New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-23
POLICE ESCORTS OFFEND
HENCE, THE SHOPS CLOSE.
DR.. BIauStein Fears No Beef Riots
Under Present Conditions.

Dr. David Blaustein. superintendent of the
Educational Alliance, has no fear of a repetition
of the meat riots OF two years ago long as
the East Sides sympathy with the retail butch
ers remains unimpared He declares. however.
that IL the Of September residents OF
the East S.de are una bic to obtain kosher meat
az a reasonable figure. and also have reason TO
think tnat the butchers are playing both ends
against TIE middle trouble may be looked for
IIe Goes rot believe that either the kosher kill
ers or the rabbi: supervisors wiz leave the
slaughter houses she present call OF the union.
Il do not believe there viii be trouble" said
Dr. Blaustein TO a Tribune reporter yesterday.
because al the present time the sympathy Of
me public is entirely with the retail butchers.
Five hundred kosher dealers have closed their
shops for certain time because the sight Of
wagons escorted by policemen offensive to
the public. TWO years ago, however. at the
tine of the meat riots. the kosher shops closed,
and it subsequently was learned that they had
closed not for the public's but for their own
benefit. once they had gained their concessions
from the wholesalers and had obtained the
elimination OF the middleman in the profits from
offaI they reopened and by charging the
prices showed that they had betrayed the pub
lie for their ends. That the cause of
the trouble Let them do again and there
will be further trouble. At present however,
The sympathy Of the public is their side.
To-day il IS summer weather. With plenty
OF fresh fruit and vegeta bles, the public is able
20 do without meat The East Side is at work.
But on the eve of September the holidays he
gin and continue the 10th and 18th. When
that time comes. if the public is nor abe to buy
kosher meat at reasonable figure. if II is con-
WINGED that the butchers in reality no. win
IT, then there will be trouble"
The business agent of Loca; No. 800 asserts
that if the rabbits who supervise the slaughter
ing OF kosher meat at the plants Of the trust
refuse 10 leave their work the question vii! be
taken before the Hebrew congregation on Satur-
day.
will the rabbis leave their work.
They will not" said DR.. Blaustein. Their
interests with the wholesalers. by whom
they employed. Further none of thess rab-
bis responsible to an individual congrega-
ton. Again the rabbis realize that the present
stuatie3 is not religious. but a. economic one.
If it were found that tho strike and the men
employed in killlcs kosher Were interior
ing with the due preparation of the meat that
would be different matter. AS it is I believe
that the rabbi supervisors and the kosher killers
both in with the wholesalers will refuse to leave
their work"
Frederick Joseph. vice president of the
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company, declared
that the appeal of the unions TO the rabbi su-
a
scheme on the part of the independents" to
steal the trusts trade. We are selling kosher
at from 10 50 cents a pound" said Mr. Jo-
seph. This is every cent as much as this kind
Of meat is worth. The so-called independents,
on the other hand, selling high II
cents. They want to put Of the way, so
that they charge the public their own
prices" So far as could be learned the strike
has had little effect on either the prices charged
- he proprietors of large restaurants, or on
the table Of prices on their bills of fare The
menus, in effect, remain unchanged. In Wash
ington Market meat prices took Il heavy plunge
POrterhouse steaks which early last week
brought 2S cents pound could be had for three
cents less, while roasts and sirloins that were
formerly both - cents dropped to PC
The packers, it was said yesterday are killing
about seventh Of the regular supply Of beef
or about seven hundred head in a week
AT a meeting of the joint advisory board OF
the butcher workmen. appeal to the public
was formulated. and later approved by a meet
ing Of the strikers The appeal which will he
made public by means of posters printed in red
ink circulated Throughout: the city, reads. in
part, follows:
whereas The avaricious Beef Trust not salts
ned with trying TO crush the independent hutcn
ers out of business. has now turned tbcir mill
IONS OF dollars. guns, on the already poorlv
pald working people. and whereas the product
winch they are now trying 10 pul on the marie.
is unnt and unwholesome for use heinz, liIIa5
ana dressed by unclean and unskflle6 raorla
uiNeh rom lhe southern States. who ear and
steep among the meats put OF the market nv
the Beef Trust, We requesr THAI organized Ia
Dor ana the public at large refrain from nm.
cn@sHs OF eating such produc;, because this is
IOt nghi OF organized labor, but for the free
uorn ana honor OF the entire people of this grea-
and free republic. 90
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