Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-22
Resolution to Ind0rse Strike
Is Held Up by Essex Trades
Council.
NEWARKERS ARE ONLY
LUKEWARM In MATTER
Representative Labor Leaders
Explain Why Workers Need
Product.

w nile resolution declaring q boycott
on meat failed of passage last night at
the meeting of the Essex Trades Coun-
Gil, merely because advocates of a sub
stitute resolution which would have ex-
tended the boycott to butter and eggs
was apparent today that Newarkers
are as yet lukewarm to the PROPOSE
| ton
| This movement against prohbitive
prices of foodstuffs, which in some
| Western cities has almost mounted to
the height of fanaticism, has not yet
enlisted an ardent army in this city
Fifty of those in attendance at the
Trades Council meeting did not vote on
the proposition at all.
John Roche. general secretary of the
Amalgamated Leather Workers, today
voiced what is believed to be the more
general attitude of Newark working
men when he said:
/ Worl<men Need Meat.
"A man who works hard all day
needs meat to keep himself fit for his
task If he does not eat meat what is
he to have in place of it? / tried this
experiment ten years ago in a general
| sixty-day boycott of meat. and found
1t worked a hardship on me out of ;lll
proportion to the results attained. |
cannot see that this is the right or eff
fectiye way to attack the alleged beef
trust The men supplying the meat are
incorporated according to law and are
supposed to be doing lawful business.
If the business is not lawful it Is up
to the general government and that of
the States to regulate it,
prominent physician who refused
ITO be quoted declared today that the
reason for the high prices lay with the
people as much as with the whole
salers. He said
! Everyone nowadays wants the
choicer cuts and that naturally forces
up the price. The coarser meats, which
were eaten few years ago, are now
passed over The price of chuck steaks,
ribs and other cuts of coarser meats
has not advanced like that of the
choicer bits. They are fully as nour-
ishing as the others"
Another View of the Matter.
William j. Brennan, of the Stationary
Firemen's Union, said;
Men in my line of work are called
upon to stand all day long in front Of
roaring furnaces. They need meat and
If they do not get if they lack the
bodily yigor necessary for their work.
! Self sacrifice is all right when it is
properly directed and bids fair to ac-
complsh results, but it is difficult to
see where very much good would be
accomplished in the present instance
Such movement coming just before
election time might impress lawmakers
with the necessity of controlling cor
poratons which deal in the necessities
of life"
! Members of the Essex Trades Coun-
Gil today discussed the holding up" of
| two resolutions offered last night hav-
| ing to do with abstinence from certain
! foodstdffs because of their high price
| Edward d. Balentine had one reso-
| luton which provided that members
of the council and their families alb
stain from meat for q thirty-day pc
riod. Henry Hebeler offered another
which Included an abstinence from
! cat, butter and eggs. Hebeler and
his friends opposed the Balentine res
olution and 1t was lost by vote of %
to 4S About ltty delegates refused to
vote When Balentine sid he would
wit draw his resolution his friends
would not let MIN.
george "A. Leary said'
Two Courses Open.
| "rbare are inst ono of two tbinos
that u,e viii have 70 do and that is
70 have an Increase of WAGES ~. a,so
ston eating foodstuffs for q tine urtiI
thev are niaced within our roach
az NAV h. said that If we ston cot
ino noeat for thirty davs we ruin the
,efail butcher but I do NOT believe s,,cb
would he tho case. for the time would
he so short that II could not do r,1ch
| harm on the other hand. IL we don't
do r. If will not be long before the
| heaf trusts will he running all of the
retail stores -
THE contention was made bv .Iohn II
,toIea, tbo+ tho resoIntion ~ adon+ea