U.S. women boycott meat
. (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter — Copyrishi.) WASHINGTON. United States housewives, backed by consumer groups, have begun a week-long boycott of meat, to force down prices after drastic increases in the last , year.
Rallies of housewives were scheduled throughout the country to launch the boycott. Leaflets are being ihanded out at supermarkets assailing high meat prices and consumer groups have given widespread distribution |to meatless menus. A small but enthusiastic band of several hundred housewives protested outside the White House in steady rain yesterday, demanding a return to last year’s price levels.
The boycott will go ahead
despite President Nixon’s announcement on Thursday that he had imposed a price ceiling on retail and wholesale beef, pork and lamb prices at their present level. Mr Nixon said later he did not mean that prices should stay at the ceiling — his aim was a cutback in prices — but the action did little to appease irate housewives.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33191, 3 April 1973, Page 12
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