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Show I PACKERS' LETTERS REVEALJCHEME Start Campaign to Prevent Criminal Prosecutions and Cause Opposition to Subside. CHICAGO, March 4. Francis J. Heney, at the outset o today's trade commission investigation of the packing pack-ing industry, introduced letters to show that in 1916 the big packers decided de-cided to start a campaign of publicity in their lntorest to provent criminal prosecutions and inform cattle men and meat users of the details of the packing Industry so that opposition to the packers would subside. The letters said the campaigns "had been delayed too long." The letters told of activities of the packers in opposition to the Bourland resolution which sought investigation of the packers and in that connection Mr. Heney adverted to messages which were sent to the congressional subcommittee sub-committee having control of tho resolution. reso-lution. "The record shows," Mr. Heney said, "that Arthur Meeker of Armour and company had caused messages to be sent to all of the plants of tho big packers asking that telegrams, differently differ-ently worded but all to tho effect that the "passago of the resolution would hurt tho production of meat and provisions pro-visions be sent to tho sub-committee." Swift Company Defended. CHICAGO, March 4. When hearing hear-ing of the packers' wage arbitration was resumed today, Attorney James C. Condon, on behalf of Swift & Co., read Into the record a statement denying deny-ing that any executive officers of the company ever believed there was any joint action btween tho I. W. W., American Federatiion of Labor and department de-partment of labor looking to a unionization unioni-zation of their plants at Denver and elsewhere. |