Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-28
All Meat Demands
OF u. s., Britain Met,
Canada Asserts
~ the Associated Press,

~ Inc ASsocldteQ Press.
OTTAWA, Mar. 28.-Canada's
position on the touchy issue of meal
supply is that she is doing all the
United States asks of her and more
than Britain has asked, and yet is
still able to provide more meat fol
her own city consumers than Amer
leans get because of more equit-
able distribution system.
This situa ton, outlined by Min
lister of Agriculture J. G.. Gardiner
In an interview, is nevertheless SUBJ
ject to quick change.
The Combined Food Board, COM
posed of representatives of the
United States, Great Britain and
Canada, is expected to meet soon,
probably in Washington, and may
plan increased shipments abroad
for underfed liberated nations, ne
cessitating restrictions of domestic
meat consumption in Canada.
To meet such needs, and with an
eye to promoting Canadian good
will in the United States, Canada
may reimpoSe meat rationing,
abandoned March /, 1914, after a
nine-month period in which Ca
nadians were limited to two pounds
a week, including bone and without
regard to variety.
The Canadian public and official
dom alike are sensitive to reaction
in the United States, where meat
rations recently have been cut
sharply.
Mr.. Gardiner said Canada would
try to increase shipments of beef to
Britain this year. They ran 1853 ,000,-
900 pounds last year, although be-
fore the war Britain received virtu-
ally no beef from Canada.
In 1914 Canada contracted to send
450,000,000 pounds of bacon and pork
products to Britain and actually
shipped 715,000,O00 pounds. In 1915,
Mr. Gardiner said, Canada expects
to ship about the same total amount
of meat to Britain as last year, with
pork products running less as beef
shipments increase.
Explains Embargo Action.
Reviewing Canada's dealings with
the United States in meat. Mr.
Gardiner said he did not know what
1t. Col. r. w. OlmSted, director of
supply for the United States Com
modify Credit Corp, was referring
to when he told Senate Subcom-
mittee Monday that Canada had re-
fused export of meat to the United
States.
Mr.. Gardiner said that in 1910.
when Canada was in the war and
the United States was not, Canada
imported 100000 pounds of pork
from the United States, where the
price was lower. This led to a Ca
madam embargo on such imports.
In 1941 the American price was
higher on hogs, and an embargo on
export to the United States was
enforced so this meat could go to
Great Britain.
Needed Beef at Home.
In 1912, he said, there developed
in Canadian cities a shortage of
beef along with heavy shipments of
beef cattle to the United States, and
as result Canada closed the Amer
lean boundary to protect Canadian
consumers. Canada was not then
selling beef to Great Britain, need
ing it at home, Mr.. Gardiner ex-
planned, so that heavy shipments of
pork products could go to Britain.
At this time, Mr.. Gardiner said
American officials in Washington
told him they wanted Canadian beef
to 60 to Britain and that they OBJ
jected to American lease-lend beef
being sent there.
From May 81, 1913, until March
l, 1914, Canada had meat rationing
in order to increase overseas ship
ments, abandoning it when, with
hog production running three or
four times as high as before the
war, Canadian processing plants
were overtaxed. shipping was short
and meat was threatened with spoil