Evening journal., 1916-11-24
WOMEN TO FIGHT
HIGH FOOD PRICES
Labor Organizations Also
TO Ask President TO Be-
gin an Inquiry
N. Y. COLD STORAGE
PLANTS ARE FULL

NEW YORK, Nov "a. - Labor
unions in New York City are planning
to organize q demonstration of $4,000
housewives TO present to Mayor
Mitchell a protest against high food
prices. Tn ons in other cities are
getting ready 20 send delegation t.
Washington TO make a demand upon
President Wilson for a Government
Investigation OF conditions and to
pave the way for remedial legislat on.
All labor unions in the country are
being asked to indorse the action of
the American Federation Of LabOr's
executive committee in calling upon
the Pres dent to order such an in
quiry.
While organized labor was putting
I'm motion the machinery to make 1t
plain to the country that conditions
are becoming more than human pa
thence and finance can bear. city and
State officials. various civic and other
ORGANIZATIONS and plain citizens kept
tp yesterday efforts are to get relief.
Markets Bill Being Prepared.
Mayor NJ tchell announced that he
has taken up with Corporation COun-
sci Hardy the preparedness Of mar
kcts bill for submission TO the Legis-
lature. This proposed measure, II u
is understood. will be along the lines
OF the bill fathered by the Mayors
food supply comm ttee. Of which
George w. Perkins was chairman,
which failed in 1915, and again in
1915
Joseph Hartigan. Commissioner Of
the Mayors Bureau Of Foods and
Markets said a survey made by two
OF his inspectors shows that the cold
storage plants Of this city and nearby
New Jersey cities. are filled as never
before with foodstuffs. principally
eggs. butter, acheese and poultry. St0r-
are facilities are being refused be-
cause Of lack OF room. Much
of the stuff, Mr.. Hartigan learned, is
being held for export. II is not gong
out as rapidly as exporters desire be-
cause there are not ships enough to
carry The foodstuffs.
AR Hartigan said that a striking
result Of these high priced days Is the
disappearance from New York City,
Of the five cent loaf Of bread The
six cent loaf. weighing only six
age old institution
Evidence Against Poultry Men.
District Attorney Swann's inquiry
into the food price problem had ad-
vanced so far yesterday that evil
dence in the case against poultry men
was presented 10 the Grand Jury. It
IS the purpose Of Mr.. Swami TO in
cure into the prices Of one commod-
itv at a time
Manhattan Borough President
Marks i'm an effort to relieve the sit
uation has called a meeting of his
citizens market committee for next
Wednesday afternoon. Il is expected
the committee will discuss the advis
ability of re-establishing public mar
kets on their former basis as one OF
the ways to bring down prices.
Commissioner Hartigan made it
known last evening that a number OF
city officials. economists and others
have been discussing for several days
the wisdom Of seek ng the enactment
bv the State or nation OF a maximum
price law for food commodities. The
theory is that II rates can be fixed
for gas. electricity freight, &C, il
NWWlu We tNutAAN ANEoA ANA AAAN @Nth~N
or nat on 10 fix maximum prices that
may be charged for food The Com
missioner. however. personally is not
in favor OF the proposition.
SAYS Terminal Would Pay.
John J. Dillon, Commissioner OF the
State Department OF Foods and Mar
kets. made clear his belief that II his
proposal for a 100000 terminal
Wholesale foodstuffs market for New
York City is enacted into law-he is
going 10 push such bill-the plant
would pay for itself an six months,
perhaps one month
Mr.. Dillon started yesterday to look
for a site for cooperative store he
is anxious to open in the near future
somewhere on Amsterdam or Co
lumbus avenue between Ninetieth and
tooth streets.
United States Attorney Marshall adj
mitted that the local Department OF
Justice s investigating the rise in
food prices The matter is in the