The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 1, 1920, Page 9

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McCann, the’ food expert, writing in the New York Globe, this is what the firm of Swift & Co. dished out to our soldiers, under a label of “Best Corned Beef Hash”: . Water ... 68.30 per cent Total protein ....13.78 per cent Total starch ...... 10.50 per cent . Total fat .... 6.62 per cent_ Total ash .......... .86 per cent This was revealed by chemical analysis of the contents of the cans, and it means that the hash was made up of 50 per cent corn beef (not men- tioning the water) and 30 per cent potatoes. . Swift & Co. were then purchasing “canners” at from $3.75 to $7 per 100 pounds on the hoof. Swift & Co. did not use the “best” meats in packing the canned corn beef sold to the gov- ernment. The government obhged Swift & Co. to blot the word: “best” from the label of the can on which it was printed. The total cost of the meat in the cans sold by Swift & Co. to the government was 8 cents. Hash potatoes were purchasable at the time of this sale at $1.50 a barrel, 4 containing 165 pounds net, or less than a cent a pound. The canned corned beef hash con- tained 14 ounces of potatoes, worth less than 1 cent. For 21 cents Uncle Sam obtained in the form of a can of corned beef hash, 7 cents’ worth of food, on which there was a gross profit of 200 per cent for the packers. Ten million cans of such stuff meant to the packers @ profit of $1,400,000. An army of 2,000,000 men would eat this quantity in five days. A year’s campaign on canned corned beef hash would show the packers a profit of $1,022,000,000. ANSWERS STATEMENT BY THOMAS E. WILSON McCann delivers an effective smash at the claims of packers ihst they are making “very slender profits.” The immediate cause of hiz article is a statement by Thomas". Wilson to the Illinois .Bankers associziion in which he said: : “The packing busirzss is % scientific manufacturing busi operating on a very slender marg » of profit. “Dealing, as it uoes, in essential food products, it sresents a fertile fiela where agitators can sow seeds of un- rest and discontent. : “The most radical and un-American elements in our national life, with no benefits to any one, are striving to - handicap the packer and make it more difficult and expensive to distribute his products. “This ‘sinister movement will in the end militate against the producer and the consumer as well. “The consumer is interested @ in knowing how much profit the packer takes from each dollar that the con- sumer spends for meat.” Replying to this statement Mr. Me-~ Cann said: “When Armour & Co. buy New Zea- land lamb in Wellington, New Zealand, at 12 cents a pound and sell it in New York at 26 cents a pound, is the deal to be looked upon as proof that the packers’ profits are small? Tom Wil- son will hardly say so. “Does such a deal constitute a ‘scientific manufacturing business operating on a very slender margin of profit’? What can Tom ‘Wilson say to that? 3 “The wholesaler who buys product at a low price and sells it at a high price is not a ‘scientific manufacturer.’ He'is a trader. Armour & Co. do not ‘manufacture’ New Zealand lambs. They do not build the British refriger- ator ships in which the New Zealand lambs are forwarded from Wellington to New York. They bought and sold, but they didn’t sell at ‘a very slender margin of profit.” Not even Tom Wil- son will say so. RIDICULES CLAIM OF “VERY SLENDER MARGIN” “More than 100 per cent gross profit can not be described ‘a very slender margin.’ Tom Wilson asserts that any protest against this form of scientific manufacturing is radical and un- American; that it handicaps the pack- er; that it yields no benefit to any one; that it makes it more difficult and ex- pensive to distribute packer products; that in the end it will militate against the producer and consumer as well. “He also says the consumer is inter- ested in knowing how much profit the packer takes from each dollar that the consumer spends for meat. The answer is easy. On each dollar’s worth of New Zealand lamb sold by Armour & Co. to the retail butcher at 26 cents a round Armour & Co.’s gross profit is a little less than 56 cents. Not a very slender margin! - “From this amount must be deduct- ed 16 cents for freight and insurance. “The balance to Armour’s. credit may look to Armour like a very slen- der margin, but to the radical and un- American meat eater who pays the bill it looks like a Jes:e ance. : “As evidence of the very sieader margir: on which the: packers work [ would recait for Tom Wilson’s benefit the compiaints of the boys of the Seventh regiment, who, en route to the border in 191&. threw the canned corn beef hash cffered to them by Uncle Sam out of the car windows. “In June, 1916, I obtained from the commissary tent of ene of the regi- ments wmghbilized at Van Cortlandt park a namber of cans of packer corn- ed beef and corned beef hash. Swift & Co. charged Uncle Sam $4.30 a dozen for Libby’s corned beef hash, pacired in Ne. 2 tms, each tin contain- ing one pound and'12 ounces. - At this figure the hash cost the commissary eoproximately 21 cents a pound. . “Perhaps these slender margins of: profit, back there in June, 1916, justify the slender margins now manipulated by Armour & Co. on their sales of New Zealand lamb; but they do mot justify Tom Wilson’s declaration to the Illi- nois -Bankers’ association that the packing business is a scientific manu= facturing business operating on a very slender margin of profit, nor do they justify the characterization of those who proiest against the outrage as ‘the mcst radical and un-American ele- ments in our natlonal life.’?’ % * - WOOL PROFITS DIVIDED The United States department of agriculture announces the distribution to 100,000 wool growers of $460,000 excess profits made by dealers who handied the 1918 chp under govern- ment control. . 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