Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — Farmers Form Labor Union. [ARTICLE]

Farmers Form Labor Union.

A number of the farmers of Orange county, N, Y., have organized an association called the Orange County Union, its peimose being to cut out the middleman’s profits and sell direct to consumers. To this end they would form a company composed exclusively of members of the union and operate a large exchange in Newburg, selling farm and garden produce slightly below present prices. To secure the co-operation of the labor interests the farmers have asked to join the Central Labor Union. The novelty of this proposition has proved somewhat puzzling to the labor leaders, and a committee has been appointed to look into the ■ hiat.ter.„ The union men of Newburg are enthusiastic over the project, but are not a Hl tie perplexed as to the proper way of labeling the products of the -farmers’ organization.