LOW FRUIT PRICES
GROWERS ON STRIKE CAN \D! AN MOVEMENT (Klee. Tel. Copyright-- Vitite.l Press Assn.) (Received Wept. 13,. 2 p.m.) VAN ('Oil Villi', Sept. 1:1 British Columbia tipple growers arc striking; against I lie alleged unfair prices for fruit. Eighty per cent of them organised themselves on a -pledge to refuse to pick apples unless they are gianted one coni per pound. Independent shippers are blamed for 'tin* crisis in the £10,1)0(1,0011 industry. Pickets (blocking bridges in the Okanagan valley halted trucks bearing fruit from unpledged shippers, forcing then: to return to I lie ranches. Jobbers are organising to fight Die movement.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18192, 13 September 1933, Page 8
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103LOW FRUIT PRICES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18192, 13 September 1933, Page 8
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