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(liur^o SO ns to do o(|uity tiiuon^ uU the |)«M)plc inv<ilvi'<l. Not all of 

 tlu' stockvurtl (-oinpaiiii's luivc iimdo tlu* clmrp'. Soiiw «ff tliciii lake 

 tlu' view that tlic spcciilutoi-s' division is soinrtliiii^ t«) In* iii; (h1 



in the lutirkots, and that they un> justified in not iinpoHin^ i,,. ,,itui 

 charges upon speculators tliat lliev <lo upon other''. ThoM- who are 

 proposing to increase tlie rate take the other view that i.s, that the 

 support of the yjird shouhl roine from all alike, regardle^^ of whether 

 they are necessary to niainlain tlie market or not. All of that wiirk 

 in connection with commission rates han simply taken all of the time of 

 the auditors that we could get together, plus a good many ti'mporary 

 peo[)le to get up the necessary statistical information on market ron- 

 ditions. It will he sonic time hcforc wc cmii (lisf)ose of nil i.f t!M>->i- 

 cases. 



CO.MNtlSSIOX MKN AM) I'KODlC KKs" <)K<iAM/,.\TH)NS. 



Fortunately, in one respect we have hrought ahout a condition of 

 alTairs comparativelv recently where for the first linu'. so far as wo 

 know, the conunission men and the producers' t»rganizations have 

 been willing to get together in the same room and talk over the 

 commission rates. They are doing it because we are placing our 

 representatives in the conferences for the purpos«» of participating 

 in them. Formal complaints were filed, as a matter of fact, hv the 

 Western Producers' Association at si.K of those markets. Whep 

 those formal complaints were filed, we took up the matter with all 

 of the organizations concerned for the purpose of getting them to- 

 gether on a methotl of procedure which would eliminate the technical 

 re(|uirements of what would be almost a court hearing; in the pre- 

 sentation of the evidence, as well as the employment oi lawyers and 

 thinjis of that kind, and within the last two ttr three davs w«' have 

 received advices from nil the markets except one, saying that they 

 will join in this informal method of having two of our representa- 

 tives, the head of our rate division and the head of our trade practices 

 division, act virtually in the capacity of arbitrators. The idea we 

 have is to deal with the subject from the purely practical standpoint 

 and to have the procedure stripped of all technicalities and of all 

 the legal ref|uirements that lawyers might impose, for the purpose 

 of getting down to what will l)c a commission rate that will be 

 acceptable to everybodv ct)nceined, as a purelv practical matter. 

 We think that that will go a long ways toward getting rid of the 

 commission rate question in the future when it is worked out, because 

 one of the conditions of the stipulation that the parties are agreeiiig 

 to is that the commission men will accept whatever conclusion is 

 reached as a result of that conference, and that they will put it into 

 effect without appeal to the courts. 



TRAINING OF PERSONNEL. 



In building up the kind of organization that we have in the yards, 

 of course we have had to build almost from the bottom, taking mem 

 who knew nothing about the packers and stockyards act, but who 

 were acquainted with ]iractical marketing conditions in the yards. 

 We have had to train them U]). and. in order to bring about soliilarity 

 and uniformity in the organization we have a system by which every 



