Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-21 | Page 5 | Clashes Mark Milk Strike

CLASHES MARK MARKI I MILK MIL STRIKE NEW YORK Aug 21 New UPI UP New violence accompanied by milk- milk dumping sorties flared in NewYork's New NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's seven-day-old seven milk strike today as Mayor LaGuardia called an emergency meeting of striking farmers and distributors and personally personally personally per per- appealed to them not to imperil the health of Innocent innocentI I parties the parties the people Frequent skull cracking cracking clashes between pickets and police marked the strikes strike's tightening pinch In Syracuse 30 dairy farmers overpowered and beat up two state troopers and two in a skirmish on the outskirts of the city The strikers dumped I quarts of milk before fleeing In Ulster county Sheriff Abraham Abraham Abraham Abra Abra- ham Molyneaux said strikers ruined milk on several farms by pouring kerosene Into milk-filled milk cans In Canton Pa state troopers escorted milk trucks through the area en route to the New York market Mayor LaGuardia told the representatives representatives representatives of both sides in the dispute dispute dispute dis dis- dis- dis that the residents of Greater New York were entitled to a n full supply of milk as a health necessity The mayor called for an armistice armistice armi armistice stice until Thursday when he said a general price-fixing price conference conference confer confer- I ence will be held In Syr Syracuse cuse