Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-02-12 | Page 5 | Farmers Deny Right of Labor to Strike

OF LABOR TD SfBIKE t Memorial to Congress Formu-j Formu-j lated Describing Power to ' Starve Cities to Death , WASHINGTON, Feb- 12. Denial thai any group of organized workers i possess an inherent right to strike Is contained in a memorial to congress, formulated today at the 'conference here of representatives of four large ' farmers' organizations, the Rational Grange, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Cotton -Stntes Board 'and the AsKOciatlon of State Farmers' Union Presidents. ; In view of "recent events and happenings," hap-penings," representatives of the four organizations said, It was agreed that ' the attitude of the farmer membership of their associations on the right to ' strike should be made plain to con 'gress and to the country. J Pointing out that the city population of tho country is dependent on tho j farmer for food and that interruption j , of this supply can be brought about j through strikes of railroad or other 1 transportation unions, the memorial i asserts: , "Those who believe that labor ias an Inherent right to organize a strike, f believe that such organizations have n right to starve the people of tho cities i to death, on the one hand, and to destroy de-stroy the property of the farmers on the other. No such right has ever ex-I ex-I isted and uo such right exists now. It Is economically unsound and the 1 American people can and will work out isoine other method for the settlement j of such controversies. No set of men jhas ever had the moral or legal right i to destroy property or cause suffering by conspiring together and the welfare of the people must ever remain superior supe-rior to that of any class or group of people."