FOODSTUFFS CONTINUE IN TRANSPORT DESPITE THE STRIKE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 672, 26 October 1933, Page 5

FOODSTUFFS CONTINUE IN TRANSPORT DESPITE THE STRIKE

(Press Assn. — ;

• PICKETS STOP LORRIES

By Telegraph — Copyright) .

(Rec. 9 p.m.) New York, Octoher 24 A message from Desmoines states that foodstuffs continue to move into the United States marketing centres to-night, little heeding the farm strike. Sporadic sallies'by piclcets in the dairying areas in Wisconsin and the activity of sympathisers is causing a clogging of the few local trading channels, but reports from the other 19 states in which the, farmers' holiday association claim branches indicate meagre progress in the move to increase prices by the withholding of produce from the marlcets. It is estimated that 2000 farmers voted at Kankakee to join in the antiselling campaign, asserting that they would refuse to rnarket produce for less than the cost of production. Meanwhile pickets in Western Iowa had stopped lorries loaded with farm products, conipelling 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 tbat they are planning to vote soon on the question of joining the strike. Mr. Peek in Wasbington urged the farmers to figlit their enemies not their friends, asserting tbat the President had clearly indicated that he is a friend of the farmer.