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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 113, 28 September 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

lho "Big Six," as the American Beef Trust are known, took revenge on the consumers of the United States (says the Chicago correspondent of the Daily Chronicle) for the dissolution of their a last act of combination, raised their prices 15 per cent, all round, a rise of 33 per cent within five months. The price for the. commonest kind of beef and mutton is now so high that even fairlv well-to-do families are obliged to curtail their table. There is great outcry everywhere over this act of the trust, which is believed to be without any 'warrant, whatever. The packers attribute the rise to the scarcity of cattle, but the Bureau of Commerce and Labor in Washington denies that there is any scarcity, and generally the movement is regarded as an act of revenge on the "trust busters" who have demanded the dissolution of the packers' monopoly.