The New York herald., 1921-11-16
MILK DISTRIBUTORS
SAY THEY HAVE WON
Supply 35 Per Cent. of Normal.
They Report, With More
Wagons Running.
JERSEY LOCAL DESERTS
Owners Hope to Get Court to
Make Their Injunction
Permanent.

With the distributors claiming a milk
supply s5 per cent. OF normal and a
revolt against the Milk Drivers Union
indicated when all the members Of a
New Jersey local returned to work, the
Now York Milk Conference Board viewed
the milk strike last night as a thing OF
the past.
The distributors feel that the last bit
or union resistance to their open shop
principle will be broken If their tenn
porary injunction is made permanent to-
day in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
Three hundred members Of Local 691
OF the Milk Drivers Union, meeting in
Newark, voted unanimously to return to
work. They said the union had forced
the strike over the opposition Of their
International officers, with the result that
their strike benefits were cut off. The
union headquarters in Newark were
hung In Grape and inside a stuffed
effigy was set up. This first was tagged
George w. Briggs" who is general
auditor and receiver of the union. but
later the sign was made to read, Milk
Drivers Union, Local 691."
Union Men AIissing.
Neither Briggs nor any officer of the
union could be found At union head
quarters. GIG West Forty-second street.
1t was said Briggs was out of town and
that the others were "out on strike busi-
ness" For the first time in nearly two
weeks the strikers failed to issue their
daily statement. Many persons who had
been at headquarters each day since TIE
strike started November also were
missing.
1.-THE Borden's Farm Products Com
pany had 1,4O3 wagons out yesterday"
said milk board statement. Sheffield
Farms had $50, but greatly increased de-
liverfes through retail stores. In New
Jersey 800 men returned to their jobs
and in Westchester enough employees
have applied for reinstatement to enable
the company to select those thought to
be best qualified.
"Reports of violence continue, how
ever, to reach us. Three men We're
given twenty days each In jail to-day by
Magistrate Corrigan In West Side court.
They threw stones at Sheffield Farms
wagon driver. In Long Island City
Richard Taylor of 32 Nassau street,
Ridgewood, was sentenced to ten days
in Jail for following q milk wagon and
warning purchasers that the milk was
poisoned"
MIX workers Attacked.
Two milk workers were attacked by
strikers at the Livonia avenue terminal
OF the Erie Railroad in Jersey City.
Michael Witt of 144 Coles street, Jersey
City, was the most seriously injured.
He was taken to Jersey City Hospital
with q possible fracture OF the skull.
Frank Devizo of 154 Seventeenth street,
Brooklyn, the second worker. suffered
decorations OF the scalp, was attended
and went home.
There were 147 cases Of alleged milk
pollution on the calendar in the Munich
pal Term Magistrates Court. Magistrate
Cobb said IL probably would take sew
eral days to clear the calendar. The
first case called was charge against
the Clover Farms Company, Inc, OF
selling pint of adulterated milk which
contained an insufficient quantity or
butter fats and more than the legal
amount OF water. The magistrate sus-
pended judgment because 1t was first
offence. Most of the cases had to DO
nut over because the inspectors who
made the charges could not be present
as a result OF the strike.
Argument OF the injunction obtained
in New Jersey was put over by Vice
Chancellor Foster for a week on appli-
cation OF Merit Lane. counsel for the
milk companies. Mr.. Lane said the
attorney for the strikers asked him TO
make the request.