The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-02
Friday, September 2. 1882
WHO ARE THE FRIENDS OF PEACE"
and THE ENEMIES OF ''VIOLENCE"?
WHO ARE THE STRIKE BREAKERS?


Among the enemies of the farmers turnout the strike
area and in the adjoining the strike attempt
being made break the picket lines OF the strikers In
addition the open strike breaking activities or the sher
ifs and their deputy army the enemies OF the farmers
are attempting break the strike by subtle means
They talk of force" "agitators 'firebrands,
riot violence and against them
Who are those who have broadcast these warnings
by means of the capitalist press!
They include the leaders of the Farmers Holiday
Association the FarmerLabor fakers the Chambers OF
Commerce. the milk trust the sheriffs themselves and
other agents of the various state and county govern
ments.
They do not come out openly and say they against
picketing. Not by lott They are in sympathy with
the strike and the strikers they pledge them their sup
mort All of this the sheerest hypocrisy spread among
the ranks of the strikers and other farmers to break the
picket lines.
The leaders of the Farmers Holiday Association who
supposed to be leading the strike have denounced the
militancy of the strikers. Irudeau OF Union county,
South Dakota has warned the farmers against agta-
tors Clinton P Savery of Logan Iowa, another of the
leaders has told the farmers that they ought stop pick
citing The Farmers Holiday Association leaders in the
Sioux CITY area adopted resolution denouncng farmers
who had held up a train if there milk cattle
ON it. They Joined with the national office In Dies
Moines in this denuncation of the striking farmers
The Farmer-LabOr leaders or Minnesota, Who have
posed as radicals in order fool the farmers their
demaqogv to get them off of the picket lines Olson
leader of the FarmerLabor outfit has been particularly
certain that his sympahies for the strikers got into the
capitalist press But he also against violence Gaar
enstron former head of the FarmerLabor Rural Credits
Bureau and such evctor of thousands of farmers has
also been talking of his sympathes with the strike He
wants the farmers peaceful honest and decent
manner" they should not picket Lyon, FarmerIa bol
candidate for secretary of state also wants the farmers
to act peacefully
The Chambers of Commerce have been in sym
pathy' with the strike They always condition their sup
port on the maintenance of peace by the strikers How
far their sympathy extends can be in the
the Sioux City Chamber of Commerce. They sid
by side with the strikers in the beginning of the strk
with all of empty phrases. They offered to &C
as "arbitrators between the producers and the mill
trust And now they have asked for martial law A
long as the farmers are willing submit peacefully
that is without fighting mitanty, they with them
but as soon the farmers show that they going
make real struggle of it then all this support shows il
self to be just that much hypocrisy.
Why do all of these agencies from the sheriff. Of
fice thru the FarmerLabor takers and the Holiday m
leaders to the Chambers of Commerce and the milk
talk so nsistenty about peace" and against force
Who has used force In the strike thus far? The hypt
critical talk about force" and violence on the part
the above mentioned agencies has been started IN ord
to hide the fact that the deputies and sherfs have bee
the sole nstgators of whatever physical struggles haV
taken place They have tear gassed strikers they hay
dubbed them Under the direction of the sheriffs of
the practice has been instituted of breaking thru Il
picket lines by trying to down the pickes with Il
trucks.
The striking farmers have stood still as wilir
targets for the clubs and gas of the sheriff The
have learned that if they stand in the road they can
down by the deputy guarded trucks They have u.s.
railroad ties and spike studded belts stretched across
roads.
Not one of the strxebreakers mentioned above h
said word about the tear gas the brutal clubs of
deputies. They have unanimously laid any phys.
struggle at the door of the striking farmers
They call themselves friends" of the farmers Tn
servants of the milk trust just much as the me
brutal deputy. They vicious enemies of I
strikers A deputy be seen and every one knor
why he is there and for whose benefit But these snal