Show FARMERS STRIKE FOR DOLLAR WHEAT I EAT American Society of Equity Asks Producers to Hold Their Grain MINIMUM PRICE IS SET Leaders of ur Movement Contend That float lt Suu Surplus Stocks of f rall Should nt Remain main ill In lit First lluHI Hands Indianapolis March arch 1 The The I-The Tho A Amer American met mm ican an Society of or Equity or 01 Dollar which has It Its tr tors rut In this city has organized what hal halIt it calls cals a strike of farmers farmer's to to begin of or th the society I March larch 1 L The rite officers fa say it tt i now has hs about members atom mem I bets bers blIs blI's to I which more are being benG added l dal dally daily through promoters who are ae organizing or or- branches of ot the In farming communities throughout h ut the tH west There are at present several I nr organizers s working in Utah and und thc the surrounding states 8 I A principle of or the organization I Li j that the farmer should control the i price of or what he lie produces and along this line lne the society fixes a a minimum I price on en each h crop for wheat corn hogs cattle catte anti and dairy products products This price J Is supposedly based on the years year's production taking Into consideration the output of oth other t countries and the lie worlds world's known Iwo n demands The minimum minimum min min- nun nun- price set get for Coo wheat heat this season non nonIs Is 1 a bushed With Ith ei eight ht months month of the crop year ear gone one the price prie ha la toot not reached readied anywhere near neat that OslE fig fig- Os- Os ire rie lE and has lias been hovering around the SO cent mark for fOl some tune time Literature lute to Formers In literature sent to all al of or l i the m members member's mem m- m hers ber's be of or th the society anti and ant to a list of OOOO farmers who unto are not members member H scattered over ovet tho the wheat producing territory of the country the tho society says as the only way for tor the farmer Canner to tose get se wheat to the dollar mark mrk Is to hold It In his bins The society's members members mem menu bers hers are called caled on to to strike e against the marketing o of wheat or an any other farm Carm products that are e selling below the society's schedule The rhe of the society contend that hint even en if IC there Is a bl big biff American surplus of or wIt wheat wheat eat variously estimated I mated at U to hush bushels cIs the time farmers should not e it h I by br telling It to lo speculators and anti storage nen n n at low Jow prices who may hold It aa ns aaa ana a club to bent beat down prices for the new crop rhe They hold that the thc farmer Carmel be the one to do the holding and ind come In for the the marketing of the Iho surplus when the thc price reaches the tIme limit set set Although there are mn many who ho do dolot donot not lot take either the society or its organizers or 01 ot seriously saying that the wiel wide vide distribution of oC Its Is members will trill wi mal make ninke maket It t Impossible to carry out me tie C plans outlined there are ame many grain dealers deal deal- ers CIS who admit that lint the movement In Iii II the last Jast two years cars has Induced d man many f farmers to hold their crops CrOIS indefinitely and that this has resulted in iii higher prices Just JUt how much effect tho the so society to u- u cl clot t has had hd however howe el thero are few who ho will trill wi mako a definite estimate I |