Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-22

all surrounding towns there are flourish
ing lea s,ues with the same end In view.
Memphis Is Pledged.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. January CA pledge
to abstain from meat in an effort to re-
! duce prices has been signed by more
| than 20 Memphis union men and others.
Louisville Woodmen Ban Meat.
| LOUISVILLE. Ky. January 22.-Meat
is getting too high for the members OF
| twenty -0ne lodges of the Woodmen OF
the World in Louisville. Last night at
! union meeting a resolution that all re-
frain from eating meat more than once
| a day for one month, beginning FEBRUARY
!, was adopted.
| This Is the first concerted step taken ir
Louisville toward fighting the high price
of meat.
Atlanta May Join Boycott.
ATLANTA, Ga. January Blowing to
| the active opposition to the beef trust
the Atlanta Federation of Trades, which
| was to have taken the situation up at
next weeks meeting has called special
meeting for tonight to consider the mat
ter of joining the boycott upon trust
meat.
in the movement. and express belier that
their organizations will take part in the
| organized fight.
Texas Dealer Reduces Prices.
| Ell PASO, Tex, January 22.-Sweepins
! agitation for a boycott on meats has been
! followed here by announcement OF L. w.
Ardoin, a local butcher, buying and kill
ing his own stock, that big reductions
will be made under trust prices. :
Pork roasts and chops selling regularly
| at 20 cents are now 10 cents, as is also
| tWenty-five-cent loin steak. Mutton
steaks selling regularly at 20 cents are
| 12h cents. and similar reductions are
made on all other meats
A meeting of the Central Labor Union
| will be held here Monday night The
hovcott question will be presented. a
| number of union members already ex-
| pressing their Willingness to refrain from
| eating meat.
| Ohio Cities All in Line.
CLEVELAND, January 22-From an
! idle jest in the lunchroom of a large rae
| tory here last week. the Cleveland strike
| against the eating Of meat has grown 10
| huge proportions.
| One hundred thousand persons in Cleve-
| land have now pledged themselves 10
| abstain from meat eating for thirty days
| Practically every minor city In ONO mas
taken up the movement.
| The Ohio Legislature is the only state
| body SO far to take up the question.
! committee to investigate the cost of
| meats will open its session next week.
| Since the inception of the strike beef.
lamb and pork have dropped In price.
| hut further reduction is modified by the
| fact that farmers have stopped their
| shipments into town. Beef declined 10
| cents q hundred pounds wholesale Thurs
day, and lamb 10 cents yesterday.
Ten thousand houSeholderS are reported
| TO have signed petitions against the eat
| ing of eggs until the price has dropped
| from IS cents a dozen. retail, to 70 cents.
Retail butchers have been compelled
| to cut down their working forces from
| now retired from business.
| The city council will take up the ques-
| ton OF high prices.
Cincinnati Women in Fight.
CINCINNATI. Ohio. January 22.-Agi
tation against the high prices of food
stuffs. especially meats continues una
| bated. The idea Of combating the excess
| sive prices by maintaining boycott
seems to have struck popular chord.
| Professional men and wage workers
f, The Mothers Club of Hyde Park. resi-
| dence suburb, adopted resolutions giving
it the moral support of the members.
DIR. Alfred Springer, an expert in food
chemistry, says:
Most OF US are eating too much We
could reduce our daily food supply and
be healthier than We are now. diet
| Of cheaper vegetables could be used to
supply in part the nutrient now obtained
from the use Of high-priced meats to
build up the bodily tissues and give us
energy for work"
Campaign at Youngstown.
YOUNGSTOWN, January 22.-The cam
paign against the meat trust has been
taken up here.
Petitions circulated in the mills and
factories we're signed by thousands. Men
employed at the Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Company were particularly active
in the movement.
Indianapolis Boarders Polled.
INDIANAPOLIS, January 2-Owners
Of restaurants and boarding houses in
| this city have been taking a census of
their patrons to see if the meat courses
cannot be dispensed with in part. If not
entirely.
1t is proposed by some of the restaurant
men to furnish fish two or three times a
| week and have vegetables only on other
udyS, WINE OIilcIs dIc Suggesting " tIlclT
patrons that meat be entirely abandoned
| for a while.
| Many Of those consulted have expressed
a Willingness to do without meat rather
than stand an increase in the price OF
meals or board.
One restaurant keeper has served fruits
for breakfast in place Of meat. and finds
| that his patrons are greatly pleased by
the change.
Foundrymen to Buy No Meat.
VINCENNES, Ind. January 22--Two
hundred and fifsy employees OF a foundry
at Vincennes have voted to buy no meat
for sixty days.
| Labor leaders in Lafayette and Fort
| Wayne have expressed themselves as OPP
| posed to the boycott.
Chicago Starts Inquiry.
| CHICAGO, ILL.,, January Programmed
| labor OF Chicago yesterday Joined activ-
| ity in the war on high prices of meat
! and other commodities.
The Chicago Federation of Labor sew
eral weeks ago decided to take up the
cudgels against high prices OF meat. The
| appointment of committee was au-
thorized for the purpose of making the
| investigation. President John Fitzpatrick
yesterday announced the personnel of
the 'high-cost- of living committee.
+ The first meeting of the federation
committee will be held next Wednesday