Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1910 — DEEF TRUST SECRET BARED IN ST. LOUIS [ARTICLE]

DEEF TRUST SECRET BARED IN ST. LOUIS

Packing Official Says He’s Under Thumb oi Combtna Admissions at St Louis, Mo., by Charles L. Urquhart, secretary of the St. Louis Dressed Beef company, that the concern, hitherto supposed to be independent*, wa£ owned and controlled by the National Packing company, caused a* sensation at proceed' ings in the Investigation of the socalled “beef trust,” being conducted by Attorney General Major. Urquhart’s testimony, Mr. Major declares, shows positively that the National Packing company, fixes the prices at which the local company buys and the prices at which it sells salt meats and by-products. Uruquhart testified that much of the stock of his company was held by “John Doe” and “Richard Roe,” and that its business was conducted on telegraphic orders received daily from Chicago. \ Mr. Major declares he will show fly other witnesses that the National Packing company is a kidding corporation for the Armour, Swift, and Morris Interests and controls twentysix so-called independent companies throughout the country, fixing prices and territory for each company arbitrarily. As soon as the local company’s standing has been determined Major will turn to the Chicago companies, and the officials of each of them have been asked to appear.