AGRICULTURAL UNREST
AMERICAN FARM STRIKERS
AID OF TRbOFS REQUESTED.
RAILWAY BRIDGE DESTROYED.
VIOLENCE IN' SEVERAL STATES
United Press Ast»ociatlon —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.; Received 2.30 p.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Nov. 6. A message from Des Moines says the mid-western States, seething with' the new agricultural unrest, sought to deal vigorously with the farm pickets to-day. The authorities at Sioux City requested the aid of the National Guard Corps. Meanwhile a 40-foot railway bridge was burned, while violence is reported in other States a-s the strikers attempted to stop the flow of foodstuffs! into the market. Approximately 20,000! armed deputy-sheriffs are held ini readiness for immediate action and; over 50,000 Guardsmen are held in re-; serve. j
The farm organisation leaders placed: the number of pickets as high as 250,000 and State officials at 50,000.: Many State Governors and farm leaders continued the demands that production costs he guaranteed' by Gov-; ernment price fixing and threatened to demand Congressional action over President Roosevelt’s head when Con- 1 gress meets in January.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 7 November 1933, Page 7
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