SPORADIC SALLIES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 903, 26 October 1933, Page 1

SPORADIC SALLIES.

Food Supplies Unaffected by Farm Strike. United Press Assn.—By Electrle Telegraph—Copy right, NEW YORK, October 24. A message from Desmcines (Iowa) states that food-stuffs continued to move into 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 sympathisers in lowa, caused the clogging of a few local trading channels, but reports from the other nineteen States, in which the Farmers’ Holiday Association claimed it had branches, indicated meagre progress in the move to increase prices by withholding produce from the markets. Action in Illinois. A new sector in Illinois to-day Vas added to the agricultural war for higher prices. It was 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 elevators in accordance with the embargo proclaimed by the Governor. Farm groups in Oklahoma and Texas announced that they were planning a vote soon on the question of joining the strike, whereas Mr Peek, in Washington, urged the farmers to fight their enemies and not their friends, asserting that the President had clearly indicated that he was the friend of the farmer.