Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1933, Page 5

MILK IS DUMPED INSTRIKE CLASHES Several Hundred Farmers Figure in Fights in New York—Two Injured. By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y, August 8—A ®fght to the finish” spirit extended over the New York milk sectors today. Two clashes marked the day by sun-up time, one at Camden and another at Chittenango Station. The latter was the most serious and was marked by fist fights between strikers and non- strikers Between 150 and 200 men, who came in trucks, participated in the Chit- tenango melee. The holiday partici- pants first broke into the plant of the Dairymen's League and dumped 100 cans of milk. then spread over all roads in the vicinity, dumping the contents of more than a dozen small trucks and passenger cars. One large truck. carry- ing about 20 cans and nned by eight the gantlet, bs to keep at a distanc Another truck did not fare so well. After reach- ! Hand-to-Hand Combat in New York Milk War POLIOCE AND STRIKERS BATTLE NEAR ROCHESTER. merits of the “classified price system.” Long divided as to the value of this system of classifying prices according to the use to which the milk is put, one group has placed by a blanket price of 4}; cents for all milk leaving the farm, while the other group wants the classified prices retained. Strikers Number 15,000. ‘The strikers, now numbering about 15,000, and scattered over more than a dozen large milk producing counties, de- clare they will withhold their milk from the market until their demands are met by the State Milk Cpntrol Board, which last Spring was given dictatorial powers | over the milk industry. Their forces are centered largely in the Empire Dairymen’s Association, a new organi- zation made up of former independent producers. Leading the other camp and support- irg the milk board are the large co- operatives—Dairymen’s League and Sheffield Producers—together with a number of sectional organizations. MILK HOUSE DYNAMITED. Biast, First in Eight-day Strike, Is Felt for Miles Around. LOWVILLE. N. Y., August 8 (#).—A milk house constructed of cement on the farm of Henry Kraeger. Mohawk | Hill Dairymen's League member. was dynamited this morning, according to Sheriff Louis A. Kohler of Lewis County. The blast shook farm buildings for miles around and scattered large masses of cement for several hundred yards. About 20 milk cans were destroyed The dynamiting was the first to be reported in the eight-day-old milk strike. Threats to use explosives have ht to have the system re- | will be held doors last n to consider the possi ' bility of another increase in retail mflkl in Chicago. They adjourned with an- nouncement that another conference | todsy. | | | Dairy farmers now receive $1.76 a bundred pounds basic price but claim is ldvmczd that since this price was es- | !lb“shzd the cost of feed has doubled. Don N. Geyer, secretary-manager of | the Pure Milk Association, representing 18,000 farmers, estimated producers | would have to have about $2.25 a hun- dred pounds to give fair return. This is approximately 1 cent a quart. Meanwhile the Government prepared | to enforce the marketing agreement al- | ready signed by big distributors nnd | the Pure Milk Association. | The market agreement, approved | more than a week ago by Secretary| of Agriculture Wallace, has been op- by independent dealers who ob- | ect to ixing of a 10 cents & quart mini- | mum price to consumers. Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, before whom their | motion for injunction to restrain en- | forcement of the agreement was made, | today continued hearing on the under- | standing the complaint would be dis- ! missed here as soon as a similar motion | is filed in wnshlnnon Bank Eummer Named. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., August 8 | (Special). —Appointment of A. Merry- man Gilbert of this city as State bank | examiner was announced by W. 8. Given, State banking commissioner, at Charleston yesterday. "Bladder Trouble The soothing alkaline minerals in Mountain Valley Mineral Water will bring relief. Phone or ERE'S a scene from one of the many battles brought on by the efforts of striking New York farmers to pre- | been brought to the attention of law write for detailed information vent milk from reaching market. This episode took place near Rochester when a crowd of striking milk pro- | Oficers in several parts of the State ing the plant, its occupants fought to and sample. save its contents, but were beaten away and the milk poured out A phone cail to the State police at ©Oneida. informing the troopers that the band was moving toward Camden, brought 46 men in police cars to Verona Station. The strikers had disappeared and the police started in pursuit. They arrived at Camden Station just as the holiday farmers stopped a large truck at the entrance of a plant. The police waded in with their clubs. Henry Oatman of Verona and Bryan Marehood of Higginsville, described by the troopers as strikers. were injured. SUMMONS MILITIA HEAD. @Gov. Lehman Calls Gen. Haskell for Conference on Use of Troops. ALBANY, N. Y., August 8 () —Gov Merbert H. Lehman today summoned Maj. Gen. William Haskell. commatd- ing officer of the New York National Guard, to a conference at the executive offices for the purpose of determining | Association, ducers disarmed guards protecting a barn and trucks. The strikers, armed with clubs, dumped the milk and |them. wrecked the trucks —A.P. Photo. feel it mecessary to call out the Na-|cannot be safely moved over the high- [ that a stock of high explosives had been tional Guard,” Gov. Lehman said. for babies or anyone else. The Gov- | assembled near Chili and that the & has done all he can to bring striking farmers were planning to im- . ':";"“‘"‘ "'l‘"g\“:;:"'or e but the sheriffs of the counties POFL outsiders to use them today. feanwhile scveral groups i st control the situation. The | q producers considered organizing volun- ! National Guard should be called out so | e teer guards to end strike disorders | that railk will go where it should go.” | This is the second plot of this kind described by Representative Hamilton | Meauwhile. hundreds of deputies, ap- | discovered within 24 hours. Chief of Fish, jr. as “a reign of terror.” ]')un'u»( as a result of Gov hman’s | Police Thomas Gallagher of Clyde re- Five hundred members of the Dairy-| message to sherifls of all up-State coun- | ceived information late Sunday night men’s League and Sheffield Producers’ ‘(Ql%\ vesterday. joined the steel-helmeted | that several milk stations in his area powerful co-operatives, | State irooners in carrying out the Gov- | were to be blown up if they continued ing organizations met behind but in each instance nothing came of —— — - et CONSIDERS PRICE INCREASE. CHICAGO. 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