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that he appreciated it, and I think he did.

Around this time there was a milk strike in New York. Owen D. Young intervened on behalf of the New York processors. In New York State there were a good many milk strikes, with always some kind of a compromise settlement of them. The processors are a very important element in the milk industry. Now Owen D. Young is an upstate man, lives at Hornell. He has big farms up there. His farms produce milk. Everybody who is in the milk business in New York State is concerned not only with the delivery of fresh milk to New York City, but with the maintaining of the processing. It's the processing that really makes it possible to can, evaporate, condense and utilize the milk that can't be used for fresh milk. You therefore have a stable industry with a constant flow of all the milk you want coming into the big cities.

There was always this row between the producers. You've got two different groups of producers. The first milk strikes that we had was when the Dairymen's League was born. That had been fifteen or so years earlier. As its name implies, it was an organization of the independent producers that were not tied up with a contract to Borden, Walker-Gordon or Sheffield. The strikes always had to do with price of milk, with delivery terms, with trucks. I don't know what the fight was in this particular strike in August, 1941, but it's always just about the same.





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