The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
From the Daily Workers Special
Correspondent

From the Daily Workers Special
Correspondent
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May 17.-Com-
panies A. B, and F, and Headquarters
Company Of the Milwaukee National
Guard have been called out by Adjt.
General Immell to try and break the
milk strike. They have been sent to
Shawano, Wisconsin, where 5000
farmers had taken complete possess
sion of the town. Martial law rules
in fact though 1t has not so far been
declared, as this great liberal state
could not thus blemish its record. So
the guardsmen are appearing in plain
clothes as special deputies, though
they are fully equipped with revolt
vers, gas and tear bombs. Five hun
dred guardSmen have already left
and five hundred more are preparing
TO move out Of Milwaukee.
Farmers Take City
The militant Shawano farmers
closed every creamery in the place,
while the Sheriff, District Attorney
the town officials and the deputies
took to their heels and barricaded
themselves inside one of the cream
cries. They were forced to surrender
to all the demands of the farmers,
who literally held and ruled the town
until the guardsmen moved in twelve
hours later.
The Forest Air Service is being
used by the state to spy on the picket
lines, and to drop instructions to the
troops. AS was reported in the Daily
Worker" yesterday, Governor Schme-
dermann has removed Sheriff Otto
Druckery for 'ineffiency" and now q
new Sheriff, former Army officer,
has been appointed, who is pushing
along an even bloodier attack on the
farm strikers.
Strikers Defy Militia
Snow plows, driving at forty miles
an hour, are being used in the cream
cry townships to smash barricades,
and high pressure hoses are being
used against the pickets. The farm
erS moved on Shawano today shout
ing-"Let 'em call out the militia.
Well lick the hell out of EN-. We
might as well die here as starve to
death on the farms" When the dep
uty sheriffs started towards the pick
cts with their guns leveIled, one
farmer stepped forward and barred his
chest, saying GO on-shoot. You
don't dare. I am willing to give up
my life" Some of the strike pickets
were appearing in steel helmets and
gas masks, relics from the war days
Rocks were thrown, and clubs were
welded freely by the strikers.
The farmers wives are actively sup
porting the strike. Were a hundred
per cent back of our men folks" said
the wife of one of the picketS, I'VE
farmers must fight for our rights and
I'm proud that my man is helping to
get his rights"
The Governor agreed to meet a
committee of the strikers on his
terms, but the farmers refused, de-
manding TO be recognized on their
own terms. The big diaries are using
provocateus to discredit the strike,
and to spread rumors from time to
time that the strike is about to be
called off.
Bombs and Milk
Paofol wagons from the Milwaukee
police department are being utilized
as ammunition cars.
Hundreds OF gas bombs are being
shipped from Cleveland, Ohio, to the
sheriffs and state militia. There is
good evidence that this has been
going on for several weeks already in
preparation for the strike. These
tear gas bombs, Mark G. N. and D. N.
cost around ten dollars apiece and
mainly contain arsenic and chlorine.
Milwaukee is now on fifty per
cent Of normal milk ration, and even
this will have to be cut from day to
day.
Farmers, Workers Unite
Large demonstrations by the I'm
employed Councils are taking place in
Milwaukee and Racine counties in
front of the dajries. One of these
pickets Of unemployed workers, fifty
strong, were attackes by guardsmen
on the Racine Highway. Unemployed
workers throughout the whole stats,
who are displaying 8 ma9niticent So
fecrity yith the striking farmers, afs
q special target fcr arrests by the