The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-11-23
WOULD ELIMINATE STRIKES
Kenosha County Expects to Send Two
Delegates to Big Gathering to Be Held
In Chicago on December 2nd-Many
States Included in the Call.

Better milk marketing without the
costly milk strikes Of the past few
months will be striven for by milk pro-
ducers from all important marketing
sections of the United States in the
first national meeting of milk produc-
ers to be held in Chicago, Tuesday,
December 5th, according to a call is
sued today The Milk Producers
Association of the Chicago dairy dis
trict, an organization that won the
milk strike a few months ago and
forced the big dealers to come to terms,
has issued the call. Some twelve
thousand raw milk producers of North
ern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin and
Northern Indiana make up this organi-
cation, which is taking the initiative
in bringing together the representa-
tives Of other big producing districts.
The meetingi to be held under the
auspices of the National Conference on
Markets and Farm credits, which holds
its fourth annual gathering at the
Hotel Sherman, Chicago, December 49,
Delegates from New England, Califor-
MIA, New York, Ohio, Minnesota, Wis
consin and Missouri will be present
Two delegates will represent Kenosha
county.
"The production and distribution of
whole milk is undergoing remarkable
Transformations says the call issued
by the Board of Directors of the Milk
Producers Association. ''The milk
producers of America are finding
themselves forced to quit the business
in large numbers on account of high
production costs involving land values
and higher labor charges, higher costs
of feeds and sanitary requirements.
This condition leaves only two alter
natives for the milk producers in areas
close to large cities. They must either
re-organize their methods of producing
and distributing their milk, or they
must go ont of business and leave to
the farmers of the most distant sec
tions the task of supplying the centers.
The latter course would work a great
hardship upon thousands of milk pro-
ducers, and, we believe, is unnecessary
if the production and distribution
of milk were placed upon a real
efficiency basis.
Milk producers must, therefore,
take upon themselves the working out
of fair and equitable methods for col
lectiye sales of their milk. They must
also work to secure contract prices that
range over longer period than the
customary six months contract.
Believing, therefore, that one Sec
ton may learn from another, and that
some workable plan may be agreed
upon that will avoid costly strikes
that entail loss to producers and suf-
fering to consumers, the Milk Produc-
ers' Association of the Chicago dairy
district invites milk producers from
every dairy district in the United
States to meet us at the Hotel Sher-
man, December 5th under the auspices
of the National Conference on Market
ing and Farm Credits to confer on
plans that look to the complete re-
organization of our industry
W. j. Kittle, 20 South LaSalle street,
Chicago, is secretary of the or
ganization issuing the call.
National headquarters this morning
announced that nearly two thousand
delegates representing about two mil
lion farmers are expected to the fourth
national conference in marketing and
farm credits. Practically every state
will send delegates. In 1916 forty-six
states and several provinces of Cana
da were represented.