJ
even feeder trucks were let thu
Z from the stockyards to the feed
~ farms. This is the first time tn
n n this has occurred during the pre-
m ent strike.
he Six farmers were arrested O
W, Highway 20 for stopping a trut
IL and were found guilty by Poll
er Judge H. R. Kenaston on Frida
September 16. Harvey and Stew
he Richards of Salix, A. H. Hanie
On Castana, and C. Murray, 1925 eli
ne ton St., Sioux City were foun
Ut guilty of unlawful assembly al
a. al fined 500 or 80 days in Jail. A
= chic Ivener of Sergeant Bluff, al
h D. r. Houchins of Otto, were fou
til guilty on the same charge a,
IN were fined 500 or 80 days in ia
lis on two counts.
ell All of the farmers found gull
have had their cases appealt
Hundreds of farmers were prese
when the cases were heard.
In order to prevent the loss
I'D their farms and homes by foreclC
. ure $500 Hardin county, low
farmers met on Saturday, Septic
u Der II at Eldora and organized
i.s to the United Farmers of HARD
" County.
0 A huge mass Of farmers es
% mated at between 5000 and sc
participated in a mass meeting
the Golden Slipper Hall on
Tor Denison Highway near Sioux G
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