The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-21
WHY BUTCHERS j | 20 4!
T. CHEAP. NETT llII||I' LICENSE N
CoHREsPoNDENT HITS SOME HARD
! BLOWS AT BUTCHERS COMBINE,
Peddlins In I'm the Interest OF the Poor
! s*and Not the Rich and In Some
! "*@Places Peddlers Have Cut the Prices
: of Meat, Nearly One Half. Free
Peddling Means Much to the Aeri-
! cultural Development Of This Conn
! munity.

! mllnfty.
| The Labor World is in receipt of the
! following very terse argument in oppo-
| sition to the butchers combine:
| Because it will take out of combine
| a control OF prices and make it i'm
possible to suppress the farmers from
! raising and killing cattel tributary to
| this market.
| No combine can control peddlers.
Peddling is legitimate and in Calu-
met, Laurium, Houghton, and Han
cock. Michigan. the peddlers cut the
price on meats and groceries nearly
one half. Wholesale houses of all
! kinds sell peddlers anything they have
because the successful peddler invari-
ably has small store in some local.
| ity where rent is cheap
Peddlers are natural traders and will
on account Of their thrift compel the
butchers to do more business with less
| profit The average standard of BUSH
ness integrity among butchers is very
poor and the same energy applied in
other lines would never do. The max
ing of so to 100 per cent on meat cuts
and turning the money on an average
!
| in other lines.
! Because peddlers are revo1utionists
and free traders they should not be
excluded by high license They are
| and always have been the poor peoples
best friends,
Butchers' Argument Foolish.
That the West Superior butchers
| can come over here and undersell local
butchers would be impossible under
| normal conditions.
That the butchers will be ruined if
peddlers are allowed to exist is pure
nonsense because the Weather people
will keep them up while the peddlers
cater more to the poorer and middle
class.
inspection is not absolutely perfect
| under Government supervision, Good
local inspection can be had to cover
all cases in spite Of butchers argu-
ment to the contrary.
Peddlers pay taxes too and every
successful peddler has a small place
either for a store or meat market
Pleading poverty is foolish when
they get from 40 to 15v per cent profit
and turn their money over on an aver
age Of twice a month.
That the wholesale prices are such
as to warrant prices asked by butchers
combine are deliberately false-hoods
IF the butchers would add reasonable
tprofits meats would be surprisingly
cheap (mutton selling at 6h, pork.
homeless 1oc, fresh beef, good from s
to 7c per pound. Porkloins lie. were
prices Thursday November 12th.)
Butchers 'CunninE.s1
1ChrO1i Rh al or rGn} III 49,. r<,on -
torney and sscretary iey Siti ctfce
fpn bltcl deceit. Jzss s ~ .s: q I.
When meats III occasionally high
Wholesale the butchers blame . the
packing houses and when meats are
very cheap wholesale the public is in
formed by the Wholesale men that the
lie is hoodwinked from one to the
the retail question.
When a butcher cuts the prices the
Secretary calls a meeting, proof is fur
nished and the butcher is fined heav-
lily and in extreme cases the wholesale
which command they follow implicitly.
They discourage the raising and
killing of local cattle. >"
country shippers except at great bar
gains. *; = ':: -, ",
They don't bury: country: dressed beef
from commission houses: except at a
great snap, :. -:
|: They are under obligations to the
wholesale packers on account Of other
concessions to carry out the last three
mentioned tactics ~'~ ~','' ~
The remedy is found IN free peddling
as the latter will -scour> the surround
ing country for commodities Of all
| kind: to sell. '-~ - 49,"
Why Do Wholesa1e Meat Firms and
C0mmission Houses Uphold Local
1Ieat and Retail Grocery
Combiness
Above all, the strength of both is a
power and the Wholesale houses like
to stand in. with such organizations.