The daily worker., 1933-08-11
200 Farmers Arrested,
Lehman Uses More
Terrorism

UTICA, Aug. i0.-In response TO
the demand of Governor Lehman
that all milk strikers be Immediately
prosecuted, new wave of arrests
is sweeping through the strike area.
State troopers arrested 125 strikers
near Catatonk late today. The
;otal number Of jailed strikers today
was 383.
ALBANY, n. J., August l0.-lhe
strike Of the New York milk farm
ers for a minimum OF 40 per cent
CT the store price which the brutal
terrorism of the State police has not
been able to crush, was marked to-
day by two new developments. The
first is the definite indication that
the strike is spreading to the neigh
boring States of New Jersey and
Pennsylvania And the second is
the news that the striking farm ars
have made contact with a group OF
striking workers in the City of
GloYersville.
Another development is the open
strikebreaking efforts Of Governor
Lehman whose insie.snt police ac-
tion has borne fruit in a sweeping
series of 200 arrests in the last 49
hours.
At a meeting of 200 farmers Of
Perth, New York, representative O.
the striking Fur Workers Union
pledged their Solidarity with the
strikers, who in turn pledged to
supply the atriking furriers and their
families with free milk. This news
was sent to the Daily Worker" by
worker correspondent in the strike
area. His letter is printed on page
one.
Meanwhile, the threats of the
State and City Officials that the
strike would be broken by the i'm
porting of milk from other states
1 was answered by the farmers with
strike preparations in these States,
1 New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In
Susquehanna County, Pa, the farm
ers have already stopped sending
their milk to market In the milk
counties of New Jersey, meetings are
being held TO make preparations for
going on strike soon both against
| the robbery prices paid to the farm
ers by the big dairy companies. and
in sympathy with the strike Of the
New York farmers.
One attempt at Apulia Station to
import milk was thwafted yester-
| day by the farmers who broke into
q refrigerator car full of imported
milk and dumped it on to the rail-
road tracks.
The State authorities of the out
! lying States are making efforts to
forestall the strike in their States
| by raising milk prices one cert per
| quart. This has been done in
Pennsylvania. In Connecticut, the
State Milk Board has agreed to
some of the demands made by the
farmers there for better conditions.
Lehman Denounces Strike
Governor Lehman has made an at
tempt to wreck the strike by dscoy-
ing the farmers into accepting an
arbitration board. His plan was de-
fsated by the Republican majority
in the House because they want to
hamper Lehman's chances of re-
| election by forcing him to call out
the National Guard against the
strikers. Lehman, who has personal
connections with the big dairy COM
panies through the Wall Street.
banking house of which he was a
partner, is making every attempt to
break the strike. He has just signed
a bill giving the county Sheriffs
authority to increase the number of
their deputies to any amount. The
number had been limited up to now
In his statement to the legislature
he denounced the strike as short
sighted and unwise."
The militancy of the farmers is
undiminished despite the fact that
the State deputies carry rifles, and
tear gas bombs The capitalist press
reports that dumping has decreased
| This is only because the attempts
to get scab milk through have de-
creased.
The strikers are learning very, fast
how to meet the tear gas attacks
OF the State police. Many OF them
are war veterans and they are teach
ing their fellow, strikers the strategy
of fighting tear gas attacks by at
tacking scab trucks not in solio
groups but in scattered formations
Many trucks were dumped in this
way.
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