THE COST OF LIVING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 295, 22 January 1910, Page 5

THE COST OF LIVING.

ACUTE PROBLEM IN AMERICA,

A NOVEL BOYCOt 1\ By Telegraph.—Press Association. Received January 22, 12.30 a.m. New York, January 21. Believing that the shortage of cattle in the stock-raising States is not wholly responsible for dear 'beef, 11.000 heads of families in Cleveland pledged themselves to abstain from eating meat for GO days. The labor unions helped forward the boycott, which within a few days spread throughout the Mississippi vadey. The price of meat in Cleveland has already declined. The boycottcrs now exhort the people not to pay beyond thirty cents a dozen for eggs, on the ground that cold storage supplies are withheld from the market. Received January 22, 12.30 a.m. London. January 21. The Times New York correspondent says the hig' cost of living is attributed by an < womist to the world's increasing oj.d production, the exactions of trusts protection and the demands oi labor. Whatever the causes i J occasions much discontent, and President Taft and Congress are exercised over the question. Possibly Congress will investigate the subject.