New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-18
FATAL NEAT STRIKE RIOT.
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branches of the Hebrew Retail Kosher Butch
ers' Association confer and announce their de
cision. This meeting will be held tonight. and
the result % the conference will be made known
to the mass meeting Tuesday o. Wednesday.
Maurice Ozwallinski of No. $50 Cherry-st.,
was chairman Of the meeting BY his side sat
Elias FIeischmann. of No. 73 Suffolk-st. the
president of the East Side branch of the Kosher
Butchers Association. They told the assem-
blage that the only thing to do to protect their
interests was to refuse to buy meat at the pres
ent prices. The wholesale dealers had increased
the cost from 6 or s cents to 10 or 10, they
said and it would simply he robbery of their
poor customers TO demand prices which would
make their business profitable
Your customers won't stand H. and there viii
be trouble II you go on they warned the
butchers.
Stormy speeches and denuncatiOns or the
wholesale dealers broke forth. There Is nine
days fast now among the Jews. in which no
meat is eaten but this will end Wednesday.
and the situation will be acute If thew have no
meat or meat at strike prices.
They could not afford 10 keep their shops
closed. and said So neither could they afford to
pay the high prices raise their own and give
their customers a preteXt for riots.
Finally II was decided 10 have fifteen dele
gates including the regular executive board.
consult with the delegates from the other
branches OF the association and report 70 the
mass meeting
The advisory board of the striking meat cut
ters and butcher workmen will hold a meeting at
o a. m to-day and the Joint executive board Of
locals will meet at noon. The advisory board
will report II II has considered it necessary to
take any further action the strike. Meetings
of the unions OF engineers and hremen control
ling the men In their trades at the cold storage
plants were held late on Saturday night at
which II was decided that it was not necessary
at present for the engineers TO take any drastic
action.
1t was stated by representative of Nauss
Brothers. an independent concern which kills its
cattle in the abattoir of the United Dressed Beef
Company that IL the frenen and engineers
struck they would return 10 the old style OF kill
ing This was to kill days supply every even
Ing and close the stores in the middle Of the day.
Quietness reigned at the strike headquarters.
There plenty of police watching the cold
storage plants the opposite side of the street.
\ dispute took place between man In the me-
chanical department of the New-YOrk Veal and
Mutton Company and a man in another depart
mens TO which did the more work. The two
men were about TO resort 70 blows when police
men separated them.
officials at the Central Stockyards Jersey City
yesterday said that they receiving more
than the usual number of cattle sheep and
lambs. The receipts for yesterday they said,
We're $4,000 sheep and lambs ana $500 live cat
tie. These came from Virginia. West Virginia
and Ohio. Superintendent Kenny said that more
cattle and sheep We're on the way and several
carloads of sheep would arrive this morning He
said he did not share what seemed To he the
popular belief that there danger of a meat
famine.
The Central Federated Union held it's meeting
yesterday on board the steamboat John Syl-
IA mo prAi i1,t-ir
ton of the Pattern Makers Ur IN 20 accompany
IL on its annual excursion 10 ROTOR Point on
the Sound
Resolutions were passed by the Central Fed
Grated Union on the strike OF the butcher work
men and meat cutters that. the independent
meat packers. who had no quarrel with their
men. could only supply one-half OF the demand
FOR meat In this city. the 100000 workers i'm this
city should consume only half their usual quota
OF meat daily while the strike lasted and patron
lie only the retailers who did business with in
dependent firms. BY this means the resolutions
said. the Beef Trust would have little Gus
tom, and consequently littl2 occasion 20 employ
non-union men