94 CATTLE KING CATTLE KING Before I made a deal with Monfort, I felt I had to eliminate some of the past deficiencies of the Denver plant. Since the plant had no rendering facility, a long-term contract had to be acquired from both the hide processing and the rendering people, who were all intertwined in ownership with the Jewish meat cartel. The hide and rendering business as in Denver were exclusively Jewish. Herman the Jewish German was still alive, and his influence and w~-king capital was being passed on to his future inheritors. Also, Denver had a historic reputation as a strong union town. It was my perception from previous experiences that if we became a dominant supplier in the city, the union workers at the large Safeway and King Soopers stores would not accept product from a nonunion plant. Therefore a union labor contract had to be negotiated, but it had to be on the same wage scale as the Nebraska plants. I wanted the plants to be in harmony; a high scale union contract might ruffle the feathers of the hard-working employees of Nebraska Beef in Gering and Gordon. When Monfort operated the plant, it had a small, company-independent union which, Monfort had said: "was company oriented." The Denver plant had been closed down for six months, and its ex-employees' and the union leaders' unemployment benefits had expired. Because of this situation, the independent union's founders were receptive to a contract that was three and four dollars lower than those of the other meat cutter unions. It was my plan just to get the plant started under an equitable union contract, and if at a later date a labor dispute arose, I would be in the ideal bargaining position. I would not own the plant, with millions tied up in a bag of cement in an idle plant due to a strike; I was only leasing. Once I was established, I could always fall back on the Nebraska plants to supply boneless beef to my future Denver customers. With a rendering plant in Gordon, the Gering plant was able to use this as a hedge in dealing with the city cartel of Denver and to receive an adequate return for its rendering by-products. Consequently, the Gering plant was now hauling its by-products to Denver. I was able to negotiate the same deal as Gering, except that the new Cattle King plant, being in the city of Denver, would have no freight on its by-products. The hide processing was not a big issue, but when dealing with a Jewish hide cartel and a controlled business, it meant that all areas must be covered before an operation could begin. Because of the concentrated population, the large city of Denver had more than its share of environmental controls. For example, the disposal of the enormous amount of salt brine used in curing hides was a problem unless the company had started under the jurisdiction of the grandfather clause (a business established before the environmental permits). A long-term deal was struck with Processors, Inc., for a little over two dollars per hide to brine cure and process the hides for us. This was on the high side, but Processors.'Inc., and Herman the German's old outfit, now called Chilewich, were the only two hide-salting facilities in the city. Another area of concern was that of financing. This was always a problem in rural Nebraska with its small banks because the most any bank would loan would be ten percent of its equity. In my case, I banked with the largest bank in the area, Scottsbluff National Bank, and I could never get credit of over one million dollars, even though my net worth was several millions. I was later to realize that this was the plan of the most powerful cartel of all, the banking Kehillah, so as to limit the growth of the rural areas. The demand for credit, or a medium of exchange, grows when industry expands; and the creation of money or credit is controlled by the private owners of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The need for money in rural areas can be compared to the situation in the Depression of the 1930's, when the Federal Reserve Bank of New York decreased the supply of money and made money hard to obtain. This depressed the purchasing power and consequently, the prices throughout the country, and then the money manipulators bought the depressed but valuable assets. I was now in the big city of Denver, and, with my track record, acquiring money should pose no problem. My first stop was the First National Bank of Denver, Sonny Mapelli's bank. I was turned down. My next stop was the American Ag Credit Corporation, which worked through the Colorado National Bank. Colorado National Bank was Averch's and Denver Boneless's bank, but I was still able to secure a participating loan of up to four million dollars to run the new meat packing venture. All areas were now covered: the hides, the rendering, the labor, and the money. An unsuspecting country boy was ready to play the game with the meat cartel in Denver. Later, I found out it was much larger; it was a national Zionist Kehillah. A deal was made with Mira Welling, an attractive company attorney for Monfort, for a monthy rental of $15,000 with an option to purchase the plant in five years for $1,500,000, with Monfort financing the ten-year contract. After concluding the deal, I told Mira that I would "give the Jewish boys in Denver a run for their money now." She abruptly informed me she was Jewish. About a year after lease/selling me the plant, old man Monfort married the attractive Mira, and his meat business ceased to have any future