The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-21

CHASE Instructed members of the Trade
Commission investigating staff that In
the event that figures obtained from the
packers books were not the equivalent
OF those submitted by the packers In
their various financial statements they
should in all cases take the largest fig
ures. In a number OF instances 1t nap
pened the figures obtained by the COM
mission from the packers books were
not SO large as those submitted by the
packing companies and In each case the
Trade Commission used the larger fig
ures which would be arrived at by put
ting back various reserves into profits.
thereby initiating the profits, all of which
was done on Chase's positive instruc-
tons"
Calls Worker n Socialist.
Senator Watson said that Raphael
Mallen, another commission Investigator.
was also a Socialist He was In an army
prison at Camp Grant in the summer
and fall of 1917 on account of being a
conscientious objector. Mr.. Mallen, he
said, had written for various Socialist
publications, all Of them inveighing
against the existing order Of things and
insisting on complete change in our
social programme"
.hdilen ITeQucIIy "dNcu a Icu
flag at the meetings of his coemployees
OF the Trade Commission" said the
Senator, land always carried the red
emblem in his pocket. He openly said
his home In Chicago had been raided
several times and that after the raiders
left he brought his Socialist writings to
Mr.. Chase's office in the Trade Com
mission headquarters, boastinS that the
bags containing them were Government
dynamite He was more seditious in his
remarks to members of the Trade Com
mission STAFF than anybody else III that
body. He was under constant suspicion
by the Government authorities at Chi
cago"
>R. y. Buck, the Senator proceeded. lie
the editor OF a radical magazine called
the NeU Majority, published in Chi
cago. Basil L. Manly, who was employed
for a time by the Trade Commission in
investigating the packers, belonged to
the Fabian Club and was n contributor
TO radical papers. Manly maintained
his relations with the Trade Commission
until the Chicago headquarters were
closed. after which he was appointed
IN the War Labor Board to succeed
Frank T. Walsh, whom Mr.. Watson
characterized AGA Socialist of as radi-
al a type as himself" He continued his
Win lllS pOdlu' tic rchhtoA
said, until recently, when he resigned 70
take a position with the Newspaper En-
terprise Association. publicity associa-
ton. the Senator said. organized by
William L. Colver. a member OF the
Federal Trade Commission
Johann C. Ohsol. another investigator
the Senator said, was at one time q
member of the Russian Duma and after
! ward exiled to Siberia, whence he es-
capped. The Senator denominated him a
pronounced Socialist and "a sovietist Of
the most virulent type, who never failed
to express the greatest admira ton fol
Lenine and Trotzky."
Admirer of Berger.
Martin L. Sorber, still another inves
| tigator. he said. Is a friend and admire
| OF Irwin St. John Tucker and of NictoI
| Berger
Mr. Watson said that while Scribe
was under pay of the Trade Commission
at 81 day to investigate the so-cailet
| Big Five of packers he was on the pay
| roll of st. John Tucker.
Daniel A. Kemper and Kari S. Haines
ago. and Mrs. Baldwin who acted
the Senator said. as accountant an
stenographer in the Chicago headquar
| rers. were Socialists OF the extrem
type. Mrs. Baldwin. he said. was al
| anarchist.
Senator Watson spoke OF an anarchis
parade in Chicago after the signing o
the armistice, in which he said Chas