Show lA W T TO CURB MEAT MAT BARONS A N NU U URGED O Of BY i SPEAKER Miss Haver Points Out How Prices of of- Hogs Have Decreased While Pork Prices Prices' Advance PASSAGE o or of national laws to JL regulate the meat packers organisation of consumers consumers' cooperative cooperative co co- co- co societies and consist- consist operative o a nt boycott upon monopolistic prices for foodstuffs were urged by byl I Miss Jessie Teale R. R Haver legislative agent for far the the- National Nation Consumers' Consumers league In Inan inan an address addre delivered before the convention convention convention con con- of the Utah League of Women Voters oters In the Assembly hall toda today Miss Haver charged that the tho great packing Interests of the country control control control con con- both the price paid to the producer lu and d the price paid by the consumer I She urged the women of Utah and the nation at large largo to support national legislation that will bring the packers under federal control She also urged the establishment of municipal markets markets markets mar mar- and slaughter houses that a more direct channel between the producer and consumer might result PROGRAM OUTLINED Miss Us Haver outlined the tho program that has been 1 Indorsed by the National National National Na Na- Consumers' Consumers league The program program program pro pro- gram she declared consists of the following following fol fol- lowing fOI 1 1 That congress should be he urged to pass pas the Anderson Kenyon-Anderson bill to regulate the meat packers This bill would according to Miss Haver take from Crom the packers their stockyards and refrigerator cars by which they have been able to clog tho the channels of commerce com com- merce Through Its licensing feature It would assure the consumer of continuous continuous con con- con I consecutive facts about food production and distribution and would turn the light of ot publicity on tho the whole I question 2 z That consumers should organize consumers' consumers cooperative societies or that local municipalities should establish local abattoirs and slaughtering houses such as now exist In most European countries so that more direct channels channels channels chan chan- nels of commerce might b be est established between tho the producers and con con- I sumers She cited the case of some sugar lI which was supposed to be In Chicago The department of Justice found found o nd that the sugar had already been sot soM twelve times with a a. profit every I tn t but the particular consignment of ot sugar was still sUlI growing In the fields of Louisiana 3 3 That consumers should exercise that eternal vigilance which has been the price of monopoly and Is the price of buying food at reasonable prices She said that women are the buyers of the nations nation's foodstuffs and must begin to bow behind the corner grocer in order to understand the question from the b beginning In Utah for instance Miss laver Haver recalled that there are already al already already al- al ready large producers' producers cooperative e selling sellIng selling sell sell- ing societies The women might well v ell get In touch with all such agencies and work out a plan which would be I mutually helpful to the producers and the tho consumers ATTENDS HEARINGS Miss Haver attended most of ot the hearings before congress on the meat packing industries and told the wom women n some of the facts which nad been re re- re She said that the federal trade trad commissions commission's report on the meat at packing Industry which she urged all the women to secure from Washington and to study had shown that five corporations corporations corporations cor cor- Armour Swift S' Morris VIlson Wilson Wil VIl son and Cudahy together with their subsidiaries and affiliated companies not only have hav a a. monopolistic control over o the American meat industry but have secured control similar In purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose if It not yet et in extent over the principal principal principal prin prin- cipal substitutes for meat such as eggs cheese Meso and vegetable oil prod prod- These corporations handle from 61 to 85 86 p per r cent of the principal lines Jines of the meat business and bid fair to dominate the wholesale grocery trade trad already handling more than 00 products unrelated to the meat pack pack- packing ing Industry PRICES ARE FIXED Such a a. control she said Mid has en enabled enabled en- en the packers to fix the trie price paid the producer at on one end and the price charged the consumer at the other She told of the case caHl of hogs to show I what this means In August the price I of Hv Ih live bogs bog fell 20 per cent and by October 24 2 4 It had fallen 44 14 per cent so that farmers who had raised hogs at the urgent appeal of Mr lr to f feed eod a hungry world found themselves financially ruined If they happened to send their hogs to market during August August August Au Au- gust or September But In New York during nearly the same Mme period the wholesale price of ot eight to ten-pound ten I pork loins made from the same hogs I advanced T. T 72 per cent and ten to twel pound pound loins advanced per cent In Boston eight to ten-pound ten pork lotus lotos advanced 11 per cent andun and ten tan to twelve-pound twelve ports porK loins advanced ad advanced ad- ad 15 per cent Miss lite U Haver's Havers final appeal was wu that the women Omen should begin to study this question with great gnat at tare a she expressed ex expressed expressed ex- ex pressed her bel hope that at the convention convention convention conven conven- tion In Chicago in February the state chairman would come prepared to In Indorse Indorse indorse In- In dorse the Kenyon bill to regulate the meat packers |