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between lines in these sections.
All trucks hauling farm produce
were turned back.
On Oct. &c, a caravan of eleven
meat trucks was turned back at
Withee. Egg trucks were turned
back at Withee and Abbotsford.
No cattle were shipped from Clark
county, though two carloads of
cattle were reported going
through by rail. Plans are being
laid to stop the hauling of
farm produce by rail, and they
will be effected soon.
Sheriff Tries to Break Picket
Lines at AbbOtsfOrd
One truck, after running the
picket lines at Spencer, was halt
ed at Abbotsford, after disregard
ing picket signals. He ran over
a spike tooth harrow and two
spiked planks ard stopped because
there was no air in his tires. The
truck was unloaded and allowed
to proceed after the tires had beer
repaired.
The sheriff appeared on the
scene soon afterward, having beer
summoCd by the truck drivers
who were previously stopped by
the pickets. He told the picket'
that stopping all trucks wa
against the orders of Goldamer
county Holiday chairman. We tolC
him that the farmers were running
this strike and not Goldamer, ant
to keep out of the way. Although
a sheriff escort had been promised
a fleet of meat trucks, the truck
were turned back.
Delegates for Chicago
Meanwhile, preparations are go
ing or for getting delegates TO
the Farmers Second National Con
ference in Chicago Nov. Is to Is
We have already elected 80 dele
, gates from this territory. Dele
gates are being gotten from tn
! Milk Pool and the Milk Producer
, Association In the southern par
! of the state.
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MILK FROM SINGIER'S
FARM IS DUMPED ON
HIGHWAY BY PICKETS

APPLETON, Wis, Oct. %
Milk from the farm of Walter
Singler was dumped here last night
by strike pickets. Attempts had
been maed to run the milk to mar
ket.
Singler is the high-saIaried head
Of the Wisconsin Milk Pool. whose
officials sold ont the two previous
strikes Of the Militant Wisconsin
farmers.
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STRIKERS SHOT IN
COLD BLOOD, SAYS
AN EYE WITNESS
Capitalist Reporter Writes
of Massacre of Cotton
Pickers in Tulare

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-"I
saw IL unarmed persons shot down
in cold BLOOD" says Theodore R.
Smith, reporter for the San Fran
cisco News, ar. eyewitness Of the
massacre in Tulare, Oct. 10, in an
account Of the events written for
his paper.
1.-THE meeting adjourned" he
writes. "The strikers were walk
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armed sheriffs deputies. .
The arrest and. persecution of
these Negroes grows out of the
refusal of the Sharecroppers Union
to pick cotton for less than so
cents a hundred pounds. Although
this is the price generally paid to
cotton pickers in this section, it
means less than 81 a day on an
average.
Frank Wood, large planter, re-
fused to pay even this miserable
wage, and consequently the Ne
groes boycotted him and refused
to pick cotton on his place. Wood
who has frequently threatened to
kill every Negro and member of
the Sharecroppers Urion, imme-
diately modified the sheriff's
forces and armed gangs of depu-
tized landlords. These armed
gangs have ransacked the homes
of Negro farmers, jailed those Ne
groes who they believe are the
leaders of the Share Choppers
Union, and attempted to terrorize
the Negro population of the couns-
] ty.
, The Negro farmers now held in
jail at Lafayette are James Kim
ball. Tut Carl. John Willis, Perry
Hill, George Simms, Jim Spence,
and John Taylor.
Landlords Enraged
In a recent letter to the Farm
ers' National Weekly, official or
gan of the Farmers National Com
mittee for Action, a Negro share
cropper described how the refusal
Of the Negro tenants to sign
away their share of the govern
ment checks for blowing up COTTON
has enraged the landlord class.
There is every irdication that
the Landlords are trying to whip
up a lynch spirit among the white
farmers. With the lynching Of
George Armwood in Princess Anne
Md, and the recent lynchings al
Tuscaloosa and Decatur, Alabama
fresh in our memory, it is vitality
important that farmers through
cut the country take such steps as
will head off this lynch movement
in Chambers county.
All farm organizations, national
, state, and local, are urged to holC
, meetings, raise funds for the de
tense of these Negro farmers ant
, farm workers, and immediatel.
send letters or kilograms of pro
, test to Sheriff Bob Stay, Lafayette
) Ala, against this attack on the
Negro farmers ard their organi
! cation, the Sharecroppers Union.
Try to Break Up
Organization
This latest outbreak of terro
: against the troopers is anothe
n attempt on the part Of the land
g lords TO crush the militant Shar
7 Choppers Urion which is orogani7
!. irg the troopers TO resist thi
q robbery.
"This new attack on the share
u choppers union should lead tn
n union to double its delegation I
the Farmers Second Natinal Coz
ference in Chicago where, in unit
and solidarity with the impovel
ished white farmers Of this ccul
, try. Negro ard white, teyh wi
L lay down a program of action #
real relief" a representative
ID the national committee stated.
t. zone of the burning problem
la facing the exploited farmers
3 the country is the question of u
&c itv. This conference has as Of
is of its primary aims strengthenii
ne solidarity between impoverish
Negro ard white farmers. Su
Id unity will bring more power n
in onlv to the Negro sharecroppe
ne in Alabama but 70 the VIII
e farmers is the south, to the rui
ed farmers Of the entire country
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dimensions that they pale into
insignificance all the rest Of
European industry, and are rap
idly approaching the level of the
United States.
Industrial Growth
At the end of 1882, Soviet in
dustrial production was 334 per-
cent of its pre-war level. In the
United States, during this same
period, production had dropped
to "a percent. Taking 1928
figures as a comparison, Soviet
production rose to PIG percent,
while in the United States it
fell to Sc percent.
Whereas there are today IT,
100000 million unemployed in
the United States, in the Soviet
Union unemployment has been
done away with as far back as
two years ago.
How has the Soviet Union
succeeded in her tasks of de-
veloping large-scale farming,
socializing agriculture, and i'm
proving the conditions of the
small and middle peasants?
Large Scale Farming
At the end of 1882, more than
60 per cent, or 14,50O,O00 peas
ants had been organized into
211, 900 collective farms. These
cover more than 70 percent of
the sown area. At the same
time, 5000 grain and stock
breeding farms have been or
ganized which are directly
owned by the Soviet Govern
ment.
In the period between 1923
and 1882, the sown area of the
Soviet Union was increased by
52,500,060 acres.
When small peasant farming
predominated, nine to ten mil
lion tons of marketable grain
were collected. In 1892, when
Continued On page 81
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STOP THIS FAKER!

We are printing below letter that was sent by the
Nebraska state secretary of the Reno Holiday to locals
throughout the state
copy of the letter sent to Producers News by
a Holiday farmer.
This brazen and hysterical appeal for funds to en-
able Reno and his henchmen to prepare further be-
trayals of the rank and file of his organization should
be exposed far and wide among Holiday members.
COPY OF A LETTER SENT BY RENo's STATE SECRETARY
IN NEBRASKA TO RENO HOLIDAY LOCALS
IN THAT STATE
October 49, 1888
BROTHER FARMER
Are we dead? deserving of the fruits of certain
victory that lie before at this other time
Strike while the iron is hot.
State president Harry Parmenter paid part his own
the Washington D. c. Your secretary has
borrowed and spent several hundred dollars carry
President Roosevelt friendly
carries provisions for cost of production Cost of production
for the farmers cures this economic disease Why continually
find fault with the effects of it? The United
States comedies that he may give cost of production
Our lips sealed We have no money.
Washington department and governors of different
states demand that bring that they will
for helping get what "COst production We
can't do thing. We have money
Governors of many will put embargo on the ship
ment Of meats and grains if there is demand for it. With
the farmers of the nation would what they
a week. But hands tied. We have no money
Governor Bryan Of Nebraska friendly to our program but
not giving him good will support have no
money
negouang tie with the transportation
of organized labor make embargOes in all states effective if
get the money to do it.
We the right track We can't fire nm We have NO
money. The national officers have none
IN THE NAME OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER CAN'T
WE GET MONEY?
Send US ten dollars of your pocket Take this letter
and get neghbor to do the Reimburse yourselves
later with memberships you WILL but send us money Do
it
Yours very truly,
F. C. Croker Secretary
National Farmers Holiday
Association (Nebr DivisA
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Nav when Gov. Herring called outs
the national guard to terrorize
farmers who were preventing evic-
lions and foreclosures. 1t is ex-
pected that thousands of farmers
from the surrounding territory
will greet the delegates at the
meeting.
The delegations from Washing
ton. Oregon, Montana, North and
South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebras-
Ia and Iowa will meet at Dendson
on Nov. II.
CHICAGO, Ill.-The Unemploy-
ed Councils and the Trade Union
Unity League, leading organiza-
tiors of the Chicago workers, are
arranging a monster mass meet
ing on the evening of Nov. II, in
honor Of the farmer delegates to
the Farmers Second National Con-
ference.
Preparations are going forward
rapidly for taking care of the del
egates during their stay in this
city. The Food Workers Indus
trial Union and the Unemployed
Councils will assist the Workers
International Relief in feeding the
delegates.
J. c. Mcdonald, chairman Of
the Railroad BrotherhOOds Unity
Movement has extended brotherly
greetings to the Farmers Second
National Conference on behalf Of
the railroad workers throughout
the country.
Taylor Touring Wisconsin
Charles E. Taylor, nationa
chairman Of the United Farmerl
League, is holding meetings in the
ce,tral part of Wisconsin, in prep
aration for the conference. From
the central counties of this state
S2 delegates have been elected il
the strike area. There will bt
more than so delegates from Wis
ccnsin.
Unlike other sections of th'
country, South Dakota farmer
are not slackening their local or
ganizing activities while buildinj
Ne conference They are skillful
y combining the building Of tn,
United Farmers League with sc
curing delegates to the Chicag
conference.
Delegates Elected
Prom Portage township in Soutl
Dakota, e. F. Ergle has bee,
aected a delegate. In the Horse
creek community the newly organ
lRed U. F L. elected Matt Hilto
and Arne Jaskela. Brown count
Is sendTg four more delegates.
At a meeting in Britton to sc
W a U. F. L. Marshall count
committee, three delegates wer
eIected. At another meeting hel
Ter a similar purpose in the GraT
county court house, another dels
gate was elected.
Minnesota Delegates
Reports have come in of Il
following delegates elected fro
Minnesota:
At a Holiday meeting in Willo
MVer, three delegates were chose
At a mass meeting in Brimsc
called by the U. F. L. one delega
was elected. Another at Sha
Another at Cherry. Beltrar
county is sending two women de
egates.
From Montana
Gor1us Laursen has been cho
en- 20 represent the farmers fro
around Dagmar. At a meeti1
N PlentywOOd, Charles E. Tayl
9Ad Elna Swanson were electe
from Raymond Otto Grantha
and Ben Void will be sent.
FROM Idaho, Canyon county W
send three delegates and Tw
Falls one.
WOnV uu-.
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Western Delegations
Converge on Denison
For Big Mass Meeting
Iowa Town in Center of Area that Was Over-run By
National Guard Under Martial Law Last May;
Thousands Expected at Meeting
90 OAK. GETS DELEGATES AS 1T BUILDS UFL
Tbirv-tvvo Delegates Coming from Strike Counties in
Central Wisconsin; Charles E. Taylor Is
Touring Area for Conference

DENISON, Iowa-A huge meeting will be held here on
Nov II to greet the Harvest midwest and northwest delega-
as they pass through their way to Chicago for the
Farmers Second National Conference
Denson the center of the martial law area last
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7 Negro Farmers Arrested
In Attack on Choppers Union
Refused PckCoton for Less Than SO Cents Per Ct
Refused to Sign Over Cotton Benefits to- Land
lords Who Try to lncite Lynch Spirit

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Farmers National Commit
for Action reports that Negro tenant farmers and
workers have been thrown into Jail in Chambers county
Alabama and that eight being hunted by heavily
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WHAT l6 YEARS OF SOVIET RULE HAS BROUGHT

dimensions that they pale into
insignificance all the rest Of
European industry, and are rap
idly approaching the level of the
United States.
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GoL1ns Laursen has been choS-
en- 20 represent the farmers from
around Dagmar. At a meeting
N PlentywOOd, Charles E. Taylor
rAa Elna Swanson were elected.
from Raymond Otto Grantham
ana Ben Void will be sent.
from Idaho, Canyon county will
send three delegates and Twin
Falls one.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-12
FATHER CURTIN Is
ORDAINED so YEARS
Golden Jubilee OF Former Citrate at st Patricks to Be
Observed June 70

tin, first pastor of st Francis Xavier
parish in this city, was q first
cousin of the st Lawrence pastor.
Quite a few who came under the
direction of Father Curtin in st
Patrick's Sunday school will be
likely to attend his jubilee mass
and also take part in the festivi-
ties at the banquet. They include,
Most Rev John G. Murray, arch
bishop of the diocese of st Paul;
Rev Joseph Fleming of White
Plains, New York, Attorney Francis
P. Guilfoile, former mayor of Wa.
terbury; 1t. Col. William J. Shan
ahan; Attorney James r. Lawlor
former collector of taxes; Thomas
J. Condor, superintendent of pub.
lie schools; Michael Bergen, chief
engineer of the Nickel Plate rail.
roads Joseph P. Kennedy, principa
Of Wildly high school and hi
brother, William E. Kennedy, for
mer superintendent of streets, ant
a dozen or more others, all o
whom have won distinction in tn,
church and other lines of high en-
| deavor.
During his pastorate, Fathe
Curtin has built a church, school
a convent, mission chapel and Z
rectory. The new st Lawrence's wa.
erected on the site of the older
smaller edifice, and the cornerstone
was laid in April, 1908. The com.
pleted edifice was dedicated the
September following. st Lawrence's
school was built in 1917 and the
convent in 1920.
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Leary Encourages
Quick Disposal In
Favorable Market
City Seeking to Sell at 5Kz % Interest-Tmned Down
Offer at Private Sale Other Cities to Dump
Il Bonds on Market Shortly

suggestion and sent their vote to
the aldermen. They also accepted
the suggestion that the bonds be
sold at 5 IL interest in view Of
the fact that when the bonds were
offered earlier in the year at per
cent, the offers were not great and
attempts at private sale fell
through.
The legislature in Its last session
gave the city of Waterbury per-
mission to sell at private sale, IL
necessary to dispose Of the bonds
due to.the poor bond market. The
city was offered, II was disclosed
today by Controller Leary, a mar
ket providing the bond carried a
$50 per cent rate, plus payment
of commission to brokers. In the
interest of economy, this offer was
turned down by Controller Leary.
The market, the controller in
formed the board today, is much
better and has been so since last
Saturday. waterbury wants to get
in first because of the fact that
Hartford is preparing to dump
$3,000,000 in bonds on the market.
Bridgeport Is now paying per
cent on a large issue. Therefore, If
Waterbury gets by with q, 1-2
per cent rate, 1t will be saving
much, considering everything.
An immediate sale is sought be-
cause the bonds are being fioated
to take care of interest and re-
demption on bonds due this year.
The item was provided for in the
budget. providing the bonds are
sold,. SO as not to take the money
out Of direct tax income. In this
way the tax rate was reduced.
The first portion Of the bond is
sue will be reduced at the rate of
$4,000, annually, for 10 years.
The remaining 100000 will be re-
duced during the ensuing ten years
at the rate of $4,000 annually.
The city rs authorized to float a
100000 issue Of the same kind
next year. under the special act Of
the legislature.
The aldermen tonight are ex-
pected to set the date of sale for
June 21st. Then, IL no public bid
is offered the city will attempt to
dispose of the bonds at private sale.
The Bank of Manhattan company,
New York, is the place where the
bonds will be delivered.
At tonight's meeting Of the al
dermen, also, the 20 voting places
for the polling on the repeal ques.
ton, to take place here on the
goth, will also be approved.
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Seek Data on
Ice Cream Rules
Industry Is Placed Under
Farm Act Administers
ton

The ice cream industry has been
placed under the farm act adj
ministration for such supervision
and regulation as may be necessary
from time to time, according to an
nouncements recently made by the
department of agriculture. UP to
the present time no regulations
have been made to govern the in
dustry but meetings are being held
regularly and some of the most
prominent ice cream manufacture
ers in the country have been con-
ferring with the government Off
Gals concerning the industry. r. c
Fisher of Worden's this city who
is also president of the New Eng
land Association of ice Cream
Manufacturers has been called tt
Washington and has been in con
ference with officials on and of
| for over a week.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-12

Rev jeremiah curtin, pastor of
st Lawrence parish, West Haven,
will celebrate the golden jubilee OF
his ordination to the priesthood
with a solemn high mass at that
church on Sunday, June 20.
Father Curtin is a native of New
Britain. He is a graduate of the
public schools Of his home town
and made his studies for the priest
hood at st Charles college and was
ordained in Baltimore in 1888. He
served five years as assistant at st
Patrick's church in this city and
seven years as assistant at the Sac
red Heart parish in New Haven.
Since that time twenty eight years
ago he has been pastor of st Law
renee church.
The event is being taken note of
by the parishioners of st Law
renee, who are planning a banquet
for the pastor to be held on July
IL. 1t will be attended by many
from Waterbury and other places
all over the diocese.
The late beloved Rev ]. j. Cur
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-12

News dispitches from York, Pa,
yesterday, told a story of two men
being killed and one critically hurt
early Saturday mordning while rid
ing on freight trains on the Penn
sylvania system near Hallam, Pa.
The dead included John Cruick-
shank Of Sunnyside avenue, Oak
VILE, and Joseph Kuhles, 43, Of
Streator, Ill, father Of two children,
beating his way back home after
unsuccessful searches for work.
The name, Of Noel Grenier of
Echo Lake road, WATERFOWL, has
been placed on the danger list at
the York hospital. He suffered a
fractured skull and according to
the late reports was still uncon-
scious. Statements from Melvin
Lund Of Quincy, Mass, and an in
vestigation conducted by the police
and railroad officials at Hallam
have determined the circumstances
Of the accident.
The men were riding on top of a
freight train and apparently failed
to observe a low bridge. They
crashed against projecting beam,
all three suffering fractured skulls.
Kuhles and Cruickshank were dead
when the train rolled into the
York, Pa, freight yards.
Confused reports yesterday had
It that both WATERFOWL youths
were dead. Rumors were also cir
culated confusing the names OF the
dead and injured and caused some
apprehension among the members
Of both families and the many
friends of the two youths.
The body of Cruickshank was re-
turned to WATERFOWL yesterday.
Members of the Grenier family
kept in communication with the
York hospital yesterday. The iden-
tity Of Grenier was established by
a prayer book in his possession.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-12
Crosby Hi-Y
Club Meeting
Elected Officers at Ses-
sion Held Last Week

Charles Royce was elected presi-
dent of the Crosby Hi-Y at a re-
cent meeting featured by the In
duction of several new members,
namely, James Brophy, Charles
Vial, John Monagan, Cleo O'Don-
nell, Edward Laudinskas, Robert
Siboid, Louis Barberie and James
Mcdonald.
Jay Erlanger was named vice.
president, Edward Guilbert, secre-
tary, Charles Vail, treasurer, Cleo
O'Donnell and Bud McGrath social
committeeman, Robert Sibold, pro.
gram committee, James BrophJ
membership committee, James Nc
Donald and John Monagan, speak
ers committee, Louis Barberie
publicity committee, and William
Feeley and Edward Laudinskas
banquet committee.
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STATE ELEMENTARY
TEACHERS ASSN
Held Session in Art Room
of Silas Bronson
Library
SATURDAY AFTERNOON

Miss Jennie O'Neill, president of
the state elementary principals
association, called a meeting Of the
executive board of the Organization
Saturday, afternoon at the Bronson
Library in the art room. Before
the business Of the meeting was
discussed Miss O'Neill entertained
the members at luncheon at
Thorpe's Tea Room on Center
street.
Plans for a luncheon and a
speaker for the Convention Day,
october ~, to take place in Hart
ford was the chief topic for discus
sion. Although Miss O'Neill resigns
her position at the end of this
school year as principal of Dug
gan schol, the executive board of
the state principals voted unani-
mopsly for her to continue as
president Of the state organization.
Those who attended the meeting
besides the president, Miss O'Neill.
were Miss Kirkland of Wallingford
who is secretary, Miss Hine Of Tor
rington who is treasurer, Miss
Smith of New Haven, and Ralph
Darlington Of Waterbury.
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Agreeing with Controller Daniel
j. Leary that now Is the time to
offer the $500,000 funding bond is
sue Of the city of Waterbury for
sale, the finance board, at spec
ial meeting shortly before noon to-
day recommended the placing of
the bonds on the market and sub
mitted their vote of approval to
the aldermen. The aldermen will
meet tonight to adopt formally the
recommendation and order sale Of
the issue.
Controller Leary stated that it
Is a matter of statistics that the
municipal bond market is not so
good after June goth. Therefore,
he recommended immediate action
today. All the finance commission
ers approved of Controller Leary's
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-12
PRIEST VERY
NEAR TO DEATH

Quebec. June 12-(UP)-A r.
year-old priest had a narrow es-
cape from death when the mission
house at Mont JOLT, operated by the
Oblate fathers, was destroyed by
fire.
Father p. Legault, the priest, was
on the third floor of the building
and only managed to escape by
sliding down rope. He lost his
grip when rs feet from the ground
and fell. but was only slightly In
jured.