The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-28

Lehman, the milk DOafQ, ana the
state troopers. These as we'll as
the dealers are their enemies They
need leftwing farm organization
with real militant leadership. And
they are ready for it. This is what
we found out talking to farmers
and farmhands in Tioga and Broome
Counties
Hate the Dairymen's League
Even the middle and more con-
sentative farmers are beginning to
stir. We met a farmer who owns
200 acres, most of it rich land in
the flats bordering the Susquehanna
River in Tioga County. About half
of the farmers in his township be-
long to the great scab outfit, the
Dairymen's League. He was not in
the strike, but he was ready to cuss
the League. He said: II cut my
herd down to ID cows. 1t don't pay
to produce milk when you get 21s
cents a quart. Did the Dairymen's
League help us? When the Milk
Board raised the consumer a cent
quart, the League helped Bordens
get Is cents of the At cents. The
League and Bordens wear the same
glove. And then these certificates
of indebtedness. The League keeps
anywhere from 7 to Is cents of the
dollar you get for the milk and
gives you a certificate of indebted
ness bearing 6 per cent interest, re-
deemable in S years, sometimes seven.
Farmers can't wait that long. They
need all the blamed cash they can
lay hands on. So lots of farmers
cash theirs right. off the bat for
lows 60 per cent. And then if you
kick, you lose your market"
Ali this farmer could suggest was
stabilizing production to help the
farmer.
He showed, however, that his eye
was clearing. He showed a great
interest in the unemployed who were
being hired to work on the roads
and bridges and were being speed
ed up by the contractors, wound up
and down like lot of toys, and laid
off with every blow of the wind. He
said that most of the governments
farm plans were everything but how
the farmer could make living. The
farmer must cut more off the mid
clemens fat meat pie.
A Farm Worker Talks
A farmland, an unemployed mech
anic from Scranton, talked to us
as he was cleaning the constable.
He got his job only about a week
ago. Looking for work near Green
in Shenango County, he walked down
a road where 400 farmers were lined
up in an army. They had road
scraper drawn across the road, old
farm machinery, and planks and
railroad ties full of spikes. THAT
stopped the trucks all right. Not
can of milk but was dumped.
They knocked off the troopers like
a lot of bottle corks. 1t was too
bad they didn't stick together a
little longer. Here the fellow I'm
working for, he got arrested and
was in the coop But he's ready to
fight again. They got him under
a $1,000 bond. Why the devil
shouldn't farmers get 41ac for their
milk? Feeds gone up like a kite.
He uses two tons month, and that
costs between $50 and 500, and maybe
a farmland could get more than $40
a month. A farmers got to have
a hired man Or he can't go it any
more than having one horse. If
he don't get anything, he can't pay.
A farms the last place I'd work if
I wasn't starving A fellows tied
to the wagon wheel. It's a bloody
shame, I tell you" He banged his
shovel on the barn floor till his
overalls were splattered.
THE Rutland Plan organization was
leading the strike in this section
of TIE state. Clemens is the presi-
dent. This man Clemens is a rich
farmer. Last fall an organizer was
sent to his home to find out
whether the farmers in the Rutland
Plan would send delegates to the
Farmers National Convention in