The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-31

sentatlves in Washington MacMan.
US, Chaplin and White-reyiew,no ,b4
hgnt over the Borland resolution. in
which they concluded, GAS il stands
today february, 1916, nothing can
prevent criminal prosecute on - they
recommended several plans for side
trac1ng the Borland measure, and IL
was one OF these that Mann succeed
ed In getting attached to the agra-
cultural appropriation bill for 1917. It
was $oO,00O appropriation for the
bureau OF markets, which was to rub
llsh certain information on sales of
cattle, which would re furnished by
the packers and would help the game
OF the packers. The bureau was :.nt
unfriendly to the packers, and it had
absolutely no power tc conduct a real
investigation.
A congressman told me-" said
Heney, that when tLis rider was
voted into that appropriation bill,
Mann and Congressman Carlin hug
.ged each other as they stood in front
OF the speakers desk"
FALSE PROFIT REPORTS
How the packers have lied about
their dividends and profits was an
other point that interested the COM
mlttee. Heney showed that Swift &
Co. recently declared they had made
a profit of SCI 100000 in 1918, but as
a matter of fact they had also made
$11,800,O00 additional which was set
aside for profits taxes, plus stock
dividend of 25,OOO,OOO, and had sep
arated from them during the year
the American business of Swift In
tenational and the Swift-owned bust
ness of Libby, Mcneil & Libby. They
made $59,00O,000 profit on a capitali-
cation of $115,000,00O!
But that was not all the Swift
stockholders profted. Their stock
was worth $140,000,000 more in 1913
than in 1917-counting the market
value of the Swift, Swift Information
al and Libby, McNeill & Libby con-
Germs.
81 see no remedy for this whole
situation" Heney summed up, with
his fist hitting the table sharply, Eek
cept government ownership and OPP
Grafton of the refrigerator cars, TIE
icing plants, the stock cars, the stock
yards, the branch houses and the cold
storage houses.
Licensing will be of no more avail
than the bite of a mosquito on tn
hide of a rhinoceros."
In the meantime, the packers, with
the aid of their soup-bone press, are
securing a new kind of whitewash
Some of their representatives are ap-
pearing before the senate committee
and their congressional friends are
ASKING leading questions to draw out
their supposed virtues. The big press
lis reporting full accounts of what
these representatives say and at the
same time is killing the testimony
| of a much different kind offered by
Attorney Heney and other represen'
tatives of the trade commission anc
the people.
How shocked, for innstance, the
congressional friends of the packers
were when Armour told them the
packers were not called before the
investigating board of the fedora
trade commission! The surprise ant
indignation is for public consumption
for they we'll know that the packers
were not called becaued they refused
TO come unless they were granted I'M
no,,nitv for any crimes that might b'
confessed.
WAR ON ILLITERACY
Congressman Baer of North Dako
70 has introduced a bill to create
department of education and nun'a'
welfare. The bill provides for a com
/ h;nat;on of all the education actlV'
ties of the government and the elm
nation of duplication in sucn Wor
as is now carried on. 1t proposes
close cooperation between the fedel
i and state governments to ehmlnaI
,lliterarcy, equalize educational OF
nortunities, and promote steady en-
alovment. 1t proposes real ndustrls
workshops where trades would Q
,,b;n;no work and stud.