Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — Farmers Hit by Rail Strike. [ARTICLE]

Farmers Hit by Rail Strike.

Indianapolis, Aug. B.—Farmers are first to be affected by the strike of railroad shopmen and the decline of $1.50 on hogs and eight and a half cents a bushel on corn here in two days already has caused a loss of thousands of dollars to farmers, John G. Brown of Monon, president of the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations, dclared. The drop in prices Is not an indication of a lowering of the cost of living, but merely a reflection of apprehension that, shipments will be curtailed by the strike, he asserted.