Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-01-06 | Page 1 | Meat Industry of Nation next to be Taken over by U. S.

Meat Industry of f Nation Next to o Be BeTaken BeTaken Taken Over vei by y US DS By United Press PHILADELPHIA Ja Jan Jail 5 That That the federal government go Intends shortly to take over the tie meat industry Industry in industry in- in of of the United States one one of r the principal necessities necessities' of wartime appears wartime appears more an and evident as the federal tra Ef coin coin- rn- rn missions mission's probe of or the meat trust continues S This view obtained tonight strongly at the conclusion of it a three days' days investigation Into the meat situation here I Before leaving f for for lJ Cashing ton ton en route rout for St. St pa pail l. l where tle tIte investigation is tp to b resumed resumed next Wednesday Francis J. J ireney freney special prosecutor for the an could commission said anyone one see seethe the turn the investigation has taken tak Evidence taken here during three days days' consecutive grilling of witnesses tended to substantiate the evidence taken elsewhere elsewhere- that hat a big coterie of Chicago meat packers share virtually a monopoly monopoly monopoly oly of the meat business of the country that the tIme Independent packers have been squeezed until they are on the time verge of go going going go- go ing out of business that prices prices- are regulated at the dictation of oE the time and that these packers are holding vast stores of hides while leather and shoe p prices ices are soaring