The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-06-20

cent, thanks to Doctor Alsberg's de-
cision.
There was published in this expose
some OF the packers secret CORE
spondence, showing how they SEN
former Solicitor McCabe of the de
partment OF agriculture to Washing
ton as their agent, to get this deci
sion, and how he was paid $1,000 fo7
the trick. 1t added nearly 2 cent,
pound to retail prices for SLICED
bacon.
North Dakota's Nonpartisan lepis
lature has enacted net weight law
which corrects this injustice to the
consumer, insofar as that state i.
concerned.
Now Senator Gore of Oklahoma
and Representative Sweet of lowe
have introduced identical bills. amend
ing the pure food act, so as to con
strue the word package" to include
wrapped meats inclosed in PAPERS o.
other materials. This cuts off the
net weight" graft.
! The bill may be made rider to the
agricultural appropriation bill, but il
mat fails it will be given some spe
clal hearings before the house com
mlttee on interstate and foreign
commerce, and will be carried to E
separate rollcall. 1t has the support
Of the federal trade commission, the
National Wholesale Grocers' associa
tlon, the United Master Butchers Of
America and the National Consum.
! ers' league. 1t is known as S. 1928 il
the senate, and as H. r. 1922 in the
house.
BOLIVIAN SEES CHANGE
In his address to the Pan-Americar
commercial conference here thi:
week, Senior Don Ignacio Calderon
minister from Bolivia, threw a nom
entary 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 fai
to read the signs of the times if we
thought that this great upheaval is
merely political. Society is shaking
from its foundations, and new hopes
are being cherished everywhere
Many years ago so-called captains Of
industry used to express their con.
ception of the relations of capital tt
the public and the wage-earners in 8
way that showed that greatest con.
tempt for the public and the work.
men. Today any man or corpora
ton that would ignore the right Of
the public to a proper and just treat.
men, or pretend that workingmer
must be satisfied with whatever they
are given, would be considered ar
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 a vote
of so to l in favor of Irish self-de.
termination, and asked the president
to secure hearing for the leaders OF
the movement for Irish independence
before the peace conference in Paris
it took the first important step in its
new course of sharing responsibility
for our foreign policy with President
| Wilson. The Borah resolution, call.
ing for international recognition fol
the government, republican in form
established by the people of Ire
land" was not adopted, it is true, but
the compromise which did secure
this nearly unanimous vote meant
the same thing. 1t asked the Ameri.
can peace delegates to see that Ed
ward de Valera, Arthur Grifhths .ant
Count Plunkett, the three highest of.
ficials of the Sim Fein republic
shall be heard by the Paris confer.
ence, and it contained this further
clause, proposed by Senator Walsh
of Massachusetts, Democrat: "That
the senate Of the United States ex.
presses its sympathy with the as.
pirations of the Irish people for g
government of their own choice"
So the senate has declared for g
free Ireland. It may later declare
for free Korea, and finally it may
back up the doctrine announced last
year by President Wilson, but aban
doned by him when he agreed to the
Paris treaty-that every people has
the right to determine the sovereign
ty and the form of government I'M
der which it shall live.
"DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIPS"
Senator Fletcher of Florida, form
er chairman of the senate commit
tee on commerce, has coined the slo.
gan, Don't Give Up the Ships!" il
opposition to the campaign of the
big shipping combine and Chairman
Hurley of the shipping board, wht
want the government to close out its
/ $4,OO0,0OO,000 worth of ships to pri
vate ownership and operation, and
to sell them at a bargain.