The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-30


AvcndaIe growers have organized
to shoot pickets. Samuel Lee Of the
state Law Enforcement Depart.
ment openly announces that he has
advised growers to shoot at anyone
coming on their fields to picket.
Lee was sent into the strike area
by Governor Adams, Many Of the
most active piekets thus nenaced
are women and children strikers.
DENVER, Colo, May 2s.--T1,s
strike Of the 10000 Colorado beet
| workers is nov in the most critical
stage. It grew steadily last week,
particularly around Fort Lupton,
where $50 struck as soon as four
carloads Of pickets came In, and
/ others followed. In the Northern
field, the German and Russian beet
workers are walking off even where
there is no picketing. Very success
full meetings we're held in Fort Nor
gan, the German Russian center. and
the strike committee has been
strengthened by new delegates. In
HillroSe q meeting OF 1875 took place
and 100 we're poor tenant farmers
who are now being lnvolver in the
strike.
The propasands OF the sugar COM
panies has been shown up, the fas-
cist Spanish leaders who,
fought the strike have been exposed,
| preachers who denounced the strike
| from the pulpit have ben silenced by
| the spontaneous outburst of resent
lncnt among their flocks.
The beetS are already three times
the proper size for thinning and are
being choked.
But inability to furnish relief Is
already causing some breaks in the
strike; some are being starved back
TO work. In Johnstown, even at the
beginning Of last week, the starva-
ton was absolutely tragic. Strikers,
almost dying on their feet, were
dividing their one totilia IA kind Of
pancake Of flour and water between
the members Of . whole family. The
Red Cross cut off the government
| dole Of flour from the strikers. These
people had been living on this nneager
help, and are now literally starving.
Lack Of relief and evictionS are
particularly bad around Greeley and
it is impossible to raise much money
locally, since the only farmers who
are sympathetic are those that are
starving themselves and the n1er-
chants and most of the townspeople
are tied up with the sugar COM
panies.
During the heavy rains Of the last
two days strikers have been eWcted
in many places and their furniture
dumped in the bitches alongside the
road.
The question Of relief within the
next few days is absolutely decisive.
If some food or funds with which to
buy food come in the STRIKERS viii
surely win. II no more comes in than
has been coming the strike will be
broken in the very near future. So
far not one tent has arrived for the
evicted families, though some are on
the way. II these tents and others
get here in time, the strike will be
greatly strengthened.
Send food packages AT ONCE to
United Front Relief Committee and
the Workers International Relief,
1854 Eleventh ST., Denver, Colo. Send
money, checks, etc, and all mail to
p. o. Box 2o23, Denver, Colo, for
w. I. n. and Relief Committee.
The terror is increasing and there
are no funds for defense of the ar
rested workers.
Organizers Garcia in Greeley and
Vega in Arrondale are held incom-
mulicado for deportation and on
criminal charges.
Six strikers in Greeley have beer
sentenced to 80 days each under the
state anti-picketing law. Pat Toohey
of the Agricultural Workers Indus.
trial Union appeared in their de.
Tense and forced the withdrawal Of
additional charges of intimidation
trespassing and disturbing the peace.
Church Strik- Breaking.
In Longmont, home Of Thomas
Mahoney, Catholic welfare agent who
has had TO admit starvation ano
peonage conditions in the beet fields
the Catholic clergy nevertheless at
tacks the strike and raises the RED
issue Speakers have exposed this
propaganda as strike breaking tao
tic by Mahoney and have explained
to local strikers the whole method
of insuring their own control OF the
strike through freely elected united
front strike committees, chosen by
all the strikers without regard 10
politics, religion or union member
ship.
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