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Show FARMERS STOP MIL K FOR N, Y, TJTTCA, N. V., Aug. 15 (im The Dairy Farmers' union today enforced a strike against milk shipments to New York City, the nation's largest city. The union demanded higher prices for millc and blamed the "milk trust'' for keeping the prices ! down The strike was supported by the congress of industrial organizations. or-ganizations. The general organization committee com-mittee announced milk would be supplied to New York City hospitals hos-pitals and to the city's children. The union claims a membership of 15,000 producers in the milk shed comprised of upper New York and parts of Vermont and Pennsylvania which supplies the millions of gallons used daily in the metropolitan area which has a population of 7,000,000. All members were instructed to withhold milk from dealers until the price rise to $2.35 per hundredweight hun-dredweight for fluid milk delivered in August, September and October. Octo-ber. The current price is $2.25. |