New-York tribune., 1910-01-25

co" Dohh ana County Treas
urer George l.. Dobson. made UP fund
To-Day with which they will esta blish a
cooperative meat market They plan to
sell meat to the poor for one year NJ .
proht OF per cent above the wholesale
price.
mass meeting was held at the Madison
Street Methodist Episcopal Church in
Muncie, Ind, to effect a meat bovcot. AZ
which more than two hundred men. wom-
en- and children signed a boycott pledge
Inc men agreed not to purchase meat
the women agreed not TO cook IT, and the
children agreed not TO eat it, The cru
sade may last thirty days.
W. 1. Swain, livestock raiser of Dwight
Kan, issued ten thousand circular letters
to prominent farmers in Kansas, Iowa.
Illinois and Missouri calling for delegates
TO hold meeting in Kansas City to re-
talate against the unions that have insti-
gated the meat boycott in that city.
State Factory Inspector Williams, of
Missouri, reported to-day that applications
for permits TO quit school at ST. Louis
under the law prohibiting the employment
of children under sixteen years, doubled in
January compared with previous months
He attributes this to the increased cost of
living
Pittsburg. Jan. 24-Cattle prices took a
big tumble at the Union Stock Yards here
to-day direct result of the meat boy
colt, which goes into effect tomorrow for
thirty days. For one month 125,OO0 men.
representing GOO mo persons in the Pittsburg
district, will abstain from eating meat. in
the hope that the high prices will be cut
by butchers
While there has been some reduction in
the prices of veal and pork, beef still con-
tnues at the price that set the boycott in
operation The drop in the price of cattle
to-day was from 40 TO so cents hundred.
The price of hogs also took a drop, but
there was no reduction in the price of
dressed beef. 1t was reported that the
supply of hogs and cattle was greater to-
day than for several weeks
One by one all the hotels of the city are
falling into line with menus devoid of meat
until hardly one can be found but is serving
a fruit uit-nut-vegetable diet. 'Twice-a-
Week Meat Eating Club" is being organ
lied among some of Pittsburg's wealthy
residents.
Cleveland, Jan. 24.-The beginning of the
second week Of Clevelands boycott of meat
was marked by a further drop in tf1E
"LOiS>dlS iSSH market fiOSS were quoted
at the Union Stock Yards at 20 and 25
cents lower on the hundred pounds, and
cattle dropped 10 and Is cents. This is in
addition TO the decrease in cattle prices of
Friday.
In the sections of the city where the boy
colt strikes hardest sirloin steaks were sold
by retailers at 10 cents pound, and round
steaks at Is cents-a price lower than any
quoted here in year
Jamestown, N Y, Jan. A-Thirty-tve
mechanics of the American Motor Truck
Company, of this city. signed a. thirty-day
eat no meat agreement to-day. En-
ployes in various other manufa cturing
plants are circulating similar agreements.
Schenectady, N. Y, Jan. A-The meat
dealers here report a decrease OF Is per
cent in their business on Saturday. Eat
no meat petitions are being circulated and
generally signed among the thirteen thou
sand employees at the General Electric
Works. Grocers report increases in the de-
nland for eggs.