The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-21
TO EAT NO MEAT.
Thousands Are Joining the Boy.
colt Started at Cleveland.
Labor Unions Take the Lead in
the Movement.
TO BECOME NATIONAL.
Hotel Mems Association to Take
1t Up.
TO BECOME NATIONAL.
Many Persons Are Voluntarily
Signing the Pledge.

Kansas City. No, Jan. 21.-That $4,000
people in Kansas City. will join the
anti-meat eating crusade during the
next ten days. was freely predicted by
labor leaders here today
The. Building Trades council, with a
membership of 5000, representing IS
crafts and 80 local lodges. will meet to-
! night, when it is practically assured a
resolution will be passed. pledging the
members to refrain from eating meat
for 80 days.
The Industrial Trades council which
has $4,000 members and represents 90
crafts, will meet Sunday to take similar
action. The Building Trades council
and the Industrial Trades council hold
the balance Of power in the labor or
ganizations of the city
The Car Mems unions are en-
thusiastic supporters of the crusade,
local No. 2. representing 300 members,
meat eating
The Allied Printing Trades council,
which has $500 members, has called a
meeting to take action on the matter.
Chicago, Jan 21-The boycott on
high food prices started in Cleveland,
Ohio. a week ago, is growing rapidly.
Illinois, Missouri. Wisconsin, Iowa, Ne
braska and Michigan now are included
in the ranks Of the crusaders in the
Connecticut and Delaware are lifting
their voices in feebler protests.
Ohio, however, still is the stronghold
of the movement. The Cleveland boy
colt has extended to Canton, where the
central labor union has adopted a mo
meat" resolution and petitions are be-
ing circulated with surprising results
to Columbus. where strong boycott
has been organized, and Toledo, Akron
and other cities of the state.
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couragement in the publicly expressed
belief of Governor Harmon that a food
trust is gobbling excessive profits some
where between the producer and the
consumer. He has called on the legis-
lature to hunt the trust out of the
woods and exhibit it to the people
Eggs Are, Added In Cleveland
Cleveland, o., Jan. 21-Thirty thou
sand working and business men have
now signed the anti-meat petition ae-
cording to F. w. Sabelin who is head
ing the strike against the eating CT
meat.
To this movement has been added a
strike against eggs. Petitions started
last night have 1000 signatures. More
petitions will be printed and the meat
strikers will circulate the anti-egg petit
tions IL. the shops.
Kansas City, Jan. 21.-Seven hundred
recruits were added last night to the
ranks of the small army that has
Waged war for lower prices of meats
here by agreeing to eschew it for a
month. Every member of carpenters
union No. 4, the largest organization of
its kind here. signed the pledge.
Next Sunday the mo meat unIil
prices are lowered" plan will be pre-
sented to the members of the industrial
council. T1 is organization controls more
than one-half the union organizations
in the city.
To Make 1t National
Denver, Colo, Jan. 21.-Something of
a national character is to be given the
recently inaugurated meat boycott ac-
cording to Samuel DuttOn, president of
the Western Hotelmen's Protective as
sociation. The proposition of cutting
down the consumption of meat will be
brought before that body at meeting
to be held in Chicago, January 81, when
the association will be made national.
''Unless something is done to curtail
the consumption of meat said Mr..