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...third time in two years, John Farmer was supposed to go on strike last week. And in many a bleak Midwestern county he did so, with right goodwill. In spite of announcement by the strike's fomenter, wild-haired, bespectacled Milo Reno, that "instructions were issued that there was not to be any picketing," John Farmer went out on the highways to turn back city-bound shipments of foodstuffs. Iowa, seat of the Farmers Holiday Association, was the scene of widespread picketing. A man driving a truckload of cattle into Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called...
Sleepless for 36 hours at a stretch, indefatigable Milo Reno popped up within six days at Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago and Kankakee to recruit strikers and sympathy. He requested the NRA's approval of his banner: a green eagle clutching a pitchfork with FHA above and "We Are A Part" below. After listening to the President's radio talk to the country, promising higher commodity prices (TIME, Oct. 30) Milo Reno declared...
...That Milo Reno's cause was just, that U. S. farmers have suffered sorely, nobody could deny. Last year the Department of Agriculture significantly reported: "For 1931 income fell short by over $1,000, 000,000 of rewarding farm operators and members of their families for their labor, even if they had received only the reduced wage rates now paid to hired hands, leaving nothing available for capital and man agement." In 1932. farm income had dropped another $1,700,000,000. According to Milo Reno, a farmer would have to receive the following prices...
...debts or taxes, to fight evictions. Because the Federal farm program-based on 1909-14 price parities between industrial and farm products- has not provided prices as high as his, because farmers are still losing their homes in spite of the Farm Credit Administration, at Shenandoah, Iowa Milo Reno was enthusiastically cheered when he described the Agricultural Adjustment Act as "diabolical." He demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. "Wallace's education and association with Wall Street have made him what he is today. Wallace would make a second-rate county agent if he knew...
...Milo Reno's 1932 farm strike, also marked by rural scuffling and vituperative speechmaking, bedeviled the last days of President Hoover. His strike of last spring in Iowa was thrown out of stride in the general enthusiasm over the New Deal. But last week's agrarian trouble had the Administration worried. Sensing a discontent which smoldered deep, President Roosevelt looked about for means of starting a vigorous backfire...