"JEWESSES ON MEAT STRIKE TO PROTEST PRICE INCREASE," Toronto Star. March 28, 1933. Page 1. --- Say Advance From Five to Fifteen Cents a Pound Unfair ---- OFFER COMPROMISE ---- Seven hundred Jewish women, meeting in Weinberg Hall last night, decided to go on a meat strike against an increase from five to fifteen cents a pound.
The recent tax of a cent and a half a pound put on Jewish meat by the Kehilla council, according to Mrs. M. Rotenburg of the Kehilla council, resulted in a fight against the tax and butchers reduced the price of meat below cost and the public benefitted. For some time past Jewish homes have been obtaining meat for five cents a pound.
Now, however, that the Kehilla tax has been firmly established these butchers who lost money during the meat war have raised their price to fifteen cents.
The Kehilla tax which has indirectly caused the trouble goes partly toward education and charity work among Jewish people of Toronto. The cent and a half tax more than covers the cost of slaughtering the mat.
Mrs. M. Slotkin, who presided over last night's meeting, says that Mr. Cohen, chairman of the Jewish Butchers' Association, was approached after the price of meat was raised. Ten cents a pound was quoted to him by the women as a fair price. The butchers, however, refused to meet the women's demands, the says, and suggested that if they did not like it they could go on strike. Last night's meeting was the result.
