DISGRUNTLED FARMERS
MARCH ON WASHINGTON LENGTHY LIST OF DEMANDS, WASHINGTON, October 11. (Received Oct. 12, at 9 p.m.) The Farmers’ National Relief Conference, an organisation which has grown out of the recent farm strikes at lowa and elsewhere in the middle west, to-day announced a “ farm march upon Washington”, on or about December 7. Between 500 and 5000 disgruntled farmers are expected to come in trucks and motor cars to present to the Government definite demands, including a moratorium for debts, rents, taxes and mortgages, the postponement of foreclosures, tax sales, and evictions, and direct financial relief for indigent farmers. , ' In view of the fact that a Communist march about December 15 is definitely planned, and the possibility of another bonus expedition about the same time, the police chief has requested the officials to grant him complete authority to evict the marchers if necessary, so as to preclude the possibility of military action, as was the case in connection with the previous .bonus marchers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21774, 13 October 1932, Page 9
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