THE BEEF TRUST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 20, 10 September 1914, Page 6

THE BEEF TRUST.

COMMONWEALTH INVESTIGATIONS. [By ELEbTRio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 1.55 p.m.) Sydney, Sepembor 10. Mr Cherry, who was commissioned by the Commonwealth Government to investigate the operations of the Beef Trust in America, reports that as a result of his investigations in England and America certain large packing firms, particularly Amour's, Surft's and Morris', the greatest factors of American meat trade mutually worked togother to give uniform prices for certain qualities of livestock. The producer generally obtains fair prices, but the consumer is exploited to a certain extent. A progressive competitor of the Beef Trust is apt to be oosted from the business unless he concedes a share to the members of the Trust. Thero is no law in the United States to prevont underselling, and ho has arrived at the conclusion that Australia has much to fear by the incursion amongst meat firms of the units of the American Beef Trust. In the interest of the community, he maintains, the Commonwealth requires healthy competition and many good works with capitals of at least fifty thousand pounds and modern plant commensurate with the output.