UNDER THE CODE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 100, 25 October 1933, Page 10

UNDER THE CODE

AMERICAN FARM STRIKE

PLEA FOR PRESIDENT

(Eeceived October 25, 2.15 p.m.) ■■■ ■ NEW YORK, October 24. A new: sector in Illinois-'today was added to tho agricultural war for higher prices. It is estimated that 2000 farmers voted at Kankakee to join the anti-selling campaign, asserting that they would refuse to market their produce for less than the cost of production. Meanwhile pickets in Western lowa had stopped lorries loaded with farm products, compelling . their return. Sheriffs in Nor^th Dakota sought to prevent shipments of. grain1 from elevators, in accordance with the embargo proclaimed by the Governor. Farm groups in Oklahoma and Texas announced that they were planning to vote soon on the question of joining tho strike, whereas Mr. Peek in Washington urged tho farmers to fight their enemies, not their friends, assorting that the President had clearly indicated that he was the friend of the farmer. Most of 15,000 dyers in the silk industry of Paterson, New Jersey, who have been striking for two months, returned to work today under an agreement between .the union and thg ism-

ployers. However, several hundred members of the left wing of the union remained on strike. The agreement, | which expires a year hence, proclaims that the workers shall receive a minimum of 23 dollars for men and 16 dollars for -women for a 44-hour five-day week.