FRUIT INDUSTRY
- COLUMBIA GROWERS STRIKE. VANCOUVER, September 12. : British Columbia apple growers are striking against the alleged unfair prices for fruit. Eighty per cent of them organised themselves on the pledge to refuse to pick apples, unless they were granted a- cent per pound. Independent shippers are blamed for the‘ crisis in the fn'ty million dollar industry. Pickets are blocking bridges in Okanagan Valley halted trucked bearing fruit from unpledged shippers, forcing them to return to the ranches. Jobbers are organising to fight the movement.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1933, Page 7
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85FRUIT INDUSTRY Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1933, Page 7
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