Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — MEAT BOYCOTT IS GROWING RAPIDLY [ARTICLE]

MEAT BOYCOTT IS GROWING RAPIDLY

Now a Live Question In Ten Slates-Mllllons Interested. STARTED IN OHIO A WEEK ADD Active Co-Operation to Begin In ChinaS> and Baltimore Soon— Omaha Reports Progress—Pittsburg Desert* Meat Shops—Connecticut Now Paying 65 Cents a Dozen for Eggs—On C-Tl.'cd Labor Behind Movement.* -• v. ioik, Jan. 21. —The boycott on bi'li Led prices started in Cleveland 2 ’ < a-o is growing rapidly. Mis- ! - ”’see sin, lowa, Nebraska, minds ;nd ichigan are now included in the ranks of tne crusaders in the west, while in the east Pennsylvania, Con-, neeticut and Delaware are lifting their voices. Ohio, how ever, is still the stronghold of the movement. The Cleveland boycott has extended to Canton, to Columbus, to Toledo, Akron and other cities of the state. The crusade in Ohio has found encouragement in the belief of the governor that the food trust is gobbling excessive profits. He has called on the legislature to investigate the trust. It is estimated that more than 1,000 persons have become activetydnterested in the boycott Dispatches from Chicago state that a boycott soon will be started in that city by the Chicago Federation of Labor. A dispatch from Kansas City says that more than 100 families in that city sat down to meatless meals, while the anti-meat movement has spread to Atchison, Leavenworth, St Joseph, Topeka and other cities in that part of the country. Omaha reported progress with the list which the union leaders say will number 8,000 by the end of the week. The Omaha laborers pledge themselves to ignore meat for thirty days. No organized movement has been undertaken in Pittsburg as yet, but many are deserting the meat stands. Naugatuck, Conn., is kicking against the price of butter. It has gone to 45 cents a pound there. The employes in the rubber .factories stood for the butter prices until eggs soared to C 5 cents and then they got together. There are about 500 of these. Baltimore is a new convert to the anti-meat eating campaign. The fight Is being led by the federation of labor and its 103 affiliated unions. An order has been placed for 50,000 buttons bearing the inscription: “I don’t buy meat; do you?” These buttons are ,to be distributed to the various unions in the cily and passed out to the members who take the pledge.