New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-23
Women Raid Butchers
And Beat Customers
In Boycott Rioting

Rioting took on greater proportions
in New York yesterday. Thursday is
the day on which Jewish women pur-
chase their food for the Sabbath, and
the butcher shops, therefore, were
crowded The demand for kosher killed
chickens was. as usual, large.
Newly killed chickens were priced at
so cents a pound. and the women de-
cided TO concentrate their efforts
against the butcher shops. A general
boycott against meats Of all kinds, as
we'll as fish, was declared
In spite of the warnings of the
Mothers Anti High Price League, the
housewives enforced their boycott with
assault, and many were arrested. The
telephones in the offices Of the league,
on the ninth floor of the Forward
Building. buzzed all day with requests
from husbands and children TO come TO
the rescue of wives and mothers. Will
lam Karlin, Jacob Panken, Max Levine
and Morris Hillquit offered their ser
vices as attorneys in behalf of the
rioters.
The women who ventured out with
shopping bags we're confronted at AL
most every store and pushcart by
groups, who warned them not TO buy
In scores of cases purchases were
trampled in the street. Butchers, fear
ing that their shops might be raided,
asked for advice from the members Of
the subcommittee of the Mothers
Anti-High Price League.
Butchers Are Warned
I'VE informed then that it would be
better not to kill too many chickens
and to comply with the requests of the
enrsged women" said Mrs. Hannah
Pastor.
One woman was attacked at Riving-
ton and Willett Streets because she had
purchased onions and chicken. She
fought when her assailants attempted
20 take her. purchases Then the not
ers Knocked her down, caught her by
the hair and pulled her along the side
walk, until a policeman approached
Thereupon they fed
Mrs. Bella Tierkel, of 50 Willett
Street. bought a chicken in the butcher
shop at Sc Pitt Street. As she was leav-
ing she was set upon by a crowd OF
women. A policeman rescued her. Mrs.
Tierkel charged Mrs. Lena Jacobowitz,
of 294 Delaney St:eet, with assault
and the latter was arrested, but Mrs.
Tierkel. before Magistrate Nolan, re-
fused to press the complaint
"T understand that she has baby
that's only four months old said Mrs.
Tierkel. "Please let her CO.
The magistrate suspended sentence
Mrs. Mollie Pickolz, Of 307 East
Ninety-ffth Street, was fined 81 by
Magistrate Smms in Harlem court. He
then issued a warning that all women
brought before him for destroying
foodstuffs or rioting would be sent to
the workhouse.
An old man who purchased a chicken
in a shop at Sc Pitt Street defended
himself against crowd of women who
attacked him by using the fowl as a
weapon. One of the women TO be hit
on the head was Mrs. Bessie Moskowltz,
Of 172 Allen Street, who was held IN
500 bail by Magistrate Nolan for eX-
animation next Monday.
Nine Women Arrested
Nine women were arrested in Browns
willie for attacks upon customers and
upon venders Of fresh vegetables. After
the arrests Captain Isaac Frank, OF the
Liberty Avenue precinct, said:
"The women have taken this course
TO try TO reduce the cost of food, and
they are trying also TO boycott those
articles which are abnormally high. My
men and understand the situation and
are bearing with them"
Magistrate Dodd, in the New Jersey
Avenue Court, held the women in $500
bail each for a hearing next Monday