Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-18
q ITALIAN MEAT
SHOPS SHUT DOORS
IN BOYCOTT HERE
Butchers Get Together and
Quietly Decide to Close
Their Stores.
RICE AND MACARONI
BEING USED AS SUBSTITUTE
Kosher Places Closed Except
Where Chicken Only Is
Being Sold.

Twenty-Five Italian meat shops to-
day refused to buy any meat from the
wholesalers. AS soon as the little meat
in their refrigerators is sold they will
close their stores and wait until prices
go down. Without riot and without
any organized effort the Italian people
of Newark have ceased to eat meat,
and the butchers themselves got to-
gether and decided that they would
close.
Nick villanova today left his shop at
% Fourteenth avenue in charge of his
wife, and at noon she had but twenty
pounds of beefsteak to clear out before
turning the key in the door and letting
business rest until prices go down.
'The people cannot afford meat at
the present prices,'e she said, land for
some time have not been buying It,
My husband has been complaining of
poor business, and since the kosher
meat strike, when the women started
to come into the street and talk about
the high prices, we have not been SELL
ing any,
What ssave the people been eating?"
inquired a reporter for the EVENING
STAR.
Rice as Substitute.
"They have been buying rice and
macaroni Rice is always the same
price. 1t has never changed and Is as
good as meat. Everything else goes
up high, but rice stays at the same
10 In
how to cook rice,' she said, "or they
would stop buying meat. The Italians
mix it with vegetables and cook 1t in
many ways, making good food for the
family, and they can do without meat
better than the Americans. Many OF
the Italians cannot afford to eat meat
even If they wanted to- and they have
stopped because they have no money
to buy it,
Stores in Seventh avenue, Eighth ave-
nue., Fourteenth avenue and Fifteenth
avenue are all affected by the move
ment, which was brought about at a
meeting of the butchers held yesterday
afternoon, when the situation was fully
discussed. At the store of r. Addon-
izio, q Fourteenth avenue, there were
less than 200 pounds of meat on hand,
and preparations were being made to
close. Here'it was said that the butch
ers themselves could not afford to eat
meat and were in a worse condition
financially than the laboring men who
had a steady income.
"There is no strike" said Addonizio;
sit is just case of meat being too high
in price to sell. We have shaved own
n.rr 10 ,,I tb< hA1 olA,- \
tinued to advance prices until we had
to make increases in the price as fast
as he did. People bought meat one
day and came back the next and found
that it had up several cents a pound
while they were asleep and they just
stopped buying. We have had to carry
only half the stock we used to and
there was not enough business to keep
up the shop.
"waamen would come in and ask for
prices and would then go away and not
come back. One by one they stopped
until we had to do something The
Socialists urged a meat strike, many
joined the movement and boycotted
meat, but the great portion of the
Italians cannot afford meat at the
prices charged
Prince street Quiet.
Prince street was quiet, most of the
kosher butcher stores being closed al
together and those which kept their
doors open sold chickens only. Meat
was on the shelves of a couple of
shops, but in very small quantity and
there was no call for 1t.
The rain little affected the market
ing, but it effectually kept off the street
the agitators who have been conspcu-
GUS in front of the shops all week.
The strike of the women Is still on,
meat offered for sale has no demand
and only the closed stores and a few
broken windows remain as silent testi-
mony of the opening struggle of the
boycott.
No one could say how long this con-
dition would last and today butchers
said they were preparing for a consid-
cradle period of idleness, as they were
convinced that to attempt business
while prices are where they are would
be waste of time.
Morris Yatkowsky, of 80 Prince street
president of the Kosher Butchers AS
sociation, said today that nothing
would be done by the association un-
til the people showed some inclination
to desire the stores opened and some
intention of buying. He said that there
were not fifty pounds of kosher meat
sold in the city today.