The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-11-07
WOMEN AGAINST
MEAT PRICES
LAUNCH DRIVE AGAINST
HIGH PRICES OF MEATS
IN COLUMBUS.
AT MASS MEETING
Committee Appointed to Com
municate With Meat Markets.
Notice of Action Sent to the
Markets Friday Afternoon.

The women of Columbus have
launched an energetic and determin-
ed drive against the high price Of
meats in the local markets.
Owing to the wide disparity in the
price being paid for livestock to the
farmers in the local market and the
enormously high price of retail meats
the women took the matter of the
high prices up at a mass meeting held
the past week.
Out of the meeting came a determ-
ined plan to drive down the high
prices, and 1t Is said that effective
means will be used to secure retail
prices that are more in line with the
prices being paid for beef cattle on
the local market.
The following communication has
been addressed to and sent to all Of
the markets in the city:
We, representative committee Of
Columbus women, acting in our In
dividual capacities and in behalf of a
large group of Columbus housewives,
beg leave to submit the following:
AT a mass meeting of the women
Of the city, held Thursday afternoon
and attended by more than hundred,
it was unanimously voted to present
memorial to the owners and opera
tors Of meat markets in Columbus,
asking for substantial reductions IN
the price Of all meats. We are re-
liabIy informed that the price Of live
stock in the local markets and else
where has materially declined, and
we see no reason why the prices Of
meat should continue at their present
] level. We petitims therefore that ~
prices of meats be reduced common
surate with the reduction in live
stock,--due allowance, Of course, BE-
ing made by the seller for overhead
expense, cost of getting meat ready
for the market, marketing, etc. We
are in possession of facts which In
dictate that certain local dealers are
buying their meat in the local markets
at from four to six cents per pound
on foot, and selling the same meat
/, to the consumer at price Of thirty
and thirty-fve cents per pound. VIZ
cannot understand such discrepancy
between the buying price and the SELL
ing price, and respectfully point on'
that such margin Of profit shoulc
not be tolerated in these postwar
days when return to normal prices
in all commodities seems to be the
order of the day.
Unless favorable action is taken 81
once by all the markets Of Columbus
in compliance with the above re.
quest, the women of Columbus viii
take what further steps seem to then
necessary and expedient, looking Y
the accomplishment of their ends. A
meeting for that purpose has beer
set for the latter part of the weel
FRIDAY, November 12), and the com
mittee will be glad to presept YOU
reply to this communication to tina
meeting. We hope that an equitabi'
adjustment can be reached, and, u
that end, urge an immediate consider
alton of this memorial.
Very respectfully submitted,
(Signed).
MRS. FRANK C. OWEN,
MRS. ]. T. SANFORD,
MRS. HOWARD KING,
MRS. SAM SCHWAB,
MRS. B. A. LINCOLN,
MRS. FRANK PHILLIPS
MRS. WILLIAM BALDWIN,
MRS. LOUISE LANDRUM,
MRS. WILLIAM g. BURGIN
r. Committee, for and in behal
of the housewives of the
city.