The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-10
Chicago Milk War
Reported Settled
Truce Is Reached at Conference
Of Warning Parties in
Mayors Office
ARBITRATION AGREED UPON
Deliveries Ordered to Proceed
At Once After Five Days
Of Disturbances

Chicago, Jan. 10.-(R>-Tte Chicago
milk blockade was ended Wednesday
by q truce reached between warning
factions In q conference with Mayor
Edward J. Kelly.
The mayor announced milk deliv-
cries would be resumed Wednesday
afternoon after five days Of violence
that had left Chicago practically
without milk.
Arbitrators were named to assist
farmers and dealers in agreeing upon
o price to producers.
1.-THE strike has been settled" Mayor
Kelly announced. I'VE have been
working on this all night. Deliveries
have been ordered to proceed at
once"
Under the truce, distributors and
producers each will appoint one man
to q committee. They. in turn, will
select q third man to act as arbitrator
ard establish q minimum price to be
paid farmers.
Don N. Geyer, general manager Of
the Pure Milk association and repre-
sentative Of the farmers at the con-
ference, announced the producers
would end ptcketing Of highways and
begin shipping milk Immediately.
Publicity Chief Doubtful
E. M. Krahl, publicity director Of
pure milk. denied that milk deliveries
would be resumed until Z meeting Of
$50 farmers Of the pure milk advisory
committee had held q meeting We'd
acsday afternoon.
He denied knowledge Of the truce
and said he believed Kelly's statement
was premature.
However. 0eyer announced the
truce had been reached.
He issued an appeal for farmers to
cease picketing and begin shipping
their milk.
Both indepedent diaries. which
have refused to agree on . price to
members, and members OF the Chi
cago Milk Council, Inc, were repre-
sented at the mayors meeting.
At the same time, 500 representa-
t!ves Of the Pure Milk association
farmers organization. were meeting
in a hotel ballroom in an attempt to
agree on q price to demand Of all
diaries.
Some Of the farmers, representing
local units Of the Pure Milk associa.
ton, were reported as demanding q
price Of $2.l0 per hundred pounds fol
fluid milk and $l.35 for milk used In
making butter and for other purposes
Such . scale would mean an aver
age price Of slightly more than 81 .9l
for all milk sold. Others. fearing the
AAA would veto that price as too high
wanted to ask for scale that would
mean = $40 average.
From independent milk dealers, who
have refused to Join the Chicago Mill
Council, Inc, In setting prices to both
producers and consumers, came de.
lclarations that their attorneys would
oppose the establishment Of any price
under government authorization.
Mine Trains Stopped
Hating Of five more trains, bring
ing the total thus stopped to nine
brought q declaration by Unitef
States Attorney Dwight Green thai
he would prosecute those responsible
At least one Of the trains carried mail
Near schaumberg. H., gun battle
Ibroke out between farm pickets ant
10 farmer attempting to market hi
milk. Extended violence was avertet
Ionly by arrival Of county highway po'
lice with = machine gun.
The mail train was halted on tn
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul and Pa
lcific line near Wordsworth. Lawrence
Benson. chief special agent for tn
lroed, reported to the sheriff Of LAX
county that group Of pickets seek
ling milk to dump had forced thet
way into q tower and compelled Tia
signal man to set = block sigma
against the train Tuesday night
holding It for 70 minutes.
| Previously q Milwaukee line freish
was blocked by ties ct Rondout. i
passenger train behind II was halte'
for more than m hour and . rear
lend collision narrowly averted. Dur
ing day Of violence several othe
trains were stopped near the Wiscon
|sin-I Illinois border line. while picket
searched for but found no fluid mill
Another group. estimated to mum
her 800. besieged the home Of Emf
/ Beisner near ltasca, NJ, searcldn
. his harm. Windows In hts home Wer
. broken BY shots from the CROWD
state police finally dispersed th
men,,