Show BOYCOTT IS PROPOSED I Salt Lake Butchers Talk offie of Re Rei i n nt ni t i ARE ABE AGAINST ARMOUR Ij I j SORE ON AND ANDI I SOTEL BOTEL KEEPERS 4 I Many of These Buy Their Meats I From Outside Packing Companies and Local Knights of Cleaver Will I Endeavor to te Even Things Up tip I Mass stass Meeting is Scheduled t The existing local conditions among the Salt Lake butchers are rapidly coming to a focus For the past three weeks circumstances have been point pointing lag ing ng to a practical demonstration of the doctrine of the survival of the fittest if It not the ultimate squelch squelching squelching ing lag of the individual butcher business generally The local tradesmen real Izing zing their precarious predicament pro propose propose propose pose to call a mass meeting of the trade tomorrow evening to discuss the ways and means of heading off oft the In Invasion invasion Invasion The urgent question of the hour is how to combat the movement Inaugurated inaugurated inaugurated rated by the Armour and Hammond packing concerns who have succeeded in up most of the leading hotels and restaurants in the city with meat contracts during the past three weeks Already the butch butchers butchers ers era are feeling the pressure with one of their principal sources of income cut off short bad debts and the cast iron rule of paying cash on each steer or carcass delivered at the store sev several several eral oral of gf the retail dealers are already seriously contemplating putting up u their shutters shutt rs and going Into the kin kindling kindling wood business Something Must Be Done In speaking of the situation yester day one of the leading butchers said Unless something is speedily done Salt Lake will be In the same condi tion as is Denver at the present time For the past three months there has bat I Inot not been a single beef killed in Den Denver Denver Denver ver while out in the state at Colorado Springs Manitou and other swell I places the leading residents are hav hay ing all their meat shipped in In boxes boxe S by the packers for their own table use Of course I do not blame the hotel hots hotelmen hotelmen men and others here for getting their meat as cheaply as is possible But taken in the long run it is a s policy polley for just justas as soon as Armour gets a firm footing here and vand all the prime steers in the state have been shipped out of the country for butchers cannot keen on or i buying them at present prices and un under under under der existing circumstances up will go gc gothe I Ithe the prices again and every dollar ex ox expended expended in meat will go out of the state Boycott Is Proposed Another dealer had the following to tomy t tray say ray upon the subject About the only thing we butchers I Ican can do and which wll w lI probably be hi i adopted at Monday nights meeting will wm be the complete of the thi hotel f and restaurant men If they the r want veal cuts liver or anything else Is Islet let them go to Armour and get t in inand n nand and if it they cannot obtain the stuff let le t them go 10 without In speaking of the quality of the thi i meat which the th big packing companies S Sare are shipping into Salt Lake in refrigerator refrigerator refrigerator ator cars he said sald For the major r portion the ribs and loins are cut from fron I cows and canners and have been put pu t tin in cold storage for goodness go knows know S Show how long then before the meat is de do delivered livered it is thawed out The meat is I sold to customers for 10 cents a pound r while we butchers if we sell the same sam S cuts for 14 cents would not make a single cent but would lose money on o a account of the waste Such is the condition which the th e Salt Lake Lal e butchers at is e present time Indications In point to a stormy meeting g tomorrow night without any definite 0 conclusion being arrived at In case cas e ea a united movement is put on foot to t 0 combat the invasion it is said sald that tha t Armour will raise the bluff and start star 4 the game along the same sam e lines as us were put Into operation in the th e east eat when the packing firm put In a astore astre astore store and practically gave meat away awa I until the butchers butcher howled howle for f r mercy 1 and agreed to handle the meats |