New-York tribune., 1921-11-10
City to Begin
Action Against
Milk Company
Will Prosecute Alleged VIC.
lation of Sanitary Code
i'm Effort to End Strike;
Copeland Meets Unions
Home Deliveries To-day
Supply Reported 80 Per Cent
Normal; Workers Agree
to Another Conference

Court action was prepared by the city
yesterday against one Of the largest
milk companies of the city as the ad.
ministration's newest weapon in it's
efforts to end the strike by bringing
pressure upon the distributors to en-
ter into mediation with. the strikers
and cast the company plans for the
open shop into discard.
1t was announced by DR.. Royal S.
Copeland, Health Commissioner, fol-
lowing a conference with the, union
representatives in his Office. that he
would begin court proceedings to-day
against "a big concern" on evidence
that it had sold milk seventy~two
hours after pasteurization.
This, he said, is violation Of the
sanitary code punishable by $500 fine
or a years imprisonment. He refused
to divulge the name of the company in
volved.
In addition, he announced that Ole
Salthe, director of the Bureau of Food
and Drugs of the Health Department,
had caused the arrest of attaches of
the Domnitz Dairy Company, a small
concern, of 1885 Bergen Street, Brook
lyn, on discovering employees there
in the act of watering milk. Twenty
six cans of milk were destroyed and
in magistrates court. Afidavits ac-
cusing the proprietor Of ordering the
milk watered were obtained.
1,040 Gallons Destroyed
Inspectors of the Health Department
y H.
from another Brooklyn dairy Sunday,
condemning the fluid as impure.
Included in statement issued by
the unions last night was an accusa-
tion that "the Department of Health
has closed the only Grade A. pasteuriz-
ing plant in greater New York, in
117th Street"
"Such charge is wholly unfounded,'
said Patrick D. Fox, president of the
Borden's Farm Products Company
eve have such plant there, but have
been dismantling it, and that probably
is how the tale originated"
called the conference with the union
| men because of recent statement
made by Mr.. Fox that he would be
willing to meet a group of his own
former employees among the strikers
! but not the erstwhile workers of any
| other concern. The same position was
taken by Lotion Horton, president OF
the Sheffield Farm Products Company
and other leading distributors. All
made it clear that they would not again
deal with the union leaders as repre-
senting strictly union entities.
Through Commissioner Copeland's
efforts the union men agreed to meet
their former employers individually
ON this basis-"a great concession or
the part of the union," DR.. Copeland
said.
Mothers Tell OF PrivatiOns
Commissioner Copeland read several
letters, which he said he had received
from mothers. charging that they hao
been caused privation by delays in get.
ting milk and by having to walk lone
distances for it, and that in some in:
stances their babies had suffered
through either a change in milk OF
being given old milk.
"My baby has lost one and one-hal1
pounds because of change in milk
/ since the strike started" wrote one
mother. "There will be many babies
diving If this keeps u.s."
Because Of the unwillingness of the
distributors to deal with George w
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