The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-03
Meeting of Governors and
Farm Leaders" Put an
End to Strike
CALL FOR FARM CODE
National Guard in Iowa
Had Been Used to Stop
Picketing

DES MONIES, Ia, Oct. 81.
With characteristic treach-
cry to the rank and file farm
erS, Milo Reno and his fellow
takers at the head of the
Farm Holiday Association have
called off the strike which they
called without preparation Oct. 81.
The reason tor calling off the
strike was the report drawn up by
the Governors conference in Des
Moines, in which the goverlsors of
Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebras-
ka, Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas,
or their representatives partici.
pated, together with Holiday,
Farmers Union, and other treach-
erous leaders. This report has
been sent to President Roosevelt.
Governors Demands
The report calls for the drafting
OF an NRA code for agriculture,
immediate currency initiation, the
! speeding up of mortgage refinanc-
Ing, and barring of foreign i'm
ports of grains, oils, fats and
other competitive farm products.
The report states eve also recog-
nize the progress which he (Pres.
Roosevelt) has thus far made"
4 So anxious were Holiday Off
Gals to call off the strike, that the
Wisconsin Holiday head, Arnold
Gilbert, wired strikers in his state
to end the strike at once. This be-
fore the report of the Governors
conference was announced.
William B. Rubin, attorney for
Singler's Milk Pool announced that
this would mean that the Milk
Pool would also end it's strike.
i Wisconsin has BEEN the only
state where the strike, with mill
tant picketing activity, has been
| going on in earnest.
Governors Larger, North Da-
kota, Olson, Minnesota, Herring,
Iowa, and Schmedeman, Wisconsin
are proceeding to Washington to
lay their recommendations before
Roosevelt.
Militia in Iowa
. DES MONIES, Iowa.-Harry C
Parmenter, one of Reno's lieuten
ants in Nebraska, has declared thu
government would help Holida!
leaders prevent picketing. Tn
. meaning of this was quickly re
: vealed when 80 Iowa Nations
{ Guardsmen were deputized an.
sent to break up the picket lines
They were dressed III uniform an
fully armed. At their head ~er
Captain C. R. Seitz and thres
other officers. They were sta
toned at a Missouri River bridg
near Plattsmouth, Nebr., to kee
roads open to Omaha.
A group of 800 strf0e-breakerl
organized by rich farmers in sSut
western Iowa, had been at thu
same spot on Oct. rs, and had Is
corted so livestock trucks to tn
market.
Was Spreading in Wisconsin
J.. In Wisconsin the strike was i
full swing with heavy picketina
going on before the betrayal.
affected mostly the northern an
central regions Of the state, bV
it was expected to spread to tn
south. "Close up the north an
march on to Milwaukee" was tn
farmers battle-cry.
In upstate cities there was
complete stoppage of milk deli'
cries. Pickets around Madiso
were increasing and much mi
, was being dumped.
In Milwaukee County, Sheri
SINNERS cancelled all "off days
/, ordering every available depui
: for highway duty to break up Il
picket lines. Sherfffe in Waub
: sha, Ozaukee, Washington, Jeffe
son, and Walworth courties de
,clared they would do likewise.
The strike in Wisconsin was nj
without opposition from the riC
farmers. They have organized
mob of 300 as a shotgun esco