New-York tribune., 1921-11-07
Companies Will Ask for
Injunction SO House-to-
House Routes May be
Resumed Wednesday
Crisis Used to Get
Votes For Hylan
Violence Marked by Stab
bing and Shooting Af-
trays; Drivers to Meet

Ihe milk companies intend to begin
house-to-house deliveries Wednesday
under the protection of Supreme Court
lnjunctions. Counsel for the COM
panles have prepared the papers for
the initiation of such action and if the
threat Of violence continues will apply
for injunctions restraining the union
from interfering with the delivery of
milk before wagon is sent from the
stables.
The Borden, Sheffield and Keystone
companies are to start injunction pro-
ceedings in the New Jersey Chancery
Court to-day for the purpose of pro-
tecting drivers and handlers on the
west side of the Hudson.
Public Mediation Urged
An industrial court, made up of rep
resentatives of the employers, the en-
ployees and the public, is to be sug-
gested by the companies, it was an
nounced yesterday, as soon as the
present crisis is past, for the purpose
Of Of preventing the recurrence Of such a
threat to the health of the city.
James Bellom, Of 237 East 15Oth
Street, and Frank Jeluto, of 255 East
l5Oth Street, who are said to be strik-
ers, were held for examination in Night
Court on charges of disorderly CON
duct as members Of a crowd which
threw stones and other missiles at
strike breakers near Sheffield Farms
Company station at 166th Street and
Webster Avenue, the Bronx.
The strike breakers were being taken
home from the station in an automo-
bile and the crowd of strikers was
jeering them, when one of the men in
the automobile, it is alleged, threw a
milk bottle, which brought volley of
missiles from the gang in the street
Patrolman Lafferty arrested Bellonl
and Jeluto.
Shooting in Strike
The first shooting in connection with
the strike occurred last night wher
John Hengerle, q striking employee OF
the Sheffield Farms Company, was
wounded in the left shoulder by bull
let from revolver in the hands OF
one or two employees Of The Sheffielt
Farms Company he had followed from
Fifty seventh Street and Tenth Avenue
to the Third Avenue III" platform al
Fifty-ninth Street.
Several waiting passengers wit
messed the affair, which was said to
have occurred as the elimination of ar
alteration brought about by threats
to the two employees to "quit strike
breaking" Two shots were fired.
The men who did the shooting es-
capped by boarding train. Hengerle
was attended in Roosevelt Hospital
Two alleged strikers were fined fol
participating in previous disorders
when arraigned in Morrisania Court.
In spite of the growing threat OF
violence, an effort was being made, il
was asserted, to make political capital
of the milk strike for Mayor Hylan and
the ether Tammany candidates.
Call to Conference
The charges were made by /. Elkin
Nathars, secretary of the New York
Milk Conference Board. when ne was
informed of the main points contained
in statement given to the newspapers
by Health Commissioner Royal S. Cope
land, in which the latter attacked the
milk Trust" lauded the cause of the
strikers, and charged the distributors
with everything from making "the poor
mothers" suffer to responsibility for
the sale of poor and stale milk"
In last effort to settle the strike
before the election Commi sioner
Copeland said he would summon the
distributors to a conference to be held
in his Office to-day, it was announced
in his statement.
In addition, DR.. Copeland made di-
rect threat of legal prosecution of the
distributors in statement tina,
"already grave charges concerning the
quality of milk sold have been prepared
for court action by our legal depart.
ment," despite the fact that on Friday
he said that "the milk being received
is up to standard" and that he "pos-
sessed full power to act should ar
emergency arise"
"It is amazing he said at that time
chow the distributors are handling this
thing"
The situation then, he declared was
not an emergency" and he continued
to give out daily statements to the eff
feet that conditions were improving
and satisfactory" At the same time
he had emphatically declared that a
great community emergency existed
when he appeared before the 1850
strikers in Madison Square Garden
and promised them the support of the
City of New York.
While Commissioner Copeland's
statement was arriving in the news
paper Offices last night. officials of the
Continued on paso rye)