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As I have stated, the board of directors had already mapped 

 out and had approved of the plan of the co-operative plants, 

 but it was working too slowly. The executive committee de- 

 fended itself and made this statement, that if it was the desire 

 of the board of directors that they make a stand for a better 

 price for milk, the executive committee was there to fight just 

 as hard for that plan as it was for its own plan. Therefore the 

 resolution was offered and passed, which took a very short time, 

 that the executive committee should work out a plan, and put 

 it into operation, whereby the members of the League could 

 secure a better price for milk on the 1st of October. It took 

 just about as long to pass that resolution as it has for me to tell 

 you about it, and it was some big job for the executive commit- 

 tee, or, at least, it appeared so to me. 



We formulated this plan. We did have in Central New York 

 a number of the co-operative plants, and one which I am par- 

 ticularly interested in is operated entirely by the farmers, that 

 is, they pay their own operating expenses and their milk is sold 

 f. o. b. the cars, while most of the other plants are rented out to 

 the milk dealers, where they pay so much a month or so much 

 a year for the rent of the plant, and contract for the milk for a 

 certain period, in some cases six months, but generally for a 

 year. I believe that our method in proceeding to get the better 

 price is not correctly called a "strike," because, as I would in- 

 terpret it, if we had a "strike" it would mean that we were to 

 hold back all of the milk. That would be a physical impossi- 

 bility, particularly in New York City, where there are normally 

 consumed about 2,500,000 quarts of milk a day. However, we 

 did arrange to have an outlet for the milk, which we could 

 secure and control through our co-operative plants. The plan 

 was that we were to put into New York all of the milk which 

 we could get hold of at our price, and hold back all of the milk 

 possible that was going into New York through the large dealers 

 or any of the dealers so classified. We were, of course, doubt- 

 ful as to our strength, and so we consulted and spent about 

 twenty-four hours with Secretary Kittle of the Chicago Milk 

 Producers Association. That association won its strike last 

 year, and it was through the small dealers that they were 

 enabled to win. Therefore you may see that we very closely 



