The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-23
CLAIM more Than
CARLOAD OF STOCK
WAS TURNED BACK
PatroI|ing Resorted to When
Voluntary Strike Was
Ineffective
GEORGIA FARMERS STRIKE
Movement to Boost Produce
Prices Spreads to East
ern States

by The Associated PfeW)
Members Of the Ward county
Farmers Holiday association, who
Thursday began picketing highways
near Minot to prevent movement Of
grain. livestock and poultry to mar
ket. were successful in turning back
more than carload of livestock, Mrs
Q. w. Lnnertz, secretary Of the coun-
ty association, said.
Less than two hours after pickets
took their position a dispute arose
near the Great Northern stockyards.
east Of Minot, wnen they stopped .
truckload of livestock.
Sam Yoder. livestock buyer who
had purchased the animals. objected
to being stopped and summone1
Sheriff r. w. Kennard.
Eventually compromise was
reached, whereby Yoder was permit
ted to complete loading of two car
loads Of livestock he had purchased
According to the picketers, Yode-
agreed not to bring any more live
stock to the yards after the two cars
were filled.
Some Of the farmer pickets, not ap-
proving of the compromise with 70
der after several other truckloads Of
stock had been turned back, declared
the picketing might as well be aban-
doned.
Picketing proceeded Friday on a
more extensive and thorough scale
than on the initial day.
A check shortly before noon dis
closed no pickets stationed on High
way No. 9, which runs west and north
to Portal. or on No. west, which
goes to Williston. but officers of the
county association declared these
roads would be blockaded to nom
perishable products Friday.
PicketS are active on No IS, which
runs north and on the same highway
running south to Bismarck on No. 9.
which runs southeast to Harvey and
on No. 2 east, the Devils Lake road.
| No attempt as yet has been made to
dissuade milk trucks from delivering
their cargoes.
Although not so we'll organized as
near the stockyards, picketers also
were active near some Of the local
grain elevators.
| Farmers near the stockyards had
rope, with a red handkerchief tied to
it, which they stretched across the
road to halt trucks bringing livestock.
| Not Effective Enough
Mrs. Linnertz said at meeting Of
the Holiday association Wednesday
night, the decision to picket was
reached when it was decided the
strike" was not effective enough. It
was agreed, however, only persuasive
methods should be used. Some Of the
stockyard pickets, however. In discus
sion of the Yoder case, indicated they
favored not letting livestock pass In
event the owner would not heed per-
suasive methods.
Virtually every highway leading
into Minot will be patrolled, Mrs. Lin
nertz said.
Former Governor Walter Maddox
of Bismarck, vice president Of the
state Farmers Union, said leaders Of
the Holiday movement in Ward county
had not consulted him regarding their
picketing plans.
Apparently, in undertaking the
picketing," he said, they have gone
over the head OF Usher L. Burdick,
president Of the state Holiday associa-
ton, who plainly has declared himself
opposed to picketing. I would have
counselled against picketing."
Permanent organization Of q Grand
Forks county branch Of the Holiday
association Is the aim Of the sponsors
of q meeting called for Sept. % in
the Larimore city hall.
n,,~S;nlr will 1@o tt,n v1v{v~nSv%o1 ~v>nAk-
er at the meeting and Mrs. Linnertz,
and e. e. Green. secretary Of the
State Farmers Union, have been In
vited to speak.
Georgia Farmers Strike
Meanwhile farmers as far away Is
, Atlanta, Ca, moved to join the selling
strike under way in Iowa for more
, than a month.
Milk producers In New York and
parts of New Jersey, Vermont and
Pennsylvania were reported to be con-
:. sidering holding their products from
! the Metropolitan market and at At
lanta the Georgia Milk Producers fed
GRAFTON ordered its members In 20
counties to stop shipments to dis
; tributors in Atlanta.
! In Minnesota, North and South Da-
5 kota, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa
: thousands of farmers aided the non
selling movement with action which
J. ran1ed from peaceful talk VIII
4 lneighbors to violence In stopping
? trucks on highways and removing
s their cargoes OF farm products.
8 The progress Of the movement va
! extremely satisfying to Milo Reno q
Des Moines. president Of the Natinnal
4 Farmers Holiday association, he aid
2 In q speech before the Iowa Farmers
8 Union convention which closed Ihnro.
: day, he declared: N
) mo farm movement haS exo1
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