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itian came down there and made an investigation. It was. 

 .short and swift. 



The}- had in New York City a live poultry market. He 

 notified them one day that he would be there the next morn- 

 ing to meet them at 10 o'clock. The meeting lasted frorA 10 

 o'clock in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. Plain 

 questions were asked and just as plain answers given. The 

 gentleman was informed that they had plenty of money to 

 ;jack them up in the position they had taken, that they 

 vrere making a market once a week, that the poultry Avas 

 delivered and very often, consumed before that market was 

 made, that they did not sell ()]ienly to anybody who would 

 come but only to a few jobl)ers. the jobber then sold to a 

 combination of Kosher killers, that there were 100 people 

 i.i the business in New York, that no new man could break 

 m, that the deceiving commission merchant, as he was 

 termed and as he styled himself, and he acted the part when 

 it came to making out the- account of sales, his commi.ssion 

 vras there although he never earned it, he divided the job- 

 ber's profit of two or three cents per pound with himself; 

 he sold to his own partner, and the jobbers on the other 

 iiand divided with the Kosher killer and then all of them 

 pooled their issues and divided on a pro rata basis. 



It worked very nicely for them Init was a great hard- 

 ship on the consumer and producer. They had limited 

 the arrivals of poultry to 55 cars a week; if more arrived, 

 they carried it over from week to week. They made the 

 prices to the consumer very high, and one week, within two 

 CI three weeks of the time his investigation started, they 

 charged the consumer 27 cents per pound and reiurned the 

 chipper 14 cents. 



There was considerable money to divide between the 

 dealers in New York City but very little left for the produ- 

 cer after the freight was paid and the shipper had taken his 

 profit out had there been any. In that particular case the 

 shipper did not have any profit and that was why he was in 

 New York investigating, and as a result of these investiga- 



