Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1904-07-14

Big Strike Spreads Throughout the Country and
Everybody will Feel the Result Branch Houses
in Elizabeth Which Supply Local Butchers
y, Feel the Effect and the Cost Goes up.


Local consumers may be seriously
atfected ny the strike of the Beef Trust
employees, because Of the fact that the
major part of this city's wholesale
supply comes from Elizabeth. Reports
from that place say that the people
dependent upon their houses for their
meat supply nre threatened with a
veritable famine.
But three days ago, the price Of beef
in Elizabeth was cents. Yesterday
IL was l21S cents, with probabilities
OF a greater increase. Already tho
effect has been felt in this city, and
many have decided to use smaller
quantities of fresh ment.
Prices of oil er food stnffs such as
eggs and fish, because of the probable
increased demand, arc beginning to
show rises.
One reason why this CITY will be SO
BADLY affected is tnat the working
class are the ones who feel the short
age the most, aud they form such a
large percentage OF the local popula-
tion.
NEW YORK, iuly 14.-Seventy-nvel
ktflke breakers, chiefly negroes, We're
Imuggled into the packing house of
Schwarzscliild & Sulzbcrger here
through cattle shoot from Il tug In
the East river hundreds Of excited
strikers gathered on the water front,
and hostile demonstration by them
was prevented only by the efforts OF
tho leaders and the presence of the
police reserves.
re packefs do not scem to take an
alarming View OF the local effects Of
the bccf strike. The largest establish
ments In New York have from one
weeks to two weeks supply on hand,
and the managers say TINT prices will
not be seriously affected for at least
ten days or n fortnight.
There is possibility that the bench
men and stationary engineers and fire.
l-lnen employed in the cold storage
plants will strike in sympathy, thus
destroying the available local supply
and precipitnting n meat famine.
In Chicago, the center of the great
meat industry Of the country, the effect
of the strike Is being felt most keenly
business interests aggegating $100,000.,
900 are tied UP and more than $4,000
butchers and workers are out Of EN-
ployInent
A Chicago dispatch says that the
strike LAS spread somewhat by the ac-
ton of teamsters in considerable num-
bers, but ostelsibly acting as ndivid-
uals, refusing to handle any product
touched by newly hired nonunion work
men, This refusal was usually based
on the time honoYed plea that differ
ent course, contracts Notwithstanding.
would put the teamster In peril of his
life. Extensive installments of sleep
ing cots and cooking apparatus for
strike breakers ut the various packing
houses were apparently the main irri-
taut cause for action by the teamsters.
although there were Il number Of spo
radic mob outbreaks or n small scale
Al Des aIoines Qa) dispatch says that
another advance WAS made In the price
OF ments by Des Mo.nes dealers, pork
advancing 2M cents a pound. The
rise is due to the strike of the butchers
A Providence (lt. - dispatch says
that prices of beef. pork, lamb and
mutton have taken an upward turn in
that city and in the surrounding towns
as the result Of the strike of the west
.ern packing house employees, the ad-
vances ranging from IL cents a pound
for beef to ana 4 cents pound on
other meats.
A Worcester (lIass) report says that
the price Of beef at wholesale has ad
vanced from to 3 cents a pound In
that city us a result Of the strike at
western packing houses. Retail mar