The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-21
Great Movement Be
coming National in
Its Scope.
BOYCOTT GROWING
AT AMAZING RATE
People Of Many States Raising
Their Voices in Protest
Against Exorbitant Prices
Charged for Necessities
Of Life-1nvestigations
Under Way.
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New York, January 2o.-rhe boy
cott on high food prices started in
Cleveland week ago. is growing rap
| idly. Missouri, Wisconsin,, Iowa, Ne
braska, Illinois, and Michigan are now
(, included in the ranks of the crusaders
in the West, while in the East Penn
| sylvania Connecticut and Delaware
arc lifting their voices In fecbler pro-
| tests.
Ohio, however, Is still the strong
hold of the movement The Cleveland
boycott has extended to Canton, where
| the Central Labor Union has adopted
| a no-meat resolution, and petitions arc
being circulated with surprising re-
suits; to Columbus, where strong
boycott has been organized; to Tole-
| do Akron and other cities of the |
| State. The crusade in Ohio has found |
| encouragement in the publicly ex- |
pressed belief of Governor Harmon |
| that a food trust is gobblinE excess |
.sive profits somewhere between the
producer and the consumer. He has
called OH the Legislature to hunt the
trust out of the woods and exhibit fsI
| TO the people.
Million Interested.
1T is estimated that more than L.
100000 persons have in a briaf week
become actively interested in the boy
| cott. DISPATCHES from Chicago to-
night said that boycott soon will be
started in that city by the Chicago
Federation of Labor.
he idea of depriving ourselves of
meat simply to get lower prices does
not appeal to federation people, said
Secretary Charles NoclSes, but we
propose to adopt the, idea as tem-
porary expedlent, in order TO bring
more sharply to the attention OF the
packer the fact that they cannot trifle
with the consumers of Chicago. We
hope to give the idea such a strong in
ldorsement that it will spread toAai1
parts OF tile country ~ = -ss.s
a dispatch from Kansas City says
that the exp periment of the Bricklayers'
Union in pledglns Itself to abstain
from meat for thirty days was received
so favorabIy on the first day that other
labor organizations OF that city will
follow its example
In more than 100 Kansas City homes
to-day families sat down to meatless
meals, in accordance with the brick
layers pledge. while the anti-meat
movement has spread also to Atchison.
iLeayenworth. ST. Joseph, Topeka and
other cities in that part OF the coun-
try.
Omaha reported progress With the
Hist, which the union leaders say will
number n, 5000 by the end of the week.
The Omaha laborers pledge themselves
| to ignore meat for thirty days. No
organized movement has been under
taken in Pittsburg as yet, but many
are deserting the meat stands both on
grounds of sympathy and lean pocket
books. especially the latter.
| Down in Wilmington. Del. City
Judge Edwin r. Cochran is circulating
|. q petition asking the signers to give
up meat for thirty days, or until the
price strikes reasonable level. Many
] city and county officials have signed
| the petition. Wilmington takes cour-
age from the fact that her housewives
forced the price of turkey down sew
eral notches in the Christmas holidays
by refusing to buy at 40 cents pound.
Hutter Too High.
Nausatuck. Conn.,, Is kicking against
the price of butter. 1t has gone to
4 creamery brand. The employees in the
rubber factories stood for the butter
i price until eggs scared to 65 cents, and
then they got together and decided to
4 spread cream or something else. not
!, butter. on their bread. Baltimore is a
.|new convert to the autl-meat eating
campaign. The fight there Is being led
affiliated unions An order was placed
4 to-day for 100000 buttons, bearing
the inscription: Il don't buy meat; do
i you?" These buttons are to be dis
| tributed to the various unions in the
city and passed out to the members
who take the pledge. A committee Is
engaged In drawing up a resolution
which will be presented to the Cover
nor of Maryland. asking for the ap-
4 ~ a iSSi tr
into tho increased cost OF living.
The Baltimore unions also are pre-
| pairing an appeal to be presented to
/ the commercial bodies of the city. ask
ing their aid in keeping down the sale
OF meat. The women of Baltimore are
Joining in the movement and it is
expected that several women's clubs
Will indorse it within few days.
Mtnso Junction is one Of the Ohio
towns that Is up in arms against the
4 butchers. When tho feeling in the
/ town was at Its height the village mar
shal thoughtlessly presented a bin for
| 81 for boarding q quarantincd dog for
4 ten days. EIc explained that he had
1 fed the dog meat but tho City Council
refused to pay it.
Labor union men in this city have
taken no formal action In reference to
the anti-meat crusade.
'.Therc is no need OF any action by
4 labor union mon here said Secretary
i Ross Tompklns, of the Consolidated
board of Business Agents OF the Build
4 ing Trade, All the butchers have got
10 do is to keep boosting the prices,
and they will make their own boycott.
A The laborer can't buy meat when he
\ hasn't got the money"
II business ialls on.
Butchers along Third Avenue and In
4 other districts Of the city, where la
S|sboring men have their homes, aclsnowl-
edge that they are feeling tho effect Of
the high prices In a failing off In bust
mess Several butchers said that this
4 falling or amounted TO as much as l5
or 20 per cent. Of their business.
"Iaborers who ato meat. twice 4 dag
Il arc getting along now, said one