Formation of The Silent Brigade
The ATC was formed by the amalgamation of many smaller tobacco companies and produced a single market that purchased all tobacco at a fixed price. No competitive bargaining was allowed. Many farmers found they could no longer sell tobacco profitably at the prices the ATC was offering. Despite the establishment of the protective association, which fought the monopoly by practicing boycotts of tobacco sales, more militant farmers formed the Silent Brigade. Led by Dr. David A. Amoss, it tried to terrorize farmers into joining the Association and supporting its boycott by not raising tobacco or selling it to the Trust. In 1906, the Silent Brigade burned ATC barns in Trenton, Kentucky and dynamited the ATC warehouses in Elkton, Kentucky.
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