Show they are preparing prep tying to lo fight I 1 the he arru trust t co COLO aug 11 special dealers in dressed meats are here in large numbers to take part in the annual convention of the national retail butchers association and which will be in ill session session for the next four days the principal question to be c considered 0 n is the co competition m that the retail e trade has encountered u from the big four packing concerns armour swift morris korris and hammond it is claimed that the big four have been more than usually ag gres sive during the tha past year in their operations against retail trade and that the latter jatter has suffered great ini injury ry through gathe the fact that in the larger citi cities of i the country the combine is now dealing directly with big hotels and restaurants and other larger consumers con erst the retail butchers take the ground that the packers have no right to interfere with the retail so BO long as the latter pay them the prices which are demanded for their meat products the retail field field they hold is ia entirely distinct from the wholesale field and it is contended that unless the retail butchers concentrate their resistance to the rapidly growing encroachment of the big packing houses of chicago and the east tho the latter w will I 1 have ha ve a monopoly on the retail trade as well as on the wholesale it is also contended that inasmuch as the butchers are the distributors of the pard act they should be protected instead of being cut under by the combine Nat national lonal secretary christian bogate har prepared ja a lengthy statement ept of bf grievances among which he cites the fact that the armour company of kansas ka i n city are running cars between that point and chicago stopping at every little station and retailing meat to boarding houses hotels and consumers at retail retah prices and thus paralyzing the local trade it is the opinion of many of th the edele delegates that the trouble lepf of a few jears ago when he tha armour amour packing 9 co swift brothers and aud nelson morris of chicago and hammond of omaha began to dispose of their meats might repeat itself the trouble lewith with this big four began in and lasted antu 1890 the whole national association east and nd west north and south war wae brought into the fight against the big packing companies and when the order was issued in 1890 1890 to all al the retail butchers in the association not to purchase any meats from the tha com companies comprising the big four it soon brought to terms the men who have made their millions out of the packing business since that time the national assod assoni has protected every local awoki association I 1 within its organization t whet whether lier located lunew in new york texas C california colorado or any other state still further th protection prote tion against the packing companies may he be devised at the present convention |