The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-09
DAIRYMEN'S LEADER
GOES AWAY IN HUFF
Wants n. Y. Commission to
Assume Jurisdiction Over
Milk in Vermont.
IT DOES NOT COME HERE
independent Dealers in Har-
lem Complain Borden's Is
Selling at a Loss.

Relations in the producer d;stributer-
consumer tria ngle Of the Governors MIX
Commission are more or less sraineu.
Evidence Of this was furnished last night
al the end OF long session OF the com
mission In 1876 Broadway by r. D.
Cooper. president OF the Dairymens
League.
Mr.. Cooper left the meeting room with
Mr. Miller; BRADLEY Fuller. counsel for
the league. and Isaac A. Van Bomel OF
Sheffield Farms, VINO, with Charles A.
Weiant. president OF Borden's Farm
Products Company, represents the dis
o. ,buters, and addressing Robert T..
Bowling. consumers representative and
chairman of the commission. said;
MIR. Bowling, unless you change your
mind in that matter we were talking
about | do not see how l can be or any
further use on the commission
Then lie walked on; with the others,
went down in the elevator and was OH
| in jlry.
The matter we were talking about
was explained ny Mr.. Bowling as being
the case OF Richmond VT. farmers. y
group OF Richmond farmers. Mr.. Bowling
said, are members of the Dalrymen
! League and believe they should receive
the league price for their milk. How
ever, as there Is no evidence TO show that
came to this state Mr.. Bowling said he
saw no reason for the commission taking
| any action. II was different from the
| case Of Jersey or Pennsylvania farmers.
whose product comes directly TO this
| state for sale and consumption here. he
| said, but SO far as the Vermont farmers
IS concerned It may be consumed in Bos-
ton or any other part Of New England.
| 1t was possible some Of it might come
/ IATN 1nd
milk, he added, but he was very sure,
unless the league could show differently,
that there is no reason now why New
York commission should assume any
| jurisdiction over Vermont milk.
Fer three hours during the afternoon
| the Governors Milk Commission listened
| to complaints Of independent wholesale
milk dealers in Harlem and The Bronx
that Borden's Farm Products Company
was taking customers away from them
by cutting prices.
The matter Of the milk price cuts
was brought to the attention OF the
| commission by President Cooper OF the
| Dairymen's League. TO whom the indie
| pendents went in body on Friday
afternoon.
Mr.. Bowling said that fifteen indie
| pendent dealers had complained tha'
they were unable TO pay their bills &c
the FARMERS LOT fll4h oe'duse bo4ueh
was getting their business away by un
herselling. The Borden concerns price
10 stores restaurants and hotels Is from
y, to cents q quart less than VIVA
they have been paying. Representatives
II the big milk concern admitted they
are selling milk Mt n loss. and met thu
charge Of underselling by declaring the,
were simply meeting competition" !,
he districts The fact was brought on
that one OF the independents not loni
ago had been selling below the Border
cut rates.
THE commission can't saw a deale
cannot sell milk at loss II he want
TO-" SAID Mr. Bowling. Nothing coul
be agreed upon. The men from Harlem
aud The Bronx want to meet me at
o'clock or Monday Afternoon and b-!ni
IN other independents to see II the mat
ter cannot be Strengthened out"