The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27

Before we got to them, we started
throwing gas bombs, from about IS
feet distance. Then the farmers
would turn their trucks around and
try to get away. We didn't do any
clubbing then. We just threw gas.
We then chased the farmers away
from there. Another officer came
along and told us to go after them.
The farmers were driving away in
their trucks. There we're about $50
to 400. There were about 1000 Of US
1 800 guardsmen and 500 deputies.
We got on the trucks and chased
them. The farmers thought they
weren't going fast enough, so they
went all the faster Our trucks were
much speedier than theirs. We soon
caught up with them.
The last truck OF the farmers and
the first truck Of the National Guards
started fighting. The guards threw
tear gas bombs into the truck Of
the farmers. We drove up alongside
Of it, and they threw several of the
gas bombs back into our truck.
There was smoke between both
trucks, and neither the National
Guards nor the farmers could see
anything. The trucks were going
about fifty to sixty miles an hour.
The trucks were about two feet apart.
Farmers dubbed
The National Guardsmen leaned
over the side, and hit the farmers
over the head with their clubs. The
guards wanted to get ahead Of the
farmers trucks, but they couldn't do
it. The guards were also shooting
gas guns into the first and second
truck of the farmers ahead of them.
The farmers got UP ahead little,
and then stopped when they saw
they couldn't get away.
The farmers jumped out Of the
trucks and started running across
the fields. The guards jumped out
Of the truck about the same time
as the farmers, and started after
them. Then they started beating the
farmers over the heads with clubs.
Some Of the younger farmers got
away, but most Of them were caught.
The older farmers got beaten up the
most because they couldn't get away.
One old man, IS years old, got his
head split A couple of rocks were
thrown at us.
Herted In Trucks
After they had the farmers all
rounded up, they put them in the
captured trucks. We made them
face the cabs in front, and the
guards would stand behind them w.
loaded pistols. The strikers weren't
allowed to talk.
If one Of the farmers would ask
where his son or his friend was, the
guards would poke him in the ribs
and make him shut up. Then we
took the farmers back to town. Some
of the farmers that were fighting
on the hill got away, into another
county The guards were only de-
putized in Shawano County and
weren't allowed to follow them.
They kept on going into the other
county, while the guards followed
them anyway, and started beating
them up the same as before.
Most of the farmers were captured.
Then the guards took them back
over the county line into Shawano
County. The farmers were put into
the Fair Grounds building. There
they were guarded with machine
guns. That was all the fighting
there was. It didn't last long. The
newspapers in Milwaukee said there
were $1,000 farmers, but this isn't
true.
About 10 per cent or less of the
guards didn't like what they were
doing. But most of them would brag
about hitting the farmers. Some of
them never hit a farmer; still they
Dragged about 1t. When they went
home, they put mercurochrome on
their clubs, and kept them for SOU
venirs, and said it was blood. Some
even put on ketchup.
Guardsmen Egged On BY Lies
They told us beforehand that the
farmers had beaten up ten National
Guardsmen and some deputies. They
told us stories about how terrible
the farmers were till we were scared
of them Civilians would come to