New-York tribune., 1921-11-24
Milk Strikers
To Show Brutal
Police i'm Films
Clubhers Will Be Ground
Into Motion Reels While
in Action and Shown to
Hylan, Says Union Head
Camera ON Truck Ready
Nathans Replies to Mayors
Attack on Alleged Trust:
I'll ONE Deliveries Soon

~Cops heaning us; situation desper-
ate; bring on the moviesl"
Messages of the above nature may
be expected to flow into headquarters OF
the striking milk workers at SIG West
Fcrty-second Street, beginning Satur-
day. IL tentative plans for an anti
police brutality motion picture alarm
system are placed In operation by the
strikers.
This system, according to George w.
Briggs, the strike chairman, will, in
the event that tits made effective, hold
an important bearing on the strike
activities. He announced plans for it
yesterday as follows:
ION Tuesday Mayor Hylan promised
US that he would do everything in his
power to stop brutality on the part of
the police against the strikers. AL
though orders to this effect have been
transmitted throughout the Police De-
partment, we have not yet received
assurance that they will bc fully
obeyed.
Films to Get Evidence
$50, 70 protect ourselves. we ar
ranged to-day for the services of an
auto truck, 8 motion picture camera
and an experienced camera man. If
any instances of police brutality are
reported to union headquarters after
midnight Friday we will rush the truck
to the scene, take movies of the police
in action and then show the pic
lures to the public on screens through
out the city.
"In connection with this plan we
have completed arrangements for
quick telephone alarms from outlying
union meeting places to headquarters.
The truck. the camera and the opera
tor will be on the job night and day.
Pictures don't lie, and policemen
guilty of brutality thus won't be able
TO controvert the evidence. It is pos
sible that those taken in such fashion
VIII be shown to Mayor Hylan. So far
as know, it will be the first time
that movies will be used by strikers
IN an industrial fight in this coun-
Another development of the day in
connection with the strike was the
action of I. Elkin Nathans, secretary
OF the New York Milk Conference
Board. in taking issue with Mayor Hy-
Ian for his attack on the milk trust"
and with Health Commissioner Cope
land for his charges that some stale
milk is being sold by the distributors.
Milk Conspiracy Denied
"Mayor Hylan is quoted as saying he
wished he were the District Attorney
for a few days SO he could break up
what he terms the Milk Trust,'" said
Mr.. Nathans. GAIL we can say is that
there have been six investigations
within five years, one Of them lasting
over thirteen months, by District
Attorney Of New York County and be-
fore grand jury, and nothing illegal
was found in the action of the dis
$ributors OF Of the conference board.
The Almirall grand jury, in dismissing
the charges, stated that mo evidence
whatever of any such conspiracy was
presented by the District Attorney
"As for Commissioner Copeland's
statement that stale milk is being sold,
II he is quoted correctly, no one more
than the distributors themselves would
appreciate any evidence he may present
of such illegal sales"
Regular family deliveries Of the old
pre-strike doorstep deposit" variety,
house huckstering now in effect, will
be attempted by the distributors in
several sections of the city beginning
Monday, Mr.. Nathans announced last
night. Full plans for restoration of
this service will be announced later.
Mrs. Helen Elsasser, the wife of a
striker, was arrested yesterday and
charged in Fifth Avenue Court, Brook
lyn. with having picketed the Borden
Sixtieth Street in violation of the Su-
preme Court injunction. She was
paroled in the custody of her counsel
until November 80. The union asserts