U.S. FARMERS

Southland Times, Issue 22156, 26 October 1933, Page 7

U.S. FARMERS

AGRICULTURAL WAR ANTI-SELLING CAMPAIGN GROWING PRODUCE HELD UP (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) New York, October 24. A new sector in Illinois was to-day added to the agricultural war for higher prices. It is estimated that 2000 farmers voted at Kankakee to join the anti-selling campaign, asserting that they would refuse to market their produce for less than the cost of production. Meanwhile, pickets in Western lowa had stopped lorries loaded with farm products, compelling their return. The sheriffs of North Dakota sought to prevent shipments of grain from the elevators in accordance with the embargo proclaimed by the Governor. Farm groups in Oklahoma and Texas announced that they were planning to vote soon on the question of joining the strike, whereas Mr Peek in Washington urged farmers to fight enemies, not friends, asserting that the President had clearly indicated that he was a friend of the farmers.

LITTLE HINDRANCE PRODUCE TAKEN TO MARKET. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 9 p.m.) New York, October 24. A message from Desmoines (Iowa) states that foodstuffs continued to move into the United States marketing centres to-night, little hindered by the farm strike. Sporadic sallies by pickets in the dairying area of Central Wisconsin and the activities of sympathizers in lowa caused the clogging of a few local trading channels, but reports from the other 19 States in which the Farmers’ Holiday Association has claimed branches, indicated meagre progress in the move to increase prices by withholding produce from the markets.

SILK INDUSTRY STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) New York, October 24. Many dyers in the silk industry at Patterson (New Jersey) who have been striking for two months, returned to work to-day under an agreement between the union and the employers. However, several hundred members of the left wing of the union remained on strike. The agreement, which expires a year hence, proclaims that the workers receive a minimum of 23 dollars for men and 16 dollars for women with a 44-hour five-day week.