FOOD SUPPLIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 732, 3 February 1910, Page 5

FOOD SUPPLIES.

STAMPING OF DATES ON FROZEN ■ PRODUCE. ' i By Telegraph—Press. Association—Copyright * (Rcc. February 2,-10.50 p.m.) '. New .York, February 2,. : The Boards of Aldermen in Chicago , and New York are considering Bills making it l compulsory - that frozen produce shall be stamped ; with the dates : on which it was stored, so as to prevent the soiling of old food.

THE FOOD TRUSTS. - A cablegram published yesterday foreshadowed a Congressional inquiry into the causes of the high , cost of living in the United States,-,: The other day it was cabled that' a .Federal suit has ; been initiated against the Beof- Trust in Chicago under the United. States 'Anti-trust law.. Of the ways of trusts and their extortions the' New York correspondent of the -London. "Daily: Telegraph" cables' a lively account. "Americans," ho says; ; ,"and more particularly,, those in' the 'Eastern States, are feeling the pinch of'prosperity with a ivehgeanoe. With' the sympathy and 00-operation of the Milk Trust , and the_Beef Trust,; it is now announced-that a Bread Trust is about to begin openitiohs, with.a capital 0f',£3,000,000,. mainly, to extract an ostra halfpenny a loaf from the pockets. of the people," as the; Milk Trust- has already done by adding a cent per quart to -the cost, of milk, and as the Beef Trust has : added ; innumerable cents per pound to the price of meat.' ' "The latest: trust:is essentially a western. concern, backed with ■ western capital, and the direct support of the great western milling concerns. It has received into its 'sphere. of influence' in the proposal to corner tho price' of bread in the metropolitan, district most of the big bread bakers of - New York, ' Brooklyn, Jersey City, and 'Hobbken,- and, - according to the big wholesale dealers in flour at -New York,' the Bread Trust, spells 'ruin' for the proprietors of small bakeries in and around the oity of New York. "Official figures show that during the last few years the' cost of living here has advanoed 83 per oent., and: the salaries of mechanics and tho middle classes have remained: stationary. Notwithstanding these advanoes in ■ prices, however, it is still true that the average American has a' bigger margin for saving than the European, and while trade is good, as at present, and employment ample, he will continue paying and kicking until a slump arrives, when the -philanthropic' trusts, will, temporarily reduce the price of necessities." .