AMERICA’S FOOD
MEAT PACKERS' OPERATIONS A DECREE SUSPENDED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 23. The decree ordering the “ Big Five ” meat packers of Chicago to divest themselves- of all holdings outside the meat business, which came into operation in February, 1920, was to-day suspended by the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Tho decree was not declared void, but was suspended in its operation indefinitely. This is dim to the loss suffered by certain Californian canneries which had contractual relations with tho packers. The Department of Justice in 1920 obtained a decree under tho anti-trust laws, alleging restraint of trade,, which was putting the control of virtually the entire food supply of the United States into tho hands of tho packers. Tho suspension permits the packers now to deal in butter, eggs, and multitudinous other food products, and to participate, in other uiirclalcd busi-nesses.—-A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 5
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146AMERICA’S FOOD Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 5
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