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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Edgar Farmer proposes a Farmers Strike Making National News - 1946

Edgar and Clay County made national news in an Associated Press news story about an Edgar meeting of 216 farmers led by V. Hubert Johnson, a local farmer. Johnson proposed a national “strike against strikes” with farmers withholding products from the market in protest of the numerous strikes in various industries. 



Two weeks later this follow-up story appeared in The Sutton News on February 14, 1946