FARMERS' STRIKE
PROPOSAL IN ALBERTA
DEPRESSED WHEAT PRICES
(Received November 24, 5.5 p.m.) CALGARY, Nov. £3
A proposal for a general strike of Western Canada's wheatgrowers as a protest against the present depressed prices and general economic conditions, is to be placed before the Alberta wheat pool at its annual, convention this week.
The proposal embraces a cessation of seeding next spring by all farmers tilling the prairies—an area of 25,000,000 acres.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21349, 25 November 1932, Page 11
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