Show IRET RETAILERS AlLERS ACCUSED OF HOLDING UP MEAT EATERS Packers Assert That Wholesale Wholesale Whole Whole- sale Men Do po Not Share War Profits p B By United Press Pres CHICAGO Oct 20 LeadIng Leading pa packers kers here tonight charged retail meat neat dealers denIers deal denI- ers era with profiteering and with sellIng sellIng selling sell Ing second grade meats at No 1 prices There Is not enough No 1 meat In Inthe Inthe inthe the country to feed 10 per cent or the people one packer declared The charges chars were an outgrowth of the claims of retailers that the pack- pack era are obtaining unfair profits on their products i Packers classify meats moats In three grades The first Is from rom animals fed ted fedon fedon tedon on corn at least six months the second second sec see ond Is from animals short fed ted on corn from thirty to sixty days while the third Is is from animals fed ted entirely on forage Retailers Retailer according to the packers recognize but one grade graAe of meats meats- sirloin Is sirloin and chops are chops wh whether ther the animals have been fed ted on I corn or paving bricks The packers admit an Increase In No 1 meats averaging about 10 cents a pound wholesale since April lt lb and an Increase averaging about 15 cents a pound In second graces grades but but cheaper cuts have been materially lly reduced they said We Ve always average 25 cents a pound profit on each 1 sale one packer said sald That rule has been followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed the establishment of our business When byproducts byproduct and hides s bring high prices as they now do we cut the prices of oe mea meats I Retailers Reta-ners contended that meat med prices to the tho public public- have not Increased materially materially materially ma ma- In several months Packers argued that retail prices I should be lower Inasmuch as the the- the larger larger percentage e of meat sold to retailers is low grade I |