| Show HIGH PRICES TOBE TO 10 INVESTIGATED BE Attorney General Issues an In Invitation Invitation to Butchers to Testify Test fy Regarding Boycotts CHARTER MAY BE DISSOLVED V Butchers and Grocers Organization Or tion ton is Now to be Brought Under Fire v i Ail Meeting Promises Jo to ho be lI nn nu Important Ono Otto In Suit Salt j Commercial History Ils Tonight promises to bo be an Important j jone one in tho the commercial commeria history of Salt SnIt m Lake for It marks the tho beginning ot of atthe ji the organized movement towards a 3 m rigid Investigation Into the tho te trad trade corn com combinations I that fix fx the Ule prices of or living throughout the city cly The Tho formal purpose ot or a a meeting to tonight to tonight night In tho the Salt Lake Tako lAe Chamber of at j Commerce Is to Investigate tho the advisability of or allowing the tha Butchers and Grocers Grocers assocIatIon to become a I mem morn member 1 her ber of or the tho Board Doard of or Trade Tae shunning sharing the time present headquarters of or tho the Manufacturers tuners and Merchants association and affiliating with it In Inn a consolidation of or olce forces fores INVESTIGATION DEMANDED DE fAND D The Tho Real Heal Estate association has called caled the meeting and demanded the Invest gallon gutlon glon on on the charge that the butchers and amid grocers arc aro not lol really rel carrying out alit olt the purposes of or their organization as au announced but are arc carrying on a 1 combination In restraint of or trade trad that Ignores the time general welfare In out for the lie welfare of If Its Is members When hen the charges were first made ludo they fell tel like a R bombshell upon the tho pub public ito lic Ic as an a it I boost Just just made modo In butter and coal cOli prices pries had already stirred opinion ui to t an arm on aggressive state WITH KEENEST INTEREST Attorney General M 1 A said today tola that ho he was WS watching the out outcome conic come corre of meeting with wih tho the keenest Interest and trial that If it this meet meat meeting ing developed any nn practical evidence which he lie could use Ut to move moe to ta dissolve the tho charter under which the Butchers and Grocers association operates ho he would take this move at once PROMPT noir PRO ACTION ACIN F The he criminal features of the time case CIge he lie said rest r with wih the Iho county attorney I but I r have havo the tho power to begin actions to dissolve the articles of er Incorporations bus lons and I shall begin such actions the lie minute I secure evidence enough on which to proceed INVITATION FO J FOil On EVIDENCE Atty Aty Gen Breeden then proceeded to Issue a general toh to nil all I I butchers who have ever vcr been refused meat because of or cutting tho the price and nud to all ni butchers and amul grocers who havo over ever vel been boycotted or threatened In any nn way WIy by b the tIme trade trado combination forcing them to 10 charge the lie present price scale to come comae to his lila oleo In Inthe Inthe inthe the D F Walker building Ins and amid talk over their experiences with him hint He lie Is Issues sues sites lles a n ii further appeal to all al persons who have hl knowledge and evl lenc demie Iel of time the existence of any nn combinations In restraint of or trade to bring this evidence to 0 him so that hint It may ma bo be used as a I a basis for legal proceedings proceeding FIFTY SUITS JN IN SIGHT SIGI T Then When hen Informed of this request to today today today day Judge Julge E IL F Colburn Colbur said that tha while ho he 10 did dil not nol wish wh to be he quoted as aa aaa asa u ua a a member of ot the th Hen Iteal Estate association then tion ton and while ho ito especially did 1 not miot want to say suy a I word about abut tho the I butchers and un grocers matter mater before It 1 had hall boon been hoen considered In the tie meeting m J I still sti he lie knew of or about 50 SO suits the tho I general plant I i good goo evidence to hack back up each suit Ault against tho the parties manipulating prices after stopping up UI all leaks leak through competition or otherwise HAS SOME SOt DOUBTS DOUDS Tho The Real ROlLI Estate Estale association has has ro no a request from tram the Butchers end Ind Grocers association asking that dt 61 be bo allowed representation r at nt to nights meeting It I IB is II Inn given i a 1 that the conference Is II between i I the ithe ho partners now comprising the Ih o of oC trade with wih a n view vieW of ot whether one of or theBe partners has haR a it right to tn bring brinE a fourth Into Inlo tho to I t Tho The only emily to bo be t i ic c or It Is declared Is U whether w the tue advent avont or of this new r will wi ln lna h 1 a n detriment or a help to tin tho work I I of or building up n a I greater city elt and anil a 1 greater state which Is now being at attempted It t tempted by the tha tho organizations already affiliating in tho tilo board bond PRICES S NOT NOr MENTIONED Wh n asked ns as Ol to tn hits hil opinion on general commercial conditions in tho Ito city Judge Colburn said that If pi lew warranted such euch aetna acton nil all 1 booster hoo ad nil advertising g on Utah condItions condition would contain favorable comment about 1 linicos eni time tho co cost t of living but i ero omitted through of ne no people are arc not Koine 1 to bo be out of this city he maid ald aldor p pOi or Oi out through II Prices fi and It matters little who starts lie tho lIght or em who into carrIes It IL on rice Tho I rumbling IH Is just Juat a beginning to what wIit mn can bo ho expected If It things gut much worse and amid Interest in n tha mat flint mattar tar will not hiot bo be con tin to o city any ono cute or 01 any uny ono one organization Time Tha Real heal Estate liat once appealed for imbue support In itt Its pres present eat ent and line absolutely no i irel ral rel to make at itt present with time tho n ami Our only contention 11 I lii Is to talk over with other oilmen in tim inthe I time the board of trails trade tIme tho t I l iii of f a fourth by ono one of I I j J ORAND JURY Thu meeting tonight In iii being much i on the ground that It offers offer one cite way In which light may maybe mayho be ho thrown on trad conditions A Jury is another way that li is I today and Breed mm says ayn that Its favors tItle this mauve us It will than cr create on au official body cm t mum to and amid ol oll i t l leem ct a it thing h r n l l r I Ito to bo be nf i l eforo tIme tho state tan ami I Igi gi Ito n |
