Evening journal., 1917-11-24
NEW YORK TO GET
2S-37 {. TURKEYS
Shopkeepers Charging More
Will be Reported for Pun
ishment by U. S.
FOOD BOARD SETS
RETAIL PRICES

NEW YORK, Nov 2i.-The Federal
State and city food administrations
fixed maximum wholesale and retail
prices for cold storage Thanksgiving
turkeys yesterday afternoon and then
GO the dealers themselves to agree TO
the schedule. The prices 60 into effect
at once. They govern two main types
OF frozen turkeys, and are as follows
Wholesale. Retail.
Texas (plaln), b.. 23 to 25 cts. p
Texas fancy, h.. 80 80 80
Northern ,plain), ID. q ~
Northern fancy, lb. 81 81
The retail price is cash and carry"
that Is, you pay your money on the
spot and carry your bird home.
/ The food administrations request
consumers who are asked TO pay higher
prices than those agreed upon TO make
complaints in writing to the Commis-
sioner Of Public Markets, Municipal
Building. The complaints will be re-
ferred to Arthur Williams, Federal
Food Administrator for tho city, for
investigation.
The Federal Food Administration has
power TO penalize offenders by means
Of the Federal regulations governing
the issuing Of licenses 10 men in trado
doing q business Of 100000 or more a
wear. II an offending dealer doesn't
hold license he will be placed on a
blacklist and licensed wholesalers will
be directed not to sell him supplies.
The offender will have 10 do what Uncle
sam asks or so out OF business.
The prices were arranged at a con-
ference which Mr. Williams, John
Mitchell. president Of the state Food
Commission. and Public Markets Com
missioner Moskowitz had with whole
salsrs. iobbers and retailers Of frozen
turkeys SO the Stale Food Commission s
onlce I'M The Metropolitan Tower.
The results of the conference were
accomplished with "a delicate but firm
hand some declared a club instead of
a feather. was used in bring the men
in the trade 10 time. The dealers gen.
orally insisted they were going to lose
money by the price fixing" They
We're told In reply that the public
wouldn't buy turkeys at the retail
prices contemplated, and therefore un-
. less they agreed to lower them thelI
stock would be A drug on the market
and would have TO 60 back TO the
freezers, thus increasing their losses In
the end
Under a recent ruling Of the Food
Administration al Washington one-hali
of last years stocks Of frozen turkey.
must come out Of the cold storage
plants by Thanksgiving and the re
naming half must be disposed Of b,
becember 81
Boycott Spoiled Sales in 1916.
Of fffra
for which maximum prices were Sc
was on the market Thanksgiving weel
a year ago. Dealers then charged al
high as 30 cents a pound for them.
boycott engineered by housewives
was effective. Consumers declined {,
pay the high prices demanded and tn
turkeys went back into cold storage
The birds reappearcd for the Christina
holidays; the trade didn't get the pric
It was looking for and again the tur
KEYS were returned TO the freezers.
was said at yesterdays conference tha
there are now only about 10000 pound
in cold storage plants in the metropoli
tan district
one Of the dealers at the conferenel
said Federal Food Administrator vii
liams talked TO the dealers like
Dutch uncle"
4 don't know, gentlemen, whethe
you understand the situation" Nj
Williams said, but the Governmen
has the right, and undoubtedly vii
exercise it. if il thinks that you ar
getting all that you can get, rathe
than O. price proportionate to you
costs, allowing for a fair profit
put experts on your books. There ar
experts today going over a grea
many books in New York city.
You are on the defensive to prov
that the price YOU get from your con
sumers represents only a fair prof
to yourself buying closely from
manufacturer or a producer or il
iobber lies between, as in the case 0