Evening star., 1934-01-08
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IN CHICAGO HALTS
DELIVERY OF MILK
Farmers Unit Reports Prog
ress Toward Settling Strike.
Trucks Are Seized.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January S-Vlolence
broke out in every section of the city
today as the Chicago milk blockade
became 100 per cent effective.
Three trucks were pushed into the
Chicago River at widely separated
points and fourth was burned when
its driver attempted to make deliveries
in violation fthe embargo.
Thousands CT quarts of milk were
dumped. Police were swamped with
telephone calls from dairies demanding
protection.
Dumping of milk and other violence
the city. At least three attempts were
made to halt trains carrying milk from
Wisconsin.
The Pure Milk Association, organiza-
ton of $4,000 militant farmers, an
nounced progress was being made to
settle the strike. All Chicago dairies
were sent copies of a contract under
which they would agree to pay basic
price of S135 a hundred for milk.
IT expect a strike settlement bv to-
night with general acceptance Of the
new contract" said A. M. Krahl, dl-
rector of public relations for pure milk;
1t was believed the association might
permit dairies signing the contract to
receive milk Under such system.
representatives of the association prob
ably would ride with trucks of certain
companies hauling milk into the city.
Outside Chicago. the strike was high
" organized with pickets and rowing
flying squads" of farmers keeping in
contact by telephone to enforce the
strike.
A score of union milk wagon drivers
was arrested, but most of them speedily
released, in Chicago. They were
charged with interfering with deliv-
cries by cut-rate dairies employing non
union drivers.
Government licensing of dairies under
the agricultural adjustment act has
been suggested by pure milk officials as
means of enforcing the price. The
association recently withdrew from a
Chicago milk marketing agreement be-
cause of failure in enforcement.
The most serious reports OF violence
came from Wisconsin, where 1nterfer-
ence with railroad trains hauling milk
was reported. Sheriff Clarence Erick-
son reporting finding of obstructions on
tracks of the Northwestern Road in
Kenosha County and near the Wiscon-
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Attempts were made at Lyons and
Sturtevant Wis, to dump $4,000 pounds
of milk from a refrigerator car. Train
men told of hearing a shot fired Sat-
urday night in Kenosha, Wis.
Although the shortage was not acute,
all regular deliveries of milk were stop
ped in Chicago. Hospitals and other
institutions received their regular sup
plies, and families with small children
were informed they might obtain emer-
gency supplies by calling certain dairies.
Hotels and restaurants had adequate
supplies for today, and most families
had purchased enough over the week
end to last for day or two. Families
driving to the outskirts of the city
bought milk from farmers or at road
side stands.
Another truck was pushed into the
river near Halsted street.
Indications that vandals might be
taking part in the dumping came when
two trucks of the Lincoln Dairy Co.
were halted as they were delivering milk
to families with small children, and
about 10000 quarts were dumped. The
company is member of the Chicago
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