The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-01-21
BOYCOTT ON
HIGH PRICES

Chicago. Jan. 21-A boycott on high
food prices started in Cleveland
week ago is growing rapidly, Illinois,
Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska
and Michigan now being included in
the ranks of tle crusaders in the
West, while in the East Pennsylvania,
COnlecticIt and Delaware are lifting
their voices in feebler protests. Ohio
lOwGver, is still the stronghold of the
movement.
The Cleveland boycott has extend
cd TO Canton. where the Central Labor
Union has adopted a no neat" reso
luton, aad petitions favoring meat
boycott are meeting with surprising
results in Col'Imbus, Toledo. Akron
and other towns. The crusade in Ohio
has found encouragement in the pub
iicly expressed belief of Governor
Ia mon that the food trust is gobbling
up excessive profits somewhere be
tween the producer and the consumer.
He has called on the legislature to
hunt the trust out of the woods and
exhibit it to the people.
In Chicago: NO meat for me for
thirty davs" Tags are selling by the
huldreds and now the boycott Is
spreading west of Kansas City. In
Kansas City the restaurants are -nak-
ing prominent their lists of vegetable
dishes. while on the menu cards is
printed: Assist in the movement to
reduce the price of meats
In Denver plans are being made BY
Ae Denver Trades Assembly to hold
4 mass meeting on Sunday to endorse
and forward the neat boycott.
Denver. Jan. 21.-Sonething of
national character is to be given to
the recently inaugurated meat boy
colt. according to Sam Dutton, Presi-
dert of the Western Hotel Mems Pro
tective Association. The proposition
II cutting down t1e consumption OF
meat will be brought before that body
at the meeting in Chicago, January 81,
when the association is to make il
1 national question unless something
IS done to curtail the consumption
IF meat Mr. Dutton said the time is
coming when the poor of tlis country
viii be- no better off than the peasan-
.ry of Europe.
A Big Boycott in Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa, JaR. PA meat
strike has been organized in greater
Pittsburg today. Hundreds of street
car employees have signed a pledge
TO abstain from meat for thirty days,
while thousands of members affiliat-
ID with the Iron Trades Council are
awaiting word from leaders before
putting a meat boycott into effect.
Youngstown. OHIO: Wheeling. West
Virginia, Sharon, Penna.. and other
nearby cities have joined actively in
4 no. do oh
Eighty Thousand in Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo-. Jan. 21.-That
eighty thousand people in Kansas City
viii join in the anti-meat crusade in
he next ten DAYS was freely predicted
by labor leaders here today. The
Building Trades Council, with a mem
Dership of five thousand and the In
dustrial Trades Council, with a mem
bership of thirteen thousand, will
meet next Sunday to pledge the mem
| cers to refrain from eating meat for
thirty DAYS. other unions are also en-
tering enthusiastically into the move
ment.
No Meat Buttons in Baltimore.
Baltimore. Md. Jan. 21.-Buttons
bearing the inscriptions: I'don't buy
neat Do you?" appeared on the street
n large numbers today following the
action of tae Federation of Labor in
calling on all labor unionists and
sympathiZers to abstain from meat
for thirty days as a protest against
high prices. The demand for buttons
was not confined to laboring men,
| more than half the requests coming
| from business men and clerks.
Housewives to Take q Hand.
| New York, Jan. 21.-New York to-
day Joined in fighting the high prices
| pf meat Scores of laboring men and
others are making pledges to abstain
from meat for thirty days, while many
others are eating meat only once
/ day.
Mrs Anita Comfort Brooks, pro-nin
ent in club circles, has come forward
with the suggestion that a million
housewives unite to force prices down.