Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-11-28
The Trouble We Got

Whereas for number of years the milk pro-
docers of Cape Hreton County have selling nj TX
to distributors at price below the cost Of pro-
duction;
And Whereas the present war effort has resulted
IN tnrther increased cost Of production and has
forced the milk producers Cape Breton County to
organize to market their product collectively:
And Fhoreas the action of the Cape Breton County
milk producers in orEanizinC is in keeping with
Gooo trade union prac- ar a should receive the
sympathetic support Of orgari Aor;
And Whereas all the iii have aclnow-
LEGGED the new organization, eAceI -. the Bri-
tish Canadian Cooperative Society .A. r. ,,rie7d
who are bringing in scab milk from ,ae -Tt. ., in
an Ell tort to break the new organization;
Be it Therefore Resolved that this situati or 90
placed before and explained to the United lnc
Workers Of America, also the Steel workers an3z-
ing Committee, Lodge 1861.
Be it Further Resolved that copies Of this reso-
lution be sent to the Sydney Post Record, the Cace
Bay Pazette, the executive Of the Uni Zine wor
ers Of America and the executive of the Sydney
Steelworkers' Jhionn.
Twice each year, in the spring and fall, the Fr5
tisn Canadian Cooperative Society calls meet3nr
Of its member milk shippers. At these meetings the
producers fix their price for the ri II thev
will ship 5lrins the next six months.
Or Eay 10th Of this year, after all member ship
FerS had been not1f1@d, meeting was hello to de-
ter-11ne prices for the months and until the
next such meeting should be called.
Prices fixed at that time g.. .95 per hundred
pounds for milk collected at the farms and s2.6s per
hundred pounds for milk collected at tie plant.
Late in September the Society received noti ce
from the President of the Cape Breton MIX Pro-
ducers Assoc alton that fror. Octobr, fl rst the
Association asking 1920 per hundred rounds for
milk delivered at the plant.
Because of the arrangements concluded wi tn its
shippers at the Hay meeting, the Society ignored
tie notice. Hany shippers stopped sending their
milk. others continued to send.
The Society needed 30 600 pounds Of milk each
week to satisfy its demands, so mainland
sources lad to be tapped.
Mix shipped in and from the mainland by the Fri-
tish Canadian tests an average of 4.2s butter fat
content.
committee from the farmers orrani 7ation net
the Board Of Directors of tie ISL Canadian to
ask for the Societys signature to agreelent
with the Association.
The Board declined to sign anythins without a
t. orough etamina tion. During the following week
the BOARD examined the agreaet in all it's clauses.
The Directors of the Society do not object to
tire inc the price paid shipper Of mi TX.
collecte1 on the far and 1920 ger hundred pounds
delivered at the plant. This is but ten cents per
hundred pounds les than the price the Association
asking.
The aociety's Directors do object, however, to
several clauses in the agreement. Clauses subject
to aTendnent, the CLAIM,
3. All Wholesale Raw Mix marketed under this
agreement, be sold weight.
l.. Price Of W Milk delivered at pasteurising
plants beginning october lst, 1870 and continuing
until October lst, 1871, be eight cents per qua"t
for milk testing 3.5 butter Fat. (Ed. Note-GS per
quart equals $3.50 per hundred pounds.l
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