Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-08
TERRORISM IN
MIDDLE WEST
MILK STRIKE
Chicago Center OF Outbreak
In Which Open Warfare Is
Waged By Strikers.
TROUBLE In LOS ANGELES
Boycott Threatened To Help
Workers Win Battle For High
er Wages.

CHICAGO, Jan. 8. U.P)-Terror-
istic warfare broke out today be-
tween Chicago's independent and
organized milk producers as a re-
suit of a strike that cut off the
city's supply of fresh milk.
Property was wrecked and milk
trucks were hi-jacked.
While thousands OF gallons OF
market-bound milk was dumped on
the highways outside the city, the
terrorism spread to the streets OF
the metropolitan area where a long
threatened war between independ-
ents and organized producers broke
into the open.
The new outbreaks came while Of
ficials of the Pure Milk association
a cooperative of $4,000 dairymen,
sought to effect a compromise in
the milk strike.
SANTA ANA, Calf, Jan. g. W.p)
Lawrence Palmer, 81, Los An
geles, alleged picket, was shot and
slightly wounded today in the first
outbreak of violence in the mixers
strike called throughout SouChcrn
California.
Palmer was wounded in the legs
with hucksi:ot fired, officers said,
by Ted Wakehan, manager of the
Raitts dairy ranch near here.
Officers placed Palmer and a
companion, Andy S. Wiestra, %,
Los Angeles, under arrest after
treating Palmer lor his wounds.
They were charged with violating a
county ordinance against picket
ing.
The Raitts dairy is one of tie
largest in Orange county.
.Wakehan told deputy sheriffs he
fired after the two men refused =
leave the premises and advanced
on him after he had warned them
off.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. (U.P)-A
threat of boycott was welded toGay
by sympathizers of mixers strike
which has handicapped several
hundred dairies throughout South
ern California.
Steve Soners, secretary of the
Food Workers Industrial union,
which called the strike of dairy
hands Saturday, claimed 10000 per-
sons would participate in boycott
ting unfair" dairies.
The strike was called in an ef-
fort to raise wages of mixers, many
of whom. it was claimed, are belnP
paid only $25 month. One day
off a week also was demanded Tor
the mixers.
Statements by milk producers,
who have a $25, 900 fund to break
the strike, that the walkout had
failed and that milk deliveries were
going forward without interruption,
were met by Soners with the as
sertion that functioning OF the
diaries was badly hampered.
CHICAGO, Jan. 8. WP)-Chica-
go's milk supply was cut Off today
by farmer picketS who halted
trains, blocked highways and
wrecked trucks attempting to run
the blockade set up to enforce
strike called by the Pure Milk as
sociation.
All deliveries of milk, excepting
to hospitals and babies, ceased. The
supply on hand when the strike was
called Saturday by 10000 members
of the association, was meted out
in small quantities at emergency
stations.
Attempts to ship milk through The
blockade resulted in a sharp battle
between deputy sheritfs and 300
pickets who halted a Chicago bound
milk train at Sturtevant, Wis. Tie
officers repulsed the pickets with
tear gas. bombs after a hand-to"
hand skirmish.
The wrecking of milk train near
Kenosha, Wis, was narrowly avert
ed by an alert train crew. They
found IL two-foot flangeS used i'll
Joining rails on the tracks rein
forced by heaps of stones and rocks.
Elsewhere within the l00-mile
radius of Chicago pickets effective
ly stopped all trucks.
Three trucks attempting to run
milk in from Wisconsin slipped
through the outer picket lines and
were pursued by 40 automobile loads
of strikers. The truck drivers sped
to the Burlington county jail feW
minutes ahead of their pursuerS.
The mob refused to disperse until
threatened with tear gas bombs