Show PACKING INDUSTRY v m r m ji 10 TO BE RESTRICTED BI BIG FIVE HAVE AGREED TO AT ONCE DISPOSE OF ALL THEIR SIDE IDE LINES All All Interests Save Th Those se Directly AllIed Al- Al lIed With Meat Packing Are to be Disposed Result of Result of Compromise Com Corn pr promise mise With Government Washington The governments government's ts t's trust anti suit suit agal against st the great meat packers ackers begun at President VI Wilsons Wilson's s ms m's dIrection last summer as part of the the fIght on tim the high cost of living has been lieen een compromised under an agree agree- ment lent by which the packers will conne confIne confine con- con fIne ne themselves themselves' hereafter to the meat and nd pr provision business j jAn An An injunction decree to which the time I packers ackers have acc eded will be entered in iii n the time federal courts COUlts to make the agreement binding Under Tinder its terms the he b big g f five Swift five Swift Armour Morris Wilson Vilson and Cudahy have Cudahy-have have agreed to divorce their meat packing industries from rom other othel commercial activities and ando to o sell sell their holdings in public stockyards stock- stock yards ards and their interests ii in stockyard railroads t t terminals market newspapers ers rs and similar side lines hines Two years ealS are given to comply with the le decree e which affects eighty eighty s Yen corporations and nine forty-nine In als alsIn In general said salt Attorney Jei ral Palmers Palmer's official announcement this timis decree prevents pre the defendants from exercIsIng an any further control over the marketing of livestock It forever prevents them from nn any control over the he retaIlIng of meat products I It eliminates them from th the field of I meat substitutes with whit th the exception of eggs ggs butter poultry and cheese which I Iare are re left for future consideration and amid action and amI hence the price of meat meats Is s within the control conol of the people I themselves It places th time the con conduct of or these lese aggregations of capital Immedi- Immedi atel tely under the eye ee of a federal court with reference to their business busIness busIness' pra tices ices But greater than all nIl It t establishes he time principle that no no group o of men I no 0 matter how powerful can ever att attempt at at- t tempt empt to control the time food table of nf the American merican AmerIcan people or or oran an any one of the time necessities or compon component nt parts of It The Time department of justice having Ing I In 1 mind the time the necessities and Intel interests ests o ot I the time whole American people In this critical reconstruction period feels that lat b by insisting upon n this surrender on n the part of packing interests It has accomplished more moore for the time American I people eople than could have been hoped foras for fors as s the result of a long out drawn 11 out legal j battle battle I |