New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-19
WON'T BUY THE ClTiLE.
Plenty Of Lirestock in City-No
Fear Of Riots.

a feature OF the butchers strike situation yes
terGay was that while retail dealers were putting
MP prices. meat was drug IN the wholesale mar
ket. and prices we're lower than last week The
livestock market became demoralized Yesterday
owing to :le scarcity Of buyng. The independent
houses feared their men would go on strike. aac
1ould not buy cattle that arrived here caves
sold yesterday AT s. q hundred POUNDS. as
against IS at the end OF last week There was
nearly as mucl decrease in the price Of cattle
Mutton was selling wholesale Yesterday at II and
II. cents a pound. against Il and l4'2 cents
pound last week Dressed beef selling whole
sale Tor 10 and p cents round Yesterday
In a speech made Yesterday at a mass meeting
90 the United Garment Workers. in Cooper Union.
President Gompers Of the American Federation Of
Labor took occasion 10 refer 10 the meat strike.
He said he had attended conference in Chicago
with the representatives Of the Beef Trust.
They were willing to arbitrate everything" he
said. even the question Of the men returning to
work. But ] would not agree to the strikers doing
now what they could do individually if they were
defeated
He recommended working men and women to eIt
fish while the strike lasted reminding his hearers
that there we're as good fish in the sea as ever
were caught
Joseph Stern. Of Joseph Stern & Sons independ-
dent butchers. Of West Fortieth-st. told Tribune
reporter yesterday that his firm killing four
hundred cattle day and that il had plenty
Of meat hsnd. II got its cattle from Chi
cago and Kansas City. Prices had been raised
Thursday and Friday nearly cents pound
wholesale but there disposition 10 raise
them any higher Business was slow. and there
should be no anxiety to any meat shortage IN
this city IN the immediate future Mr.. Stern thought
the top price Lad been reached There VAS
plenty OF kosher meat which killed every day.
Meyer Bloch. 81 Bloch Brothers. independet
butchers Of Ninth-ave.. near Forty second-s. said
they taking good care of their retail trade
but had been obliged 10 cut restaurant and Eotei
said Mr.. Bloch was export beef. which originally
had been consigned TO foreign cities
Hotels and restaurants. as a rule. have not raised
prices SO far as could be learned yesterday At
Delmonico's. Sherrys, shaney's. the Hotel Man
haitian and At other Wei known notes ana rs
taurants II was said there was no present inten-
indefinitely il might be necessary to raise prices.
catonal Alliance In East Broadway. in a talk with
Tribune reporter, last evening. said the Jews on
meat for nine days. until Thursday. the auuiNcr-
sary OF the destruction Of Jerusalem.
Il do not think. personally said Or. RlauSteiu
on 1ba Fssf STGe The Iaborfne az Class or Tba Tasf
Side in sympathy with the strike will naturally
insist having meat while II lasts. The more
conservative and well TO 90 people are in the Guu-
try. Moreover the diet Of the East side is mostly
vegetarian in the summer. There certainly viii
be outburst against the retail butchers as
there was tao years ago. Then the strikes were
led by people who were not organized. and there
down, and the public thought the retail butchers
We're with them These butchers tried 70 set Ger
tain concessions from the wholesale dealers. hut
when they 92enea shop again they did not give the
There was az Improvement In the meat situation
In Brooklyn yesterday. and there Was more meat
Of last week. whereas it was predicted there y, ud
be less. Sixteen carloads Of dressed beef arrived
Railroad and eight cars AZ the North Svth-si.
G~po's ms rs S9ou5 - per SfnI oI n amount
conditions. The managers Of several depgts sand
they had assurances from Chicago that tAo ship
About dozen. O: the striking beef cutters AMI
to-day