AGRARIAN STRIKE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 111, 7 November 1933, Page 7

AGRARIAN STRIKE

VIOLENCE IN AMERICA

FOOD TRANSPORT HELD UP

PRESIDENT'S PROBLEM

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WASHINGTON, November 5. A report from Dcs Moines states that violence broke out, in- many sections tonight, as farm strikers started an intensive picketing of the highways and railroads to prevent the transportation of food. A train was stopped near the town of Lawton. Pickets broke the seals on goods and cars and liberated live stock, which scattered on the highway. The live stock blocked progress of a lorry, causing its rear end to collide with a speeding automobile, killing one picket and injuring others. Thousands of pounds of milk were dumped throughout Wisconsin. Strikers cut telephone communications and committed other acts of sabotage apparently to. harass the officials. The Governor of lowa has threatened to call out the State militia unless civil officers immediately restored order. President Roosevelt believes he has done everything possible to relieve^ the farmers along economically sound lines.He will now attempt to curb the agrarian strike and the growing criticism of the National Recovery Act by a publicity campaign. Eeports from the "West declare that the strike leaders are determined to renew their effort to halt the movements of food, with indications that there is likely to T)e / considerable violence. . . ■

Last-minute efforts of the National Recovery Act Labour Board to halt the strike on the Pennsylvania anthracite coalfields appear.doomed to failure, as the union leaders have called for 70,000 men to quit work tomorrow.