GROWERS' STRIKE
NO PICKING OF APPLES. DEMAND FOR HIGHER PRICES. PICKETS STOP CONSIGNMENT. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) VANCOUVER, September 12. Apple-growers in British Columbia are striking against unfair prices for fruit. Eighty per cent, of them organised themselves on a pledge to refuse to pick apples unless they were granted one cent a pound. Independent shippers are blamed for the crisis in an industry worth some 50,000,000 dollars. Pickets, blocking. bridges in Okanagan Valley, delayed trucks bearing fruit from unpledged shippers, forcing them to return to the ranches. The jobbersf are organising to fight the movement.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 285, 13 September 1933, Page 5
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