"NO MEAT TRUST"

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 56, 29 November 1919, Page 8

"NO MEAT TRUST"

CHICAGO PACKER'S TIUMJTE TO . FOOD MINISTRY. Mr. R. TI. Cabell, the managing, director in London of the great Chicago packing, firm, Armour and Col, told a "Morning Post" representative, on September 23 that when' tile British people come to count no tho assets that enabled tliom to win the war tlicv ought to give a very high place to the Ministry of Food. To have built, up out of nothing a Government Denartment that has found, itself capable of conducting what is perhaps tho most detailed and complex business in the world was to his mind the most remarkable of the ninny proofs the'last few venrs had furnished of'.the British genius, for organisation. _. Asked about Ihe American Meat lru»t, Mr. Cabell said an apnalling amount of misapprehension prevailed in Great Britain about 'the American packing industry "For instance, it is the coinmone't thine to find the 'Big Five' described in the British newspapers as 'the American Meat Trust.' No such thing as an Am°ricnn Meat Trust exists. The Meat Trust' i= simnlv a figment of the imagination. The 'Big Five' are wholly independent concerns. They buy against one another; they sell against me another; they or« con'oetitors from the word go : !bev have lh"ir own plants, their, own directors, their own organisations and methods, and thcv watch one another n-l fiirhf. one another ns business rivals do al' the world over.' Last year, he said. ihe. Tliicagi packers delivered, to the W : ™n CVn-n----nient and. to |t'o AIM " nearlv of food nrnd»e|--. i lieyo was scarcely a word of comprint a* to the quality', and'not one word of-criti-cism 011 the efficiency of the service.