The sun., 1916-08-19
BORDENS SAY LABOR
BOOSTED MILK PRICE
Increased Pay and Cost Of De.
livery Forced Move, Of
ficials Tell Swami.
SOON TO RESTORE RATES
Market Commissioner Dillon
and Wicks Board Continue
Investigations.

Several important moves were
yesterday In official and semi-oflcial In
vestigations to find out why the milk
consumer should be threatened with fur
Their increases In the price OF milk when
he Is now paying from /: to . 1-c times
as much as tho producer receives from
the distributor.
District Attorney Swami had an audi
ence with officials Of Borden's Condensed
MIX Company. which distributes 22 per
cent. OF the milk sold in the m%etropoli-
tan district. He learned from them h a
the increase by the company In Grade
b bottled pints from 6 to 8 cents and In
Grade A milk from 10 to IL cents per
quart was necessitated by increased cost
Of labor and distribution.
The District Attorney was assured
that these increases are temporary only.
and that the company Will restore for
mer prices as soon as conditions Justify
such action. The conference was BY in
v~itation.
Commissioner Joseph ]. lfartigan of
the Mayors Bureau OF Weights and
Measures sent a letter to COMMISSIONS
John j. Dillon Of the State Department
Of Foods and Markets. in which he Of
fered to place at the departments dis
posal all the data collected by his in
spectors concerning milk conditions and
the varying prices in their survey of the
greater city.
Mrs. Julian Heath, president Of the
National Housewives League, received a
letter from Albert Manning. secretary OF
the Dairymen's League. saying that II.
A.. Hartshorn Of Hamilton, who sue
ceeded John Y. Gerow as president last
week, will he glad to confer with a com
mittee Of the league now investigating
the milk situation. The committee has
already heard the milk distributors side
of the controversy. No date has been
fixed for the conference with the up.
State farmers and dairymen.
W.icks hoard Coming.
! In addition TO all these activities the
Wicks Senate Committee. which has
been more than skimming the milk
situation in sixteen upstate counties. is
coming TO this city on Friday next for
the purpose Of investigating here. II
is believed that all the big retail dealers
will get a chance to explain why there
should be such a wide margin between
the wholesale and the retail prices OF
milk.
In the Meantime the Department OIL
Foods and Markets is devoting much
Of its energies to carry on, Commis'
sioner Dillon's plan for recognising the
milk business from start to finish In tht
State. The Commissioner is now on his
vacation and when he returns 4, Is ex'
pectcd hat things will hum. Already
the plan has caused a feeling akin &c
nervousness among the big distributors
The plan calls for the organization
OF milk producers Of a certain section
the organisation TO he made the agen'
OF the producers for the sale OF all theii
milk. The various associations will ap
point the state Department Of Foods ant
Markets or some other agency to sci
all the milk. No milk IL 10 be sold b,
an Individual farmer or by an individual
association.
Those who prefer to keep the pro
ducers everlastingly selling as lndlvid
uals,'' says the Rurdi Nep Yorker. q
which Commissioner Dillon is treAsur
and general manager. tell the farme
that under such "A plan he loses entir'
control OF his milk. sometimes the,
make the farmer believe Il.