FARMERS’ STRIKE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 6

FARMERS’ STRIKE

TU UCK ( A 1 iL-E L) I X U) \\ A A ME 111( A S S KX S AT I OX r Al tear u inu itLi uT iKaceiul picket- ! ing, which t ucled in Uie shooitiivr and gassii g of 14 ianii<»rs, a truce hsa been called in the farmers’ strik * i*i low a .pomliiijr a eontereuev. called by the Governor to bo W*ld a,t Sioux City. The strikes in tlie fertile lands < f the Middle-West of tlio United Sttutod to h- hz zlir.g out in

heartbreak and futility. In Nebraska 1 wiiere the revolting farmer!.- shaivc ! sonic organised resistance to 'li.ie (regime of low prices, the strike is <ret.tiim nowhere, except in the bi\i’dnift' bad blood bettweeu the. J'arinerrj tluems<‘l\es and hcLueeu. tfne poor far liters in th-e country a id poanvr naon in the cities. Outside Sioux lily,' Council Hind's, and Omaha, the ‘farmers (succeeded lor thrt’,o weeks in turning back trucks laden with cattle, grain, and butter. The farmers declared that they

wore not making war against tin. cpxisuoier, afjni allowed to So through enougb milk for children tund the sick, but ultimately lioi-tile public opinion was engendered. supplies leaked throug}'i tlie blockade. and cities witli breadlines resented lee organise dmo\-eme n t to iai;v prices*