The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-04-05

INDEPENDENT MILKDE.4LERS.

| Held an Important DIeeting Yesterday
| Steps Taken to Call n Mass Meeting.
The Independent milk dealers of this
city or those who declare themselves as
opposed to the Milk Trust held a meet
ing in room Is, Insurance building, yes
terday at o'clock. The object of
the meeting was to make arrangements
for mass meeting at some later date
About fifty milk men were present
A subsequent talk with some of the
, milk men revealed the fact that there
are about seventy-fve Of these indepen-
dent milk dealers in this city who have
refused to give options to the syndi-
cate. 1t is said that the price offered
by the trust for milk at Wholesale is
only az cents per quart, which the
former state is lower than they can af-
ford to furnish it at Believing that
if it is stated to the public in Clear
truthful mnaner they say it will gain
them the confidence that they desire.
The meeting was presided over by
Horace Johnson Of Hamden, with l..
G. Hemingway of Westville acting as
secretary. The sense of the meeting
was presented in the following set of
resolutions that were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, The milk supply of New
Haven, and those engaged in supply
ing milk, have both been brought prom
inently to the attention of the public,
and
Whereas, The milk dealers who are OPP
posed to the trust, for years have been
engaged in supplying milk to the New
Haven public under the careful scruti-
ny Of the states milk inspectors, and
Whereas, The last printed report Of
the Connecticut legislature calls par
tcular attention to the fact that the
New Haven milk supply was always
up to the standard, and
Whereas. A full and unlimited sup
ply of pure milk. both summer and
winter has always been furnished at
the minimum cost to consumers, and
Whereas, The source of the milk sup
ply for New Haven is a matter of furn-
ishing more than 100000 people, rich
and poor alike with pure milk at low
est cost and not matter of creating
dividends for a few, and
Whereas, The price of milk is kept at
the minimum by the competition Of
men whose daily bread, farms, cattle,
wives and children, everything in life,
are centered in and
Wberooc Tl,ic roo bo5y Of ,,roJ,,o-
ers, suburban to the city of New Ha-
ven, represent a population whose
large daily expenditure of money near
ly all circulates In various channels |
throughout the city,
Be it therefore resolved That the |
above named dealers, as body, call a |
public mass meeting of milk consum- |
ers and those who furnish the supply |
and lay before the people all these facts |
and ask for the continued support and |
confidence of the public in following our |
lawful calling as milk producers for all |
the people, as against compelling nearly |
all the people to create dividends for the |
few who can afford to buy Trust"
stock.
The matter of holding mass meet
ity of the milk dealers were in favor of |
the plan. The following were finally |
appointed a committee to look up a |
suitable hall and make all necessary ar
for the affair. Mr.. Petit
of Fair Haven, chairman; Mr.. Cowles,
Mr.. Thatcher, Mr., Hemingway and Mr.
Webb.
During the course of the meeting
Charles F. Southland of the Gamble
Desmond Co., made short address be-
fore those present-as he stated, upon
behalf of the consumer. He said that
the milk supply of New Haven had
always been of the best and that the
consumers had always been furnished
with sweet pure milk. He was opposed
to letting the business pass into the
hands of a trust. as he believed that
Inferior milk would be furnished In
speaking thus he said he thought he
voiced the sentiments of the other con-
sumers Of the city.