Evening journal., 1919-07-31
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yocates Of the measure declare.

yocates OF the measure declare.
In a letter to Postmaster General
Burleson today Assistant Secretary Of
War Benedict Crowell asked that a rep
resentative Of the Postotilce Department
be appointed to confer with Assistant
Director OF Sales +. c. Morse, OF the
War Department, regarding arrange
ments Of details "in connection with
the distribution Of food supplies to the
public through the channels Of the
parcel post"
1t has been stated that the cost OF
postage under the plan would be in
cluded in the price Of food.
Burleson said he would be glad 70
cooperate in the "direct-to-table" sale
Of the millions Of dollars worth Of
edibles.
Under the scheme, orders for food
may be placed with any one Of the
$4,000 postmasters in the country They
will send the orders 10 the proper dis
tribution station and The provisions
will be brought TO the house by the
postman. Price lists will be supplied.
The pOstmasters will also advertise
that the army food is for sale so the
news may be carried into the most
sparsely settled communities.
The War Department today decided
TO put on the market an additional iS0,-
600 pounds Of flour substitutes. Bids
will be opened at the ST. Louis zone
supply Office on August Q.
The substitutes are stored at Fort SILL
Okla, and include $1,000 pounds Of white
corn neal 1900 pounds Of yellow corn
meal, 10000 pounds of issue four,
10000 pounds of rye flour, 10000 pounds
Of cornstarch flour, 5000 pounds Of oat-
meal flour and 5000 pounds Of white
corn flour.
Bids must be for entire lots OF the
flour and cornmeal, with the exception
of the issue flour, which will be sold in
lots Of 10000 pounds or more.
Representative Igoe today conferred
with House leaders in an effort to get
immediate action on his resolution to
have the Federal Trade Commission in-
vestigate the prices of shoes, clothing,
sugar and coffee, and to have the ways
and means committee investigate high
rents.
MY idea is that the effective way to
stop profteering is to tax the eXtortions
Of the proflteer into the Treasury" fgoe
said "This business of prosecuting
Of the antitrust laws is
good. but It is a slow. tedious process.
Let the prosecutions 60 on, but if a
pronteer finds his profits taken away
by a law that is certain and immediate
in its operation, l venture the predic-
ton IL will stop prOflteering.'
Secretary Frank Morrison OF the
American Federation OF Labor in a for
NAL statement today. made clear that
the Federation of Labor viii back the
fight 20 better living conditions initiat-
ed by the brotherhood OF Locomotive
As outlined by Morrison, the fedora
ton aims will be:
wages that will permit workers to
live in reasonable comfort.
support OF every effort made by the
and the workers to re-es-
iablish the trade union standard that
existed in 1914"
Reduction Of living costs or higher
wages was the demand made upon the
President by the locomotive engineers.
this, Morrison said:
"The statement Of Warren s. Stone,
grand ch .ef Of the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Engineers relative TO wage in
,reases or a reduction in living costs,
IS a good trade union policy.
Organized labor is insisting in these
times Of social changes that its pre-
war living standard be re-established, |
and despite wage increases that appear
Iarge the purchasing power of these
wages do not reach present living costs,
that have increased over so per cent"
Statistics issued by the government
show that 1t takes over $3.50 today to
purchase what 81 would in 1914" Nor
rison said.
"The wage workers throughout the |
country are striking today to secure
The re-establishment of pre-var living |