Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-12-06
IN THE WORLD.
OF LABOR.
The Week Among The Work.
ers, And Items OF Interest
For Working Men.

say milk speculators) are possessed of
. rich bunch of humor and they can
make it pay. Last week I received,
along with my modest quart and a
half Of milk, circular, describing
nae as dear friend and politely IN
tiinating that Twas to be charged
twenty percent more for my milk in
the futura.
| could not help thinking that the
"dear" friend was on the other side
OF the fence this time, and that l was
expected to be the cheap one.
But one Of the dealers? (specula-
torS) has carried the joke still fur.
ther and has had the hardihood to
come out in the public press and say
that this increa is because of the In.
creased cost of farming. Those who
read the papers know chat the cost
OF running milk farm is less now
than it was twelve months ago, but
apart from that, most Of the Barre
milk dealers buy their milk Of the
farmers at d cents quart and have
nothing to do with farming at all.
1ndeed I know Of one who has just
concluded contract with farmer to
supply him with milk at d cents a |
quart for five years. This man is one |
Of those who got up the "dear friends"
circular, and so we can see that 1t is |
not the ''poor farmer" who is asking
for more, but the speculator, pure
and simple. The farmer gets %
cents for the whole trouble of produ-
cling the milk and the speculator
wants 81 for pouring it into our milk
cans at the door.
But the Cooperative Society is out
on the job and the chauc Is are we may
soon get milk without the dealer or
middleman. Anyhow I will see these
milk distributors hanged, drawn and
4uartsrod before pay them - cents
to pour quart Of milk into my can.
BY the way, I wonder how many
workmen in Barre have stopped to
consider how much this little piece of
on the part Of the milk
means.
A milk man with a supply of 500
quarts day, and who was getting be-
Tore $3.50 for delivering 1t would
now receive Git. so and at the end of
he year he would have pulled out of
'ur pockets1s1S25.
Take the whole population Of Barre
md allow that they use one pint of
MIX day which is a very modest
and we find that at the |e
md OF the year our milk spectators Il
AXE out of US by this rise &13,2 ,250. II
II the city or state imposed an in I
creased tax OF such an amount for
'cads or schools, ETC., there would be-
'uch yell OF rage that the world
would shiver on it's axis, but private /
raiders in ssbusiness can do it at their I
,wn sweet will-so long as the people. I
efuse to do things for themselves. {
Judge Boyce made a mistake the I
)ther night wheD he went up to sup-.f
,c rt the Boycott bill before the House 1
and found 1T was not that e
,ill but the compulsory arbitration
Dill that was to be considered.
The Judge practically admitted he
vas representing Wheaton the only I
quarryman iE Barre, and =
lad two of Wheatons workmen to I
Jack him up. I
We will see him again when the
Boycott bill comes up and will be de- a
ie ht.d to discuss Its provisions with '
lin. Asi vas he took up the time q
# the committee discussing matter
hat was not before the HOUSE
l understand that few of the
Barre trade un,onistS have decided to
entertain some Of the most advanced
members of the legislature at sRpper
IN Tuesday night, in our own town
md in our own way This is as it
should be and If the list OF those to be
ia ANYTHING like the One I saw