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chapters
1
introduction
2
a real
showdown
3
fluid
prices
4
cooperating
against the
milk trust
5
making
pennies
fight
6
un-making
the grade
7
co-op
pays off
Bibliography

  1. "Lehman is Urged to Curb Milk Rise," New York Times, November 21, 1937, 41.

  2. Biographic details of Parodneck and Whitney provided by Harry Derienzo of the Parodneck Foundation.

  3. Tom J. Kriger, "The 1939 Dairy Farmers Union Milk Strike in Huevelton and Canton, New York: The Story in Words and Pictures," A Journal for MultiMedia History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall 1998), http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol1no1/dairy1.html. Quoting statistics from New York State, Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate the Milk Industry, Report of the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate the Milk Industry (Albany: J. B. Lyons, 1933), 14.

  4. "State Milk Board Proposed in Bill," New York Times, February 16, 1933, 5

  5. "Lehman is Warned of Milk Strike," New York Times, February 8, 1933, 1

  6. Milk Consumers Protective Committee, "Milk Control Laws" Memorandum, Consumer's Union Archives.

  7. Thomas Kriger, "A Very Unusual Partnership: The Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative in New York City, 1938-1971", New York History, July 1999, 306. For more details on the New York Milk industry in the 1930s, see: "New York State, Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate the Milk Industry," Report of the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate the Milk Industry, (Albany: J. B. Lyons, 1933).

  8. "Milk Board Inquiry is Urged on Lehman," New York Times, June 5, 1933, 17.

  9. "Milk Price Raised to Avert Strike," New York Times, May 11, 1933, 5.

  10. "Milk Board Inquiry is Urged on Lehman," New York Times, June 5, 1933, 17.

  11. "Lehman is Urged to End Milk Board," New York Times, July 29, 1933, 9.

  12. New York Evening Post, February 5, 1934, pg. 1

  13. "Milk Control Laws," Milk Consumers Protective Committee, c. 1935

  14. Caroline Whitney, "Dividing the Milk Dollar," New York Times, December 9, 1936, pg. 26

  15. M. L. Smith, "The Dairyman's Hard Lot," New York Times, December 17, 1936, pg. 26

  16. Kriger, "The 1939 Dairy Farmers Union Milk Strike," A Journal for MultiMedia History.

  17. The Daily Telegraph? 8/22/38

  18. Oral history interview, courtesy of Thomas Kriger, May 1993

  19. "State Opens Inquiry Into Milk Rise Here," New York Times, July 3, 1937, 25.

  20. "Milk up on Cent; Rise Fought Here," New York Times, July 12, 1937, 22.

  21. Van Buren Thorne, Jr., "Milk Again in a Churn of Debate," New York Times, March 20, 1938, 121.

  22. "Milk Inquiry on Today," New York Times, July 13, 1937, 21.

  23. "Milk Group Incorporates," New York Times, December 11, 1937, 17.

  24. "Radio Script for WWRL," June 17, 1944, Consumers Union Archives.

  25. "Quality of Milk Assured by Law," New York Times, November 25, 1928, N3.

  26. "Milk-Grading Ban Urged at Hearing," New York Times, June 16, 1939, 22.

  27. "Milk: Grade A versus Grade B," Consumer's Union Reports, May 1936, Vol. 1, No. 1, 12.

  28. "Grade B Milk – Or – How to Save $4,526,000 a Year," The Link, Feb. 1940, Vol. 1, No. 8

  29. "Minutes of first annual Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative Board of Directors Meeting, November 28, 1938, Consumer's Union Archives.

  30. Minutes of second annual Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative Board of Directors Meeting, October 30, 1939, Consumer's Union Archives.

  31. "Why Paper Containers?" The Link, Vol. 1, No. 1.

  32. "Statement of Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative, Inc., Before Tri-Partite Panel of War Labor Board. Hotel Pennsylvania, Feb." c. 1943, Consumer's Union Archives.

  33. "Fun Galore!" The Link, June 1939, Vol. 1, No. 5.

  34. Meyer Parodneck, "Five Years of the Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative, Inc. Pamphlet," 1944, Consumer's Union Archives.