The sun., 1916-12-06

Despite the egg boycott the WHOLESALE
nr.,c ~ cold storage egg wen UP half
q cent a dozen yesterday.
There is a little frmer market for
,,frlgerator stock under some specula.
tive support" was the way the Pro-
dpcers Price Current put It.
The quotations. as compared with the
prices on the preceding day. were a
follows!
Yesterday. Monday. '
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III they are going to be technical with
me-, I'll he technical with them" said
John i. Dillon, Commissioner OF the
state Department of Foods n Mar
kcts. Yesterday after two or three whole
sale dealers In eggs demanded that he
serve them with an oficial notice OF his
order directing that each refrigerator
egg nc stampe' with the words cold
sorage' after II caves its original case.
Mr Dillon obliged last evening with
special notifications as directed and then
said:
This order went into effect on Mon
day and 30 per cent. OF the trade ooeyed
n. Two big Arms who didn't explained
that they didn't because they didn't
have official notice. I'm the best
na,ured fellow in the world and don't
wan, to be hard on anybody. but they
have got to do as everybody else 10
DOING
Put Branding Up To Retailers.
81 md" the Commissioner continued.
cha, many big wholesalers are selling
direct 10 the retailers In the original
IA kages In order TO avoid stamping.
They used to do their Gambling In their
own places. They are trying to put the
branding OF cold storage esgs up 10 the
retailers"
and will you be able to see to Il that
all the retailers are obeying the ORDER
Well replied the Commissioner. II
have one inspector on the Job. the whole
OF his time and another IS inspecting
when his other work Is done. i will do
the hest | can"
Ten or twelve dealers told me-" Mr..
Dillon went on. that the only unfair
thing about the order is that they are
obeying II while the big fellows are
getting away with 1t. As I said. II n.y.
body Is going TO be technical. I'll be
technical too.
They are making a big fuss about
the extra labor m expense entailed
BY stamping the eggs. There's nothing
TO 1t. To-day one of my men went into
the Gambling room OF s. koenig at 1871
Duane street and watched them make
q test. They marked just three dozen
eggs in eighteen seconds. That means
stamping an entire case OF thirty dosen
eggs in three minutes. We figured that
a cent per dozen. That Is almost neg
ligible.'
Health Inspectors Won't Help.
Pending an opinion from the Corpora.
ton Counsel. II In understood Commits
sioner Dillon's department, will have Il
do all the work necessary TO carry GU
his order without the assistance of tho
sixty inspectors OF the city Department
OF Health. The Commissioner wal under
the Impression that the health inspector,
would pitch in and help out his few mel
the moment that the order went into
effect.
The Statewide egg boycott. planned
ny the New York State Conference o
Mayors, Is TO start at IL :55 o'clock thi
morning II Is the theory of those re
sponsible for the plan that peopl
throughout the State should stop at thci
lsbors Just before the noon hour an
think hard for five minutes about thu
high cost OF living and all that II means
10 them.
'ihNpl nl'Nnti mas TccSlNeu ITOn
Mayor Cornelius r. Burns OF Troy. pres
!dent Of the conference. a request to issu,
q proclamation To the people askini
them To participate in the campaign. bu
no such proclamation appeared yester
day.
Favored ny - Mayors.
Joseph Hartigan, Commissioner of III
Mayors Bureau of Weights and Meas
urcS. received yesterday a telegram fror
W, +. Capes, secretary Of the conferenc,
~ the effect that thus far twenty-fou
Mayors in New York State have Issue
tuch a proclamation and that more ar
coming.
With Congress In session and Legis
Iatures in many States about to meet.
commissioner Hartigan said last nigh
there Is an opportunity for legislator
1 serve the common people by maxim
Inquiries to determine II there are an
laws on the books which have been Ell
f"ctcd to protect large food interests
the States and are to the injury OF ind
Nidual food dealers in foodstuffs, AS we
a. a detriment to the ultimate col
gunner.
THE nations laws. together with rule
and regulations, might be looked into b
tn" national Congress with a view
uncoyering such laws which In the pa
have been promoted by the large foe
interests and which laws have operate
TO the hurt OF producers. farmers ar
retailers.
In other words. the retailer and col
sumer In the last generation ave q
loved large interests to have Law
formulated which are meant TO DO
block or an obstacle to producers ar
retailers and which levy An extra In
post and expense on consumers.
inimicaI special LeGislatiOn.
~ the statute books OF each Sta
as we'll as the national statute bool
wcro opened and the records spread b
fore the public eye. there woul be -four
uncovered special legislation which
inlmical TO producers and nsu
, and which. in u large measure. Ia. one
the large contributing factors In the hi
cost Of living"
Mr.. Hartigan Aid that he was I
formed by several grocers who attend
a meeting at 401 Bridge street, Broo
lyn, Monday night that much of 4
competition In the grocery business h
been eliminated because manufacture
~ certain standard foodstuffs dicts
the prices at which the goods shall
rctailed.
Tho commission appointed by &C
Whitman TO investigate existing hi
prices of foodstuffs and to RECOGNIZES
remedial legislation will organise ut
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