The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-17
PROBABLE DEMANDS GIVEN OUT
Producers in This County Promise to
s. be in the Very Thick of the Fight
and Will Stick With the Producers
Union This Year.

kenosha county milk producers are
ON edge this week in anticipation of the
opening of the great fight between the
Milk Producers Union and the Chicago
wholesalers which is slated to open
with the beginning of March and the
managers of the campaign of the ship
pers have already agreed upon the de-
mands that they will make for an in
creased price for their product. This
demand will be made when the new
contracts are signed in the early part
of March and the leader of the organi-
cation in Kenosha county declares that
large majority of the shippers in this
county will stick for the demands of
the union. One of the leaders when
seen today declared:
"The Kenosha milk shippers have
seen great light and they now feel
that all that is necessary for them to
gain their point is to stick with the
union and / do not believe that doz-
en- contracts will be signed in this
county unless the wholesalers and the
owners of the bottling works meet the
demands of the producers. Possibili-
ties of the erection of creameries and
bottling works at every platform in
the county are already being discussed
by the producers and it looks now as
if these men would be willing to invest
their money in order to keep up the
fight"
In Chicago it is expected that the
war between the two factions will pro-
duce milk famine.
Secretary J. P. Grier of the produc-
ers' association was not inclined to dis
cuss the famine possibilities at great
length yesterday, but did say the direc-
tors would lay plans next week for the
building of creameries and cheese fac
tories to offset the expected refusal of
increased prices.
~ am in no position to say what
schedule of demands will be adopted by
our directors" said Mr.. Grier, Ebut it
is no secret that we have been prepar-
ing to combat the trust since our de-
feat last autumn. We are now strong
enough to do SO and the erection of
creameries and cheese factories will
solve the question Of what shall be-
come Of our product if we cannot sell
it in Chicago. Last summer many of
these paid more for milk than did the
big distributors.
Gone hundred pounds of milk will
make eleven pounds of cheese, which
can be sold at sixteen cents a pound
and more, and the nearly defunct butter
industry of the Elgin section can be
revived at profit to ourselves. The
increased cost of everything connected
with dairying forces us to demand more
for milk, and if the distributors will
not give US fair share of the profit
the public responsibility is up to
Them
IF producers and distributors come
to deadlock and the former do not
dispose of all their output to butter
factories they may establish central
distributing point and carry on the
entire business. This would require
more money than they can afford at
this, but Secretary Grier said some capt
talists were figuring on such plan.
1t would be impossible for such a de-
pot to do business before autumn.
Prices paid last year for summer milk
at the bottling plants and at Chicago
stations when the producers assumed
the risks incident to shipping and the
probable demands that will be made on
the trust firms next month follow:
Bottled, per 100lbs. Per gall. can
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