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Show BOYCOTT f MEAT DEALERS STARTED AS A PROTEST AGAINST HIGH PRICES , r Women Join the Movement and Pledge Themselves Them-selves to Eat No JIIeat-Agitation Spreading Spread-ing and Threatens to Become National Chicago, Jan. 21. Tho boycott on high feed prices started in Cleveland, O., a week ago, is growing rapidly. Illinois, Missouri. Wisconsin, Iowa. Nebraska and Michigan now are included in-cluded in the ranks of the crusaders In the west, while in the east, Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, Connecticut and Delaware are lifting their voices In feebler pro- , teats. Ohio, however, still is the stroBg-hold stroBg-hold of the movement Tho Cleveland Cleve-land boycott haa extended to Canton, where the Central Labor Union haa adopted1 a "no meat' resolution, and petitions are being circulated with surprising results in Columbus. Akron, Ak-ron, Toledo and other cities of tbe state. Tho crusade in Ohio has found encouragement en-couragement in the publicly expressed express-ed belief of Governor Harmon that a food trust is gobbling excessive prof-Its prof-Its somewhere between the producer and the consumer. Ho has called on the legislature to hunt the trust out of tho woods and exhibit it to the people. rcsents r0 crafts, will meet Sunday jn tike siruihir action. The Uull.llng Trades Council and the I Od ust rial Trades Council hold the balance ot power la the labor or-ganizatlons or-ganizatlons of the city. Tho Carmen's unions are enthusiastic enthusi-astic supporter j of the crusade, local lo-cal No. 2, representing 3u0 members, having voted today to refrain from meat eating. The Allied Printing Trades Council, which has 5,500 members has called a meeting to take action on the matter. mat-ter. Mea. Strike in Pittsburg. Pittsburg. Jan. 21. A meat strike has been organized in Greater Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. Today hundreds of street car employes signed pledges to abstain from meat for thirty das. beginning next Tuesday, whllo tonight official of the offllhited members of the city council are waiting word from their leaders before putting Into effect a moat boycott resolution adopted by the council last night. Yonogsfown. O., Wheeling. W. Va.; Sharon. Pa, and other n-arby cities have actively Joined in tho crusade against high priced meat. Anti-Meat Eaters. Omaha. Jan. 21. The question of joining the nuti meat eating rrusado will come before tonight's meeting of the Central Labor union, composed of representatives of most of the lv bor unions of tbe city. Already several sev-eral pledges aro being circulate and It Is estimated that fully 500 work-in-giuen have signed It. Signing the Pfedge. Memphis, Jan, 2L Tho Workmen'a Civic Lcagno of this city, -will on Sunday, take action In regard to pledging 1U members from moat eating. eat-ing. Today more than 200 Momphi:i union men and citizens volutarlly signed tfvo pledge. |