New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-10
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MILK PRODUCERS IN LINE.
ALMOST READY TO GIVE BATTLE TO THY
EXCHANGE.
AN IMPORTANT MEETING HELD IN THE couHE
HOUSE AT GOSHEN-ALL THE MILK TERRI.
TORY ORGANIZED A COMMITTEE TO

HOUSE AT GosHEN-ALL THE MILK TERRI:
TORY ORGANIZED A COMMITTEE TO
REPORT PLAN OF ACTION.
| Goshen, " Y, Jan. 9.-Never before in the
| history of this pretty little town, the seat Of
Orange County has there been such an important
gathering of farmers and milk producers as met
here to-day Fully three hundred solid-lookins
and determined men responded to a call OF the
| Executive Committee Of the Milk Producers
| Union to met at the st. Elmo Hotel here and
/ take some decisive step toward locking horns
with their ancient enemy, the Milk Exchange OF
| New-fork City. When the farmers carried on
the bitter against the Milk Exchange in
| 1882, and poured thousands Of cans of milk int
/ the cutters Of Goshen and MiddletOwn, the men
engaged in the struggle were milk producers Of
/ Orange County alone The result of that con-
| fict taught them lesson At yesterdays meet
! ing there milk producers from every district
that ships milk into the city. They came from
! Susquehanna County, Penn, from the far east
end of Long Island, from all the
nearby counties of --ew-Jersey from tha
valleys of the Housatonic and the Connecticut,
| from Dutchess County and Westchester, and
there were delegates present from Sauquoit, in
Oneida County, known the North Pole Of
the milk producing region Never before had 50
/
/ hled The movement to organize began about
year ago. Ar each shipping point group Of
farmers was formed into a section. the first SEQ
tion being Organzcd in March They had been
producing milk for the last three years at Ia
cents a quart in the summer, and through the
winter at cents or less. Up in Chenang0
! County milk has been sold by the farmers as
low Is cents quart. The average price
! for the year had been less than l-2 cents. As
! the consumer in the city still paid 6, and 0
cents quart the farmers finally determined TO
! give battle once more to the obnoxious Milk Tx.
change. the trust which arbitrarily fixes the price
! of milk each month But they did not rush IN
preciptatey and unprepared, as In 1882. Ever
since February 2s last, when the Milk Producers
/ Union formed, the union has had chief
organizer with eleven county agents and four dis
trict agents har' at work forming sections and
educating the farmers up to the coming strug.
Gle. All told. there now about 4 900 members
of the 80 sections that have been organized
| Each man joining section pays in 81. The
Organization OF all the milk territory is near
completed that this call was issued by the Execu.
tive Committee
Union OF MIX Producers for the Supply OF New.Yorh
Market. c. Winston. Secretary.
Greene, Chsnango CO., v. Y. Dec. 3. 1889. =
Al meeting OF the executive committee held the
| d
representative who interested in supplying New
York city and vicinity with milk the Elmo Hotel,
Goshen Orange County. y. Y, January o. 1890, 10
o'clock for the purpose OF formulating plan for the
organization Of a company, other deiye
milk in New-YorA City and vicinity.
W. B. PIERCE.
c. Il. MINER.
| j. T. LOOMS.
T TERwIELIGER
c. WINSTON.
Executive Committee.
Yesterdays meeting in response 10 this call fan
exceeded the most sanguine expectations Of the
producers. The 81. Elmo Hotel was much too
! small to accommodate the delegates. and they
took possession of the spacious courtroom in the
| Court House The meeting chose Nathan w.
! Howell, of Blooming Grove. Orange County, it's
chairman. Mr.. Howell took the gavel and called
/ the assembly 10 order. C. c. Smith, Of Orange
! County, was chosen secretary. Mr.. Smith then
| read the executive committees call for the meet
! ing.
! Walter B. Pierce, Of Chenango Forks Broome
| County y. Y. the chief organizer. moved thai
in accordance with the call the chair appoint q
committee. some ten or twelve representative
men. who should hear all plans and suggestions
! which any one had to make on the subject,
and with the best light before them formulate
stock company plan of campaign against the Milk
! Exchange, and submit it 10 the executive cons
mittce. This committee IN turn would submit thd
plan 10 each section 10 be voted on by the sec
tions for approval or disapproval.
1t was moved by delegate that Chairman
! Howell be a member of the committee This was
carried.
Mr. Pierce then addressed the meeting reviewing
the long work of organization and discussing
the proposed plan of campaign against the Milk
| Exchange. We have organized our sections
said Mr.. Pierce. ION the plan of the Boston Milk
/ Pro Ncers Union That union deals with middle
men. We don't want 10 deal with mddlemen. so
our plan must he that of a stock company, after
! the London and Syracuse plan that is, the pro-
ducers handle the milk without the intervention
of the middlcmcn. When started this we in
tended 10 take in all the milk producers: in other
words. that the hoop should 90 around the barrel.
| What have we done? OF the fourteen mllk-pro-
ducing counties of the State eleven are ready To
| march at the beat of the drum and | am proud
| 10 say that old Orange. with twcnty-Iine sections
or,e,nized stands as she always did. first in milk.
first in butter. and first in the struggles OF the
/ mill, nrolucerS ike good news comes from