New-York tribune., 1921-11-05
Strike Wanes;
Fail to Curb
Milk Delivery
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men," Magistrate Sweetser said:
"But in committing this act they did
rot think about the children whose
lives depend on milk, did they? 1t is
married men. for the most part, who
are committing these offenses all over
town. They don't give the children any
consideration at all. These sentences
go, and if any more strikers come up
before me for interfering with other
people who are trying to distribute
milk, they will all get workhouse SEN
tences"
Other acts of violence during the
day included the hurting Of bottles Of
milk through the front window of
dairyman's store, the assault of milk
employee in Brooklyn, the releasing
Of the tailboard ~of a heavily loaded
milk truck, causing several cans to
fall to the street and spill their con-
tents, and an attack on truck,
guarded by policeman, in Long Island
City. About half dozen arrests
were made during the day. Several
strikers and strike sympathizers were
fined for offenses committed yesterday
when they were arraigned in court.
For the first time since the strike
began, the Sheffield Farms Company
and the Borden Farms Products Com
pany stations in the Bronx sent milk
from the receiving stations to their
distributing plants in their own trucks
They were under police escort. The
Bronx received more than it's pormal
supply of milk, including a sufficient
quantity of certified and grade A
milk.
There was greater movement of
milk trucks acrosS the ferries than on
any morning since the strike went into
effect. Practically every boat leaving
or arriving between IL p. m. Thursday
and 5 a. m. yesterday carried milk
trucks. At the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad Company yards,
at 153d Street and Willis Avenue, the
Bronx, where the normal milk receipts
are six carloads, eight carloads were
received during the night, including
four carloads of certified milk. At the
Mott Haven yards, at 156th Street and
Park Avenue, eighteen carloads of milk
were received, including two carloads
of certified milk.
Wagon Delivery Resumed
The delivery of milk to houses by
wagon was resumed to some extent in
Brooklyn, Tarrytown, Bridgeport and
Plainfield, according to an official an
nouncement made by the New York
Milk Conference Board. Fifty out of
200 retail wagons formerly employed in
Brooklyn were reported to be on the
streets under police protection. The
Borden company reported that $500
places out of $500 vacated by strikers
had been filled.
The main plant of the Sheffield Com
pany sold about $4,000 cases of milk to
persons calling for it. The distributing
and pasteurizing plants arc now fully
manned, it was said by an official Of
the company. One hundred and fifty
bottle washers returned yesterday, he
said. Sub-depots have been opened by
Superintendent George Waldo at Nine
ty-ninth Street and Broadway and 104th
Street and Columbus Avenue, to save
people the trouble of travelling to the
main depots. Four trucks left the
l25th Street depot early in the morning
tor the sub -depots, which are being
run principally by men recruited since
the strike.
The Fulton Street branch of the
Sheffield Company in Brooklyn was
doing SO per cent of its normal busi-
ness as result of system of whole
sale deliveries to store and delicates-
sen shops.
Meanwhile, those citizens, including
a number of the company officials who
believe that Mayor Hylan has been
NAMING POlitiSdi CdplIdI OL tne SCTIke
and that the situation has become a
political issue through the steps he
has taken in connection with it, wsre
given considerable food for thought
by statements made by Commissioner
Copeland virtually admitting defeat in
the attempts of the city administra-
tion to obain a settlement.
Have you decided on any definite
action for tomorrow relative to taking
over the milk plants?" DR.. Copeland
was asked.
"No There will be no occasion to
do so tomorrow, il the companies de-
liver as much milk as they did to-day.
However, | favor fitting up the Straus
Laboratory as permanent milk sta
tion, SO that the city can have no
doubt as to its future milk supply" he
replied
Aren't there plenty of city vehicles
available for milk distribution, and
why are they not being used in. this
public emergency?"
II have 200 trucks of the Street
Cleaning Department at my disposal.
These would have been used had an
emergency arisen, but there is no ne
cessity for this course"
Strike Violence Admitted
But with assaults and dumping of
milk and the other violence reported by
the police, does not such an emergency
exist now"
"There has been little violence.
There has been less violence In this