OCR Text |
Show U. . TO CONTROL PACWPLANTS All Meat Industries in Country Under Absolute Rule of Government. TO INSURE FAIR PRICES Meat Bulletins to Be Issued All Places to Be Under License. CHICAGO, Oct. 29. Official announcement an-nouncement was made today that every ev-ery packing plant in the country is under control of the government and that after the first of November the control will be absolute, operation of the plants then being under license. Tho announcement was coincident with the grand Jury drive against high priced milk and was made by Joseph P. Cotton, chief of the meat division of the food division, and Professor Charles McCarthy- of the University of Wisconsin, personal representative of Food Administrator Hoover, after , weeks of investigation of the Chicago packing plants. "The government Is In full control of the meat packing industries of the country," said President McCarthy today. to-day. "It has been for some time but , after November 1 when the packers , will be operating under a license, the control will be absolute. This insures fair prices to both the public and the farmer-producers. "To the producers of meat animals it will Insure prices that will encourage encour-age him to increase production and to the consumer, prices that will assure him that he is not paying excessive profits. "Our big aim Is to assure farmers they will bo amply repaid for increasing increas-ing animal production. We must have more meat animals if we are to win the war and to keep meat prices from ascending to points beyond the public pub-lic purse. "Within a short time meat price bulletins bul-letins will bo Issued." - nn |