Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
ESSEX TRADES TO
JOIN IN GIGANTIC
BOYCOTT OF MEAT
Members of Council Likely to
Adopt Resolution at Meet
ing Tonight.

/ Following the stand taken by many
of the labor and fraternal organizations
of the West, the Essex Trades Council
at it's meeting tonight will likely decide
to boycott meat-that is to say adopt
a resolution providing that members
of the Council shall abstain from all
meat during a period of thirty days
This boycott movement-one of the
most novel in the history of the coun-
try-is taken as a means to rebuke the
meat packers who are held to be re-
sponsible for the present almost pro-
nibitory price of meat and to force a
reduction.
Henry f. Hilfers, secretary of the
Essex Trades Council, said today that
he Is heartily in favor of fighting the
meat trust in this manner. He said
that he had talked with several other
members of the organization and that
they were all favorably inclined. George
A. Leary, of the Buffers and Polishers
Union, also expressed himself in ac-
cord with the idea
1t is time to cali a halt on these
meat barons,' said Leary. Whenever
any big movement of this kind starts
you will always find organized labor
ready to lend a hand. l think this is
the best and most effective means of
fighting the meat trust"
Frank A. Fetridge, of the Metal
Workers Union. also declared that he
believed the Essex Trades Council
should follow the example set by labor
organizations elsewhere.
Ohio RoycOtt Stronghold
Ohio is still the stronghold of the
movement The Cleveland boycott has
extended to Canton, where the Central
Labor Union has adopted no-meat
resolution and petitions are being cir
culated with surprising results; to Co
lumbus, where strong boycott has
been organized; to Toledo, Akron and
other cities of the State. The crusade
in Ohio has found encouragement in
the publicly expressed belief of Gov
ernor Judson Harmon that food trust
is gobbling excessive profits somewhere
between the producer and the con-
sumer. He has called on the Legisla-
ture to hunt the trust out of the woods
and exhibit it to the people.
1t is estimated that more than 1,000,-
600 persons have in a week become ac-
lively interested in the boycott Dis
patches from Chicago last night said
that boycott soon win be started In
that city by the Chicago Federation or
Labor. E
1.-THE idea of depriving ourselves of
meat simply to get lower prices does
not appeal to federation people," said
Secretary Charles Nockes, in Chicago,
"but we purpose to adopt the idea as a
temporary eXpedient in order to bring
more sharply to the attention of the
packers the fact that they cannot trif1e
with the consumers of Chicago. We
hope to give the idea such a strong in
dorsement that it will spread to all
parts of the country" h.
Bricklayers Join.
A dispatch from Kansas City says
that the experiment of the Bricklayers'
Union, in pledging itself to abstain
from meat for thirty days. has been
received so favorably that other labor
organizations of that city will follow its
example. In more than 100 Kansas
City homes yesterday families sat
down to meatless meals, in accordance
with the briclklayers' pledge. while the
anti-meat movement has spread also
to Atchison, Leavonworth, st. Joseph
Topeka and other cities in that part of
the country.
Omaha reported progress with the list
which the union leaders say will num-
5000 by the end of the week. The
Omaha laborers pledge themselves to
Ignore meat for thirty days. No or
ganized movement has been undertaken
in Pittsburg as yet, but many are, de-
sorting the meat stands, both on
grounds of sympathy and lean pocket
books, especially the latter.
Down in Wilmington. Del. Judge Ed
win r. Cochran is circulating a petition
asking the signers to give up meat for
thirty days, or until the price falls to a
reasonable level. Many city and county
officials have signed the petition. Will
mington takes courage from the fact
that her housewives forced the price of
turkey down several notches in the
Christmas holidays by refusing to buy
at fOrty-fiVe cents n pollud