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Editorials
August 31, 1932 issue

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There is something profoundly pathetic about the "farmers' holiday" recently declared in the vicinity of Sioux City, Iowa. Farmers have "struck" they refuse to send their products to Sioux City and they are picketing highways to prevent trucks from bringing other products in. The "holiday," they announce, will go on until they can obtain 1 dollar a bushel for their wheat or until they are paid for their other products "cost of production plus a fair profit." The strike reveals the mood of desperation to which farmers have finally been brought by the course of events, but it also reveals the lack of any concerted program the lack of any thinking through of consequences, the absence in brief, of fundamental economic intelligence.

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PICKETING; FARMERS; DEMONSTRATIONS; STRIKES & lockouts; COST; PROFIT
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