Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-25
NATIONAL MARKET
BODY IS FORMED
Producers and Consumers
Organize to Obtain ReguIa-
ton of Packers.
HAS HEADQUARTERS HERE

IAoouSeiS anu consumers nave
formed a national marketing commit
tee to aid in the effort to obtain fed
eral regulation of the packers Head
quarters have been established in the
Bliss building here. Former Repre-
sentative William Kent of California
is president Of the committee.
The other officers are: C. H. Gus
tafson, chairman Of the farmers. ma.
tional committee on packing plants
and allied industries: Mrs Florence
Kelley, secretary of the National
Consumers League; Mrs. E. P. Costi-
gan, chairman of the legislative COM
mittee of the Consumers League of
the District Of Columbia, and Her
bert F. Baker, president of the Farm
ers' National Council, all as vice pres
idents of the committee. Jackson H.
Ralston of Washington, counsel for
the American Federation of Labor, is
chief counsel; George P. Hampton,
managing director of the Farmers
National Council. is chairman of the
executive board.
Mr.. Kent Discusses Plan.
"The Farmers National Council.
tee on packing plants and allied in
dustries, of which I was a charter
member has since the report of the
Federal Trade Commission on the meat
packing industry conducted a very
effective educational campaign for
that report" Mr.. Kent said today.
THE council, with representatives
of leading labor and consumers or
CARNATIONS, have decided that the
IN ha
ment of the country to bear on Con-
gress for the enactment of the Ken
yon-Anderson bill and similar meas
ures to improve marketing conditions
is through a national marketing
committee. On behalf of the organi-
cations 1 have been asked to accept
the presidency of the national mar
keting committee, which I am very
glad to do, as I realize the food
question is the most important one
before the American people today.
The committee has established head
ington. D. c., and is a national or
ganization in which all forces to i'm
prove marketing can unite to secure
a better system of distribution of
food and food products.
States Purpose and Program
1.-THE committees immediate purpose
is to secure the enactment of the
Kenyon-Anderson bill to carry out
the recommendations of the Federal
Trade Commission regarding the meat
packing and allied industries in the
most practical way.
THE committees program includes
first a nation wide campaign for the
Kerfyon-Anderson bill.
Second. To create an enlightened
public opinion concerning the waste
Il
and distributing farm products, and
to assist in bringing before the coun-
try the information secured by the
federal bureau of markets and othe-
national and state agencies.
Third To promote and foster prop
err marketing organizations and meth
DDS; to encourage and secure the
standardization of agricultural prod
ucts; to secure proper warehouse sys-
TENS; to promote expert marketing
services in the several states; to Sc
cure uniformity in methods by states
demonstration work in marketing;
and to secure changes in federal and
state laws to these ends.
Says Sentiment Needs Organization
I'VE start with a splendid back
ground of popular sentiment which
merely needs to be organized. The
of the Federal Trade
Commission have been Endorsed by
the leading farm. labor, consumers
and civic organizations Of the coun-
try.
THE national marketing committee
will unite, organize and make effec-
tive the nationwide demand for the
bill to make the Federal Trade Com
m ssion's recommendations regarding
the meat packing industry our per-