Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-24
NE WARK WOMEN
! PLAN TO JOIN IN
MEAT BOYCOTT
Many Club Members Favor
Movement, and Concerted Ac=
ton Is Looked for Soon.
UNIONS HERE MAY FOLLOW
ACTION OF STATE LABOR
Price of Pork Falls, and Dealers
Predict Big Cut in
Beef Cost.

That the action of the New Jersey
State Federation of Labor in adopting
resolutions calling upon organized
labor to employ any plan to better con-
ditions which have forced up the cost
of living to an almost prohibitive notch
may have the effect of bringing New
ark labor organizations in line with
the general boycott of meat which is in
in effect throughout the country. was
generally admitted in labor circles to-
uay.
A motion to boycott meat for thirty
days, brought up in the Essex Trades
Council meeting failed because the as
sembled members We're unable to
choose between two motions, one of
them calling for an additional boycott
on butter and eggs. 1t developed after
that that organized labor iii Newark
was Iukewarm to the proposition of do
ing without meat for thirty days. while
deploring present prices which they de-
clared We're excessive
1t was apparent today however, that
the action of the New Jersey State
Federation of Labor had crystalli3ed
the sentiment against eXtortionate
prices, and boycott resolutions will, it
is believed result i'm ti,e near future
Club women bere as l., ottar ,ar.ra
cities OF the countrv. viii, enlist win
organized labor in q war unon nresenr
= conditions, it is believed.
II believe in the advisability of the
boycott said Mrs. Walter c. Read,
president of the Irving Club, "but dc
not see why we should boycott the re-
tailers when it is the wholesalers who
tion NAV lead IA some daeni.o ae+io,,
at Washington
"Fverv, ho,,seu;fa ;s ao4;,,ol. i,,4,,
acted i, +,,, a,,taa.,.., -, 80 -
womb ali do n-itho,,t ,,aat' 70 -, .,,a
enc we could reduce nrjoae,,
"wbether tbn civic C,,,,h ,,.ilt +.,,a
sny action on tho ,neat, ho,,oott : ass,
not saw said Mrs Harry Can,n+o,, -
thar societx, today ..x,rs A. ~ 49,.
again until tba ers+ Nondsy i, usaI,N
ruary. personallv r am decida5I,, in
favor of it. and would he willine to eo
without meat for q wear II necessary
And I'm sure that ali other ,vomen fool
the same wav.
.It Is impossible for bousa,yife to
provide for her family on as much
money as she found sufficient NOT LONG
ago. Not only meat but eggs ana h,,t.
ic
high.
at is the men who eat the most and
want the best and thev sbould eet in
line and fight,
Miss Mary L. Garfield sunervisor of
cooking in the public schools and nresi-
dent of the Domestic Science Club said
that while the BODY needed nitrogen in
some form that eggs fish. cheese meas
and beans could easily take the place of
meat She feared however If ,raat
was boycotted that the price of these
commodities would he advapced c5S,5-
siderabiv
Flour. too, continued Miss canf7eId
forms a large mart of tha diet of etbe
poorer Masses and viii ;r,r,aa;atal,,
go up in nrice ;,
Arthur w NcDouoaI s,,,,o,,;,,.o,,e,,.
of the Bureap of Associated CHARITIES
thought that the bovcott If maintainad
long enongb would baya a ,,,orni ersfl,,.
on the members of Tho n,eat t,.,,,t.
NOT cari,,g for .,,,,, r,,,,liai+,. 49,, ,,',,,
M doubt he eo,.,aa 80 80 .ir'' i "o-o
A .,da,,,l,+ no.. .,,,e,,.,, -, -, 80,
ditions toda,, h1 To,,is Ero,, -
nrieto, oe a h,,t,,,ox -, :. oor cn;.,
TON ayen,a ,,,ho aa,,,ittoa ~. ~
nr;c. of ,or,, a. ,s;-rl,ast ao,sa ~
the meats. had fallen off cent and -
half pound since Saturday.
Il do not know whether the agita-
tion against high prices had Awning
to do with this dron In tho nrica of
,,orL - -. - 80 IA - -
poi n. OF not, SAID MI franz TO-DAY,
Dut 1t is fact that while I was pay
ing 161s cents pound Saturday I
paid but Is cents today. do not think
the pig packers are entirely responsible
for high prices. The individual packers
and the wbolesaIars ba,,o - ~ A.
,,.s+h - Ts."t naNe io' 10 oo
Will IT. l often ind that the price of
sausage differs by as much as two
cents with wholesaIers whiIe tba ,,ns1Y
a., ia Az ~: "ni,e 'iie qua'
i.y ds .ne same. Ihis indicates that
something is radically wrong-that
some one not the big hacker is arbi-
fra,.,, fv;no .ta ,,,.,s,t, ;, 10 e.A "
~, e .ie prices.
Inc price or smoked ham fell 1h
cents per pound since Saturdav paso
In+ions u-ii, ho ,n.,s,s,,aas ',1'
iu'ioiis WIZ pe ili'rouueeu at meeting
Oranges tomorrow night calling upon