New-York tribune., 1910-01-24
BOYCOTT SPREADS.
Cams Little FOOthold an Large
Cities, HOWeUer.

ported from many of the smaller cities
throughout the country yesterday. Action
was taken at only three points near New
Observation-Disclosures, Holyoke, Mass and
Pawtucket, R. I.
At a meeting of the Glass Blowers
Union, in Poughkeepsie, the members voted
unanimously to abstain from using meat
after February /. The resolution is to re-
main in effect until the price of meat has
reached a much lower level.
The Central Labor Union. of Holyoke,
Mass voted yesterday to abstain from the
use of meat for thirty days. beginning jan
uary so. About three thousand organized
workmen are affected. The South HolyoAe
Lyceum voted to buy meat for in
definite period, and other organizations are
preparing to join the movement
At Pawtucket five hundred workingmen
pledged themselves TO abstain from meat
for thirty days. This is the first Rhode
Island point to take decisive action.
Features of the boycott yesterday were
attacks on the persons responsible for the
prevailing high prices by clergymen in
Plttsburg, Baltimore, Atlanta and New
Orleans. 1t asserted that the needs of
man should not be made the vehicle for
gain, and the congregations were urged TO
join the movement TO eschew meat
Among the new points where the move
ment is reported as either advancing ac-
lively or as projected are Minneapolis and
Duluth, MINI; Los Angeles, Spokane and
Be lingham, Wash; Detroit Grand Rapids
and Kalamazoo, Mich. Macon and Au-
gusta. Ga; Hagerstown and other points in
Maryland; Terre Haute, Ind; Lincoln
Neb.; MorgantoWn, w. Va. Norfolk. Va
and Nashville, Tenn.
The movement has gained strength in
few of the large cities of the country In
Chicago no general plan has been adopted
toward inducing the public TO abstain from
meat. The Chicago Federation of Labor
has a special committee al work to investi-
gate the subject. but no action has yet
been taken Philadelphia has taken no no.
tice of The movement.
Pittsburg. Jan. 23.-The meat boycott
which had its first local support among
the streetcar men, has spread TO the great
industrial plants of the river valleys. and
even the iron workers, miners and glass
blowers are taking to a vegetable diet
Five thousand Westinghouse employees
have Joined the boycott At Braddock one
Of the largest iron working communities
il is admitted at butcher shops that busi
ness has fallen off from 40 to 60 per cent
Many butchers here have closed their
shops
Meatless menus were presented to diners
in some of the Pittsburg hotels TO-DAY. and
they proved popular Here is one of them.
Cream of spinach soup; broiled whitefsh
maitre de hotel sauce: fried lack salmon
tomato sauce; California asparagus on
toast hollandaise sauce; oyster Datties.
stuffed green peppers; baked macaroni: ro
maine salad; spaghetti Italien; Boston
baked beans; mashed, boiled and brown
potatoes; carrots and peas; fried hominv.
pineapple pudding. vanilla ice cream and
pie.
Cleveland, Jan. 23.-The meat boycott here
has placed sharp check on the incoming
supply. Although a canvass of all the re-
tail butcher shops in the 1st Ward a repre-
sentative middle class section of the citv
shows a falling off in trade of from one
hair TO three-fourths. the exceedingly small
receipts of livestock here have operated
according To the butchers, to keep prices
up. The decline on beef has been only l.
cents on the hoof and on lamb 10 cents.
TWO hundred wagonloads of chickens
brought IN from the country were rejected
YESTERDAY commission men declaring that
they could not sell fowls at all
Inc NUMBER of active boycotters of meat
has reached l25.Oo0 according 10 the men
who nave the petitions in charge. 1t is not
beheNed that the number will greatly in
crease as 'he United Trades and Labor
Couh'i mas asked all union men to boy
colt the boycott. and the more nrosnero,ls
classes have ignored II
Thirty-fye thousand ant, 49,. ..,.