New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-10
Housewives League Members
Say Prices Are Far Too
High and MUST Come
Down at Once.
TO BOYCOTT IF NECESSARY
Product of Industrious European
Hens Will Aid Crusaders Here
Husbands, Too, Will Be
Enlisted in Country
Wide Fight.

The Housewives League is on the
usrpath again. "Thirty-cent eggs is
,ba battlecry. Wholesalers and COM
,,,ssion men who have been charging
Ak cents for eggs that cost them only
&c cents already are fleeing for cover,
.ra the cold storage houses are armng
themselves with statistics.
II is a case of housewife against
iea,er-not housewife against hen. II
there was real shortage of eggs, 1t
mas said. the women of the country
Uor,d be willing to pay high prices, or
e,se make their husbands go without
eggs.
According to the State Health De-
nartment in Albany there were I39.oS4
cases Of eggs in storage in New York
STATE on September I. There are thirSy
sozen eggs in a case, making 22112,52O
dozen eggs. In New York City alone
there were 335.GO9 cases.
"It is outrageous for dealers to charge
such prices" said Mrs. Julian Heath,
president Of the Housewives League.
vesterdsy These eggs went into
storage last April at Is or 20 cents
dozen. They could be sold now at 30
cents with a very fair margin Of profit.
THE Housewives League is starting
a campaign to force this price. If the
dealers refuse we shall boycott eggs
entirely. But. of course. we don't want
10 do that ! don't think it will be
necessary. AS soon as the dealers see
that we women are 'on 10 them they
will come down, just as they did last
year You remember we found out last
winter that there was a large supply
Of eggs being held in storage, and we
Just forced the dealers TO put them on
the market at 20 cents dozen.
why the jump from 26 cents to 20
cents this year? Well, it was later in
the season last year. We don't want
10 make the men lose money. They
couldn't give us eggs at 26 cents so
early in the season. We want uni
form price Of so cents right through
the winter. That will he fair for every
body.
"The tariff law will help, too. EGGS
are admitted free of duty now, and we
are beginning to get them from Ger
many, Austria and England. A block
Of 1900 cases of eggs is due from Ham
burg in a day or two. They will be
laid down at "a cents a dozen.
THE German eggs weigh from five
TO six pounds more TO a case than
American eggs. They are not cold
storage goods. either, so their price
must be compared with that of our
ffesh eggs. The German eggs will sell
for about 30 cents a dozen. American
fresh eggs are 60 cents now and prom
ise TO 90 to 81 cents.
With goods like the German eggs
on the market, thanks TO the new tariff,
W. women have the upper hand. We
simply won't pay extortionate prices
for cold storage eggs when We can get
fresh ones at low prices.
The Housewives League is in touch
with 100000 women, organized in every
state We have become an important
economic factor, and we can't be hood
winked any longer. When 100000
women say 80 cents well pay and no
more il means something.
we sent letters yesterday 10 women
all over the country, asking them TO
telegraph us the state Of the egg market
In their towns. When we hear from
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