The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-19
BIG MILK STRIKE
 OF FARMERS OF WISCONSIN IS OVER
By WILLIAM r. McILRATH Vr,,itad I1rese Staff (OrpesDOudent

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Madison, Wis, May 19.-(UP)- Wisconsin's warlike milk strike came to a sudden close early today while line of heavily armed milf- tiamen stood guard over a confer ence among state officials and an arbitration committee of the state milk pool.
 The guard was thrown about the east wing of the capitol and the chambers of Governor Albert c. Schmedeman after the chief execu- tive and his aides were threatened in an anonymous telephone call:
 The truce pac twas signed while 15,OO0 strikers in the states lead ing dairy centers were planning new attacks on milk plants at dawn. Additional forces of depu- ties and national guardsmen were being mobilized rapidly to supple ment 5000 already in the field.
 After the agreement was reach ed, Adjutant General Ralph M. Immell telegraphed national guard officers directing deputies to stand by passively. He feared that strik- CTS in some areas, unaware. of the truce, would resume violence in the morning.
 Paul Weiss, of Barnum, chair man of the arbitration group, be- gan notifying strike leaders to can- eel further plans for the embargo.
 The militiamen remained at the statehouse until after Governor Schmedeman, Adjutant Immell and Attorney General James Finnegan, the group that conferred with the strikers, had departed. The tele- cIr the conference began, threatened lives of the officials if an agreement was not reached.
 The settlement provided that Governor Schmedeman appoint committee of five to study a i've point program demanded by strik- CTS. The committee will consist of the three practical farmers, one a member of the milk pool. the gov ernor and third man to be named by him.
 The effect of the agreement is to permit unrestricted dairy opera tions throughout the state. Since last Saturday. when the embargo was called. deliveries in more than a dozen counties have been inter- rupted by strikers.
 Thousands of pounds of milk and cheese were destroyed. Two persons were shot and scores were strikers and 5000 deputies. includ- ing national guardsmen, called out ito clear highways.
 8 Walter Singler, head of the milk pool, has not been seen for two days. Efforts to state officials and strikers themselves to reach him today failed.
 The program to be studied by the governors peace committee of five includes proposals for:
 1-Abolition of the present sys- tenn of base and surplus in pricing milk.
 2-Divorce of chain store organ izations from manufacture and processing of food products.
 3-Reorganization of the state department of agriculture.
 "A conference with Secretary of Agriculture Wallace looking to- ward establishment of fair price for dairy products under federal legislation.
 5-Findings of the committee to be reported to President Roosevelt and congress, and to the state leg islature now in session for imme- diate action.
 Tn a statement issued after sign ing of the truce. the milk pool committee said 1t "deplored the fact that outside and undesirable elements entered upon unlawful acts of intimidation" in connection with the strike-referring appar- ently. to previous charges that Chi- cago gangsters had taken a hand in the strike.
 Immell said he believed the truce came just in time to prevent more serious violence. and probably bloodshed. Two hundred new deputies were sworn in at Wau- paca last night in preparation for an expected attack at daybreak, Threats to bomb the New London, Weyauwega. Waupacn and dairy plants had been heard. All roads between Waupaca and Shawano were blocked. New supplies of gas bombs md fighting equipment had been sent to guardsmen.