PROTEST AGAINST HIGH PRICES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15210, 22 January 1910, Page 9

PROTEST AGAINST HIGH PRICES.

MEAT CONSUMERS’ STRIKE. AN AMERICAN MOVEMENT. United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, January 21. Believing that a shortage of cattle in the stock-raising States is not wholly responsible for dear beef, 11,000 heads of families in Cleveland pledged themselves to abstain from meat for sixty days. Tlie labour unions helped forward the boycott, which within a few days spread throughout tho Mississippi Valley. The price of meat in Cleveland has already declined. The boycotters now exhort tlie people not to pay beyond 30 cents a dozen for eggs, on the ground that cold storage supplies aro withheld. LONDON. January 21. Tlie New York correspondent of the “Times” says that the high cost of living is attributed by economists to the world’s increasing gold production, the exactions of trusts, protection, and the demands of labour. Whatever the cause, it occasions much discontent, and President Taft and Congress are exercised over the question. Possibly Congress will investigate it.