New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-13
Second Riot Begins.

Second Riot Begins.
Meanwhile a clash between meat buyers
and the rioters had begun inside the store.
More clothing was ripped, more hair torn
and many received cuts and bruises on the
face. The rioting ceased when the reserves
arrived
Following the example of their sisters IN
Williamsburg women I'm Brownsville started
an active campaign against the high priced
selling OF kosher meats yesterday by parad-
ing through the streets and calling on the
retail butchers to close up their shops and
co-operate with them in batterins down
prices.
Many Of the retailers complied with the
demand only too gladly for II the whole
saIers were forced 10 sell 10 them cheaper
they would have n better chance TO make q
living But others refused 10 close. and In
several instances the butchers and the wom-
en- became involved I'm scenes OF violence
The police reserves from the Liberty ave.
nue. station had 10 be hurried to Blake and
Sheffield avenues, where a mob OF several
thousand besieged the butcher shop OF VOL
Topper. r......
wagonload Of chickens In front OF HE
place. Just brought from Manhattan mar
ket and freshly killed. had been rendered
almost yalueless by kerosene poured by
angry women. whose demands that he close
up he had dehed.
When the women rushed his place and
tried TO throw kerosene on side Of beef
he seized horse whip. helper grabbed
long knife and they charged the crowd. the
butcher iashing women and men across tho
heads and driving them back.
He shouted that he had TO make living
for his wife and children and could not af-
ford to close up, but the meat strikers were
obdurate and he had to close.
other butchers not In sympathy with the
meat strikers closed rather than meet with
violence. and last night other butchers de-
clared they would cooperate with the
women.
Members OF the Brownsville retailers as
ISOLATION held mass meeting and resolved
that they would sell no more beef veal or
chickens until prices should he lowered.
The lower East Side women are planning
to close all the kosher meat shops I'm their
part Of Manhattan. but they will try TO do
Il by peaceful means FIRST before resortlng
60 the riotlng methods Of their Williams
burg sisters.
Through their leader Mrs. Sarah Erd-
man. Of No. Isl Fast Broadway, they pro-
fcss TO have tho support OF the butchers.
who. they say. will join them in the war on
packers for lower prices.
Put several members Of the Butchers
Association, an East Side organization that
comprises most OF the four thousand
kosher butchers of Manhattan and The
Bronx said Yesterday that the high price
OF meat was due to tho meat trust and
not to the retail dealers or the wholesalers,
and that although they would be glad to
co operate with the housewives and close
their shops II they thought il would bring
lower prices they couldn't see that that
result would follow.
III all the butchers should stop doing
business and all the women stop buying
kosher meat for a year" said one. ut
would have little effect or the big slauSh-
ter houses. while VIC would have 10 90 out
of business. The big shippers don't care
much whether We buy their meat OF not.
They don't like TO sell to the kosher trade,
because We take only a portion OF the
animal, and sometimes they have more OF
tho rest OF the animal OF hand than they
can dispose Of. SO II We closed up shop we
would only be hurting ourselves and
would probably have to go out Of business
IN the end"
trip through the section between Peck
slip and 18th street east OF the Bowery
yesterday afternoon showed that none OF
the kosher meat shops had closed, In view
OF this fact a meeting of the committee
Of fifteen women who are urging the boy
colt was hold IN the afternoon at No. lOi
Essex street.