TEST OF RECOVERY PLAN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19640, 7 November 1933, Page 7

TEST OF RECOVERY PLAN

PRESIDENT’S REPLY TO FARMERS OUTBREAKS OF VIOLENCE FOLLOW United Pi ess Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 6, 10.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 5. President Roosevelt believes he has done everything possible to relieve the farmers along economically sound lines. He will now attempt to curb the agrarian strike and the growing N.R.A. criticism by a publicity campaign. Strikers Determined. Reports from the West declare that the strike leaders are determined to renewthe effort to halve the movements of food, v/ith indications that there is likely to be considerable violence. Trouble on Coalfields. The last minute efforts of the N.R.A. Labour Board, to halt the strike of the Pennsylvania anthracite coalfields appear to have failed, as the Union leaders called for 70,000 men to quit work to-morrow. FARM STRIKE LIKELY.

CRITICISM OF PRESIDENT'S ATTITUDE. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, November 5. With indications from the West that the farm strike will be intensified as a result of Mr Roosevelt’s refusal to accept the Governor’s price-fixing programme, the Department of Agriculture issued a statement to-night predicting higher farm prices in 1934, as a result of increased domestic consumption, but painted a gloomy picture of possible foreign markets and tacitly admitted that acreage reduction policies had not proved altogether effective. The report frankly admitted that the “extent of the price rise will be affected by future monetary credit policies,” which observers here interpret as a renunciation of the Administration’s present managed currency programme. The report said some export relief for wheat producers might come from a World Economic Conference, but indicated that it did not hope for a wide scale adjustment of import restriction, export quotas, etc. OUTBREAKS OF VIOLENCE. RAPID SPREAD OF FARM STRIKE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 6, 10.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 6. A report from Desmoines states that violence broke out to many sections tonight, as the farm strikers started intensive picketing of the highways and railroads to prevent the transportation of food. A railway train was stopped naer the town of Lawton, where the pickets broke the seals on the goods cars, liberating the live stock, which scattered on the highway and blocked a lorry, causing the rear end to collide with a speeding automobile, killing one picket and injuring others. Thousands of pounds of milk were dumped. Throughout Wisconsin the strikers cut the telephone communications and committed other acts of sabotage, apparently to harass the officials. The Governor of lowa threatened to call out the State militia unless the civil officers immediately restored order.