The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
MiLitGntS Cause
'DairyDGy' Boycott
Unity of Workers and Dairy Farmers Against
Milk MOnOpOlies Need of the Hour

1 company OF troops would be IN the
parade from Fort Madison and the
Legion Drum Corps and the children
would march.
When the plans we're disclosed, a
few militant farmers in those coun-
ties became busy. They secured
hundreds of copies of the special
Dairy issue of the Farmers Weekly
along with copies Of the farm pro-
gram, and a large bundle Of the
Daily Worker. On several nights,
cars travelled the roads stopping at
mail boxes, putting them in dairy
cans, on bulletin boards of milk
stations, in farmers cars parked In
the small places. Soon the cry went
up, The Reds are up here" and
by then four hundred farmers knew
that the militant farmers had a
program meant for the poor farm
ers.
Many Soldiers, But No Farmers
johnson and others no doubt knew
Of this distribution and evidently
made hurried calls and plans. The
results of this special work was
shown in what took place on Dairy
Day at Watertown Instead of
having $4,000 farmers and their
families in town to watch the pa
rade, there were hardly 1000. The
parade in itself revealed just how
the capitalist class acts. Instead Of
one troop Of regular soldiers from
Fort Madison, they had over 500
men. Is large cannon and field
pieces we're in the line Of march
There were 265 horses and over $50
members Of the Legion. The only
thing in the parade to show any
connection with the dairy business
was manure Spreader, and some
claim it is the one that the Shelf
field Dairy Co. use to feed lot of
bull to their $4,000 members.
With the parade nothing more
than a show of the military, and
a warning towards the militant
farmers. a bust, the sponsors of
the affair were desperate. They had
the U. s. Army band from the fort
play in the Armory for over one
hour in an attempt to draw in the
farmers and city folks. to hear the
members of the New York Milk Con-
troll Board speak on the present
situation in the dairy business.
While the people listened to the
band, the SNUG leaders in this Dairy
Day were seated at the banquet
table in the Woodruff Hotel, eating
fine food, listening to an Orchestra
and applauding a lot Of bunk"
handed out.
Meeting Disappointment for Farmers
After the dinner these leaders all
with nice fat cigars in their SNUG
mouths went up to the Armory, to
feed a lot of useless dope to the
thousands Of farmers they expected
would be there. Here they received
the shock of their lives. Instead Of
5000, there we're less than 500 in
the place a block long. Out of this
500, not over 100 we're farmers.
The chairman said, "4500 are
missing and we can't explain it,"
The speakers, Johnson and Baldwin,
Fee and Manley, of the Milk Board,
hurriedly spoke their pieces, and got
out as quickly as possible.
Tt was bitter pill for these so
called leaders, and it demonstrated
thoroughly that the farmers up
state are tired Of the old line of
bunk handed to them. We wonder
just how important a part the mill
tant literature played in the Farm
ers' Day farce at Watertown this
year?
What has been done can be done
other places if the worker consumers
Of the large cities will work with
the farmers and join in their fight
for living for themselves and their
! families.