Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-05-21
MEAT RIOTS IN NEW YORK.

| IL Is strange story that comes from
New York, about the rioting OF women
on account Of the high meat prices, For
two days crowds OF Jewish women were
surglng through the streets Of the East
Side, wreckng butcher shops and de-
stroying the meat there displayed.
The leader Of this, in the United
States 80 strange revolution against
trust prices, Is described as middle
aged woman with good-natured,
kindly face that you would trust any
where. According TO her own state
ment, she started the riot, not on ac-
count Of herself but because her sym
patty went ont to others, who are UNI
abb to pay the prices now asked for
nett She said TO reporter.
'Giod knows II was for others; not
for myself. We have plenty ! could
aftrd to pay % cents pound for
meat, but there are the Others What
are they TO do2 The man who works In
the sweatshop and earns 50 or 81 a
week, He has a wife and children
sometimes three or four, sometimes
five. sometimes seven or eight mouths
TO feed There Is the rent, and the gro
Gerry and the gas to heat the irons,
and how is he to pay for meat az rs and
20 cents pound2 Now, as II was he
could only have meat once q day, but at
that price he cannot eat II at all. Yet
he must have meat, or he will not have
the strength TO work | think Of him"
OF course, the outcome was that the
police swept down upon the too jealous
band Of women. Nearly Il hundred OF
them were carried to the station and
later locked up In cells. Those who
had money paid their fines and were
liberated, The others were kept i'm
prlsoned until someone came forward |
and ransomed them.
But II does not appear that the ex-
perlence with the police has intimdated
the rioters. AS soon as they we're llber-
ated, they caused posters TO be placed
In public places, declaring that "the
sweat beads that drop from the brows
OF our laborIng husbands shall not go |
TO make diamonds for the butchers
and the meat trust" and requesting
all tho Jewish women OF Greater New
York TO stop buying meat.
a ludlcrous scene was enacted, when
a woman orator who harangued large
crowd from the courthouse steps was
lssailed by policeman. She picked
him up and hurled him to the sidewalk.
where other women attacked him fer
amidst the wild cheering OF
he crowds. Five policemen We're need
d to rescue him.
The occurrence certainly proves the
eriousness Of the condition created BY
he famine prices on an article Of food.
Different people have different meth
DIS OF expressing their protests against
that they consider an injustice. From
he ghetto, revolutionary methods may
e expected. They are natural to
lrge class OF people there, who have
ONE from countries whore there is no /
ther way Of expressing public opinion,
han by rlotlng and demonstrations OF
hat kind
II Is curious though, TO consider a
mercan conditions in the light OF =
lese occurrences. In other countries
bread riots have occurred, when the b
aople driven on by pangs OF hunger 7
ave dared both police and soldiers. :,
ut In this country the question is not G
bread, but OF meat Thousands OF b
,or laborers abroad seldom have a y
ste OF meat and yet they are content, :,
long as they can procure the neces- o.
ries OF life. Here, what In some 9TH Is
places is considered luxury, has -
come a necessity, That indicates the II
eat difference between Industrial con-
lions here, and elsewhere. The fact
that many a poor laborer here lives a.
sumptuously as some wealthy people
road and he demands this as a right 81