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Show CONSOUDATIDN NOT PERMITTED Meat Products Must be Truthfully Truth-fully Labeled of Tliey Can not be Shipped. Jeeretary Wilton Tells Packers What They Must Be Prepared to Do on October 1st in Order to Send Goods Through Channels of Interstate Commerce. Com-merce. Wnsnlngton. Secretary Wilson assured as-sured tho representatives of tho meat packing Interests of tho country with whom ho continued bis conference on Friday that ho hod no authority to extend beyond tho 1st of Oclobcr next tho placing of labels on canned or other meats products. Ho told tho packers flatly that they must bo prepared pre-pared on that dato proporly to labol their goods or they would not be permitted per-mitted to send them through tho channels chan-nels of Interstate commerce. Tho question wns raised as to tho status of tho goods now on tho shelves of tho wholcsulo and retail merchants of tho country. Tho secretary said It was manifestly Impossible for tho government to Inspect thorn. Tho owners or holders of tho goods, ho suggested, would hnvo to tako UicIr chances on selling them. Ono thing was certain: They could not bo 'shipped from ono stnto to another. |