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...jumped a dozen meatmen to protest livestock controls and price rollbacks. The American way, said one feeder angrily, was through the law of supply & demand. Snapped Di Salle: "It's called the law of supply & demand when the price is going up, but everyone hollers for supports when the price goes down...
Though meat controls were the cattlemen's main target, the Administration feared that the meatmen were linked up with the potent cotton bloc to blast the entire price control program, now up for renewal by Congress. One cattleman admitted that "our aim is to kill all price controls...
...National Cattlemen's Association: "I raise cattle, and I don't think these regulations will hurt me. Maybe some of the other gentlemen can tell you how they will be hurt." They couldn't. With beef at 152% of parity, asked one newsman, how could the meatmen complain about the rollback ordered by Di Salle? President Allan Kline of the American Farm Bureau Federation answered the question with a ten-minute dissertation on the American way of life. Cried Agriculture Committeeman Cooley, one of the guests: "You gentlemen have failed to answer a single question...
Protests, requests and questions poured into Washington. Labor unions and many consumers complained that prices were pegged too high and left too flexible, while wages were locked tight. Farmers and meatmen protested that meat controls made black markets a certainty. The price order disrupted commodity exchanges for a day, but it sent stocks merrily upward...
...chicken home for supper. Pickets, mistaking him for a customer who would not join the boycott, hurled a rock through his window, pummeled him. Confined at first to kosher shops, the strike spread to some nonkosher operators. Strike leaders claimed that more than 4,000 shops had been closed. Meatmen put the figure at about 12% of that number...