New-York tribune., 1902-05-26
WILL OPEN SHOPS TO-DAY
KOSHER BUTCHERS ASK POLICE FOR
ON-STATEMENTS ISSUED.

Nearly all of the kosher butchers on the East
Side served notice yesterday the captains Of the
various police districts that they intended to open
their shops to-day, and asked that the police Iro
teri them against any attacks that may be made
by the women rioters members Of the East Side
Anti-Bccf Trust Association. who have been at
tackins tho shops for selling meat. and the
toners for buying meat. when a boycott on
against the prevailing high prices
The Anti-Beef Trust Association in the last two
weeks has raised a fund than 500 hail
ont those who arrested the charge OF in
citing riot. but at the Eldridge-st. station It
said last night that the attorneys for the Anti
Trust association had agreed advise their clients
not TO bail any prisoners. The police
believed this action would tend 70 discourage the
rioting that likely to result from The reopening
OF the shops.
conference held late Saturday night be-
tween the Antitrust association committee of nifty
ana some OF the butchers in Cndeavor 10 patch
up differences. The rahbis decide WIiIcn
shops should be permitted to resume business. At
"A late hour last night the committee OF fifty
trying 70 decide whether accept the proposal OF
the butchers or not.
Yesterday circular. printed in both Yiddish and
English. signed by four Of the association leaders
representing the committee of fifty. was distributed
1t read:
Will win the struggle against the butchers DO
against the jewish Meat trust have now united
under the name Of the Allied Conference for Cheap
aiding the women. The conference has decided to
meat under tb@ sncrvison ~ tbc rehSip ep o6 M
conference. The trust must be downed For the
The battle Seek the sympathy for Your cause Of
old and young.
1t signed by Dr d. Blaustein the Rev L
Znsler, the Rev Phi: Joches Mrs. Shatzburg and
the committee Of fifty.
At last nights meeting IL was said that part OF
the circular referring TO those who will sell cheap
meat was premature. The following statement
was issued by the committee of fifty. which calls
itself The Allied Conference for Cheaper Kosher
Meats of Greater New-York':
The spontanety of this movement FOR cheaper
poorer classes the East Side against the Jewish
Kosher Beef Trust are very real and Serious.
spread tbTousbnut tST 1 h mas mas
listed the sympathles of all tbe peopIa T II E is con-
servatively estimated that fifty thousand Jewish
families have been abstaining from the of meat
for over two weeks. The people feel very Justly
that they are being ground down. not only by the
Beef Trust of the country. but also by the Jewish
Beef Trust OF the city, which has now as It's ally
the Retail Butchers Association. The Teopie
ready to fight the trust for months II necessary.
The conference wishes to state most empha tcally
that the leaders of the movement do not counte-
nance violence hut il desires state also that
the East Side is libel upon the good nam os on
peaceful honest and industrious section of the
city. The committee desires To emphasize the fact
that the few instances of outbreaks the part OF
some hystericai women are not instances of a
Instances that have occurred
The conference further calls the attention of the
general public To the fact that the Jewish press
has from the very beginning and continuously
headed the news columns of the strike with in
East Side feel that the unwarranteI summary
assemble peaceably under police protection is
tantamount to an attack the right of free
speech. IL is TO be admitted. however that such
Unprecedented action due to the sensational
reports of the newspapers. The conference wishes
this cause