New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-28
FIXING THEIR OWN PRICE
MILK PRODUCERS MEAN BUSINESS
THEY rAKE LONG STEP FoRwARD-oAoWx
OF THE uSIoS-orHER REBoLurloxs.

OF THE UNIoN-0THER RnDoLUTl0ye.
Tho Executive Committee Of The Nilk PsodsoND
Union for tho supply Of the Now-Yorx Mastse ~
. meeting In the Grand Union Hotel yesterday. n
committee had held two meetings In tho saaoe poaDo
since tho ANIMAL meeting Of tho union IN Adelyn
Hall In this city on January 30. AZ that meeting ~
committee WIS named and instructed 10 formnlaae
plan Of campaign With the object Of substituting pess
for milk fixed By the IN In tho place q To MN
Exchange price. which Is tho present basis q 60.
tracts made by the milk farmers and Is, they ssses tos
Low.
At the first meeting. February 7. tho committee
adopted and sent out to the sections for the1f ~
proval or dsapproval . plan Of organization which
they called Plan d. Briefly told. u dvtdod the a.
ganization OF the territory supplying NevYork ci0
with milk into central union and branch saina1.
These branch unions werc called after various MIN
shipping routes leading into tho city,
These branch unions To let tho central union N
the price, look after the creamercs and certain other
things and the branch unions werc To see thss n
price fixed by the central union was maintained
Plan d . governing plan and changed sot0s
what tho constitution OF the union. Is still beftss
the sections for their action. On February II ~
Executive Committee again met at the Grand Cnof
and sent out Plans and T. These wero businest
plans or regulations governing the shipping, handing
and sale OF the milk. At the previous meeting th6
committee had also submitted 10 the sections rssoh'
Dealers under their constitution called tho Boston
Plan, There three plans differed In several pass
tculars but the most vital was in the matter Of pey'
mcnt and the handling Of the surplus. Plan was .
&C O. D." plan. making tho dealer pay Tor tho NV
he gpt every day at the city platform, tho ra Ioess
to collect for tho farmer. Plan and tho bosson
Plan permitted the producer to get pay 1t stated
periods.
Tho division Of sentiment thus aroused Ia tho COM
mittce spread to the sections and seemed hkey %
cause some trouble. This was the situation OF mlnSs
when the Executive Committee met yesterday. The0
were present Of tho committee Judge Lewis j. Martin.
of Decke rtown Sussex County, ~ j.. chairman; Isase
w. White OF Dover Plains, Dutchess County; Irs W.
Hoag OF Pawllng Dutchess County; J. A d. s. P1nlay
Of salisbury Mills, Orange County; C. c. smith, $50
rotary OF the union. and cxAssemblyman ". W.
Howeik, Of Orange County, treasurer OK tho unioa"
Charles p Bassett OF Walton, Delaware County, w
the only absent member Of the committee. ~
D. H. when tho meeting broke up. It was announces
that hapw solution Of their trouble had been reachea
and AN important step taken by the committee. TAn
important step the passage OF tho following resom
tlons: ,.. ..-.
Resolved That the Executive Committee fecemmeos
ha, be made at once along the various I'M.
q, t-.nsnortaoa where milk Is produced 10 take care
the surplus milk by erecting ereameres or oHsins @s
same or In any other way that VIII enao's u" S'0s
TO control the same
, Resolved That we make price,
The committee decided TO avoid tho nreatence
division over the c. o. ID. or Boston plan oy SAIL
ing around It and leaving 1t to the branch unions fof
discussion and decision by them hereaitef' ~ Ho~'
ever passed the following resolution:
Whereas, Condenseres purchase MIX " eon'ss' %"
for a certain fixed time and
wherea. Tho union may not nx any price For nxe4
period Of time; therefore,
Resolved That the members Of the union who sell snes
milk TO condenseres where the same is pachaseo unaef
CONTRACT price for than six months may hsvs NE
right 10 make such contracts without regard being nsS
4, any price fixed BY tho Executive Connsses OF -
union and this provision shall apply 70 memo0s
OF the union selling butter and cheese factories 70 %
manufa :tured into butter cheese.
A price according TO the resolution was then ssreos
upon but 1t Will not BE- made public until such Iime
AZ the Executive Committee shall decide upon.
Secretary smith read reports showing that WIN
seventy one out Of sections sul TO report, ueee
were In the union 0,320 cans per day o. DIX
The other sections he said, would undoubtedly brue
the number OF cans Of union milk up 10 12oOO per
day or fourffths of all the milk sent 70 tHlS city:
II was announced that branch unions had been forreo
on the Lackawanna, the ontario the Harlem ana tho
HousatonIc routes. The Newburg boat route farmers
were desrous OF organizing branch union ana steRs
would be taken to expedite the work. II wss sNe
that there are about 123 crcamertcs shipping mix 70
this CITY. creamery plant Is worth nom " 600
to ga 600 While buying leasing them would be no
small task for tho farmers, yet u VIII NOT % =
great as a Joint stock company undertaking.