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SANITARY MILK COMPANY
SANITARY MILK COMPANY. In 1940 the Sanitary Milk Company charged that rival dairies and union deliverymen were in effect freezing the company out of business because of a new consumer price program Sanitary Milk Company placed into operation.
Sanitary Milk calculated that three cents of the 11 cent price of a quart of milk delivered to a home was the cost of delivery. The company then began a schedule in which the first quart of milk cost 11 cents and each additional quart cost 8 cents. The delivery cost was also reduced from the price of other dairy products when delivery was made with the milk.
Sanitary Milk Company charged that rival dairies in Dubuque in cooperated with union deliverymen halted the company's business with a rule that any driver found taking a customer from another dairy would be fined $100. As a result, Sanitary Milk Company could obtain no new customers because of the threat against its drivers.
The case received federal attention because milk sold in Dubuque was produced in three states--Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin--and was therefore part of interstate commerce. (1)
The 1923 through 1929 Dubuque City Directory listed the corner of 7th and White.
The 1939 Dubuque City Directory and 1942 Dubuque Classified Business Directorylisted 60 E. 7th.
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Source:
1. "Dubuque Milk Probe Ordered," Telegraph Herald, September 5, 1940, p. 1