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Farmers--Wisconsin--Societies, etc.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Arnold Gilberts Papers, 1930-1934

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss C
Summary Papers of Gilberts, president of the Wisconsin chapter of the Farmers' Holiday Association, which was started in Iowa during the Depression by Milo Reno as an “organized refusal to deliver the products of the farm at less than production costs.” Correspondence and minutes of meetings and conferences, 1932-1933, are mainly concerned with the farmers' strike in October and November of 1933 and with Gilberts' 1932 primary campaign on the Progressive ticket as candidate for the U.S. House of...
Dates: 1930-1934