The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-01-17
Milk Dealers in Chicago District Sign Con-
tract with Farmers for Three Months
at S2671a Hundred.
WAGONS PULL Up TO DIARIES
All Over Kenosha County Today the Farmer Milk Pro-
ducers Brought in Their Milk to Creameries
and Peace Reigns Once More.

telephone wires had been cut, effec-
lively shutting off that place in the
case of riot. The discovery was made
in time by the dairy employees SO that
a hurried call was sent in to the
sheriff from nearby telephone.
All's Well That Ends Well.
Sheriff Pabst was agreeablg surprised
to find on his trip out this morning
that there was no need for alarm
News that the truce had been signed
was rapidly peddled among the farm
communities, with the result that
every farmer who had been withhold
ing milk carried his load to the dairy
place formerly patronized as he did
last week.
An interesting feature in the farm
ers' war" has been the showing that
the farmers made in sticking togeth-
err Almost to a man, the Milk pro-
ducers realized that there POWER lay
in being unit, and there were only
two or three in each community which
stood out against the organization of
their own class.
Couldn't Collect by Truck.
The dealers had believed that they
could, by using trucks throughout Ke-
nosha county, collect enough milk to
feed the gaps left by the striking Lake
and McHenry county farmers, but the
trucks sent out through Kenosha coun-
ty met with a lukewarnl reception. Al
though offering a higher price, the
truck driver found himself in hostile
territory, and at each farmhouse door
discovered chat the producer would
rot run up the yellow flag" against
his striking fellows.
The priced reached in the compro-
mise is considerably below the price
SO by the producers when they asked
Tor $275 a '1undredweight. being
.$2.67 1-2 a hundredweight for three
months. The dealers offer had orig
iaally been $500 hundredweight, and
ii was this Offer, considered abnolm-
ally low, was the straw that blol:e the
camel's back and prccipitated the tooth
and nail contest.
Doesn't Prevail in Keaosha.
In the city of Kenosha the milk
dealers, incl-lng Landgren 3runel
aid others; ere paving the farmeZ
$40 hundredwoighE aud retailing
the milk at IL cents a quart. The
local dealers of course purchase their
milk directly from the county farmers
and do not have freight rates to con-
tend with.
In Milwaukee it is said the dealers
pay So a hundred weight and are able
to retail milk still at il cents quart
President Frank Holt of Kenosha
of the producers, who Include dairy
farmers in Wisconsin, Illiaois and In
diana, stated that milk would be de-
livered az the bottling plants in the
country one hundred per cent by We'd
nesday morning.
Dealers have been relying on sup
plies from distant points to take the
place of milk which dairy farmers re-
fused to sell at the price offered
Charges were made by producers that
the milk brought in was not meeting
the requirements of the health depart
ment
During the strike pickets of dairy
farmers attempted to dissuade farmers
who delivered milk to the country bot
thing plants and deputies were called
in some sections to prevent dumping
of milk destined to the city
Health Commissioner Bundesen OF
Chicago, acted as intermediary during
the meeting which resulted in settle
ment, both sides first converting in sep
arate sessions early last night.