MONOPOLY IN MEAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14689, 25 May 1911, Page 5

MONOPOLY IN MEAT.

18 A TRUST, OPERATING?

jABMERS MUCH CONCERNED.

colors concern was expressed at the I Its' Union Conference yesterday at SStan*to recently to the- effect iffc the American Meat Trust has com•Seed operations in New Zealand. *£Si tWaluku) said he could '. ' _ definitely that the American Meat f,.» had entered into the frozen meat , in New Zealand, but ho felt eon*j ?h,t it had. and the danger was Ho referred to the re'l ♦hat the Shaw-SaviH Shipping ComC,WI controlled by the Morgan ComK? and said that if this question were ? i /into thov would find that it was Sy connected with the frozen meat Sin New Zealand.. Shipping comSes often assisted freezing companies Sn a financial crisis occurred, and he prison to believe that the Shawc'vill Company had obtained large conSin this way. Ha could give one mIZro from which deletes could deduce hat' freezing companies were influenced i. shipping companies, and that was, the 2.Jlffi-i'. strike. , He thought that he men's demands had been granted so L the ships might not go Homo empty. Captain Colbeck said the American Meat Trust was a very big affair, and •ha did not know what steps New Zealand •Lien, could take to prevent it operatWir'Now Zealand. It was at least imperative that precautionary measures should bo adopted throughout the. Dominion, and the Government should be asked to keep a watchful eye on the trade. The President (Major Lusk) said he via sure all the delegates agreed that it 2 desirable to put a check on trusts Perhaps some of them did not know what would happen if the combine operated in New Zealand. Put in a mitshell-the {rot would fix a price for the farmers Produce, and from the difference between that price and the prices the trust secured in the markets, extraordinary fortunes would-be amassed in America. The following remit from the Auckland hranch was then passed, on the motion of Mr Makgill :-"That the union views with concern the fact, as reported from London, of the control of the Shaw-Savill Shipping Company by the Morgan Com"bine and, as the. shipping companies are so bound up with the frozen meat industry of the Dominion, urges the Government to keep a watchful eye over the possible means of American control of this very important industry of the Dominion." , „ T\ . . It was also decided to ask the Dominion Conference to take the matter in hand, and bring it before the Government.