Show Al T TRUSt t FIGHT local Dea rs Hold Secret Con It PLANS ARE A KEPT QUIET I ASSOCIATIONS PRESIDENT Sm AC ACCUSED ACCUSED OF OP STEERING STEIG 4 Was Stormy and ad Disposition Shown Show to Keep Public in i Dark Another Meeting Me to Be el Soon New Packing Bouse oue ouse Evaded Iii Li L cense cease ce Till Tl Caught Caught The Tha Th meat met dealers e of ot the city bad bd an air another a other secret set conclave last lat night In the rear of Williams market on Second South street The Te Th proceedings wore Iong out and at times umes Quite tropical It I was w intended that the th meet meetings meetIngs ings Ings incidents should not be given gen pu pa publicity in the te newspapers for President George Ward Yard the smoothest one of the lot was Ws Delegated to be the te spokesman for the crowd That the butchers butcher as association as was wa working on a plan last night to spring another surprise on the I public cannot be doubted Every Lvery Jve one ot of the score or more moe of or members present pret surrounded the te meetings mot s affairs aar with wi an anair anair anair air of secrecy Each one on on de do referred o th the to Pre re dined elne to answer any ant Questions and an tons and ad ref Hd the to tl P President President dent Ward yard for information but ha the pros president dent himself was noncommittal beyond denying den that tat the Che association intended to torIs raise rIs the price of meats mets to consumers co umer and affirming that the only business done was wa in accomplishing for fr mutual protection tion ton the te complete blacklisting or of dead deadbeat dad deadbeat beat bt customers Inroads Iod of the th Packing Trust Tt It I Is known however that much of the warm talk tak was as over oer the invasion of the theAs te As Rt hr rr naff e II rn into int the thA th best trade the Salt Sl Lake meat met dealers dele have have had The Tire coolheaded members wanted wante to placate the packing house concerns conn by buying then their tet meats met from Cudahy Armour Armor and an Hammond In order to induce them to withdraw rw from the hotel and restaurant trado td but the farseeing ones on feared feare that as its soon son as a the te meat mt trust t tt got gt the cinch prices price would Inevitably have hae to be b raised rS and no local slaughterers slaughterer would be b then In business busin to ease ee up the situation when consumers cried cred for mercy President Ward was given give a few raps rp for having baing it was alleged used his ef of efforts alke use e forts to steer the Salt Sal Lake meat meat dealers delers Into the tho lutches of the mighty might packing packinghouse packinghouse house trust which in other citi cities s has ha driven many small smal dealers delers to the wall waiL The Tho accused aused succeeded in dis die I R t of or his hI hi v sr i from their suspicions but others still believed bieve ho ha Is love with Armour Co who have hae lately entered this field fed for busi busl business I ness floss nes that dealers buy bU from them under oain nain of having hain this thi strong rival for retail retal trade The association will wi have another anoter meet met metIn ma In next net Monday Caught Armour Aou for License The Tha threatened hostilities between the local meat met dealers and the representatives of tho thE lb bie bit eastern hois hon has hi Drove a a source of income to the city I treasury AH AR alone Treasurer r Morris has believed f that th Armour sr Co were r liable a I Ifor for the Damen of meat dealers delers license cl clat at the tha schedule rate of 1100 10 nor ner year ear but buthe buthe he hen has hs lacked Jacke until ut now the evidence to I stick the tha te It I is true tue however that tbt Armour Co have hye Dead Dd a brokers brokes license of 5 a rear vear er but this did not satisfy lpt le the license col 01 colle moraine morn after Treasurer Morris had ha read red In The Te Herald the open declaration of Armour Cos local loal man mn acer ate H C Vert that his company was wes wasen wesen en traced to in the bu bunes business aness of sealing seiling meats mot in this thia city c it to t retailers and consumers c I he end sund word to Mana e Wertz Wert that the thelie lie was WM un UD and hereafter Armour i Co must nay nav city ct at a the rate rte of ot oti m fi yearly for wholesaling hol winf meats met Un En Under n i der nain nein nn erl of in the police I Itou court ourt tou Mr Warts Wertz Wert assured assure the th treasurer I II that tot he he would nay DV un an tomorrow Treasurer Tr mr Morris lorts resorts reports that the pack I I ln Houses luces of and Hammond are Bavins the th ton too license rate rte but there ther are other like concerns represented here which are aro booked for investigation invest ton Since the te trouble broke out the th local lo meat met d dealers alers er and the house huse rep representatives representatives the cite cit treasurer has been riven aniele evidence evidene of the te liability of outside amoe concerns which have have wholly woly or in inwart inor wart heretofore of the I license or tax tx The result o of nr Treasurer Mor Morris Morr ris r of the information lately received bv by b him from a reVe rivals I will city wl result in a substantial in in the I |