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Show BEEF PACKERS I BEING HEARD I House Committee Considers Calling Federal Trade Com- ' M mission to Investigate I H Violation of Trust H Laws. H APPROVAL URGED ' Matter of Extreme Importance to Livestock Inter ests Pack- jH ers Propose to Control ' of Export Prices. H Washington, July 6. Represent!- Jj tlves of beef packers and cattle pro- iH ducers were given further hearing to- USH day before a house committee consid- jlH ering the Borland resolution for a Fed- 1'H oral Trade Commission investigation i'JbIH to determine when the so-called beef H trust has violated federal anti-trust jH Representative Borland filed a pe- jH tltion which he told the committee H was signed by 125 members of con- H gress urging approval of the resolu- tH tion as a matter of extreme import- jiH ance to livestock interests. He also H submitted a statement arguing that a 'l&Lal few great packing houses control cat- IJsiiH tie slaughter, the markets in great livestock centers, stock yards, termi- nal facilities, feed lots and transpor- M tation lines, the companies which lend ' money to farmers for feeding and fat- ! tening cattle, and subsidiary activities H like cotton seed oil mills, cold storage ,H plants and great retail and distnbut- M ing markets. M Pie said the packers purposed con- ' H trolling export prices by building pack- f'aH ing houses in South America and Aus- wsiifl tralia. H |