To Jersey City last week for the annual stockholders' meeting of Borden & Co. journeyed about 15 Manhattan gentlewomen primed with leading questions. The League of Women Shoppers, least vague, best-mannered consumer pressure group of its kind, was making its first sortie on the management of a company whose labor policy it disapproved. After the meeting, thin, exasperated Chairman Albert Goodsell Milbank rumbled that nothing like this had happened in 80 years.*
Borden was boycotted by the League's 2,000 members last month because it refused to renew its agreement with Local No. 584...