New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Rioters Pour Thousands
of Gallons Into Sewers: !:
Raid Shops, Stone Wag-
ons, Fire ON Drivers
Brooklyn Driver I
Stabbed on Truck
Companies Report 6O%
Distribution; Hylan Poll
itics Hampers Supplies

itics Hampers Supplies
New York's third day Of the mill:
strike closed last night with the com.
panies remaining firm in their deter
nination to make finish fight Of it,
with 60 per cent of the normal vol-
ume of milk distributed despite
greatly increased acts Of violence.
and with the entire situation fast be-
coming political issue in which en-
ployers, strikers and the public alike
raised the question:
Where do we get off, Mayor
Hylan?"
The most serious instance Of vio-
lence reported occurred late last
night, when John Lous, of TIT Gates
Avenue, Brooklyn, was taken to the
Swedish Hospital in dying con-
dition after being stabbed at Fulton
Street and Glenada Place, Brooklyn,
by gang of eight alleged strikers
while he was driving q milk truck.
Louis Friedman, said to have been
one of his assailants, was arrested
later and charged with felonious as
sault.
During the day several strikers
were sentenced to the workhouse by
Magistrate Corrigan, who said:
II want to make it plain that the
streets of this city are to remain
peaceable, and they will If the work
house is big enough. There will be
no fines; no suspended sentences.
Every man found guilty viii be
locked up"
Terms by Commissioner
Then, after another futile attempt
of the city administration to force
the distributors to end the strike on
it's own terms OF settlement-the
terms of Health Commissioner Royal
S. Copeland, who, in the Mayors
name and authority, has openly
aligned himself in the cause of the
strikers-the days events ended with
threat by DR.. Copeland to "mu-
nicipalize New York's milk industry"
in the event that he does not find
the situation satisfactory by Sat-
urday."
That is just seventy-two hours before
Election Day. 1t will be recalled by all
New Workers. who have followed the
Monday, when it began, Mayor Hylan
personally insisted, at conference In
his Office and over the emphatic pro-
tests of a representative of the COM
panies, that the latter arbitrate the
controversy solely on the terms of the
strikers and exclusive of any desires
which the employers might have in the
matter.
Hylan Tried to Force Issue
1t was the insistence of the Mayor
in. the cause of the strikers which
subsequently had much to do with the
failure of the two sides to reach any
sort Of agreement and with the
general trend of events TO the status
in which they centered last night.
Thus it was that several of the dis
tributors, following another unsuccess-
full conference held in Commissioners
Copeland's Office yesterday. expressed
the opinion that political capital was
being made of the situation" and the
more thoughtful and level-headed of
the strikers were beginning to wonder
whether they would take the Commits
sioner's advice to "go fishing and leave
1t to the Mayor and me" or whether it
would be advisable to hunt for new
Jobs.
The conference in DR.. Copeland's
Office was called after he had made
published threats to "municipaiize the
milk plants" and while the Mayor,
over at the City Hall, was making a
speech to members of the Hungarian
League, in which he referred TO the dis
tributors as milk barons," and said
that he would ask the Board of Esti-
mate for an appropriation for the crea-
ton OF municipal pasteurization plants
throughout the city"
Plant Offered to City
Then" he said, "the people, the
babies and the sick shall not be forced
to depend upon the milk barons, who
care nothing for THAR comfort and
safety, but who want to extort the last
dollar from the people"
| Shortly after the conference went
into session Commissioner Copeland.
severely eying the group of company
officials sitting before him, said:-
AS you gentlemen know, the Health
Commissioner has great powers to act
in situation Of this sort. What do
you think of q plan to municipalize the
milk Industry of New York?''
Well, Commissioner, spoke up Lotion
Horton, president of the Sheffield
Farms Dairy Company, one of the two
biggest milk companies in the city.
you can have my entire plant right
now II you'll pay me the money sas
it. I'll be glad to sell it TO the city
If you want TO take ii over"
| There was no reply from the Com.
missioner. and the subject was changed
abruptly.
Meanwhile effective steps taken by
the companies were successful in re-
1ieving the milk drought in almost
every section of the metropolitan area.
and, with an announcement that sp-
proximately 1000 men were at WORK