New-York tribune., 1902-06-15
ANTITRUST WOMEN.
SCENES IN EAST. SIDE COOPERATIVE
BUTCHER SHOP-MOTHERS RISE
IN THEIR NIGHT.

The women are having fun with the butchers in
the ANIth Assembly District That is. the women
are having fun, and the butchers not Awhile
ago it the other way Now the butchers are
standing in the doors of their empty shops and
gazing with horror at the packed, jammed. wedged
mass of humanity that blocks the street in front
Of the co-opera tive butcher shop at No. 2+5 Stan
ton-st
The scenes there during the last week begg4red
description. Traffic stopped in front of the
shop. teams being unable to ride down the dense
throrg- Housewives with their baskets stood in
line a block away. Men left their work and waited
for hours get the first meat the family had
tasted for weeks. People before daylight to
be the first the door The policeman on that
beat gazed with establishment at the scene when
the shop opened its doors on Monday morning
When he attempted manage the crowd he was
lost in the shuttle. TWO of his colleagues likewise
disappeared from view. Not till a big committee
of interested in the co-opera tive shop got to
work matically could the tightly wedged mass
of customers he got into line and induced to pass
the counters in orderly array. Behind the blocks
stood seven stout fellows. chopping and saving
for dear life. while the perspiration poured down
in binding stream Behind the desk sat big
man, with a Panama hat and cigarette making
change with silent and imperturbab BILE GOODNESS He
is well known and wealthy restaurant keeper OF
the East Side. who has consented to act as treas
of the association
When. at II O'Clock. the doors closed be-
cause the meat gone. the hungry crowd out
side was as great as at the beginning. Two thou
sand pounds of beef had been sold in two hours
and it only drop in the bottomless bucket
OF starved East Side appetite For eight weeks
meat had not touched the lips of thousands OF
them. They were ravenous at the sight of II.
THIRTY-NINE CHUCks IN A TWINKLING.
On Tuesday thirty-ntne chucks disappeared in
the twnkiing of an eye. The men in the shop
served customers till they were ready to drop from
fatigue The chuck" weighs from 12o to l4o
pounds. sometimes running up to 16o.
The fact that the wholesalers sold the co-opera-
tive shop forty-nine chucks in one day means sue
cess Few butchers in that section, II ordinary
times buy that number in month. and latterly
many of them have been buying nothing. Inc
only way to destroy the cooperative shop Is 10
prevent It getting meat. But the wholesalers Will
hardly be anxious to antagonize so good a Gus
toner. The scenes at the new shop proved IRE
sistibly that the people are with the movement
and the concern that can command the patronage
has good chance TO win, even though the kosher
trust is against II.
efficiency shows what power lies in the hands of
the administrator of the family funds. Men buy
for themselves: women buy for the family is an
old trade axiom, which has received salient Illus
tration In this boycott. These rotund mothers OF
many; these Jewish matrons. with their queer old
wigs and their keen black eyes ana their kosher
PRINCIPLES eyoaded desperation as they saw
themselves unable to feed their families with the
y,,ope- at their command, made a combination
which II was impossible break. It was the topic
OF the curbstonc eonfab for weeks Wherever a
vraun Of Jewish housewives gathered in ami
mated converse YOU could hear the word butcher
as you passed
Among them all loomed up the tall figure OF
Mrs Sarah Cohn. Erect. blue-eyed. fair haired.