PRICE OF SUGAR IN AMERICA.
HOUSEWIVES' BOYCOTT
EFFECTIVE. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrrBIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received May (sth, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 5. The sugar boycott is proving effective. Sugar is now selling at sis cents a pound. The sugar refiners claim that the tariff is responsible for 20 per cent. of the recent increases in prices.
[A previous message said: Housewives throughout the country are organising a boycott for the purposo of lowering the price of sugar, which is now being retailed from ton to twelve cents a pound. Various women's clubs and organisations in "New York, AVashington, Chicago, Buffalo, and other principal cities are conducting a scries of mass meetings and canvass in an effort to perauatkt housekeepers to Tofrain from buying until sugar is cheaper.]
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17756, 7 May 1923, Page 9
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