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New York Commissioners
Urge Immediate Action /.
1 4 By the Governor
o.. A
THE DISTRIBUTORS
MAKE 100 PER CENT
Farmers Underpaid, But Retailers Get
More Than in Other Cities - Gov
ernor Will. Appoint a Fair Price
Committee on Milk.

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-Martin H.
Glynn, formerly governor, and DIR. John
Fl. Finley. commissioner. of education.
the two commissioners appointed by
Gov. Smith to make inquiry into the
high cost of living, have filed a pre-
liminary report, in which they advise
him that such are the conditions at
tending the>mille traffic and the cost of
milk that he should appoint Immediate
+ y a fair, price milk committee.
The two commissioners cite a milk
situation that more than hints at prof
iteering. They suggest that the fair
price milk committee be composed of
nine members and that these commit
tcemen seek to bring the milk distribu-
tors to that stage of reasonableness that
the pyramiding profits be reduced. The
report has it that should the committee
| find it impossible to stop profteering
the governor seek legislation that would
create a state milk commission to regu-
late the milk distribution business in
cities of the first and second classes.
! 1t was made known in Albany last
night that the governor will create this
fair milk price committee within a few
DAYS. The committee viii include Her
man NJ Biggs, state health commission
er; Dr. Royal S. Copeland, New York
| City health commissioner, and iona
than Day, the city market commissioner.
1t is also known that if this committee
should fail to reduce tho cost Of milk
| that the governor will at once seek that
/ legislative relief that ahe report sug-
| gests The governor ehas told friends
| that he will not hesitate to call spe-
cial session of the legislature to have
such laws enacted
The milk commission s authority
/ would be almost absolute regarding
milk distribution! In brief, the com
lmissioners suggest that if the milk di.
Itributors viii not cut their. profits vol
Iuntarily TO meet feir price to the con
Ifsumers they be given 40 alternative,
Il Messrs. G1vnn and Finley report, thu
in so far as they have been able to de
Itcrmine the farmer is not receiving al
Iexorbitant price for milk, but that tht
lcost Of bottled milk 10 the consumer il
approximately hundred per cent be
iyond what the farmer receives. TIL
1.-TWO Investigators urge Immediate nc
Ition. They quote facts from an edit
orial in the Milk Register which urge
THAT in as much as there is more mill
lproduccd here than tlic public needs
lforeign market be developed that profit
able prices may be maintained.
And, the report goes on, despite tn
fact that the farmers who supply mill
10 Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston ar
getting more for their milk, than til
producers of the New York supply
lprees in New York have been and ar
higher to the consumer. At presen
prices, the report has if. New York cit
will consume about $140,00Q,00 wort
sof milk a year.
1t is recommended that Gov. Smit
urge the attorney general of the Unite
States to make all possible speed i
prosecuting violations of the interstat
j commerce act as regards price fixing BIZ
cause New York s milk supply comes,
part, from Pennsylvania, New Jerse,
Connecticut, Vermont, MassachGsett
and Canada.
In regard to the food situation ger
lerally, the two commissioners find tn;
there are so many inquiries into II
cost of food under way in the state tn;
1T would be wise for the governor
call a meeting of the various heads
the several Investigating bodies az
seek immediate co-oper;tUbn betweC
them.