The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-08-25
Says National Master Of
Grange of Strikes at Bur
lington Meet
GRANGE LECTURERS
ADOPT RESOLUTIONS
Declare II s Has Come
for Ame Aan People to
Asser .sheir Rights

Burlingto TAug 25 Seven hundred
CHANGERS % all over New England
gathered A.terday at the University
of Vermont here for the lIth annusl
conference OF lecturers, which officially
opened its three-day stay. Burlington
was invaded by fleets Of automobiles
bearing the grangers here for yester-
day mornings session in the university
gymnasium
The high water mark of the confer.
ence was reached last evening when S
IA. Lowell of New York, national mas
ter OF the grange, addressed the assem-.
bly,, together with Charles M. Gardner,
high priest of Demeter, ard Dean j. Z
Hills Of the University of Vermont
college of agriculture.
The conference closed at noon to-day
the delegates leaving to see the Yer
mont State House at Montpelier en-
route to spend the night at Dartmouth
college. The following numbers of del
egates are present from the various
New England states: Massachusetts,
23l; Connecticut, l56; Maine, l27; New
Hampshire. II; Vermont, IA; Rhode Is
land, 2s. New Jersey has four dele.
gates and~0hio mas one.
Immediately following spirited ad
dress by Sherman NJ. Lowell of New
York, national master of the grange
OF America, in which he called upon the
members of the grange throughout the
country to place themselves squarely
on record as demanding an immediate
end to the railroad ard coal strikes
which he called "a sin against society
the following resolution was introduced
by Q. L. Martin, master of the Vermont
state grange, and adopted practically
at the evening meeting.
Whereas the welfare of the Americas
people is constantly endangered by in
creasing strikes in the most vital IN
dustries of our country; and
Whereas, these strikes are paralyzins
the normal activities of the nation, arr
industrial and agricultural
everywhere and are striking
4 serious blow at the health and com
fort Of all our people; therefore be it
Resolved, by the New England grange
$50 strong and representing
more than 10000 members, that thu
time has come for the American people
TO assert their rights in situation
where the fundamentals of democracy
IRE threatened and life and property
ire being destroyed.
Resolved, that neither capital MOI
abor has any right to jeopardize ths
ife and prosperity of great natior
" permitting their differences to par
Ilyze the great industries and trans
'ortation systems of the country.
Resolved, that as the Representatives
4 the greatest single industry in thu
United States, and the one in which
% strike has ever occurred, we hereby
condemn the utter selN
shness shown in present condition.
nd we demand that the opposing
orces of capital and labor take imme
late steps to end it.
Resolved, that every grange in tn,
'untry be urged TO join in this declara
ION, by definite action and effort; ane
nat the American Farm Bureau Fed
ration and all other organiza tions that
ave the welfare of America at heart
mite with us in making these resolu
ons become the unmistakable actor
the American people. fully deter
lined that the present intolerable sit,
alton must Immediately end
Resolved, that copy Of these reso
ltions be given to the Associated
ress.