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burg a big noon hour and evening bust
ness is done In regular orders, meals fol
which there is a fixed price. All these in
clude meat or game or fish in some
form
beginning today We intend to serve
one special all-vegetable meal in add
ton to the regular meat orders. Ii Is
an experiment. If the trade shows in
terest the plan will be enlarged upon"
Other hotel and restaurant men. when
they learned of the plan. enthuslastcali!
Endorsed it. II is promised that the next
few days will see an all-vegetable meal
service inaugurated in many eating
houses in this city.
$4,000 in Pittsburg Join.
The meat boycott in this district has
grown to large proportions. 1t is esti-
mated that $1,000 persons within twenty
five miles of the center of Pittsburg have
already signed pledges to refrain from
eating meat for thirty days.
Next Tuesday is the day agreed on for
the beginning of the movement by those
connected with labor unions, who yester-
day took up the fight on business basis.
a printed pledge was handed to many
thousands of persons in Pittsburg, and
large part of them signed It. Inc pledge
reads:
we. Cne unutTSlSItu, pltuSC oui WI u
of honor that from January -, and con-
tinuing for a period of thirty days there
from, will buy no meat OF any KIND
If at the expiration of the said thirty
days there Is not a material reduct1on IN
prices We further pledge ourselves to ao-
stain for sixty or ninety DAYS
The Trades Council OF Pittsburg mas
adopted the following resolutions:
Resolved, That all members OF locai
trades unions and organizations affiiiated
with them be called upon to declare
fTIlC o.
fusng to eat meat for period of thirty
days, unless there is decided ameliora-
ton of the deplorable conditions regard
ing the price of this commodity. and that
ali members use their endeavors to in
duce others not affiliated with local or
CARNATIONS to do likewise
Hopes for an Economic Moses.
Lee S. Smith, president of the Pitts
burg Chamber of Commerce, said today:
This current agitation may produce
the economical Moses who will lead to
the promised land of less feverish haste
to make objectionable profit upon traffic
in the necessities of life.
Mr.. Smith made public statement in
which he expressed his regret that the
average resident of Pittsburg could not
afford to pay the present prices, and
hoped the present drastic measures
would prove effective
MI. Smith said the chamber had under
amusement Il pIdH LOT DulluluS ldThctS
in different parts of the city. to be run
by the city, where farmers and other
producers could bring their cattle and
produce. the city 10 buy it, to be sold to
The consumer at only enough profit to
pay the expenses of handling.
\ meeting of the chamber will be called
early next week to devise means 10 ma Ike
the fight against high meat prices more
effective.
The union men estimate that eventually
100000 persons in this vicinity. including
the families of the men WHO pledge Them
selves to abstain from meat. will join IN
The boycott.
The effect Of the boycott. as the union
men figure. allowing one pound of meat
TO each person, would mean that 100000
pounds less meat Will be eaten each day
than has been the case. In the thirty
days the figure would be l3.5JOOO
pounds.
Figuring the price of meat at 10 cents
a pound. the loss in trade To the dealers
in thirty days would be $1.O25 OOO
Just before closing hour last night
butchers who have stalls in the Diamond
Market, the central market house here.
held a meeting to discuss the boycott.
They Joined in welcoming a strict boy
colt. in the hope that 1T would force
downward the price of meat on the hoof.
1900 Sign at Sharon.
SHARON. Pa. January 22.-Twelve
hundred men employed in the mills of
Sharon, South Sharon and SharpsvilIe
have signed an agreement to abstain
from meat from January "a to Febru-
airy "a.
The first move against the high price
of meat was taken by the employees of
the Sharon Steel Hoop Company. OTHERS
quickly followed. and 1t is believed 10000
men in this valley will join the move
ment.
Roucoft Ca11c uooa<oh1ao
READING. Pa. January 2-Farmers
and dealers today reported an increased
sale of vegetables in consequence OF the
meat boycott inaugurated by working
men.
The determination to eat less meat is
spreading throughout this section of
Pennsylvania.
Crusade Hits Delaware.
WILMINGTON, Del, January 22.-Fol-
lowing the crusade started by Judge
Cochran Of the municipal court to lower
the price of meat, E. l.. Scharf of Wash
ington, president of the Anti-Food Trust
League. came here yesterday and insti.
tuted Wilmington branch of the or
ganization, with j. A. Lambert as local
director.
President Scharf announced that di-
rectnrs would be appointed in various
Delaware towns and that a woman would
be selected as state director. He said he
had conferred with Senator du Pont and
Representative Head, who promised to
cooperate in the movement. They re-
turned TO Washington last night
The petitions circulated by Judge
Cochran. in which the signers pledged
themselves to abstain from eating meat
for thirty days, or until the prices shall
be lowered, have been signed by 1000
prominent citizens.
Asbury Park Acts.
ASBURY PARK. N J.. January 22-
Asbury Park is to join the fight on high
food prices with view to having the
New Jersey legislature follow the legis-
latures of several other states in pass.
ing resolutions calling upon the people
To abstain from eating meat for period
OF sixty days.
Resolutions are to be introduced in
many lodges of the. city urging the
members TO stop eating meat for sixty
days and urging Senator Oliver H. Brown
of Spring Lake to begin the crusade in
The senate.
The first of the resolutions was adopt
ed by Asbury Council, j. o. L. A. NJ In
dicationS are that the resolutions will
be adopted everywhere by a rousing
vote.
Newark Votes Against Boycott.
NEWARK. n. j.. January 22.-At a
meeting of the Essex Trades Council
last night the delegates from various
ed, by a vote Of As to %, a resolution