The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-07-20
tNational Socialist Press }

| Department of Justice has cost the
Government over s3,0OO,OOO in the
last ten years. Not trust has been
busted, either.
| According to a report Just fur
| nished to tn House Committee on
| Expenditures in the Department of
Justice, the department paid to
special" assistant prosecutors ST.
| lG1 .4S3 from 1900 to 1911 The
| regular assistants during the same
| period received in salaries, S2,345,-
G35.
Since the willy Wickersham be-
came the chief "trust-buster' this
gentle art became a business propo-
sltlon as we'll as political vote-get-
ter For instance. there is Frank
| b. Kellogg, the legal luminary that
busted" the Standard Oil trust and
| who is also an attorny OF the Steel
Trust.
From September 30, 1907, to
February =. 1911, Kellogg received
| $4,000 for his busting job. An
| other special counsel, J. B. Nc
Reynolds, received $4,000 for
busting" the Tobacco trust. These
specials" and many others also
turned in expense accounts which
have broken all records.
McReynolds, for instance. got $40
a day for subsistence" after rail
| road and Pullman fare had been
| paid for separately. None of these
legal gentlemen turned in itemized
accounts as the law requires
These ''sspecials" were formerly
regular employees of the department
at yearly salaries. AS soon as a
trust-busting job would come along,
regular would resign and the
obliging Wickersham would then ap-
point him as n special. Need less to
say, the special fees were much larg-
er than the yearly salaries.
The other day George w. Perkins,
head of the finance committee of the
steel trust. called on Wickersham.
Both have declined to discuss the
purpose of the financier's visit But
it is thought that they discussed the
expected trust-busting suit against
the steel trust.
Some people here are of the opin-
ion that Perkins suggested the name
of good special" to do the job.
Kellogg. of course, has become dis
puhlihti Sllltt IL Detblne KNOWN lnat
he is on the pay roll of the Steel
trust.
Berger Has DcScrtcr Freed
Socialist Representative Berger,
of Wisconsin. through some CORES
pondence with the War Department.
has secured the release of Charles
S. Gimblin, who had been imprison-
ed for desertion from the California
Coast Artillery. Gimblin is of ID
Socialist family.
Gimblin and his brother are the
only support of widowed mother.
Two years ago he enlisted after be-
ing thrown out of work in Stockton
Cal. Since that time he has been
working on the little ranch owned
by his family.
Recently he was appreh ended and
put in prison. But through Ber-
gers efforts he is a free man today
Hitchcock Turns SomerSauIt.
After having bitterly opposed a
raise in the pay of the rural car
riers Postmaster General Hitchcock
now solemnly announces that he has
decided to give these postal en-
ployes an increase of 500 year.
AS matter of Get Congress at
the last session enacted a law Civ
ing the rural carriers that increase
and it was mandatory on the Post
master General to carry out that
law. Hitchcock fought that increase
at the last session.
The reason for Hitchcock turning
this Somersault is that he has learn
ed that it is good politics TO be
friendly with the rural carriers The
men who carry mail to the lonesome
farmers as a rule discuss political
matters with every person they
meet. Unlike their city brothers.
the letter carriers. these rural pos
tai employees have no spies to fear
Now the farmers votes are badly
wanted by the Republican party
And be it remembered that Hitch
cock is the real head of the Repub-
lican National Committee.
so far this reason the Monday
papers, which are usually shy on
news were handed a ream of dope"
on Hitchcock's benevo1ence to the
Gowntrodden rural carriers. The
city and railway postal employees
don't count much politically. conse-
quenIly Hitchcock has no use for
them.
Patriotism or Prison
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