Evening star., 1933-10-29
HOLIDAY IN STATE
GETS SLOW START
Farmers Support for Project,
However, Has Its Militant
Aspects.
NO VIOLENCE REPORTED
Impatience Is Voiced With N. r. A.
Slowness to Improve General
Conditions.
NO VIOLENCE REPORTED
BY WILLIAM T. EVJUE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MADISON, Wis, October 28.-The
countrywide farm strike called by the
National Farm Holiday Association got
of to slow but militant start in Wis
ccnsin this week, with scattered re-
ports indicating that only certain re-
gions are affected.
Meanwhile, the powerful Wisconsin
Milk Pool, holding a conference at
Appleton, has decided to join the strike.
First reports after the calling of the
strike by the Holiday Association were
that Wisconsin farmers were showing
little desire to join in Withholding food
products from the markets Then from
the northern and western sections of
the State came reports that milk trucks
were being stopped and turned back.
Until Tuesday the eastern and south
ern sections were free of any strike
activity, but on that day farmers in
Dane County met and voted to with
hold their products. Dane County is
in the heart of the richest dairying
section. and farmers here plan to en-
list neighboring counties in the strike
No Violence Reported.
While no violence was reported any
where in the State, dairy company
plants and cheese factories by the dozen
were closed down at midweek and pub
lie officials of Madison and other cities
were taking steps to insure a milk
supply for babies, invalids and hos
pitalS.
An unexpected development of the
strike in Wisconsin was the announce
ment Of Gov. A. G. Schmedeman that
he was in sympathy with the objects
o. the strikers. 1t was Schmedeman
who during the last milk strike or
dered out National Guardsmen to pre-
vent the stopping Of milk trucks on
the highway. a move that resulted in
numerous clashes between farmers and
GuardSmen and scores of cracked heads
Arnold Gilberts, president of the
Wisconsin Holiday Association, declared
that he had no orders from the ma
tional organization for other than
peaceful persuasion" of farmers who
declined to join the strike. Reports
from Clark, Wood, Marathon and sew.
eral other Northern counties, however.
told of pickets blocking highways and
sending trucks, loaded with milk, live
stock and farm produce, back to the
farms.
While strike developments were COM
ing thick and fast, the Federal Gov
ernment in Wisconsin went ahead with
plans to improve the lot Of the dairy
farmer by stabilizing butter and cheese
prices at higher levels. Dean Chris G.
l.. Christensen of the University of Wis
consin College Of Agriculture and A. H.
Lauderbach of Plymouth, Wis, presi-
dent OF the National Cheese Producers
Association, were named directors d a
Federal corporation which is to attempt
to bolster cheese and butter prices.
Impatience Is Voiced.
The general attitude of Wisconsin
farmers as expressed in farm meetings
and the rural press Is that the national
recovery program and the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration has failed
to bring any adequate benefits to agri-
culture. Impatience with Secretary
Wallace Is frequently expressed, and re-
sentiment is common over increased
prices which farmers must pay from
only slightly higher farm incomes.
Administration Of the national recov-
cry act also came under sharp criticism
from Wisconsin organized labor this
week by the action Of labor union off,
cials in demanding the removal of
Julius P. He'll, prominent Milwaukee
irdustriaist, as chairman of the State
N. r. A, Compliance Board. Wisconsin
Federation Of Labor officials petitioned
the National American Federation of
Labor to seek the removal of Mr.. He'll
on the ground that he is prejudiced
against the interests Of labor and has
shown an unfair attitude in his present
NJ R. A. position.