The New York herald., 1921-11-09
MILK PEDLERs DEFY
iSTUIKERSON ROUTES
Men Privately Seek to Get
Back to Work, Say
Companies.
s,s-i rsN; -. X - e'..Fs.,e 'e@
UNIONS ID is ! DENY BREAKS
Copeland's Inspectors, Take
Care to Protect Supply
g in Pasteurizing. ~.
49, ,r~. .-..'.sr
I26 CANS ARE CONFIsCATED
iStrikebreaker Beaten Badly in
/ Clash Over Truck Between
Paterson and Passaic.
!26 CANS ARE C0NFISCATED

The real test of strength In the milk
strike was expected to-day as the dis
tributers resume distribution through
the streets. The companies reported
yesterday that the increasing number
OF strikers expressing a willingness to
return to work indicated the 'e.i.ly dis
tntegration Of the milk drivers Union.
Strike leaders, on the -other hand,
asserted they still stood 100 .p,r cent,
"save for few In JAIL" and that they
would stay out until the distributors
agreed to a closed shop. No deliveries
were made by the companies because
Of reduced police protection on election
day.
The striking milkmen issued a state
i,1ent reiteratiIg their willinguess to
return to work at the old wage scale
and then to arbirra1e their affferencca
with the distributors They. charged
the, open shop stand of the dealers
was made ito force up the price Of
milk 50 more profits can be made by
the stockholders." and that the New
l
ent body OF the distributors. Is an or
ganization In restraint Of trade. The
strikers asked that the Federal au-
thorities investigate the latter charge.
Resolutions adopted by the strikers
condemned the Borden's Farm Products
Company as unfair to organized labor"
and asked that the company be so listed
by labpr organizations throughout the
country. The resolution said the Bor-
den company has been the stumbling
block in affecting a settlement" Of the
strike. Five locals Of the Milk Drivers
Union Voted for the resolutions.
Hackstering starts To-day.
Three huckstering routes will be estab-
lshed to-day. The, will be along
Broadway from Sixtieth to 1S1st streets !:
Lexington avenue from Tortieth to
Eighty-sixth streets, and Bedford ave-
nue.. Brooklyn. from North Sixth street
to Snyder avenue. There win be milk
wagon on every street intersection along
these avenues. the dealers promise.
The larger milk companies have re-
ceived communications by letter and
telephone from many Of their old drivers,
Indicating they would return II assured
protection statement issued by +.
Elkin Nathans Of the milk board said.
THE Borden's Farm Products Company
reports that fifty OF their old men will
man the huckstering wagons tomorrow.
About $50 others have been In touch
with the company Offices discussing the
advisability OF their early return. A
similar number have expressed their
Willingness to return to Sheffield Farms
and 20 the Empire State Dairy Company
Of Brooklyn"
Reports from the railroad terminals
indicated milk receipts were IS per cent.
OF normal and that the bulk OF this was
moved to the pasteurization plants be-
lore sunrise. The wagons. loaded with
this milk. will be started out at o'clock
.on the three huckstering routes. Chief
inspector Lahey has promised the COM
panies a policeman for every wagon.
This huckstering will be In addition to
the retail store deliveries. which. the
companies report have been Increased
to nearly normal during the last three
days.
Says Men Are Dissa atisfied. Z.
1t was Daniel s. Horton, secretary of
the Sheffield Farms Company. who re-
ported the apparent disintegration Of
the Milk Drivers Union. He said a
large number Of strikers called on the
telephone for the plant superintendent
after their meeting Monday night in
Madison Square Garden and said they
would return to work to-day. These
strikers. Mr.. Horton said. expressed dis
satisfaction over the way their side Of
the strike was being conducted.
George w. briggs. general auditor
and receiver OF the union. said Mr.. Hor-
toms statement was in keeping with ali
Statements issued by the New York Milk
Conference Board since the strike began
a week ago last Monday night. He said
the Garden meeting. attended by 1000
strikers. was enough TO show the public
the strikers stood solldly together and
that they are out to win.
They know" he said. that tlfe tKy
will clear after election and that the
public will begin to see they arc in Che
right"
DIR. Royal S. Copeland. Health ,Crm--
missioner. doubled the number OF inspcc-
tors watching the pastcurization,. sta
tions. Reports to him indicated that
milk was being prepared under the most
sanitary conditions and that employees
handling milk had passed through ply
sical examinations. The Commiss ioner
said inspectors will he kept Mt The plants
throughout the strike and that any vio-
lations will be dealt with sumraar!ly.
Terrs Small Dealers.
DIR. Copeland IL more worried about
the handling of milk after II leaves the
distributor plants than he IL over the.
actual pnstcurfzation work. He feels nc
can control tho large dealers. but Il is
the INSCRIPTIONS corner grocer or deli
catcssen man he fears more. What In
ferior grades OF milk the health fnspec-
tort have discovered In the city since the
ssii,.-. rad come from such stores where
the proprietors. In their greed for larger
profits. had watered and otherwise
dipped the milk. * ~
IL Is the advice OF the Health Con,rn,s-
sloner to all mothers that where they
suspect the quality OF the milk they
should bring II 10 the boiling point be-
-Dfe serving II to children. by so doing.
Dr; COPELAND said. more than 90 per
cent. or the danger will have been elm
mated.
Health inspectors working In Brook
lyn confiscatcd twenty-six cans OF milk
said to be impure, which has been
stored at the Liberty avenue police sta
ton. The inspectors were to have de-
rtroyed this milk yesterday but the
, driver of the truck could not he found
and the work was deferred until to-day.
boon after the inspectors left the sta
esxyn house tho -dti-,er a anp,ared and told