Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-21
BREWERS WOULD BOYCOTT FIRMS
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Witness Denied Firms Men toned Had Been Black
 listed By Brewers.

lating to political activities of brew CTS and their alleged efforts 10 boy l colt firms and individuals antognastic to the liquor business. was addnced today before the senate committee in vestigating brewers propaganda and the purchase of the Washington Times by Arthur Brisbane.
 Major k. Lowry Humes, who is con- ducting the inquiry for the committee also undertook to show from docu- ments produced by officers of the United States Brewers Association, a connection between that organization and the German American alliance. The charter of the alliance was re- i voked recently by congress after senate committee had investigated its activities.
 Major liumes put into the record lists of candidates for public office. which he said, were to be supported by the brewers association and the alliance. and also a statement which he asserted was prepared for c. l. lIexamer, of Philadelphia, former president of the alliance. at the oiHice of the brewers association. The state ment, Major Humes declared was Ger man propaganda.
 Only two witnesses--Hugh Y. Fox,
 of New Pork. secretary of the Brew CTS National Organization, and John Gardiner of Philadelphia, former chairman of the organization com- mittee, were examined today
 Fox was questioned at length re- garding the war waged by Brewers on antagonistic firms and individ- tI~ John A. Wannamaker Company, Pack ard, National, and Rec Automobile Companies, the II. ]. Heinz Company, the Goodrich Tire Company the Amer ican Rolling Mills, Middletown, Ohio: The Fox Typewriter Company, the Maryland and BalitOmre Casualty Company. the ProctorGamble Com pany, the Grasselli Chemical Company ] of Cleveland Ohio: some subsidiary companies of the Standard Oil Com pany, The United States Steel Cor poration, The s. Kresge Company, The Red Raven Water Company, The American Sheet and Tinplate Com pany, and Republic Rubber Company, and the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. Fox denied that any of the firms named had been blacklisted, saying that the associations purpose merely was to give preference to those who were friends" Later he told the com mittee that he would be willing to assume that all the documents relat- ing to the firms which Major Hnmes put into the record were taken from the files of the association. Major Humes told the committee that the firms were listed by the brewers association, because of their attitude against the use of liquor by their employees or because of the activity of individual members of the firms and in some instances of employees against the liquor business.
 The inquiry into political activity began when John Gardiner was called to the stand. The witness said he might have seen lists of candidates at different times from 1911 to 1914 which the brewers association en- dorsed in some states, including Iowa. Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana and one candidate for congress from Illinois, but he could not recall the details. He admitted that the associations organ ization committee was active in wet" and dry fights in several states in those years and said in that time he spent between $4O0,O00 and $5Oc.000 doing all 1t legitimately could to arouse to public sentiment in our fa- vor." .
 Gardiner declared that the Brew CTS made no contribution to political campaign committees and at first denied that 1t had endorsed any set of candidates.
 Haven't you seen these lists of candidates to be supported by the brewers association and German American alliance that were sent out each year?' asked Major Humes.
 Well, maybe have seen them" the witness replied, ''but I do not re- call them."
 Records of the brewers association read by Major Humes showed that in 1914, the Pennsylvania state associa- ton collected $294,114 for political activity ill that state, and that in the following year $196.754 was collected for the same purpose. Gardiner said he did not think the amounts were as high as that and explained that diff erent state organizations raised var ious amounts, each brewery being assessed on the amount of it's output. In the "wet' and "dry" campaign in Nebraska, several years ago. he said, the assessment was fifty cents on each barrel of beer brewed. The fight was lost the witness added. In reply to questions. the witness said the Pennsylvania state association adopted the policy of destroying check stubs and cancelled checks each month after it's bank accounts were balanced. No minutes of it's meeting were kept.
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