The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-11-16
Plan to Vote on COunty's Action
in Movement Changed by
Holiday Head
MARKETS REMAIN OPEN
Business Men Agree to Follow
Will of Farmers Tributary
to City Markets

to City Markets
Two meetings of farmers in Red
wood and Renville counties will be
held in Redwood Falls, the first this
afternoon Thursday and the second
Friday evening.
A. j. Olson, president of the Min
nesota Farm Bureau Federation, will
speak at the first meeting and it is
possible that John Brandt, president
of the Land O'Lakes creameries, will
be here.
The second will be Farmers Holt
day meeting and Lieutenant Governor
K. X. Solberg of Clarldield and Lud-
wig Hanson, Yellow Medicine county
treasurer, will be the principal speak
ers. A holiday meeting is planned at
Morgan next week.
The meetings are an outgrowth of
a conference Of a business mems
committee and committee from the
holiday association in Redwood Falls
Monday afternoon at which it was
agreed that the question of closing
Redwood Falls markets would be left
to decision of farmers at the second
meeting. Wednesday Albert Nelson
of Belview, acting president of the
county holiday group, announced
that plans of the strikers have been
changed and no vote will be taken.
1t is likely that expressions of senti-
ment will be asked at both meetings,
however.
Strike Plan Changed
Partial lifting of marketing restric-
tons on cream and butter and in
creased peaceful picketing of high
ways to discourage marketing Of
other farm commodities were decided
on late Tuesday by Minnesota Farm
Holiday association leaders. meeting
in st. Paul The leaders decided to
permit marketing of cream and man
ufacture of butter provided the latter
is stored on the premises and not
shipped to market. Many closed
creameries reopened Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The Holiday association committee
which called here included Mr.. Mel
son, Grant Adsit, Gunder Holt, Carl
Holt, William Eide. David Jacobson,
Knute Lauve and Gilbert Slogan, all
from Kintire, Swedes Forest and Del
hi townships.
For the present no effort will be
made by Redwood county farmers to
close the creamery, produce stations
or elevators here, it was agreed. P. j.
Kolbet, proprietor of the Kolbet
Dairy, agreed to close after the Sec
ond meeting if majority of the per-
sons there decide in favor of clos
ing. He also agreed to close after
the second meeting if all the other
creameries in the county close.
The conference was entirely peace
full. Leon H. Brown introduced the
business men and eight farmers who
came to request closing and Grant
Adsit of near Belv;ew acted as
spokesman for the farmers. He pre-
scented the farm problem, declaring
nothing has been done by the admin
istration, calling the refusal Of the
president to adopt the governors
program "a slap in the face" and
predicting early attention to the
problem when the farm strike be-
comes general.
Seek Cooperation
Others in the group reminded BUSH
ness men that the farmers of the sur
rounding area built Redwood Falls
and that they have right to request
cooperation. They remarked of the
cordial hearing they were receiving,
saying they had been told that "Red-
wood will throw you in jail" One Of
the group called the checks to be dis
tributed soon as part of the wheat
allotment plan "hush money" They
spoke against violence and said they
came here as committee in the hope
of getting cooperation and prevent
ing repetition of the mob visit to
Marshall.
Frank Clague, George A. Barnes, L.
E. Backer, chairman of the meeting,
Mr.. Kolbet and others spoke for the
committee. Mr.. Clague and Mr.. Barnes
declared they believe that the admin
istration is sincere in attempting to
help the farmer and that material aid
will come from the efforts underway.
Mr.. Clague stressed that the program
cannot be expected to produce results
in q few weeks.
All the speakers for the business
men expressed grave doubt that
striking win result in benefit to the
farmer, claiming that the surplus in
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