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Show I I OF PROFITEERING ! HURTS, THEY SAY i I WASHINGTON, May 21. Protest against charges of profiteering prof-iteering being lodged against . the meat packing industry were , presented o Vice President j Marshall and Speaker G-illett to-! to-! day by sixty firms styling them-! them-! selves the "independents." The j rigners of the protest offered to prove to congress and the public that average profits represent less than 5 cents on the meat bill of an average family. i Charges of profiteering,, they j declared, have injured the meat ! packing industry, the farmer and livestock producer. |