Farmer's Holiday Association
- Farmer's Holiday Association
The Farmer's Holiday Association is a group started in the summer of 1932 by Milo Reno. The members of The Farmer's Holiday Association endorsed the withholding of farm products from the market, in essence creating a farmers' strike.
The strike was organised by Milo Reno, and in it, farmers went to extreme measures to ensure that their wants were carried through. One person was killed when the farmers began to blockade roads, and other farmers rallied to destroy their crops, reducing supply, and raising prices. One rumour states that the farmers used torpedoes to halt a train carrying livestock into Iowa. The highways into Sioux City and Council Bluffs were blocked by pickets who dumped any farm produce on the side of the road. At Le Mars, Iowa some farmers even dragged a judge out of his courtroom, placed a noose around his neck, and threatened to hang him lest he stop approving farm foreclosures. (Stock 1996:83).
ee also
*Iowa Cow War
*Stock, Catherine McNichol: "Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain." Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.
*Corcoran, James: "Bitter Harvest, Gordon Kahl and the Posse Comitatus: Murder in the Heartland." New York: Penguin, 1990.
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