STRIKE CALLED

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1933, Page 5

STRIKE CALLED

FOR U.S. FARMERS

EFFORT TO FORCE UP PRICES

l United Association—Ly Electric

Tcuegrupn—Copyright,.;

ST PAUL’S (Minnesota),

October 19. Ihe farmers on Thursday night were called upon to strike at noon en Satumay, uy the directors of the Natioiiiui harm Holiday Association, who Loped to increase prices by drying up the channels through wli.eh produce hows to the market.

One of the .primary objectives of the striae will be to compel the Washington Administration to formulate and put into effect an N.R.A, code for agriculture. The directors, "’ho 'attended a secret meeting of the [ Association, said seven or eight States uere represented at the session, and telephone calls were made to officers and members in other States. In a statement, the Association said that tile strike will be effective in twenty four States in which the Farm Holiday Association has members. There are more than two million farmers who are members of the Association.

It is stated that the success of the strike will be based entirely upon an appeal to the individual members and units of the Association to refrain from shipping their products to market.

A secret meeting of the directors of the Farm Holiday Association drafted a proclamation containing the foliowng ultimatum: “We will pay no taxes nor interest until we have first eared for our families. We will pay no interest-bearing debts until we receive the cost of production. Wo will buy only that which complete necessity demands. We will stay in the homes which we now occupy. We will not sell our. products, with labour and unemployed, for the things we need on the farm on the basis of the cost of production for both.”

The parties declare that the strike will remain in operation “until farm products bring the cost of production, and until we are refinanced under the terms of the Grasier Bill.” The directors declared: “The monied interest of the country still dominate the Government, which has lost the farmers’ confidence. We still stand ready to support the Administration in any programme that wi"‘

recognise the farmers’ fundamental right to ask for and to receive, the cost of production.”

“FARMERS THROATS BEING CUT” ■ NEW YORK, October 19.

A message from Lincoln, Nebraska, states that a revolt against the N.R.A. broke out in Nebraska, when two of its leading democrats joined a veteran Republican Independent, Senator Morris, in warnings of unrest among the farmers. The Governor of Nebraska, Mr Charles Bryan, said that the farmers’ throats were, being cut by the abandonment of anti-trust laws, causing the declining of farm prices. He urged inflation. A former Governor of Nebraska, Mr Keith Neville, has announced his resignation as the State N.R.A. chairman, because of a lack of sympathy with its programme in the agricultural territory, WHEAT EMBARGO DISREGARDED BY RAILWAYS IN N. dXIvOTA. NEW YORK, October 19.

Bis march North Dakota) advices state that the railroads openly disregarded the North Dakota, wheat embargo to-day, and wheat was moved out of the State as usual. In the meantime, the Governor of North Dakota has ordered a mobilisation of ’ the National Guard to pa-e----vent wheat shipments,' hut without word that would send, them into action until he has studied further the legal phases of his edict against wheat transport from the State. The railroad executives said that the next move is up to Governor Lunger, and they expressed the opinihn that the issue was headed for the courts.