Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-27 | Page 20 | Packers Seek End to A A A

PACKERS SEEK END TO A A A l' l i i WASHINGTON Sept 27 21 UP P- P i. i Meat pent packers ers presented to the A A AA AA A today a demand for abolition of ol 4 i hog corn production control a and the processing ta tax William Whitfield Woods Chicago Chicago Chi CM- cago president of the Institute o of ofte te- te American Meat Packers asserted the fate of many small businesses rests with the farm administration Woods W was 3 a witness in a hearing k called by the A A A to determine whether there should be a hog corn adjustment t program next year Proc Proponents Pro Pro- c LY of a program were heard j S f. f In a a prepared statement Woods S declared the emergency had passed I and that there is today no disparity I t. t between hog prices and prices of commodities farmers buy S A scarcity of hogs he said has r decreased our export trade alien- alien c at ted d domestic consumers from pork I S and become the occasion of demon demon- f b by consumers and general t. t t t'S S complaint in connection with hog products He asserted the processing tax has hast t r- r provoked the hostility of consume consumers e rr irs ers and that the return to farmers is far ab above ve the level contemplated S by congress