Evening star., 1932-08-17
SHER|FFS TO FIGHT
FARMERS STRIKE
Blockade of Iowa Roads in
Sioux City Milk Row Or
dered Broken.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, August IL
Orders to break the blockade of picket
ing farmers in Sioux Citys milk strike
went out from county authorities today
as the controversy apparently ap-
preached a crisis.
Statements from officials that the
blockade would be broken were made
following a deadlock in negotiations
between the distributors and producers
over the price to be paid for milk. The
producers are asking S2l7 per hundred
pounds, compared with Sl.70 offered by
the distributors.
Sheriff John A. Davenport Of Sioux
City called for 60 special deputies to
enforce the anti-blockade order, while
Sheriff c. N Slocum of Union County.
S. Oak, and Sheriff Ralph E. Rippey
of Plymouth County, Iowa, also mar
shaled their forces to escort through
the picket lines all truckers who have
thus far refused to make the attempt
in the face of determined opposition
from the farmers.
Highway Shipping Blocked.
Members of the Milk Producers AS
sociation said their fight was not con-
nected with the selling strike being
waged by farmers in other parts OF
Iowa and nearby States, but it was diff
ficult to distinguish the movements,
since pickets have been barring the
paths CT all highway shipping.
Some pickets have informed the
sheriffs that they will allow live stock
trucks to enter the city, but intend to
continue their fight to bar all others.
The authorities answered that the
blockade would be broken and all trucks
would go through.
Meanwhile at Des Moines representa-
tives of Midwestern States who attend
ed a meeting to formulate plans for
spreading the farm holiday movement
of the National Farmers Holiday AsSo-
ciation returned to their homes pre-
pared to encourage the strike. E. E.
Kennedy of Kankakee, Ill, set off on
a trip to Colorado and Kansas to
assist in organizing State holiday asso-
Citations.
Speakers Are Requested.
Officers of the association said they
had received requests for information
and teiegrams asking for speakers from
groups in Montana, Indiana, Colorado,
Kansas and Oklahoma.
In North Dakota progress was re-
ported in the move to stop selling wheat
until the price reaches 81 bushel, al
though leaders there said they were
not definitely linked with the Iowa
strike.
E. H. Sauber, secretary of the South
Dakota Farmers Union, at Yankton,
yesterday denied statements made by
E. N. Hammerquist of Farmingdale, S.
Oak, at Des Moines that 40 South
Dakota counties were ready to begin
the strike. He said the union had no
such plans and did not indorse the
Iowa movement.
There were no developments in Min
nesota's strike movement, while Wis
consin's participation thus far has been
limited to one encouraging telegram
sent to the convention at Des Moines
Monday. Missouri farmers have re-
manned apathetic, while Eastern Ne
braska farmers were watching develop
ments in Iowa with interest.
Reports that more than 400 farm
ers had attempted raid on the Sioux
City stock yards today were denied by
officials, and all was quiet in that
district.
The stockyard officials termed the
rumors of such raid wild tale"
without foundation.