The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-16
Armed Deputies to
Halt Farm Blockade
Sioux City Sheriff Will Put
Guards on Trucks Seek.
ing to Enter City
FARMERS STILL ON JOB
Picket Roads to Bar Products
Going to Market; Start
Buying Strike

Sioux City, Ia, Aug. 16-(P)-Sheriff
John A. Davenport, backed by SO
armed deputies Tuesday was ready
to escort trucks carrying farm pro-
ducts through the blockade farmers
have thrown about the city to enforce
their selling strike.
Fifty more were to be recruited and
placed on trucks coming and going
from the city. Davenport declared
their orders were not to break the
barricade lines but to insist progress
of the trucks shall not be interfered
with.
Although the situation was gen.
orally quiet Tuesday, the farmers
blockade OF the highways continued
in effect and few truckers attempted
to enter the city with milk, livestock
or farm products.
Either the farmers who previously
attempted to run the blockade have
been converted to the strikers side
or they have been frightened away
from the city by the demonstrations
of Sunday and Monday.
When the special force Of deputies
went on duty at o'clock Tuesday
morning they found large groups OF
farmers stationed along the high.
ways.
Truck traffic on almost all of the
roads had come to a virtual stand
still by Monday evening. A few stock
trucks. coming to Sioux City from
distant points on the .Denison high
way were escorted unm o este d
through the blockade by the deputies
So effective was the blockade Mon
day night that only one cattle truck
got through and less than 10 hog
trucks entered the stockyards here.
Use Of the 100 special deputies, re-
cruited from the unemployed, was
decided upon at meeting Monday
night. T. l.. Taggart, federal en-
ployment director for Iowa, immedi-
ately undertook the work of gather
ing the men.
Calling for national guard troops
training at Camp Dodge was discuss.
ed but the group agreed the situation
was still within local control. The
governors office at Des Moines re-
ported no request for troops had been
received.
Highways Picketed
Picketing of highways leading in.
to the city and boycotts of merchants
here and in numerous towns in west
ern Iowa continued while at Kingsley
produce dealers did not open their
stores In fear of reprisal.
Meanwhile at Des Moines, the
Farmers Holiday association conclud-
ed an all-day secret session Monday
with the adoption of statement
which reiterated the groups demand
for higher farm prices and declared
any attempt to deny the farmer a re-
turn covering the cost of production
rs an attempt to force the farmer in
to condition of virtual slavery and
Is contrary to the spirit Of the thir-
teenth amendment to the constitu-
ton, which prohibits involuntary SER
vitude."
Representatives of 10 midwestern
states gathered at Mondays meeting
and formulated plans for continuance
of the selling holiday, even beyond
the 30-day limit first set If necessary.
e. E. Kennedy of Kankakee, ILL.,,
reported inaugurated of the strike in
Illinois Monday morning while D. S.
Wightman Of Wayne. Neb., said the
movement was gaining Roadway in
his state. A spokesman from North
Dakota told of progress Of the strike
there while Wisconsin sent a pledge
of cooperation and promised an early
beginning in the leading dairy state
Of the midwest.
South Dakota Affected
South Dakota farmers also were az
fected by the blockade. Farmers sta
toned themselves at the Iowa side
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