Apart from the eight to ten million unemployed in the United States, vast numbers of others, especially the farming community, are in a parlous condition owing to the fact that they have been unable to obtain prices for their goods equal to the cost of production.
Early this year the farmers organized a form of "strike" to try to end this state of things, but it broke down after clashes with the police.
A new scheme is now being tried by the farmers of the Middle West. They recently formed an organisa~ tion known as the Farmers' Holiday Association and this has now circulated a request to all the farmers in eleven States throughout the Middle West to withhold all their products until better prices are assured.
A vast grain and livestock holdup is expected to be the result of this move.—Reuter.
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