New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-24
MRS. JULIAN HEATH
OSTRACIzES EGGS
Housewives League Will
Not Receive Product
of the Hen.
BOYCOTT LAID WHEN
DEALERS HATCH PLOT
Scramble To Be Kept UP Until
Produce Men Drop Price to
80 Cents a Dozen.

Smash. And also. Bang! The egg
bovcott has landed at last, landed hard
and all at once. For If the 100000
uomen in the National Housewives
League are loyal to their colors no
member will buy an egg until the
dealers come to their senses and put
he price down to 80 cents dozen.
The boycott order was sent sizzling
over the telegraph wires last night in
three hundred burning kilograms to the
leaders of the local leagues by Mrs.
Tulian Heath, the national president.
She called upon them to cut eggs com
,Ietelv off their market lists to-day.
Here is Mrs Heath's manifesto:
"The situation in the egg market is
acute and chaotic. The consumer is
heing exploited. After careful deliber-
alton the national executive committee
nj the Housewives League calls upon
IFS members and the consumers of the
limited states to protest against the
present manipulation by ceasing to buy
eggs until conditions change. Notify
all members. Report to national eX-
ecutive committee. Give wide public
ity. Watch daily press"
No Caste Among Eggs.
Mrs. Heath explained last night that
this plot against the eggs was Matched
on Saturday night by the committee
when the astounding information was
laid before it, first, that the high price
Of eggs was due to premeditated spec
ulation and not to natural conditions,
and. secondly. that as far as the state
Of New York was concerned the regu-
lation had Ieen resCinded making #
obligatory for dealers 20 distinguish
between fresh and cold storage eggs
BY placing signs upon their goods.
we have been reluctant to call this
boycott" said Mrs. Heath, hoping that
we could win the fight without it. But
although our campaign has reduced the
consumption one-half. the price Of
eggs actually advanced yesterday. We
have been urged to call boycott, but
waited until we had evidence of
manipulation and speculation. Now
ne have it. from the columns Of the
,gg mems own papers.
Just read this" she exclaimed in
iignantly. handing the particular con-
umer who was quizzing her clipping
rom THE Produce News"
The clipping contained letter writ
zen by James F. Wetz, Of Wetz &
Moran, the Chicago egg kings" Here
is the letter:
THE egg game is certainly getting
TO be a hummer, and the price will so
still higher than you ever saw in your
association with the produce business.
! started the other day and sold TWEEN
ty-one cars and could make but $50
DER car, so ! concluded to wait until
he trade thought better of the game
and would pay more money.
you remember several years ago,
when Joseph and Pharaoh had all the
corn there was in Egypt, that when
folks made pilgrimages to get the corn
Joe and Pharaoh soaked them.
In Wait for Consumer.
That is what the trade is going to
get from US when II is necessary for
them to have n few eggs for breakfast
and custard for dinner. 1t has been
said that the other fellow should be
considered, but from the treatment the
other fellow has given me when he had
the best Of 1t II has so embittered me
that now since opportunity presents
itself, / am going to fatten the grudge
have borne him for these many
years.
Then Mr.. Wetz spoke Of the weak
listers" who got frightened at the
prophecies of coming disaster to the
egg market as a result Of the campaign
against high prices and sold out as soon
as they could get margin OF profit.
I'VE shall not sell another car" he
went on, until we make $500 car.
When the deal is over II will be the
biggest deal ever pulled off in the
United States"
Wouldn't II make your blood boil!'
exclaimed Mrs. Heath. Joseph and
Pharaoh. Just look at the headlines
over the letter-Sunny Jim Happy!
Wetz Thinks He and Moran are Joseph
and Pharaoh" she read. We'll. that's
going 10 be boomeTang-they will
soon learn that people can't be Joseph
and-PharaOhed' these days. We have
cther evidence, too. that the big egg
dealers are specializing
Then she went on to tell how it was
discovered that the rule that cold