Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-01-21
BOYCOTT ON
HIGH PRICES
Movement is Spreading Over
Central and Far Eastern
NO MEAT FOR ME-" TAGS
Labor Unions and Trade Assem-
blies Lead in Up-to-Date
Crusade.

Chicago, Jan. 21-The boycott on
high food prices started in Cleveland
a week ago, is growing rapidly in Illi-
nois. Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ne
braska and Michigan, now included
in the ranks of the crusaders in the
west While in the east Pennsylva-
mia. Connecticut and Delaware are
lifting their voices in feebIer pro-
tests. Ohio however, is still strong
hold. The Cleveland boycott has ex-
tended to Canton where the Central
Labor Union has adopted a mo meat
resolution" and petitions favorng the
meat boycott are meeting with sur
plising results in Columbus, Toledo.
Akron and other towns. The cru
sade in Ohio has found encourage
laent in the public by expressed be-
lief of Governor Harmon that the
food trust is gobbling the excessive
profits somewhere between the pro-
Queer and the customer. He has
called on the legislature to hunt the
trust out of the woods and exhibit it
tG the people. In Chicago: NO meat
for me for thirty days." tags are sell
illg by the hundreds. And now the
boycott is spreading west. In Kansas
City, the restaurants are making
prominent their list of vegetable dish
eS, while on the menu cards is print
ed Assist in the movement to re-
duce the price of meats" In Denver,
plans are being laid by the Denver
trades assembly to hold mass meet
ing on Sunday to endorse and for
ward the meat boycott
A Dire Prophecy.
Denver, Jan. 21,-Something of a
national character is to be givnn tho
recently inaugurated meat ls..s.
according to Sam Dutton, pr ei-
of the Western Hotel Mems
tive Association. The propos ,F
} cutting down the consuml
meat WI be brought before
: at its meeting in Chicago on
. 81, when the association il
made national "Unless son
, done to curtail the consur r.
meat" said Mr.. Dutton, 9; .
coming when the people of
try will be no better off ha- ''s
peasants of Europe.
Thirty Days Fast for Pttsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. PA meat
strike was organized in Greater Pitts
burg today. Hundreds of street car
employees signed a pledge to abstain
, from meat for thirty days while thou
sands of affiliated members of the
Iron City Trades Council are awaiting
, word from their leaders before putting
. the meat boycott into effect. Youngs-
; town, Ohio, Wheeling, w. Va, Charon
Pa, and other nearby cities have ac-
, lively joined the crusade against high
priced meat.
10000 Vegetarians in Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 21-That
eighty thousand people of Kansas
City will join the anti-meat crusade
, the next ten days is freely predicted
, by the labor leaders here today. The
: Building Trades Council, with a men,
bership of 5000 and the Industrial
Trades Council with membership of
$4,000 will pledge their members to
5 refrain from eating meat for thirty
: days. Other unions are also entering
? enthusiastically into the movement
~ Don't Buy Meat, Do You"
Baltimore, Jan. 21-Buttons bear
ing the inscription: Il don't buy
meat, do your" appeared on the
streets in large numbers today, fol-
, lowing the action of the Federation of
Labor calling on all labor unions SYM
, pathizers to abstain from meat for
I thirty days as a protest against high
J prices. The demand for buttons is not
confined to the laboring men, more
( than half the requests coming from
business men and clerks.
J Housewives to Join Crusade.
: New York, Jan. 21.-New York to-
: day joined in the fighting of high
= prices of 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, prominent in club circles, has
9 come forward with suggestion that
: a million housewives unite to force
: the prices down.
Cardinal Gibbons lndorses Any Method
Washington, Jan. 21.-"Most of the
prices for food products are clearly
2 out of all reason" said Cardinal Glib
: bons in an interview, "and the people
' cannot go on paying such prices when
they are not earning any more than
; they were some years ago when
! prices were not SO high"
e reason for the high prices that pre-
= vail but he said something evident