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(AMERICAN JUDAICA). - “To All Consumers and Retail Butchers of Brownsville & East New York… Protest Against the High Cost of Meat by Coming to our Demonstration.”. Printed broadside. Text in English and Yiddish. 12 x 9 inches. Brooklyn, New York: (1935). The City Action Committee Against the High Cost of Living, a group of New York City female homemakers led by Clara Lemlich Shavelson (1886-1982), organized a boycott demanding a reduction in the price of kosher meat.