The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-05-16
EAST SIDE GOES RIOTING.
loo WOMEN RISE up AGAINST
KOSHER BUTCHERDOM.
Ten Thousand out s.ast Night -keresete
Poured on Meat, windows smashed.
shops Closed Women say the Kosher
Hutchers We're s~indiink nem-Pe-
lice Reser, Called 100 Arrests.

AMI fsEth ~ NNAaA - - ~ - NNaN -
nea, things happened In the Ghetto which
,,u-ed the editors of the Yiddish dailics
along Fast Broadway to GET out ex,r a.
with he words Revolution OF the Women
.p-e,d in big ie,tersall over the front m ges.
There were riots all day and late into the
nisht. The police had a buster day than
the EDITORS. They were at Il to midnight
,ryne Ia keep the peace and II vas a hard
lob There were more than ooo arrests.
The kosher butchers resumed business
on Wednesday morning after keeping
,.,-.,I for four DAYS in tho hope Of cnm-
railing the wholesale dealers TO lower
o.. pr.c,,- The plan didn't work. Instead
a gaining a point the retail men on the
Ia.t SIDE lost one. for when they started
u again ~ "Wednesday they were obliged
90 nav IT., cents a pound for kosher meat.
La, week the Wholesale price was only
H., o,n,s N the result Of that cent
nrf,,~. IN What they had TO pay the kosher
,utghrr- increased the retail price two
p,u... making il ~ cents \ pound.
women stood that for one day. Then
nov got together in a hall in the rear of a
-.l,1n AZ s. Monroe street TO decide what
tr-y would 10. Esther Edclson. who liveS
ever the saloon. called the meeting and
" R-i1pl. SfNn Emhfl NaNh't iFf hp
/. all schemes she suggested for making
me- kosher bur cheers wish they had never
been born. And about 100 more women.
,l'hat tho hall would hold, agrcedto every
hing that Ether and Sarah wanted.
They denounced the kpsher butchers
fr having a little trust 81 tSsir own and
declared that they were raising prices
on their " account and trying 10 make
IA. people believe that tho wholesalers
rer. 20 blame. The women finally de
cidNi 20 buy 10 meat and not 10 let any
body cleo buy any and 10 raid tho butcher
shops. 10 do that they arranged for
ricAet committees cf five women each
20 60 10 every kosher place yesterday
morning 20 put a stop 10 business.
There are about six hundred kosher
bIicherS on the East Side. but the So
aumen who went to the meeting did such
.rec'iye work In getting recruits from
the that there were enough
commit rcs to 60 around. There we
- least 500 women out In day time max
iugrumg- lively. tapt. Th"mlen' II tho
Madison street police station thinks There
acre 3.eS.erD.
To i,.lp along the cause. tho women
al-o rad 5000 circulars prin'ef In liddirh
and distributed. The circular said
DEAR SiSrrEs The time has arrived
when We must take u hand m this meat dght
lor our money the butchers buy dia'uon4-
~aNcn cent? q round wholesale, the butchers
barge W fourteen. and now when th"v have"
-,s..i rHowI and nave declared strike
Now. what shall W. say, dear sisters, wh"n
they give us stone and bone and oharg" ~,
We therefore ask and demand Of all our
dsar sisters IN Greater New lorS that They
refuse 20 nay more than !. cent- a round
~ no rafuAs 10 give To Won AZ fAAf Price 20
no, buy meat az all And II "" work and At
i.one woman ther" WI .oan ., io.na
butchers who do not care for diamonds ana
Who will op"n stores aud sell meat TO " At
INV no insa, yourselves and l~, no one
.l.s 6uy' COMMITTEE.
Tho trouble bpsan AZ y o'clcsS in tho
mn-rrg when Jacob kalinski opened hs
uI'rr,r shop at &l9' Cherry street and
rod 20 sell a p'ecs OF chuck steak TO a
.,tp.n Gus; omcr. immediately according
.n ne appeal Of the COMMITTEE about
,rir'v women jumped in and nc'"d a. one
woman. but q woman who had thrty
'rnglss.
vps coming out ~ the shop when som" Of
Oh. women bounced upon her. They
grabbed tho meat and threw II through the
Iuichar window Then th"v went ~ Hnd
brew ~ ta,k into the street together WA
al Tho rest Of kal'nskii- stock kalushI
ana D.. family Fed 70 their living rooms
M he rear Il tho shop and barred them
-o,cs IN His meat wac used 20 mop up
no gutter IN" woman who had dared 20
-uv \ piece Of u was chased 10 the END oi
no block wherc she escaped, leaving her
sly and "A fragment Of her waist in the
Haul- - her purSuers
mo ieaders Of thai particular mob wer"
\rna RoSen and RetesS'a AblnwitZ Of go
tb.rry street and Rose Kosler 81 80 Cherry
.'re' Thev were arrested and taken 20
mo FSSay Narke, police court. followed by
2 mob Il the female foes Of diamond-woar-
NJ butchers. yelling At the police aud
geIr NC them with fragments of forbidden
meat
Bv IN. time Magistrate Cornell opened
our, a, . o'clo~k there we're thirty women
no limo 20 b. srra,gned for -diSorreriy
rurducr In each case the dlsorderly
oonduct consisted 81 raising :lciions IN a
butcher shop. The row at halmskts
~as a sample Of what was going on all
over the Ghetto. The Magistrate fined
~. first batch ~ zach. Late In the morn
!ng. A. the trouble increased and the police
kept coming With their Yelling somea
prisoners the fine was raised TO 10 ana
sou women were fined $40.
E-se1 street In front Of the Court House
va crowded all day with women ana
'NA mon who s~ympathized with them
When tho hne was Increased there Wa an
Indignation meeting on tho Court II nl-e
stops Magistrate Cornell was called n
kosher butcher because he rnis"d prices -
"a a lot of poor women IN" police OF the
court H1uad went out with rat'ait- anu
hroke M the meeting, They sls" broke
some II the rattaus
Esther Edelson. the leader Of the Monroe
stree, mass meeting, was one OF the women
fnNd DO The Magistrate said she had
melted wicked riots and told her that he
would .end her 70 the workhouse next
time.
Joseph Han-hau a collector for a whole
salN h~ef concern. tried TO drive through
Henry street in a buggy. Samuel Vein.
stein grabbed the hor-e's birdie, and hold
him while tho women throw things ~ the
collector. Weinstein was arrested. In
court he told tho Magistrate that he had
saved Hanshau'= lfH by stopping
his r,inAvay hor@e. Rut he was fined ~
Some 81 The women carried kerosene cars
vh.n they went OUT 70 hattie with the
butchers They poured the oil over ~"
meat
one woman In a Cherry street mob held
= nursing baby IN me arm With her free
hand she throw a plate that knocked n
oor-'s h-lme, On Neither nee nor fam
" cares made a woman exempt from duty
N The crusade.
After The window smashing and raiding
Vas over for the day the kosher butchers
barred their door. and sat With their tami-