Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-22

states investigate the cost of production
| and show the enormous profits that were
being made through trust methods, Sc
that LEGISLATION could be framed to con
troll the situation.
The matter was laid over for the mex
| meeting.
Sausage Eating Stops.
Nevertheless, a mlder and less compre
hensive boycott was announced at thu
| United Hebrew Trades. at Clinton Hall
yesterday, though this. too. it was admit
ted. was brought on by labor trouble!
rather than by the high price of meat.
/, 1t began through a strike of sevent!
| employees Of two kosher sausage shops IL
| East Houston street, and though confined
merely to the bologna branch. has since
according to B. Weinstein. organizer of thu
United Hebrew Trades. drawn into volun
tary abstinence from bologna $1,000 mem
! bers of the eighty-fi Yiddish-speakini
| locals, who consisting mostly of worker!
in the shirt waist and garment trades
/ were wont to make their luncheons as
rule of that particular sausage.
| Mrs Anita COmfort-BroOks of the Fed
| Grafton OF Womens Clubs, In discussing
! her crusade. said:
| Il think it is about time that we die
| something for the poor people have
| been living at hotel for the last ter
y
much women have to pay for meats, Goa
| oil, vinegar and such things; but l know
| 1t is too much.
| why. a small steak for luncheon at a
restaurant that used to cost 20 cents now
| costs S1.25.
''All this. as we'll as the exorbitant
prices of eggs. butter and other food
stuffs, l am going to try to remedy.
! have no definite plan as yet. but IN
tend to have a meeting of leading club
| apartments in a week or ten days to
discuss means of starting d meat boy
colt that shall ultimately involve not only
| a million of housewives but If possible
| the women of the entire country.
We shall have several physicians. too
| to explain just how long people can ge,
along without eating meat. l know tina,
even now / personally live almost en-
| tireiy on cake and candy.
1T is time that an end be put to the
preying of the meat trust upon the poor
| and when women get together, as they
| have proved in the shirt waist strike, re-
suits must come.
Mrs. Nathan to Speak.
Mrs. Frederick Nathan, president OF
! the Consumers League in this city and
vice president of the National Consumers
League, will address meeting under the
auspices of the league at Cooper Union
next Thursday night.
She will urge her hearers to organize
and combine against the rapacity of the
dealers and middlemen. whom she biames
for the excessive price OF nearly every
article of daily consumption.
Endless Chain of Boycotters.
ROCHESTER,, y. y. January 22.-An
endless chain Of postal cards requesting
that no meat be used for sixty days BY
any member of the chain has been start
ed here. Each card bears the request
that two duplicate cards be immediately
mailed.
Petition in Watertown.
WATERFOWL. n Y, January b.
movement has been started here to
boycott all the local butchers, Petitions
ale being signed rapidly.
New Haven Unions to Act.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, January 22.-The
trades unions OF New Haven will prob
ably take action on the cost OF pro-
visions. A resolution is to be sent to the
trades council at its meeting this week
placing the body in sympathy with the
boy colt on meat in the middle west
Rhode Island Eats Vegetables.
has thus far been no concerted movement
OF meat, dealers state that the demand
has fallen OF considerably. the people In
Ginning to vegetable diet.
Mayor Fletcher and the Providence
Board of Trade have started an investi-
cation of the prevailing high prices.
mo Meat" Club in Boston.
BOSTON. January 22.-Boston has been
slow in joining the anti-meat movement
Provision dealers report that they have
noticed but little diminution In theil
trade But If the plans of Max Mitchell
of the civic service house and Attorney
Edward NJ. Stanley succeed. they will
soon find a boycott on in earnest.
The first mo Meat" Club was organ
lied yesterday, and steps have already
been taken to obtain either fremont Tenn
meeting tonight.
Attorney Stanley is the president of the
new club and Attorney William Scharton
Is the secretary. They were the first to
start the local protest.
While the community was discussing
the reports from Cleveland, they called a
an organization in the Carney building.
1t was voted that the club should work
to develop a general boycott on meat
stuffs, for the purpose of compelling the
beef trust to offer meat at reasonable
prices This should be accomplished, II
was said. by the organization of nc
meat" clubs all over the city.
Leader Is Needed.
IF the citizens of Boston will form
small clubs and then communicate with
me-" said Scharton. Il feel confident
that We can all get together in fremont
| Temple within week. Every man
waits for the other fellow to start some
| thing.
| THAT is the weakness of the American
people. They won't stand up and fight
until some one leads. Well, we have
made the start
| Secretary Chandler of the Twentieth
Century Club stated that he would be
pleased to get in touch with the first mo
| meat club. and shortly after noon Max
/ Mitchell sent out invitations to these men
to serve with him on committee to dis
cuss the meat boycott:
Edward A. F'ilene David A. Ellis. Rob-
ert Treat Payne. jr., Robert Woods OF
the South End House, Samuel f.. Hub
bard of the North End Union. Edward
II. Chandler, secretary of the Twentieth
Century Club. and Henry Abrahams,
secretary OF the Central Labor Union.
The labor leaders do not approve the
idea. They assert that Congress alone
should curb the tendency to raise prices
of foodstuffs. President Murphy and
Secretary Abrahams of the Central Labor