The Coconino sun., 1919-08-22
"BIG FIVE" PACKERS CLAIM
 COCONINO SUN IS UNFAIR

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 on services rendered, and not at al , on general denial.
 Yours very truly, w. w. WOODS,
 Associate Director, Bureau of Public Relations, American Meat Pack.
 ers' Association.
 The Coconino Sun does not believe in government ownership of the pack ing companies, nor any other public utility. In fact, even the post-office department, we believe could be run cheaper and better by private individ- uals. The people who have been up against government ownership" are pretty we'll discouraged with their ex- periences along that line. However, past government owner ship experiences have at least con- menced to teach the public that even private individuals or corporations have no right to use the same methods for their individual profit.
 America is larger and more power ful than any one individual or set of individuals and the American Packers Association along with others should come to this realization right soon.
 There is no great difference in the BOlsheviki and Bolsheviki maker. The people are beginning to realize this very important fact. If The Sun is helping the American Packers Asso- citation to realize this fact also, we are pleased with our efforts.
 That The Sun may have been in technical error as to the number of commodities, we will admit, but it really has no bearing on costs.
 Senator Mcclellan Asks Questions
 During the investigation by U. &. Attorney General Palmer, Senator Mcclellan asks Louis F. Swift some very pertinent questions. The report says:
 Senator Mcclellan has replied to Louis F. Swift's denial of the sena- tors charges that the packers are manipulating cold storage reserves so to raise prices abnormally. In his re- ply Senator McKellar says:
 "'You state in your telegram that you are controlled by the law of sup ply and demand. If this is correct will you explain why poultry, with three times as much on hand in June, 1919, as there was in June, 1918, is about 4 cents higher? @
 "'You say that conservation is the motive behind storing perishable food products. If this is SO, why do you wish the time limit extended beyond one year and why do you demand 15 months for butter and IS months for cheese?
 Why do you demand 12 months for eggs, when you stated in 1910 that you kept them as long as Is months :?
 Why do you keep beef, frozen and unfrozen, 15 months ? If you want simply to carry it over from a period of plenty to a period of scarcity, as you profess, why keep it 15 months, as you say you do in your written re- port of 1910?
 "'You say in your written report that the average time you keep eggs is 2 months. As the time limit fixed by my bill is 2 months, why do you object to this limit?
 You say you have not a monopoly of the freezer space. According to the best statistics we have here, the five larger packers have over 20O,- 100000 cubic feet out of little more than 4O0, ,000, 900 cubic feet of,all the freezer space. Are these figures cor rect, and if not, will you give me the correct figures?
 Have you agreements or any kind of agreement, express or implied, in regard to the territory in which all or any one of the five packers may operate or as to prices to be paid for the products going into cold storage, pr any of them?
 "'Do your employees, agents or representatives have daily or weekly conferences with the employees, rep or agents of any one or more of the other five packers, and if so, what is the object of these con- ferences
 "'Are the various cold storage products of like kind of the several packers sold at the same price or diff ferent prices; and if so, will you give me illustrations of difference in prices at which the packers have sold within the last year?
 "'Are you in agreement with the other packers on the division of live stock purchased throughout the entire United States according to certain ?"
 America is a great country, and thank God the great majority of peo- pie are neither crazy for great wealth nor crazy for strikes.