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Show Cross-Examines Officials of Packing House Companies Reads List of Salaries. i I CHICAGO, March 1. When the stockyards' wago arbitration was resumed re-sumed today Frank P. Walsh, attorney attor-ney for the employees, read a tele-I tele-I gram announcing that tho men employed em-ployed in the logging camps and lum- her mills of Oregon and Washington i had been granted the eight-hour day.. Judge Alschuler. arbitrator, asked for details of-the changed conditions in I the northwest and Mr. Walsh agreed to obtnin the Information. Cross-examination of William Far-ris, Far-ris, general superintendent for Morris and company, was continued by Attorney Attor-ney Walsh. The witness detailed a recent change in government specifications specifi-cations for bacon which permitted tho j packers to use SO instead of 20 pounds 1 of meat from each hog. Official Refuse to State Salary. Tho witness declined to state his ' salary and said he had no information regarding thc salaries of other officers. "Is It not true that a great amount of the profits of Morris and company are paid out in largo salaries which the executives vote themselves?" asked ask-ed Attorney Walsh. "I do not know," was the reply. Walsh Reads Salary List. Mr. Walsh read a list of what purported pur-ported to bo the salaries of principal officials, as follows: Edward Morris, president, $75,000 a year; Nelson Morris, chairman of the board of directors, $75,000 a year; L. E. Heyman, vice-president $50,000 a year and C. M. McFarlane, vice-president $50,000 a year. He said the salaries of Edward and Nelson Morris were raised in 1916 from $45,000 to tho present figures. |