Show PACKERS TOO BIG I SENATORS TOLD I n r i I Federal Trade Commissioner Commission Commission- er Tells Development of Industry Br ST A vat Washington ton Au Aug 18 The 18 The dan danger r federal trade commission commis commis- as 8 seen b by the Ion sion In the o of the packing Industry Into lines of l beyond the racking ln of oC meat was dc i ib b by William B B. Colver er member o of the commission toda today to tho the Senate a agriculture agri agri- rl- rl culture committee It Il was as the opening hearing hearin on the F nymn bill t to divorce orco ownership of ot the stockyards and refrigerator cara ears from front the packing concerns and to re regulate reg ulato by license licens their op operation The committee was as taken over o much of or orthe the ground traveled by t tic fio 10 commis commis- commission aba sion In its Investigation In o ot of the pack- pack n ng Industry Tho The refrigerator car and their use o oo o of It said Commissioner Colver Culver referring re- re ferring to the five rive bl big packers was wai as not in Itself Itsel a n. bad thing Dut But tiey ha have hav turned tho the refrigerator car Into hit a a. traveling tra wholesale grocery peddling ped ped- dung at tt er e every cit city in the country countr every ev cv- er cry ery da day almost everything that people cat Development nt of Industry When hen the packers hive have found their customers buin buying something besides tho meat they have to sell or Its b byproducts by by- products product they ha o na gradually commenced com corn to got get Into the business 01 ol supplying the other things thing When V hen they have themselves been I lar large e J h buyers rs of oC a n given Iven commo commodity lt they have gotten sollen into the thc i of oC that article anti and gone one Into campellI competition competition campell- campell I tion lion with ith their former purveyors When t they le have found round a sll substance I which has to some som extent a substitute for I cat products product the they have gone one into the business of making mak- mak 1 ing and selling that substance I Extreme Instances of or the thc tendency th thc tho commissioner asserted d. d had turned j meat packers to hotel operating when hon I they had started only to sell soap to making tennis rackets b because us cl gut gutI I strings 8 went Into such articles anti and 1 to selling soda fountains because b bce eC i t tea was wag there served Suppose the they put tho the wholesaler out of bu business Senator Kenon asked aske and sell sli 8 products cheaper to the consumer and develop efficiency of supply Is that not a sound econom economic ic Ie principle which Is la being worked ou out Their utilization of every ble We le animal pr product duct and byproduct i lId lii h J said tire are economic and desirable 1 activities I |