The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-11-03
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Numerous Reports
OF Violence Heard;
Shoemaker Excited

day when deputy sheriffs 1t Hucks-
dorf Curve, In Racine county. used
tear bombs TO rout $50 pickets and
allow . milk truck to pass.
Strikers were arrested ct Wausau
and Belgium cheese factory was de-
stroyed by . dynamite bomb ana the
resulting fire.
Members Of the Alabama Dairy
League, supplying sS per cent Of Birm-
ingham's milk supply, Friday called
. strike, demanding $2.3S per hundred
pounds, against $2.lS paid now.
Shoemaker Il Excited
Congressman +. H. Shoemaker sent
President Roosevelt . message Friday
saying farmers were organizing mill
tary units and that immediate action
was necessary to quiet them.
The Minnesota Farmer-Labor con-
gresham 1mplified his assertion when
questioned by naming counties. Sher-
IFS and newspaper1nen there, how
ever, said they had not heard Of any
such organisation In the current farm
strike movement.
shoemaker's message said: I'm
mediate action necessary to quiet
farmers. Farmers organizing military
units under direction OF exservice men.
Four companies already organized In
central Minnesota and training daily.
Aiming selves with tear gas bombs
for self.protection. Conditions seri-
Gus. Unless farm prices raised Inn
mediately, Frazier bill and initiation
realized, It may be inpossible to quell
demonstrations. Highways blocked
and creameries being bombed and
farmers demand that you do some
thing about money changers except
talk."
He named . Minnesota community
IN which he said there had been .
creamery bombing. Peace officers
there, however. said there had not
been . bombing. Farm leaders said
pickets are on Minnesota roads In
scattered areas.
Reno Attacks Wallace
Betrayal Of agriculture was charged
to Secretary Of Agriculture Henry
Wallace BY Milo Reno. president Of
the National Farmers Holiday associa.
ton.
In speech denounc,ng Wa,lsre and
''enthroned" wealth. Reno told 1000
farmers atterdin@ thu state corven.
tion Of the Farmers Educational and
Coouerative Union Of Mi~nesota at
Granite Falls that Outside OF the
RocteSellers ard the biz money men,
the federal agricultural department &C
Wash,nston Is the biggest curse to the
farmer"
Demarding cost Of production. one
Of the factors promutins the Holt.
day association to call the national
farm strike. Reno said:
The federal agricuJtural depart.
ment has never been fair to the
farmer. In fact 1t has been unfair
and brutal. You haven't got . secre-
tary now. All he Is interested In Is
to bribe you with $50 until he gets
you into his web. I'm not mad at
Henry wallace. feel sorry for him.
He Is = half-inch peg in = six-inch
hole"
He criticised the administration
hog plan. asserting It was worse than
tho "old shell game" "They borrow
the money of the bankers and the
farmers pay It back" he stated.
Reno read two letters. written. he
raid. BY wallace last January and
respectively. In january,
he said. Wr'sace advocated imitation
md auurcved the Ers.ier bill for 70. /
financing farm mcrtgaoes ct three
ner cent. In tire September letter.
Reno declared. wallace turns IN
sliynmersau't.' and contra
dicted hts imitation stand"
TITS time We cot u0 on our hind
lees and demanded cslr riehts or Ne
never win get them" Reno asserted.