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Thousands Join
Bread Boycott
On East Side
Women Demand a Loaf for
8 Cents and Rolls for
18 and Put Picket Lines
Around the Bakery Stores
Owners Refuse to Yield
Home Ovens Are Busy Sup
plying Necessities; Meet?
ings Spread the Campaign
Twer.ty-fivc bakeries were boycotted
by customers and mobbed by agitators
in the 6th Assembly District yesterday
as a result of the mass meeting of the
Socialist Consumers' League, held in
the Lcnox Assembly Rooms, Second
Street and Avenue C, Tuesday night.
It was with difficulty that the police
prevented rioting among the excited
and clamorous women who mobbed the
bakeshops and held meetings at the
street corners. Three thousand women
are interested in the bread strike and
hundreds of homes are affected. The
police look for serious complications
within the next two days. It is said
to bc the intention of the striking
cloak makers to aid and abet the wom?
en in their demand that the price of
bread be reduced from 9 to 8 cent3
and rolls from 20 to 18 cents.
The ovens in the district were worfc
ing overtime yesterday. The women
are making preparations for~a long
siege and they have entered with en
thusiasm upon a homc-baked bread
campaign. Yesterday children were
munching matzohs, bought in grocery
stores.
Hundreds of Homes Hit
Agitation commenced in the district
with the first raucous sounoVs of matu
tinal life yesterday. Plans for vol
unteer picketing had been laid by Mrs.
Rose Elias, organiz'er of the Consum?
ers' League: Mrs. S. Weingart, Louis
'Sperling, manager of the People's Co?
operative Society, and others. In all
250 women were ' detailed for picket
duty, but they soon resolved them?
selves into an unruly mob, which was
gradually augmented as people turned
out to find what the trouble was. In
no time scores of screaming, chatter
ing, gesticuiating women formed self
appointed bodyguards around the doors
of the bake shops.
Any one who attempted to enter was
held up, and few had the pluck to break
down the solid barrier which confront
ed them at the door of every bakery.
The local policemen had to send for
reserves to break up the mobs and to
keep an eye on the street corner meet?
ings.
Banners over the improvised plat
forms declaimed the high cost of liv
ing and called tor justice for the con
sumer and rotribution for the profit
eering baker. American flags were
flown after a warning by the police.
Bakers Won't Give In
Bakers, for the most part, folded
their hands under their aprons and
murmured: ?
"These women! Bolsheviki?that's
what they are. Like to hear them
Sterling Silver.
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UNUSUAL DESIGNS. ^^
EXCLUSIVE PATTERNS
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Theodore B. StARRJnc
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-Jewelers'XndSjlversmiths
Fifth Avenue at 47j^Street
4 Maiden LanS
selves talk. It costs us 11 centa to
produce the loaves we're selling for
nine.
"Let them keep it up. They'll get
tired of it before we do. It would be
better for us to close than to sell our
bread any cheaper."
"My husband and I will close, but
we certainly won't bring down the
price," confided a Jewish mother. "We
work night and day, and our men work
overtime and still we're not making
money. Labor is $58 a week and flour
is $10.50 a barrel. I.work half the
night. My children work, too, but
what's the use?"
Thc woman hugged her baby a little
closer and shrugged her shoulders.
Plan Cooperative Shop
One baker on Eighth Street has been
selling bread for 8 cents since the
Passover, but he did not profit yester?
day to the extent of one. cent. The
boycott of bakeshops in general in?
cluded him. The other bakers regard
him as a black sheep and the public
does not patronize him, so he is dis
tinctly skeptical.
Louis Sperling, manager of the Peo
ple's Cooperative Society, is laying
plans for opening a cooperative bake?
shop like tho butcher's shop, which he
has already instituted in the Sixth
Assembly District., and which will un
dersell all the stores in the neighbor
hood.
Mass meetings were held last night
and the pickets will be out again this
morning, so that the iron ring is sol
idly clamped around tho bakeshops of
the district. The agitators expect the
strike to spread to other pai?s of the
city.
Bakers and Drivers
Make Strike Threats
William Karlin, attorney for the
Bakery Drivers' Union, announced yes?
terday that a strike of 6,000 bakery
wagon drivers is being organized. The
main demand is for union recognitfon,
Journeymen Bakers' Union No. 1 has
issued an ultimatum giving their em
pioyers until May 25 to grant its de?
mands. The bakers are demanding an
increase in wages of 50 cents a day,
the abolition of night work and . a
maximum eight-hour working day.
Predicts Drop in
Cost of Bread
Grain Official Says That
Lower Wheat Price Will
Bring Buyer Benefits
Lower priC2s for wheat, resulting in
a reduction to the consumer in the
price of bread is an early prospect, ac?
cording to Julius Barnes, Federal
wheat director. Mr. Barnes conferred
yesterday with grain handlers, millers,
flour jobbers and bakers in the office
of the Food Administration Grain Cor?
poration, 42 Broadway.
Mr. Barnes announced that all tho
interests concerned had agreed that if
a lower basis for the price of wheat in
justifled as the season advances the
reduction shall reach the consumer of
bread. He issued this statement, giv?
ing the results of the agreement:
"Thcro was a general agreement, in
order that all the wheat produeers of
the country should secure equal bene
fits, that the various trades could be
bound by contracts to see that wheat
trading should be only on, the guaran
teed price, and if a lower basis was
justifled with tho developments of
world factors as the season advanced,
this lower basis should be raade to
reach the consumer by trade agrce
ments with millers and manufacturing
facilities, the wheat director making
the readjusting basis effective by the
payment of the difference, as allowed
allowed under act of Congress.
Protection Is Asked
"In return for protection against a
fall in price, after the guaranteed
price ha<$ been made for wheat bougnt,
the wheat director would requirc from
tho various trades contract obligations
by which their trade practices and
margins of profit would be subject to
his review and control.
"It was suggested, for instance, that
the mills ngree that their total gross
operating profits between wheat bought
and the finished products sold should
not exceed an agreed basis a barrel of
flour manufactured, thus assuring im?
mediate reflection to the consumer of
any reduced price of wheat supplied
to the mills.
"The jobbers expressed a willingness
to cdfctract that their handling margins
should not exceed the price fixed on an l
agreed basis, thus making immediately
effective a lower retail price of flour
when made by the mill3 on a read
justed wheat basis.
"The bakers were willing to enter
into a contract by which they would
reflect at once in their products the
lower price of flour made effective by
the mills.
"Some of the Western delegates ex?
pressed the view that certain sections
of the producing wheat country had
developed a sentiment that wheat next
year might be worth more than the
guaranteed price in the open markets,
but the general view was that the
crops promised so well that any with
holding from the market under such
sentiment would be unappreciable in
the total volume. '
"New wheat will be moved in Texas
in thirty days and from the present
outlook in six weeks more they will
commence a very large movement of
new winter wheat. In order that sea
ports and interior markets should not
be choked by congestion and blockade
the general opinion was that the
grain corporation should continue the
cooperative control with the railroad
administration of the movement of
cereal and cereal products by the per
mit system of car shipment.
U. S. Doughboy
Sends Food to
Enemy Uncles
Wounded Soldier Says He
Doesn't Want Relatives in
Germany to Starve "Now
That the Scrap Is Over"
Big Cargo for the Thala
Army Lieutenant and Fed?
eral Official Among Those
Who Have Engaged Space
A United States soldier, recently re?
turned from France, with two wound
stripes on his sleeve, accompanied his
mother yesterday to -the offices of the
Balkan-American Express and Naviga
tion Company, at 25 Broad Street. That
is the corporation which has char
tered the steamer Thala to sail June
5 with n cargo of foodstuffs for Ger?
many.
They made n reservation for the
shipment of a quantity of canned
meats, chocolate and other articles of
diet to the mother'a relatives in
Bremen.
'Tn addition to my son here," said
tho mother, "I have two brothers in
the American army, both of whom
fought overseas. Three other brothers
wero in the German army, and it is
to them and my mother, ninety-two
years old, that I v.ish to send food."
* "You didn't happen to ever meet
any of your uncles on the battlefield,
did you?" an official of the company
asked the soldier.
He said he had not.
"Would you have shot them, if
necessary, had you met them?"
After the Battle
"You bet I would!" was the response. :
"But I don't want them to starve
to death now that the scrap is over."
The Thala is due at New York to?
day from San Francisco, and work of
loading her with German relief food?
stuffs will begin immediately. She
will discharge her cargo at Hamburg
and the packages will be distributed
to various parts of Germany. The
Balkan-American Express and 'Naviga
tion Company chartered the vessel
shortly after the war trade board, on
April 28, announced that shipments of
food for Germany would be permitted
Evor since the projected sailing of
the Thala was made known the offices
of the company have been besieged by
Americans with relatives and friends
in Germany. There are lines of apph
conts sometimes of sixty and seventy
persons. Telephone applications have,
been received from as far away as?
Chicago and telegrams from points ns
distant as Los Angeles.
A lirst lieutenant in the United
States army reserved cargo space for
ten cubic feet for his grandmother
and two uncles in Germany. Thc
uncles served in the Kaiser's forces.
U. S. Official Among Shippers
A United States Court Commissioner,
serving in a district in the vicinty
of New York City, arraneed to ship
$500 worth of food io friends in a
Rhineland town.
Mitchell I. Liebenson. secretary and
general manager of the Balkan
American Express and Navigatioi;
Company, made it plain that the voy?
age of the Thala was not in any way
franfe'Un Svmon & do.
Ptfth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets
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for the purpose of opening trade re
lations with Germany.
"It is merely for relief," he said,
"and nothing except foodstuffs will be
accepted for shipment. If we were
taking regular merchandise we would
/iced five ships instead of one."
The War Trade Board has even
drawn the line against <*ending soap
to Germany, alffhougrt that is a badly
needed article there. The reason is
that soap contains glycer'ine, which can
be utilized in the manufacture of ex
plosives.
Cotton Shipment Refuscd
While a Tribune reporter was talk
ing to Mr. Liebenson a New York
broker called up to find out if he might
ship 1,000 bales of cotton on the
Thala. His request was refused.
Large individual shipments of food?
stuffs are being discouraged in order
that as many as possible may avail
themselves of the opportunity. Ship
pers are being urged to contine their
packages to two cubic feet each. The
shipping charge is $5 a cubic foot.
Some of the commonest articles ap
pearing in the cargo list are choco
late, cereals, lard and its substitutes,
spices, canned meats, soups and fruits,
bacon, coffee, tea, flour, sugar. dried
peas and beans, rice, butter, baking
powder, condensed milk and cocoa.
Fresh meats are not aecepted and
cured meatst such as smoked pork,
must be submitted to inspection bythe
United States health authorities.
The Thala will also carry supplies
for Czecho-Slovakia. These are not
limited to foodstuffs, that country hav?
ing been taken under the protecting
wing of the Economic League at Vcr
saiiles.
The Czecho-Slovak shipments will be
transferred at Hamburg from the
Thala to a river steamer and trans
ported on the River Elbe to Prague.
Another ship is to be chartered by
the Balkan-American Express ar.d'Nav
igation Company to carry foodstuffs
to G*>man Austria, but no sailing dato
has ba^n announced. The offices of the
company are kept open from * a. m. to
8 p. m. for the accommodation of per?
sons who wish to make shipments to
Germany and Czecho-Slovakia.
"The note expressed by the great
majority of those who have applied to
us so far," said Mr. Liebenson, "has
been one of appreciation and grati
tude to thp United States government
for raising the blockade. None of them
have appeared to be pro-Germans. They
are people who are and have been
throughout loyal to America, bnt their
hearts have bled for their relations
and friends in Germany and they are
merely foilowing natural bumanitarian
dietates in providing them with that
which will keep body and soul to?
gether."
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Five Face Murder Charge
Charged with the .murder of Joseph
Holbach, a hotel keeper of South i
Ozone Park, Queens, and hia wife
Helen, about midnight of January 20,
six Italians were arraigned in the
Queens County Supreme Court yester?
day and held without bail.
In spite of the fact that they pleaded
not guilty District Attorney O'Leary
says he has five complete confessions.
The accused are: Michael Casalino,
twenty-seven, of 146 Classon Avenue;
Paul Ricci, thirty-three, of South
Ozone Park; Rocco Bracci, twenty
seven, of 841 Kent Avenue; Tony
Bruno, twenty, of 828 Hudson Avenue;
Nicholas Chiusano, nineteen, of 80
Emerson Place; Frank Dialo, thirty
four, of 251 Classon Avenue; all of
Brooklyn.
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