392 LIVE-STOCK AND MEAT INDUSTRY 



Parties Who Participated in the Conference Were (Continued) : 



Indianapolis. 



ng Company, Indianapolis. 

 James Craig, Parker Webb, Detroit. 

 L. D. Nash, Cleveland Provisions Company, Cleveland. 



F. J. Sullivan, Sullivan 'Packing Company, Detroit. 



A. I. Eberhardt, Hornell Packing Company, Austin, Texas. 

 W. R. Miller, Miller & Hart, Chicago. 



G. Bishoff, Independent Packing Company, St. Louis. 



Chas. I. Hammond, Hammond-Standish Packing Company, Detroit. 



C. H. Nuckles, Nuckles Packing Company, Pueblo, Colorado. 



W. G. Eckart, Pueblo, Colorado. 



Harold Swift, Swift & Company, Chicago. 



City, 



would , . - ^ 



sumers, that steps should be taken to bring about a closer cooperation between the various 

 interests concerned. 



"Realizing that the live-stock industry is on the threshold of an era of reconstruction, 

 and with the prospect of removal of such control as has been exercised by the Food Admin- 

 istration during the war period, we are impressed with the importance of reaching a better 

 understanding of the problems affecting the whole industry, and of effecting, if possible, 

 more economic methods of production and distribution, to the end that our businesses 

 may be placed on a sounder basis, and in order that the finished product be furnished the 

 consumer at a minimum price compatible with cost of production. 



" It is recommended that these ends may be promoted through the formation of a com- 

 mittee of live-stock producers which shall meet from time to time as may be found necessary, 

 and counsel with similar committees representing the packers and other interests. Said 

 producers' committee shall be selected at a national meeting composed of delegates from the 

 several states (said delegates to be selected at state meetings attended by representatives 

 of the various producers' organizations), and the members to represent the range cattle 

 industry, the cattle-feeding industry, the hog industry and the sheep industry, the propor- 

 tion of representation and the number constituting the committee to be decided by the 

 national convention. Said convention shall be planned and called by the committee of 

 fifteen which it is now proposed to create. 



"Pending said national convention and the appointment of said committee, a live-stock 

 producers' committee shall now be formed as follows: 



" The committee s.hall consist of fifteen members, of whom four shall represent the range 

 interests, eight the feeding states, two the hog industry and one the sheep industry. Those 

 representing the range interests shall be selected, two by the American National Live Stock 

 Association, one by the Cattle Raisers' Association of Texas, and one by the Southern Cattle- 

 men's Association. Those representing the feeding interests shall be selected one each by the 

 associations of the states of Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Indiana, and two 

 by the associations of the states in territory east of Indiana. The two representatives of the 

 hog industry shall be named by joint action of the various national swine associations, and 

 the one representing the sheep industry shall be named by the National Wool Growers' 

 Association. The committee thus created shall have full authority to meet with the com- 

 mittees representing the packers and other interests and to do whatever may seem to it 

 to be necessary to promote the interests of the producers, by taking such measures as may 

 tend toward the stabilization of the live-stock industry and for the further purpose of study- 

 ing one another's problems, of adjusting grievances, and of inaugurating such systems as 

 will be helpful to the producer, the packer and the consumer. The various associations are 

 requested before May 10th to select their representatives on this committee of fifteen, and 

 the committee shall meet at Chicago on May 15th, at which time it shall organize, elect 

 its own chairman and secretary, and provide for such sub-committees as it may deem neces- 

 sary to carry out the purposes for which it is created. 



"To effect the proposed organization, a committee of six, in addition to himself as 

 chairman, shall be chosen at this time by the chairman of this meeting, to put this plan 

 into effect without delay, to notify the various state producers' associations, and to invite 

 the packers and other interests to cooperate with the producers' committee thus created 

 in promoting the meat industry of the nation." 



NOTK. The Producers' Committee of Fifteen failed to function, and the committee 

 was dissolved in November, 1919. Its work was turned over to the American Federation 

 of Farm Bureaus. The action of the committee in dissolving itself did not have the universal 

 approval of the stockmen whom it was supposed to represent. 



