WHEN FARMERS GO OUT ON STRIKE
OTTAWA, Sept. 30. Thirty-seven arrests are reported at Edmonton as violence again flared up along the picket lines in the farmers23 days' delivery strike. The ugliest incident occurred at Beaver Crossing, 170 miles from. Edmonton, when 300 pickets stopped a eattle buyer and 12 cowboys attempting to deliver 113 cattle to the stockyards. The pickets took up a position on a bridge and as the cattle were driven on to it they were stampeded with rocks and yelis. The cattle buyer 's horse fell and rolled on hiin fraeturing his leg. About thirty pickets were arrested. The Alberta Farmers' Union strike committed will confer today with the Saskatchewan organisation of Unitea Farmers of Canada, who liave also issued a strike call. Alberta and fcsaskatchewan farmers jointly will eonsider today a proposal rnade by the Dom'inion Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Gardiner, that the farmers place their demands t'or higher prices before the Agricuitural Prices Support Board, thus ending the strike.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 October 1946, Page 5
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