Arizona republican., 1919-11-10
CATTLEMENOF
 CA[|FORN|AARE FUR REGULATION
State Association in Con- vention at San Francisco Went on Record Favoring Federal Control of the Packing Industry.

The California Cattle Growers as- sociation at its convention at San Francisco last Thursday went defin- itely on record in favor of federal reg ulation of the packing industry, though specifying no particular bill now pending in congress, but in the previ ous discussion of this subject, the speakers favoring regulation gener- ally considered the Kenyon Kendrick blll.
 The convention was more than one of the California stockmen, as the states of Nevada and Arizona were represented there and generally, the problems there considered were such as affect the whole coast and the live stock raising states Of the west. Of the proceedings last Wednesday, the opening day of the convention, the San Francisco Chronicle said:
 A convention of cattlemen from all sections of California and Nevada, as well as representative of the great packing firms of Chicago. was opened at the California building on the Ma rina yesterday, when the main fea- lures of the Kenyon Kendrick bill were discussed.
 Louis swift, the Chicago packer who has been visitor in San Fran cisco for several days; l.. D. Weld of the Swift packing concerns, and Dwight E. Heard of Phoenix. Ariz., former president of the American Ma tional Live Stock association. engaged in lively discussion of the bill.
 D. B. Heard For Regulation
 Heard is a member of the Live Stock association committee working for the passage of the bill Swift and Weld declared that this measure for control of the packing industry was likely to result in incompetent out slders being put in charge of the pack ing houses, and said the government of the railroads during the war was a sample of what the packing industry would face.
 Heard replied that the bill did not contemplate national operation of packing houses, but rather a control similar to that exercised over the na- tional banks Heard said:
 This legislation is absolutely essen tial to restore public confidence in the marketing situation. It is a direct road to a reduction in the cost of liv- ing to the consumer. In spite of the packers propaganda to the effect that it is revolutionary, destructive. or So- cialistic. this is a sane. reasona ble constructive plan to control the great est of our national indus -ies for the public welfare.
 Instead of providing for taking over the industry or interfering with the present efficiency of the packers, there is not the most remote thought in this bill of government ownership or op- eration.
 Aim For Justice
 The stockmen want to have thor oughgoing cooperation with the pack CTS, but they want this cooperation to be on the basis of justice, and no' on the basis of favors doed out The time has come for the elimination O. speculation, manipulation and vast, in the food business. This bill vii clear the air of all suspecion attache, to the packer controlled markets b, providing a just and simple plan O federal control.
 T appeal to the stockmen of Cali fornia to stand behind the marke committee of the National Live Stocl association which has been carryinl on. without malice to the packers, definite campaign for remedying ther abuses ever since 1916.'
 l uOn [ DeUeNe the tune mas com when any five men ever born are ii to control the foodstuffs for a hun dred million people," said H. A. Jas tro of Bakersfield, in telling why h favored the Kenyon -Kendrick bill. q that time has come" he added, 'AIi Swift, who is sitting over there, shoul he on the platform with a halo aroun his head"
 O. B. Fuller of Los Angeles said h was against the bill and for the pack CTS, and charged all the members ( the Live Stock association committe except Jastro, with being political of fice-seekers rather than sincere work CTS for the good of the cattle bushes
 l.. A. Mares, Fresno. president tho California Cattlemen's associa ton. called the convention to order.
 The convention is the largest an most important of its kind ever hel on the coast and represents hundred of millions of invested capital. It wi close tomorrow.