The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-24
To Enlist 100000 Women
Three Distinct Movements Against Exorbant Prices 70
Food Inauguated, and Mass Meetings Are Held.

New York, JAM 24-Women entered
the anti-high price movement in earn
est yesterday. Three separate move
ments were given decided impetus.
Mrs. Sophia Loebinger obtained a
permit from the Park Commission for
an open air meeting in Union square
next Tuesday at noon under the aus
pices of the National Progressive Wo-
mans Suffrage Union.
At Cooper Union, the same night, an
other meeting of protest will be held
by the Consumers League.
In the meantime Mrs. Anita Comfort
Brooks has begun practical work on
her project for combination of all the
women's organizations in a united
fight on the Beef Trust
Mrs. Loebinger, who is a seasoned
campaigner in open air fights, will
have as her assistants in addressing
the Union square meeting. Miss Helen
Murphy and Miss Mary Donnelly. both
we'll known speakers.
The Cooper Union meeting will be
under the management of Mrs. Freder-
lex Nathan, president of the Consum-
ers' League, who will make the chief
address. Mrs. Nathan said yesterday
that the consumer undoubtedly had the
power to force the retailer and every
one connected with the handling of
any product up to the manufacturer, to
meet a popular demand for lower
prices. She said:
Just as soon as the dealers and the
trust find that their pockets are being
touched they will meet the public on
level ground"
Mrs. Loebinger. speaking for her Or
ganization, said that an agreement
would be prepared and circulated for
signature providing that the signers
and their friends abstain from meat
eating for thirty days. She was sure
that the agreement would be readily
signed and that the signers would
keep their word to buy nothing from
butchers for the entire period.
To Combine Women's Clubs.
Mrs. Brooks project calls for the CO.
operation of the one hundred and three
women's clubs in New York and the
extension of the movement among the
women's clubs throughout the United
States.
1t is the present plan of Mrs. Brooks
to have the Gotham club. of which she
is president, hold session Tuesday
evening and arrange for each of the
members to send twenty-five letters
to members of other clubs. Then a
mass meeting will he called for either
Cooper Union or the Grand Central
Palace.
Il am getting my plans in shape as
yesterday at the Hotel St. James.
Mrs. Thomas K Vivian. president of
the National California Society: Mr.
David Mason. president of the Califor-
mans: Mrs. Helena Secor TONES, for
merly president of the West End Wo-
mems Republican club: Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Leas. lawyer and lecturer.
and many others who know how to pre-
sent such a subject are working with
me for the success of the boycott.
I'VE are going to hold a meeting
Tuesday evening and at this meeting
we will arrange for the big meeting.
We will get every one who comes to
pay a penny at the door. and that will
be for the fund for the shirt waist
strikers, so We can do two good things
at once. We will have speakers at
the meeting. and among them doctors,
who will tell the people that it will not
hurt them to go without meat for thir-
ty days. DR.. Carlin Phillips, Dr. Eu-
gene Christian. who knows all about
eating uncooked fruits as a substitute
for meat; Dr. Branner and others will
show how the public will not suffer in
the least physically from abstaining
from meat for thirty days.
Plan Endless Chain Letters.
II believe that one million women
In the New York district will join in
the movement and DO without meat for
the entire thirty days. but we do not
want to stop with New York.
I'VE want this movement tn spread