Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
UNION LEADERS
In CONFERENCES

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n strangIc hold OH all profitccrs,
Spectators and hoardcrs.
3. For all departments OF
the government to diSgorSc inn
mcdiatcIy and throw onto the
opcn market everything 1t has
i'm the way of surplus supplies.
This would include not alone
everything in the way OF rood
stufTs, but clothes, blankets,
shoes and all sorts OF goods OF
this description, and miSht
even include some fuel.
The subcommittee after WORKING
ALL Saturday, most of the night and
Yesterday, came to the conclusion
that the situation throughout the
country was so menacing in its as
pect as to justify action.
First, the members of the sub
committee set forth in writing their
individual views both as to the out
standing features of the situation
and their ideas as to its immediate
solution. These views have now
been combined in the shape OF
single report.
BrcadstuffS Exported
Attention was directed to the fact
that during June the American ex-
ports of breadstuffs amounted 10
$11S.33O,211,a las compared with S54,-
372,471 in June, 1918, when the
world was at war and the United
State supposedly eXerting every ef-
fort to feed the Allied peoples.
Meat and dairy. products exported
during June of this year aggregated
STA, ,344.993, as against $77,957,-
555 in June, 1918. The exports of
meat and dairy products during the
twelve months ending July l of this
year-embracing eight months since
the war closed-reached a total OF
S1.157, 0,576, as against S673,-
S35,794 in the twelve months end
ing July /, 1918, all of which were
war months. The comparison of
breadstuff exported during the same
period show $954.779,S94 during
twelve months up to and including
June, 1919, $623,239,S56 during
preceding twelve months.
While all government departments
are working toward the end of allie
waiting unrest by restoring normal
level of prices, interest also centers
in the meeting Tuesday of the con-
ference called by Attorney General
Palmer to consider the best meth
DDS OF procedure, especially with re-
tee appointed by the conference, Di-
rector General Hines, Assistant Sec
retary' of the Treasury Leffingwell,
and Chairman Colver, of the Fed
eral Trade Commission, have been
engaged in an exchange of memo
randa which will be put before the
conference for recommendation to
President Wilson, who is following
all steps closely.
The presence of julius Barnes,
director of the United States Grain
Corporation, at the meeting Tues
day will give expert counsel to the
cabinet members and other officials
on the grain situation. Considera-
ton of a plan to sell wheat in a free
market, the government absorbing
the difference between the market
price and the guaranteed price, is
believed certain.
There are indications that the At
torney General is paying especial at
tention to cases of profiteering. He
has at his disposal a great volume
of information collected by the Fed
eral Trade Commission, showing
production costs in scores of indus
tries. While there Is no law by
which profiteering may be punishe ed
directly, Mr.. Palmer has said that
there is a great deal of good law
on the statute books and it is be-
lieved he will find a way to punish
any cases where there are evidences
of extortion.
The average citizen is the man in
whose behalf the profiteering in
vestigation will be pushed, despite
the fact that it was the new de-
mands of the railroad labor unions
which precipitated it. Several off,
| cials have expressed sympathy with
the salaried man who lacks the
| backing of a powerful organization