The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-19
DETERMINED STRUGGLE OF
IOWA DAIRY FARMERS


The strike which the farmers in various parts of
Iowa have declared against the milk trust determined
blow against the monoposts who have forced down the
prices of the farmers products in order to their own
profits Atho the capitalist press is attempting to hide
the significance Of this by the farmers several I'M
+ant features of the strike have been disclosed IN the
canitalst press dispatches.
The farmers are RELYING on their united militant &C
. IN order to win the strike They are striking not by
sitting home and dumping the milk to the pigs out Oy
Going out on the his hways and preventing any mix io
eacb;no the trust distributors Several trucks nave Dee
- 6acL and several have been unloaded when the
truck driver would be persuaded to return with the
milk from whence he came.
The farmers are NOT striking against the workers
IN the cities but AGAINST THE BIG Milk MONOPO.
LISTS WHO ROB BOTH THE FARMERS AND HE
WORKERS. The striking Iowa farmers have shown ,,I
this not negatively but positively l1T IAWE -, GTE
CITIES AND IN SIOUX CITY THEY HAVE OPENED
A DEPOT FOR THE FREE DISTRIBUTION Or
MILK
The milk trust robs both workers and farmers. he
farmer oets less than him to produce The price
he gets together with the and interest the capitalist
class demands. restitution and eviction for MN
From the UNEMPLOYED and partially employed workers IN
he cities the milk trust demands outrageous prices 10
be workers in the cities the milk trust says Your chill
dren can starve YOUR children die, long get
the high prices demand
The farmers of Iowa are not striking against the
workers The free distribution of milk by these striking
farmers is sign of solidarity with the workers.
Armed deputies are already riding the trucks of
the strike breakers The milk trust together with the
willing cooperation of the government IS attempting to
break the strike by the that the coal textile
and other capitalists when the workers In their fac
tories go out on strike by the use of gun thugs.
The excuse for these gun thugs is that they will
preserve law and order. The law and order they
want to preserve is the that the
Iowa farmers get for their milk They have been placed
there beat up pckeng farmers to break the strike tor
the milk trust by capitalist terror.
The immediate leadership of the present strike is
not evident in the capitalist press dispatches In order
however for the strike to be carried thru to successful
conclusion, point out now that the leadership
must be placed in the hands of representatives of the i'm
poverished the small farmers. Such representatives can
only be small farmers themselves If the leadership of
the strike any other hands, whether of rich farmers,
progressive politicians. lawyers in the hands of the
heads of the Farmers Union. it will inevitable be-
ayal of the interests of the impoverished dairy farmers
The leadership of the strike should be placed in the
hands of small farmers. elected meeting of all
the striking farmers The strike be made hun
dred per effective by sending delegations of srk-
ing farmers turnout the milk producing
Striking farmers of IowaI The price of our milk is
of the important issues which face us. You have
struck mlitantly against the monopost robbers for
better price This strike be intensified and extended
under the leadership of the small farmers
But just have answered the attacks of the milk
monopolsts thru militant struggle we must be pre-
pared hit back the capitalist class In all of the attacks
it makes We must be prepared to prevent evic
lions of any small impoverished farmers by the same
methods using against the milk monopolists
The sheriff who is deputzing gun thugs to break oul
strike is the same one who viii evct and sell chat
tells Against this strike breaker and agent of the bank
we must put UP militant united front to prevent
evictons and forced sales.
We have struck to get better price for our milk
We can use similar method to get tax relief We car
force tax exemption for the small farmers bv carrnc
thru a tax strike.
By militant action this strike can and must be
won Only leadership of the rank and file of the
small farmers elected by them at general strike
meetings can carry thru winning strike. Elect