"TRUST" POINTERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17654, 2 September 1919, Page 7

"TRUST" POINTERS.

We have had one or two more object lessons of American Truset action revealed during the past few weeks. • The big Chicago firms, of course, will be the chief suppliers.of frozen meat to the Huns during tlje next few months, and the rest of the world will, presumably, evince a minimum of interest as to what .quality

I \>f viands finds its way to Germany I from this source. But other European countries than the "down and out" Fatherland are importers of American meat, and it has just been reported from Norway that a part of a consignment of American preserved beef arriving in that country has been rejected as unfit. In faet r it

is stated that the greater part of the food shipped is not of good trade value, and it is added that the stuff was salted at least two years ago, and has deteriorated 50 per cent, in value. Efforts are being made to cancel further contracts. Another little item just to hand throws interesting light on Trust influence in the United States. It recently became known that 264 million pounds of meat in Yankee cold stores was being held off export, and that Mr. Hoover bad arrived at this decision after consulting with the packers. It now appears, however, that' the Public Markets Commissioner of New York has written to the United States Secretary of War appealing against export as our own people are suffering hardships more over it, has been officially declared, that tae"United States War Department could distribute the meat through wholesale grocers if the packers agreed not to interfere with them. This looks as if our d3..r friends the Trust magnates have had a good finger in this pie. It should certainly be borne in mind by those in every country where they operate.

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