The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-24

I1OluoIS VI IueSS licenses would Do
limited to the particular branch OF the
food industry to which their licenses
applied. Every person or corporation
would have to refrain from the pur-
chase, manufacture, storage or sale Of
foodstuhs or commodities other than
those handled in the business for
which the license is issued" This pro.
vision is aimed to destroy the great
monopolies in "by-products" which
have developed at the packing centers.
Under the proposed law every con-
Germ must permit the commissioner of
fo%odstufs to examine it's records and
must pay a severe penalty for false
statements, concealments or perver-
sfons of the truth. OF particular i'm
p%ortance is the provision which en-
powers the secretary OF agriculture to
revoke the license of any dealer sus-
pected of ~concealing the facts about
his business. But the public would
not be deprived Of the foodstuffs han
died by a concern that lost its license,
The bill directs that the courts shall
appoint a receiver to manage every
such business, to act 'in the interest
of the public" pending such time az
the proprietors may convince the
courts that they are worthy to resume
the control of the business.
More striking still is the clause
which provides that when a concern
has lost its license the burden shall
rest with such concern to prove in
court that the license should be re.
stored.
To Aid Competition.
Most encouraging Of all 10 that part
Of the proposed law which directs the
secretary OF agriculture to, cooperate
in developing private, semi-private or
public rivals to the big meat packers.
The commissioner of foodstuffs is d.
rected to issue licenses for stock.
yards, slaughter houses and allied en-
terprises ito any public, quasi-Dublic
or other corporation OF cooperative
association or to any agency con-
trolled or operated by q state"
The department of agriculture 10
further directed to assist all rivals to
the big packers by supplying them
with scientific data, such as stand
ardtzed building plans, and to COOP
crate to pOcure for them ~suficisnt
transportation facilities. All railroads
are required to furnish rolling stock
as needed by all holders OF the federal
license. and the big packers are for
hidden to use any refrigerator cars
not SO furnished by government di.
rection. Furthermore, mo licensss
shall own, control, or have any inter.
est in" any stockyard, except during
the first six months after the passage
Of the act. -
Both Is consumers and wage
earners the workers have suffered
from the monopoly enjoyed by the
s'meat trust" Friends Of the Kenyon
Anderson bills invite organized labor
to scrutinize them, advertise them and
give them such support as they may
appear to deserve.
g.. ... BurIeson Is AssaIIed.
Postmaster General Burleson con
tinues to receive his daily drubbing
from ome hostile sections of the pub
lie he is supposed to represent. Or
ganized employees of the Potomic rail-
road yards, Alexandria, Va, and tel
egraph operators at that point did
their bit" in this respect the other
day. They adopted a resolution call
ing upon President Wilson to GUST
Burleson with all possible speed on
the ground that his incumbency is q
detriment to the services OF tn gov
eminent of the United States" and
because he has shown himself incom-
petent and unable to discharge the
duties Of postmaster general" Ii 9g
This denunciation of his rule comes
just at a. time when Mr.. Burleson II
congratulatfng himself upon his vic
tory v the strike of the Commercial.
Telegraphers' union. There is no
denying Mr.. Burleson's victory in this
case. The strikers have been forced
to drop their fight and seek fe-em-
ployment on such terms as the compar
MES, under Burleson,s direction, may
care to- grant. But It is important to
know how the strikers were beaten. e
is clear from q description given nv
the strikers chief, 8. J.. Konenkamp,
that Burleson Is possessed of such au-
tocratic and far-reaching governments
tai powers that no strike against him
could ever succeed unless It were q
general walkout Of the operating and
clerical stats Of the telegraph, tele-
phone and railroad lines. Konen..
kamp says, In a statement to the 70.
turned strikers:
You have sought q minimum Of
the things which the present govern
ment administration says all workers
should enjoy. You have not only been
denied those rights, but governmental
agencies have been used to prevent
your getting them by exercising your
own economic strength. We find that
sending telegrams from city to city
IN suitcases Is allowed, 4 thing for
which Western Union oficials were
arrested when they tried TODD It With.
out MI. Burleson,s consent. WI find
that kilograms I Also being sent