The New York herald., 1921-11-10
Company Officials Will
Meet Employees, but Not
Union Chiefs.
COURT ACTION PREPARED
Health Commissioner to Prose-
cute Dealers on Charge of
Selling Stale Milk.

ce'HSAS - put tiic WAGONS, WHICH were
sent out along Lexington avenue and
Broadway. returned to their stations
with large part of their loads unsold
Indications are that. unless settle
held to-day at the Office of DR.. Royal
s. Copeland. Health Commissioner the
milk strike may drag on indefinitely
Even the distributors, who are trying
to build up new organizations under
the open shop plan. cannot say how
long it will be before the house ia
house delivery of milk can be re.
sumed
DR.. Copeland said last night that he
was preparing to take court action
against one Of the larges- distributing
companies in the city on the ground
that 1t had sold milk more than forty
eight hours after pasteurization. This
company, according to DR.. Copeland. has
sold milk as long as seventy-two hours
after it had left the pasteurization plant.
He said he had good case against
them and would press 1t to the limit. The
maximum penalty for the offense is a
$500 fine and one year In prison.
Will Confer With Employees.
Complaints Of suffering because Of the
milk strike continued to reach DIR. Cope
lands office in increasing numbers. He
received several dozen letters yesterday
from mothers who said their Babies were
i'll because Of the. poor quality of milk
they had been obliged to feed them. In
spectors OF the Health Department,
working under the orders OF DR.. Cope
land. confiscatcd several thousand
quarts of milk which they found to be
watered or stale, or both.
While leaders OF TIE milk drivers
union and members of the New York
Milk Conference Board did not appear
hopeful last night that a settlement
would be reached soon, DIR. Copeland
said he had great hopes of the confer
ences to be held to-day He met several
of the union leaders yesterday and In
duced them to agree to meet the en-
ployers. The plan so- the conferences Is
10 have the officials Of each distributing
company meet delegation of its own
employees. The Sheffield Farms Off
cials will meet committee Of their en-
ployees at 10 o'clocis this morning at DR..
Copelands office. The Borden officials
will meet their employees in the after
noon. and possibly one more conference
will be arranged before the day IS over.
The new conference plan will elimi-
nate two personalities who hitherto have
been regarded as stumbling blocks in the
negotiations. They are I. Elkins Ma
thans, secretary of the Milk Conference
Board, and George W. Briggs. interna-
tional auditor of the Teamsters Union.
f,a1 ne cnnE for the
Milk Drivers Union. The employers
have no use for Briggs. looking upon him
as an interloper. and the employees are
bitter toward Nathans for what they
term his stubborn. Rock OF Gibraltar
stand"
After depIoring the fact that the milk
strike has demoralized the industry and
broken down most Of the standards or
sanitation which II has taken SO long
TO build up. DR.. Copeland said he in
tended to go ahead with his attempts TO
settle the strike. and at the same time
enforce the health regulations.
"The Board of Health" said DR.. Cope
land, 'has do desire to become involved
IN an economic controversy, but II Is its
duty to protect the public. New YORK
Is suffering from the deprivation of milk
and, TO some extent, from poor quality.
II will take a long time TO overcome the
complete breakdown of standards which
has resulted from this strike.
"I am preparing papers for court
action against one OF the large compa-
MES for selling milk more than forty
eight hours after pasteurization. we
were prepared TO find bad milk on sale
by old offenders. but we cannot blink at
violations of the law whether they are
old Offenders or new ones wearing the
mask OF righteousness"
The lack OF the success of the huck-
stering plan was laid by the distributors
90 the rain and to the lack OF sufficient
police protection for their wagons.
Eighty -one wagons were counted yester-
day on Broadway and Lexington ave-
nue., but milk was being bought at only
a few of them. Less violence was re-
ported than during previous days, as the
rain and cold took some OF the spirit out
Of the strikers.
Despite the apparent failure of the
first days huckstering. the larger milk
companies announced last night that
they had distributed more milk than
during any day since the strike began.
The Sheffield Farms Company reported
to DR.. Copeland that they had dis
tributed $4,000 quarts. which included
S35,000 quarts received yesterday morn
ing and 10000 quarts which were left
stores, delicatessens and milk stations
had less trouble selling milk than before,
and all were we'll stocked
Tho strikers publicity committee. In a
statement denouncing the greedy milk
barcns." said that most OF the huckster
wagons went out with $50 quarts eacn
and came back with about 240 quarts
The distributors. on the other hand.
said the plan would become more sue
ceSREui after the public got used TO IL.
esd declared themselves satisfied with
their progress In combating the union.
Cutnian weiner. 80, OF So Watkins
street, Brooklyn. and Louis Archosky,
o.. OF 976 Dumont avenue, were ar
raiKncd In New Jersey Avenue Court.
Hpooklyn, and held for examination to-
day by Magistrate Reynolds on the
charge of watering milk. The men were
employed by Ike Kraut who has n dairy
At 20 Amboy street. kraut later was
brought into court and will be examined
to-day.
MAGISTRATE Corrigan in West side
Court sentenced Morris 'Burnell OF 5i3
west 134th street to twenty days in the
vvoY1xhouse after he had been found
gullty OF bombarding q wagon marked
SSnG11k for Babies"