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Show HEARING REVEALS PACKERSLTRICKS Variation in Wages Paid by Trust for Same Class of Work. By Associated Press. CHICAGO. Dec. lS.-How there was a variation of wages paid by 4p Five" packing companies to workmen doing the same claws of work at plaiur in different cltU-s. was tratlfietl to t-day t-day by Dennis Ians, secretary of tin Amalgamated Meatcutters and Hutch -er Workers union, at .the pskfnc companies' wa hearing before Samuel Sam-uel Alschuler, a federal Judge. The witness aaked that the whkm be inaMy uniform In nil cities affected by hearing. Lane said tha in opening new brunches in various cities the pck-Incr pck-Incr firms Invariably aent men from Ohcaa:o to get th Uraiu-hea sturitvi and paid ths Chicago wage. Tester, h' -isld, local men would be employed at lower rates and the Chicago men would be sent bark tn this city. I It-thought It-thought thut competition between plant managers to keep down operating oper-ating expenses was the caumj of thi (irocedure. |