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Show DENIES RAIL MEN'S WORD ON NATION'S MEAT BILL CHICAGO, June 4. Thomas H. Wilson, president of Wilson and company com-pany puckers, in an address iiere denied de-nied statements issue.il by railway employes em-ployes in seeking ineSeasod wage"! that the average American family pys from J 3i0 tu $.".U0 ;i r.u- lo tho five big packers, asserting that livestock had been selling for some time at a price below cost of production. ' Assuming that the combined business bus-iness of these packers for HMD," ne said, "was ?4.uOO,uOO,i)00. then, oil a basis of 25,O'0O.0iO0 families the annual an-nual purchase of each famllv would be but $160 Certified acountatits and government experts report that the packers do not make, more than two cents on each dollar of sales. At this rate the average family of five ' persons would pay $3.20. or M cents I each for the packers' service and that would Include the disposition of the hides, bones, horns and the entire body of tho slaughtered jinlmal." |