The evening world., 1904-02-25
AmaIgamated Meat Cutters Say
that They Must Stop Them
or Be Driven Out of the Trade
for Good.
MANY ARE EMPLOYED
ALL OVER THE CITY,
Effort Is to Be Made to Secure
Their Discharge Before They
Have Eaten Into the Arrange
ments of the Big Union.

It's war to the knife with the
~omen butchers. The ~Amalgamatcd
Meat Cutters and Butchers Workers
of America are making n campaign
against the fair wieldcr,s OF the cleavcr.
The astounding point in their cam
paign is that they have enlisted in
their campaign against the women
butcher maidcns one of the fair sex
who claims an adcptncss in the gentle
art OF butcherhg.
This last energetic recruit to the
~Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butch
ers' Workers is n pretty blue-eyed
young woman with the appealing name
Of Love. Miss Lillian Love is the
night she will speak at the meeting
in Liberty Hall protesting against the
employment of women in butchers
shops.
ITS true / can keep my pace with
the best meat cutter l have ever met.
said Miss Love to an Evening World
reporter to-day. Il bclieved-l know.
in fact-that women can become lust
as expert butchers rs me-"
Miss Love is cashier in a meat mar
ket in West Fortieth street, near Ninth
avenue, and says she has learned all
market.
She can cut a quarter of beef. shape
a loin for the bench; she can fix any
kind of meat in the whole animal for
Nc purpose of selling said William C.
Wellman. President of the union, who
Is working. TO put the women butchers
out OF buainess.
nloyed III "A butcher shop. wen though
they can perform the work as we'll as
Men; It is no place for them" said
When Charles wcisbecker started
the trouble by employing coy damsels
10 serve the customers in his meat
market, on Eighth avenue. there was
anguish among the union men meat
1T isn't only weisbeckcr who en-
ploys women in the markets." said a
union man to-day, but l have founds
h butcher in Brooklyn, one in Jersey
City. one in Third avenue and several
others. Why. these women are threat
CntnS tho dignity of the butcher trade.
II we don't take definite action there
Will be women butchers in all of the
markets in n few years. We have to
SThey, work for cheap wages and
dcmoralize the trade. We are irving
to improve the condition of the work.
ing men. We nave secured shorter
hours and Sunday closing. but IL these
% We nadGSS nc. !" they Fhe sa Miii %e work aISTty viii
and spoil the work OF the union
We have men all over New York
Investigating. and when, we find out
cutters VIC fine them $50 for cutting
meat where women handle it. II the
meat cutters are ~non-union we get
them to join the union. In this way
we hope to drive them out of business,
The present system is that these
butchers employ, say. three men at
regular union wages. SIS a week. in the
iee-boX and ten women Mt the counter.
They have different cuts OF meat
handed out by men m"eat-cutters and
placed In the glass cases, which are
cold storage affairs, and then the
women sell and wrap them up. Now
some people object to having their
meat already cut. and this fact will
lead to the establishing Of a block be-
side the women butchers and their
cutting meat themselves. This would
put us out OF business.
butchers trade and we are making
a desperate fight to thwart them"
In the meantime. the merry sounds
OF the meat AK and tho sharpening OF
the meat knive are heard In the shops
where the fair butcher maids are en-
piuycd. Charlie Wcisbecker says ho
never had such patronage in his life
as he has had. since he employed
women butchers, n all the girls say
they like tho work and don't sec why
the A~malgamated Meat Cutters and
fuss, anyway.
Miss Love, who Is to offer expert
testimony in the matter, is considered
a great drawing ard in the union
In the movement against its enemies
of the fair soN. She will make an ex-
pose OF the reasons why women
should not be butchers. although she
wants you to understand they are as
capable as men,