The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-26
Farmers Active on
Far-Flut1g Fronts
Place Special Emphasis on VAR
ious Efforts to Boost
Milk Prices
BIG PARADES ARE PLANNED
Conferences and Injunctions
Are Developments as
Drive Spreads
by The Associated PresS)

On flung fronts over the coun-
try. groups of American farmers
Monday continued their drive for a
fair price for their products, with
especial emphasis on efforts to hoist
the price Of milk.
At Omaha. Neb. in the heart of
the great agrarian midwest. 1000
farmers. members of the Nebraska
Iowa Cooperative Milk association.
were scheduled to tell their story TO
the city folk" through the medium
Of huge parade.
otto Pfeiffer, association president,
said that after the parade members
would canvass the city with a plea to
milk consumers to boycott two dair-
les against whom the association de-
clared strike when they refused to
accept an arbitration price decision.
Down at Atlanta, Ca, producers
and distributors of milk agreed to
confer Monday to settle price dis
agreements which prompted the
Georgia Milk Producers confedera-
ton to declare a holiday on Atlanta
shipments.
Obtain Injunction
Following picketing of roads and
dumping Of deliveries. milk distribu-
tors obtained federal injunction re-
straining members of the confedera-
ton from interfering by violence with
shipments to Atlanta. They later
expressed regret at the necessity Of
such action.
The confederation seeks to raise
the price OF milk from 14c to zoe
a gallon.
Danger of milk shortage in Metro
politan New York seemed abated by
a decision of dairy farmers In Adams
Center and Pierrepont Manor. N. Y,
to continue shipping their milk fol-
lowing promise by the United Milk
Products company to do everything
within its ability to obtain an adj
vance In price.
Rumblings of the milk war rever-
berated. however, through Michigan
and Ohio communities with "holi-
days. in effect at various places.
In Chicago. dairymen adopted an
ether method in obtaining more for
their product. Dairymen organized
to operate comparatively milk plants,
thereby eliminating the middlemen's
profits. Nearly half a dozen such
plants are operating in Wisconsin.
Parade Pans Progress
In Iowa. birthplace OF the Nation
al Farm Holiday association, sponsor
OF the strike, plans went forward for
huge demonstration" parade at
Des Moines Oct. 4 when President
Hoover comes to the midwest for his
opening campaign talk.
Speaking at Estherville. Ia, John
A. Simpson, president of the National
Farmers Union and a hacker of the
Holiday movement, told 400 farmers
to use shotgunS in the flight for their
rights" as he termed the farm strike.
Kill a few farmers If necessary"
ne advocated, in stressing the neces-
sity OF putting the farmers plight
before the country.
Take out your old shotguns and
demand your rights" Simpson urged
his hearers.
THE holiday, in plain words, is a
strike. Anything worth striking for
Is worth dying for.
Our strike has reached the atten-
ton OF eastern financiers as no other
farm movement has. It is because a
few Of our farmers have been shot at.
Let them kill few of us II it will do
any good.
Governments. courts, laws, and
constitutions are inferior to human
rights. It Is within any mans
rights to overthrow those laws and
that government.
Every human being has right to
food. clothing. and shelter. My au-
thority for this statement is the de-
claration Of independence. Under
this same authority you have the
right to take up shotguns and prevent
the big robbers from taxing your
FARMS"