Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-25 | Page 2 | Farmers Dump Milk, Halt Stock Shipments

Farmers Dump Damp Milk Halt Stock Shipments Iowa Wisconsin Organizations Give Notice of Intention to Continue Blockading Blockading Blockading ing of Highways 8 By United Unitt Pr Prell DES MOINES Iowa Oct 25 Midwestern 25 farmers dumped milk and turned timed back shipments of ot livestock to market today in an effort to enforce enforce en en- force torce the strike called by the the National National Farm Fann Holiday association Farm organizations in Iowa and Wisconsin notified dairymen and farmers of ot the their intention n to continue to blockade highways by force ful ul means mean if necessary At Milan Wis farm strike pickets pick ets eta invaded a n cheese plant and dumped pounds of milk from V vats Trucks loaded with livestock were turned back near Sioux City Iowa Production was halted in ehe cheese e factories factories fac lae- tories of oC Barren Barron Ru Runn Runn- Rusk Rush Polk and Chippewa counties in 10 Wisconsin Delegates from Farm Holiday associations associations asso asso- in Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota met in Sioux City to lay plans for enforcing the strike A resolution indorsing picketing and d declaring larIng This is war nothing l less was adopted Representatives of ot 12 creameries In Chippewa and Dunn counties Wis Wisconsin Wiscon Wiscon- on- on sin met at Bloomer Wis and decided to o close their plants for five days das beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning Friday While Reno Rene and other ether Holiday association asso asso- elation officers toured the middle west pleading for lor support the movement met opposition from several sources Representatives of the Wisconsin cooperative milk pool in Waukesha Milwaukee and Washington counties voted against Joining the strike at this time Keith Neville who resigned last week as chairman of oC the Nebraska NebraskaN N R A board because he felt the N R A Ahad Ahad Ahad had not hel helped cd the farmer said there was no ne hope of ot adjusting inequalities through the farm arm strike The strike is the inspiration of desperate desperate desperate des des- and d discouraged men Neville wrote General Hugh Johnson I III regret regret re re- gret and deplore it