“NO-MEAT” REVOLT

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 815, 17 March 1910, Page 4

“NO-MEAT” REVOLT

3,000,000 PEOPLE TO FIGHT THE BEEF TRUST. In America the extraordinary “no meat” revolt against the Beef Trust is still spreading, and increased numbers have joined the movement. The labourers of several more cities have given their adherence, and the movement has now become a national one. It is stated that to date 3,000,000 people have enrolled themselves under the pledge not to eat meat for a period ol thirty or forty days. Prices of meat have already begun to fall, and even in Chicago, the headquarters of the trust, beef and other meat can be bought nearly 4d a pound cheaper than before the boycott began. The President has made it known that his fullest sympathy goes out to the lighters of the Meat Trust, and he has promised to consider the request to investigate the trust’s business.

Mr Wilson, the Secretary of Agriculture, issues a statement declaring that live stock is more abundant than ever, and that the farmer is not receiving more payment lor his cattle which he sells to the trust, proving that the combine has raised the prices for its own purpose. The Government charges that the directors of the great packing houses are also directors of the National Packing Company, or, in other words, that the trust’s packinghouses and the National PackingCompany are working in complete unison with regard to fixing the price and the keeping back or issuing of supplies. It is also alleged that the price the packers pay for their raw meats has not advanced, and that the increased prices charged the retailers are the [racking houses’ increased profits.

Several States are starting investigations on their own account. Press Hank.