Mass boycott spreads as labor unions push meat strike
Ten million people join a meat boycott across Missouri Wisconsin and Ohio with unions municipal groups and club women rallying to curb high prices. Campaigns from St Louis to New York mobilize housewives buyers and consumers leagues with petitions and targeted actions urging action by governors and legislators.
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Cleveland
Cinginnati Club
Wilmington
Del
Mingo Junction
Ohio
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Canada
Marion Talbot
University of Chicago
Womens Trades Union League
Fight
New York
Anita Comfort~ Brooks
Greater
Mra Comfort Brooks
Federation of Womens Clubs
Ingman
Frederick Nathan
Consumers’ League
Comfort Brooks
League
Nathan
Omaha Central Labor Union
Indiana
Jowa
Bishop
Kansas City
Anetican Federation of Labor
Sawtells Advice Back to Farm in Meat Price Fight
Pioneer packer T R Sawtell argues that boycotts against high meat prices will push farmers to cities, worsen farm labor shortages, and raise hay cattle and corn costs. He calls for a wholesale return to the farm as the lasting remedy, noting urban lure and rural discontent, while outlining possible population shifts and industry responses.
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R Sawtell
Gf Allants
Beef Trust
Sawtell
Clites
Irving City
Mer Sawtell
Piedmont Hotel Menu Expands with Venison and Fresh Seafood
A glance at Piedmont Hotel dining rooms shows a fully complete menu with venison prepared in any style and Booth Bay lobster from Heath Bay Maine. Fresh mushrooms and special Formosa Cayton teas accompany the daily arrival of Piedmont Gystera, ensuring prime seafood for patrons.
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Piedmont Hotel
Booth Bay
Piedmont’ Hotel
Wil Leary
Food prices rise as necessities become luxuries in Atlanta
A Atlanta housewife notes butter, eggs, flour, lard and other basics have surged in price, with butter at 41 cents a pound, case eggs at 40 cents a dozen, flour a barrel six dollars, and lard up to 17 19 cents. Meat and seafood costs also climb, while vegetables rise 20 to 50 percent. Shoppers seek cheaper alternatives like margarine as the cost of living strains households.
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Atlanta
East
Middlewest
Baycote
Thig
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Lois Bringé
Meat prices stay high despite boycott spread in high talk
Chicago reports little effect on meat costs as the anti meat movement grows. Pork and veal drop 2 cents per pound in Pittsburgh retail butchers, while Louisville sees fraternal groups pledge meat abstention. St Louis and the Womens Trade Union League plan actions next week as Minnesota rebounds with high livestock values and rising herd numbers.
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Httle
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Womens Trade Union League
Building Trades Council of St Louis
Wilson Lays High Prices to Lack of Farm Help
Washington January 22 Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture cites a farm labor shortage and a meat price issue amid a broad boycott of meat products. He notes three quarters of a million people leave the farms for the cities annually, implying cities feed themselves while farms struggle to attract workers. When asked how to draw workers back to farms he responds that people will go to farms when hungry.
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Wilson
Washington
Department of A Sericulture
United States
Abrom
Jim Hilsaya
Race of Mollys Cull From Meat Abstinence
Washington reports Dr Harvay Walley chief of the bureau of chemistry predicts a race of mollycod dles would emerge if meat is abandoned He argues a mixed diet of normal and vegetable foods could curb disease and reduce meat prices while not harming nutritive needs in the near term the change would affect future vocations and human diet trends.
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Washington
Harvay Walley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Eericulture
Meat Boycott Spreads Across Cities
Reports from Milwaukee Louisville New Haven and New York describe rising meat price protests and organized boycotts. Clergy and labor groups pledge abstinence and plan meetings to push meat-price reductions amid widespread urban agitation.
Market Quotes for Fur Trade Items and Pigs
A terse listing shows fur and livestock prices with quantities and per unit values. Items include multiple fur lots, 75 pigs, and varying price points such as 101, 123, 52, 45, 48, 25, and 20 dollars alongside larger totals.
Meat boycott spreads as Chicago packers face antitrust actions
National Packing Company and three Chicago firms face federal probes into price fixing and restraint of trade. DoJ seeks criminal and civil actions to dissolve the packing trust while labor groups in Chicago and across states rally to curb meat costs, including boycotts and investigations into living costs and rents.
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Department of Justice
Ys Administration
National Packing Company of Chicago
St Paul Mion
Wol McEwen
Minnesota
Grand Jury
United States
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Raiicords
Morris & Co
Ttin
National
Grogsoup
Los Cricago
Mats Chicago
Organized Labor of Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor General
John Fitzpatrick
Variega
Hoxte
Mitons
Professor Brittain Chosen Head of Shorter College
Trustees of Shorter College elect Professor VW Brittain of Atlanta as president. He is a noted educator and Fulton County public schools superintendent. The college will reorganize faculty, re furnish buildings, and install modern laboratories and a music conservatory at the cost of many thousands of dollars.
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Shorter College
VW Brittain
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Fulton County
Georgia
Richard H. Rushton Dies in Philadelphia Hotel
Richard H Rushton president of the Vour Street National Bail and a major Philadelphia financier died in his Beiley Stratford Hotel apartment from a complication of disease. Born in Dalton Georgia in 1851 he came to Philadelphia in 1869 and held positions with railroads and mining syndicates. An explosion years earlier wrecked his nervous system. a stranger killed by a bomb at his door and a cashier died in the same incident.
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Richard H Rushton
Vour Street National
Beiley Ie Stratford
Deana
Mc Rushton
Dalton Ga
Philadelphia
Ytonopah and Goldfeld Railroad
Whitney Kin Syndicate
Tonopah Gold Mining Company
Hearings set on transit tonnage claims for Montgomery and Memphis
Interstate Commerce Commission scheduled hearings January 31 in Montgomery Alabama and February 2 in Memphis on tonnage obstruction and transit point issues. In other news a streetcar hit a car on High Street injuring G A Berry and J A Felder. both expected to recover. A wholesale price cut by a retail butcher sparked a clash over clerical costs. The Allegheny steel strike expands with 2000 workers joining the boycott, part of a 126000 member labor surge. Nebraska labor leader Coffey advocated abstinence from meat-eating among federation members in Lincoln.
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Indianapolis
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Iron City Trades Council
Pittsburg
Samuel Gompers
Memphis
van Houten
Georgia Federation of Labor
Poycott
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Daughters of the ‘American Revolution
Mary Lockwood
D AR
Washington Federation of Women’s Clubs
DAR
Bostontes
Rovert Oliver
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Wéventy Conty & Dowen
Hoyerté
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Nebraska Feperation of Labor
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