On this date in 1932, farmers across 35 North Dakota counties and 11 Midwest states launched a “Farm Holiday” strike to withhold grain, produce, and milk in protest of low prices, with sympathy from buyers, pledges from distributors, and threats of picketing and blockades spreading as far as Great Britain.

Here is the complete story as it appeared in the paper that day:

MOVEMENT SPREADS TO GREAT BRITAIN

Pickets Prepared to Halt Traffic On Highways to Twin Cities

Farm strikers widened their dominion today over 11 midwestern states, asking nearly 2,000,000 producers to clamp down on grain and produce markets. In Minnesota there were threats of picketing and from England came a story via the Associated Press that the embattled American agriculturists had won attention from their British b

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