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Criticize Wallace for Attack on Milk Strike

Joint Committee of Farmers, Workers, Consumers Flays Secretary

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - The Joint Committee of Farmers, Milk Drivers and Consumers of Philadelphia has taken violent issue with Secretary Wallace and in a statement issued February 2 criticized the secretary of agriculture for his attack against a workers and farmers' milk strike.

The Committee flatly refused to accept the dictum of the secretary of agriculture and announced that they would carry on their preparations for a strike against the Milk Trust to the benefit of farmers, milk drivers, dairy employees and consumers.

The statement, signed by A. M. Stover, chairman of the committee follows:

"In his address before the College of Agriculture at Madison, Wisconsin, Jan. 31, 1934, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace made a strong attack against "strike" as a method of winning workers and farmers demands. We maintain and hereby wish to notify Secretary Wallace to this effect, that strike action is not only justifiable beyond question, but indispensable as a weapon in the hands of all oppressed and exploited farmers and workers as a means of winning their demands.

May we also remind Secretary Wallace that the right to strike and picket is not even questioned by law. We certainly are going to use it wherever necessary.

"We have committed ourselves when carrying on a milk strike to protect the needs of sick people and children as far as possible. Secretary Wallace and the class which he represents show no similar concern over the millions of needy unemployed city workers; the policy of crop curtailment, wholesale slaughter of hogs and now the plan to cut down milk production has succeeded only in creating greater hardships for millions of workers and farmers.

"We see the interests of the dairy trusts protected. Their accounts, except for partial revelations such as the secretary has just made, remain a dark secret. We have no assurance the dis- (Continued on Page two)