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have in mind the fact that they have an organization to complain 

 to in just such cases as this, and that the officers of this organ- 

 ization know the men to go to to get relief if relief can be got. 

 Now, we are not bidding for complaints at all, but we have tried 

 to keep this before our people. I could stand here for a half 

 hour and tell you of incidents just like Mr. Anderson has just 

 reported here where the parties happened to think that maybe 

 the Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association could help them out 

 and they simply sent myself or Mr. Wallace a message or called 

 us up over the long-distance telephone and told us the situation, 

 and inside of forty-eight hours, invariably, the difficulty was re- 

 lieved. Now, that's the situation. Of course, we know the or- 

 dinary shipper doesn't know where to go to get this relief — he 

 isn't supposed to, he doesn't know the men in charge of these 

 various conditions and how to get this thing, but if he just hap- 

 pened to think that he is a member of an organization that is 

 officered by men who do know these things and that they invite 

 him to make those reports to them, and complaints, and they will 

 look after them so far as it is possible to do so, he should cer- 

 tainly not lose the opportunity thus given. I could cite you case 

 after case where, as I have already said, just during the past 

 winter, that has been done for members of the association in just 

 such a scrape. They have reported to me and asked me if I 

 could do anything for them, and inside of forty-eight hours, or 

 seventy-two at the outside, there has been relief afforded to those 

 people — simply because we knew the men to go to to take up 

 the situation and make investigation and secure relief if relief 

 could be got. That is just the difference between the individual 

 and the officers of your association. I remember one special in- 

 stance where one of our members called me over the long- 

 distance telephone on Sunday afternoon and he said, "We're up 

 against it here !" He said, "It just occurred to me that maybe 

 you could help us out." I said, "What's the trouble?" "Well." 

 he said, "we have got a bunch of hogs here that have been held 

 for two weeks for cars and we can't get anything," and then he 

 told about the congested condition there. I said, "I can try ; 

 that's what we are here for. I said I'd get busy and inside of 

 three or four days, anyway, they would have some cars there to 

 load the stock in. And so I immediately prepared a message 

 and sent it to Mr. Aishton. Our town doesn't have a telegraph 

 office open on Sunday, but I got hold of the operator and told 

 him the situation and he got my message ofif, and in less than a 



