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Section j. Collective Bargaining in the Milk Business, 



1919-1920 



In order to gain information as to the nature and extent 

 of present organizations for collective bargaining in the 

 sale of milk to distributors, questionnaires were sent to 

 eighty-six such organizations. Thirty-eight of these 

 questionnaires were returned with more or less complete 

 answers. Several more were returned with comments 

 indicating that the associations had been merged with 

 other organizations or had gone out of existence entirely. 



Although milk producers in some parts of the United 

 States have attempted collective bargaining for many 

 years, the majority of the present organizations are of 

 recent origin. Table XXXII shows the dates of organi- 

 zation of thirty-six of the associations replying. 



It should be pointed out, however, that in some in- 

 stances the present organizations have merely superseded 

 earlier organizations which had existed in the same terri- 

 tory and which had failed or whose form was found un- 

 suited to present day needs. A study of the price charts 



