Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-13 | Page 2 | Meat is Advanced

MEAT IS ADVANCED. New Yorkers Put Up the Price 3 Cents a Pound. NEW YORK, July 12. As soon as the re-tall re-tall butchers in this city learned today that strikes had been ordered In the meatpacking meat-packing plants In many of the largo cities, they at once began to advance the price of meat from 2 to 3 cents ;i pound. H. Li. Elchelbcrgor, general organizer of Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Butch-er Workmen's union of America, predicted that within threo days thero would bo a meat famlno in this cltv. Thla a 'ternoon the Joint executive committee com-mittee of the Now York locals of tho Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of America Issued an order calling call-ing for a sympathetic atrlko In .all tho packing-houses in this city, and, in con-sociucnce con-sociucnce 3500 men will quit work tomorrow.