People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Will Hold Their Straw. [ARTICLE]

Will Hold Their Straw.

Vandalia, 111., July 25.— The farmers’ convention which met here to look 1 after their interests in the straw trade, which goes to the Vandalia paper mills, is calculated to place a direct boycott on the Columbian Paper Mill company. The farmers claim they will have every farmer in the county in the organization and that they will hold every ton of straw until they get their price, three dollars a ton. On the other hand, the paper mill company asserts that it canuot pay to exceed 52.50 a ton for wheat straw at the present prices of paper and will shut down the mill. >