Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-09
Stock Yarda Still lied up.


Chicago. Aug 9-Five hundred po-
licemen. $50 deputy sheriffs and the
last of the state troops assigned to
race riot duty were Withdrawn from
the stock yards in hope thar the strik-
, ing packers might be induced to re-
| turn to work.
| Union leaders said today that 800
engineers employed in the stock yards
| had been ordered to Join the strike
tonight. Labor officials asked Mayor
| Thompson for a ruling on whether the
streets in the stock yards were public
jthoroughfares. They have been closed
to the public since the beginning OF
! the war. Under the agreement be-
tween the packers and the union, labor
organizations are authorized to adyo-
cate union!sm on public streets but
not in the plants. ~.
| Strikers today attempted to picket
the plant OF Swift & Co. hut were
driven away kv the polio"
To Ask Jail Sentence For Packers.
| United States Attorney Charles F,
| Clyne returned to Chicago from Wash
ington yesterday with the complete
plans Of the federal government for
| the criminal prosecution of the five big
| Chicago packers.
| Jail sentences will be asked for the
heads Of the packing firms. accord
! ing to Mr. Clyne. and suits also will
be filed to recover huge sums Of money
/ the packers are alleged to nave
squeezed out Of the public.
! The prosecutions will be under the
| Sherman antitrust law and the maxi
| Cot will ha aclSaI
der each indictment Mr.. Clyne will
ask from the special grand jury that
will go into session on Sept. I.
Backed BY Washington.
Mr.. Clyne was unable to say how
many counts win be sought. but stated
| the attorney general had signified his
willingness to back up every possible
charge, that can be brought against
the alleged monopolists.
A question Of venue will be settled
within the next few days by Mr..
Clyne and two special assistants who
| will appear with him In the prosecu-
tion. The government Is undeter-
| mined as to the best district in which
| to- try the criminal suits, according to
Mr.. Clyne, The probability is that Chi
cago will be selected and that Federal
| Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands will
be the trial judge.
Judge Lands heard the famous
Standard Oil suit which ended in his
filming the oil trust $29.00o,0O0. The
Judge also heard the I. w. w. and the
Victor Berger cases which ended in
verdicts favorable to the government.
Got Maximum Penalty.
w w Iarc
each were given the maximum penal
ty Of twenty years in the penitentiary
and fines OF $4,000 each.
The same men associated with Mr.
Clyne in prosecuting those cases Will
aid in handling the packers trial.
They are G. b. Morrison, Of Chicago,
and Otto Prayer. Indictment expert,
from the attorney generals office in
Washington.
The evidence which the district at
torney has been gathering for the
last two months was gone over In
detail. The essential points upon
which the government will lay the
most stress at the trial were punched
and tho opinion was arrived at that
more than a dozen criminal counts
! can be obtained against each packer.
I Each Count Conspiracy.
The charge In each count will. in,
untechnical terms, be conspiracy.
Some Of the charges will allege con-
! sniracv to cnrtail the s,,nn1v Of food
stuffs and others to stifle competi-
( tion and maintain uniform high
| prices.
The whole history Of the packers,
their operations and extensions from
| purely dealing in fresh meats to an
alleged monopoly Of fruits, canned
| goods. coffee and cereals will be
| thrashed out. 1t was predicted by at
| tachcs of the district attorneys Of
flee that the, packers case will sur
pass any other in the history Of the
| federal courts In legal battles.
| The attitude OF the packers, ac-
cording to Mr.. Clync. is one OF indif-
! ference. as all Of their acts have been