The Butte daily bulletin., 1919-06-16

| are 1lgnllnS TO crush out the soviet
republic.
Baker himself declared before a
house committee that the purchasers
are doing business both in anti-sov-
let territory and in soviet territory,
and that probably some of the meat
would get into soviet Russia through
the Cooperative societies, whose
member ship before the war was
nearly 30,000,000. There are other
officials, however, who point out
that Hoover has had shiploads of
tood waiting in the Baltic for the
capture of Petrograd by the reaction
aries, and that even though Petro-
grads people starve the allied policy
requires that the food blockade
against soviet Russia shall remain
absolute to the end.
Bills OH Net Weight.
In its issue of April 81 the Nom
partisan Leader exposed the met
weight" ruling of Chief Chemist Ais
berg of the bureau of chemistry, de-
partment of agriculture, under which
the big packers have, since June 5.
1914 been enabled to sell wrapped
bacon and meats at met weight" in
Guiding the heavy paper packages in
which they are marketed. Their
profit on this paper is from $50 to
500 per cent, thanks to Doctor Ais
bergs decision.
There was published in this ex
pose some of the packers secret COR
respondence, showing how they sent
former Solicitor McCabe of the de-
partment of agriculture to Washing
ton as their agent, to get this decis-
ion, and how he was paid $4,000 for
the trick. 1t added nerly cents a
pound to retail prices for sliced ba-
con.
North Dakota's Nonpartisan
legislature has enacted a net weight
law which corrects this injustice to
the consumer, insofar as that state
is concerned
Now Senator Gore of Oklahoma
and Representative Sweet of Iowa
have introduced identical bills,
amending the pure food act, SO as to
construe the word package" to in
clude wrapped meats inclosed in
papers or other materials This cuts
Off the met weight" graft.
The bill may be made a rider to
the agricultural appropriation bill,
but if that fails it will be given spe-
cial hearings before the house com
mittee on interstate and foreign COM
merce, and will be carried to sep
arate rollcall. 1t has the support of
the federal trade commission, the
National Wholesale GrOcers' associa-
ton, the United Master Butchers of
America and the National COnsum-
ers' league. 1t is known as S. S28 in
the senate, and as H. B. 1922 in the
house.
Bolivian Sees Change.
In his address to the Pan Ameri-
can commercial conference here this
week, Senor Don 1gnacio Calderon,
minister from Bolivia, threw mo-
mentary chill upon the blazing profit
hopes of some of the assembled eX-
porters and bankers when he said:
''The world is alive with the spirit
of freedom and right. We would
fail to read the signs of the times if
we thought that this great upheaval
is merely political. Society is shak-
ing from its foundations, and new
hopes are being cherished every
where. Many years ago so-called
captains of industry used to express
their conception of the re.ations of
capital to the public and the wage
earners in a way that showed the
greatest contempt for the public and
the workmen. Today any man or
corporation that would ignore the
right of the public to a proper and
Just treatment. or pretend that work
ingmen must be satisfied with what
ever they are given, would be con-
sidered an enemy of the community
'"The autocracy of capital is pass
ing away"
Senate Favors Ireland.
When the senate of the United
: States on June 6, registered vote
: of 60 to l in favor of Irish self-de-
termination, and asked the president
to secure a hearing for the leaders
5 of the movement for Irish independ,
t ence before the peace conference in
l Paris, it took the first important ster
5 in it's new course of sharing respon-
: sibility for our foreign policy with
t President Wilson. The Borah reso'