Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 10 | Co-Ops Defeat Food Profiteers

OPS CO-OPS DEFEAT r FOOD PROFITEERS rn ON FRANKFORT 0 N OD ER Nos No 24 A The P P The The profiteering mid middlemen n dealing In foodstuffs hl have e been dealt a 0 hard blow by the co- co cooperative cooperative co cooperative operative effort efforts of ot a committee representIng city and ana labor officIals officials Land bund ad a committee of the L Land Land- bund or farmers Under the yio he new scheme echeme certain quantities of potatoes toe and meats nl ate e deU delivered Bred cred weekly at fixed PIke and distributed through munIcipal authorities The Tho result has bas been that the city workers and farmers have eliminated atod the Hio middlemen prIces ot of potatoes oes and meat to consumers have been reduced educed i nearly 60 tiO per percent percent percent cent and the farmere are receiving better prices than before Another advantage l Is la that the supply of po potatoes and meat mut la Ia made certain and other econ econ- econ t on aio me 0 urging Ing 0 tension of ot the 1 plan 1011 to other