FARMERS' STRIKE
TRUCE CALLED IN lOWA VANCOUVER. Sept. 14 After a month of peaceful picketing, which ended in the shooting and gassing of 14 farmers, a truce has been called in the farmers' strike in lowa, pending a conference, called by the Governor, to be held at Sioux City. The strikes in the fertile lands of the Middle-West of the United States seem to be fizzling out in heartbreak and futility. In Nebraska, where the revolting farmers showed some organised resistance to the regime of low prices, the strike is getting nowhere, except in the way of breeding bad blood between the farmers themselves and between the poor farmers in the country and poorer men in the cities. Outside Sioux City, Council Bluffs and Omaha, th 6 farmers succeeded for three weeks in turning back trucks laden with cattle, grain and butter. The farmers declared that they were not war against the consumer, and allowed to go through enough milk for children and the sick, but ultimately hostile public opinion was engendered, supplies leSked through the blockade, and cities with breadlines resented the organised movement to raiso jjriccs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21292, 20 September 1932, Page 9
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