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Show SPRING SURPRISE C!l PACKERS Documentary Evidence That Price of Meat Wat Fixed and Business Apportioned Ap-portioned la Introduced. Chicago. Iioettinentnry evidence that the price of meat was f1xd and the business ajinrt totmrl on a noncompetitive non-competitive basis, by Iho packer at thi'lr weekly meetings im Int. need hy Ihe government Tuesday ut the trlnl of the ten Chicago puckers before be-fore United Stale! DUtrlct Judge Geroge A. Carpenter. Special Counsel l'lerre Ilutler, for the prwecutlon, reiul several letter! received hy W. I. Miles, manager of the Armour 1'ncHlng company of Kansas Kan-sas City, in Juw, 1 S7. lu which there waa given Hi amounts of heef to bo shipped to fur eastern markets and there h mimed the price to he charged, based on a margin of f0 rent! on the uniform tent rout estimate esti-mate used hy the packers. The letter also flatly refued the Btatemetit of Henry Yevu-r on 'ho wit lies stand that no meeting! of the packer to fix price and apportion luiHincH! were held between April of 1M7 and January of 1S0S. when a tatlKtlcal bureau" wns maintained to compile record of meat shipped and Jirlcei ohlulued at different point!. |