Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-05-14

OF tuo ISSUE OF government ownership
and operation of the stockyards; in
the next session, If the organized
farmers, the organized dairymen, the
organized livestock producers, the or.
ganized consumers Of meat products,
and the League of Women Voters in
the suffrage states can do it. That is
the decision reached at a conference
on packer legislation held here this
| week.
In order that there may be a clear.
cut issue, which neither party in the
| house and senate may overlook, a
committee Is to be named by William
Kent, who presided at the conference,
to draft bill to be offered in place Of
the Sims-Kenyon bill, which died in
the session that expired on March 4.
| A great deal of favorable publicity
has been given, among organizations
lukewarm or friendly to the packers,
to the Kendrick bill, which was drawn
by the solicitor of the department of
agriculture as 'just-as-good" for
government ownership of the stock.
yards. This Kendrick bill, when ex-
amined, proves to be anything but
what the federal trade commission has
recommended. For one thing, it gives
the packers four years within which
to dispose Of their holdings in the
stockyards. But inasmuch as the
great majority OF the $25,000,000 OF
big packer holdings in stockyards COM
panies is now in the hands of dunn
ina fho 4N -
would be-just nothing.
For example, the federal trade CON-
mission examiners found that the
Morrises, who absolutely control the
Kansas City stockyards, were ready
to testify that only 26 shares, out Of
$4,000 shares, in that stockyards CON-
pany were owned by them or their
family. Yet it soon was discovered
that one of their dummies holds 5000
shares! He confessed that he never
had owned any, but held it for the
Morris family.
Opposition to Hurley.
Chairman Hurley of the United
States shipping board is finding oppo-
sition to his plan to sell the govern
ment-owned ships at a sacrifice and
to sell out and close the shipyards.
Charles A. Piez, director of the
Emergency Fleet corporation, has
resigned in protest against what he
styles policy Of scuttle." The or.
ganized shipbuilders have sent a long
cable to President Wilson. Organized
labor in general and the organized
farmers have vigorously protested.
Business men on the Pacific coast
have pointed out that sudden with.
drawal OF shipbuilding would produce
terrible conditions for the great army
of men now employed in that indus.
try. Charles R. Paige Of tho shipping
board has resigned for the same rea,
son.
That the cables to Wilson were not
without effect is shown by the consid.
cradle modification which Hurley has
made in his cancellation order. He
now declares that only 100000 tons
not adapted to merchant service are
to be cancelled at present.
The forces at work pulling for and
against government-owned shipping
are complex. On the one side are the
independent business men and farmers
needing cheap and fair transportation
to foreign lands and consumers need.
ing cheap transportation from foreign
lands. On the other side are the
large trusts who want to run their
own ships and thus eliminate compel.
itors, and American capital invested
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big British capitalists, too, are playing
an important part because during the
war they established many financial
and newspaper connections here.
Brides From Flume.
Another possible cause Of trouble
| with Italy: American troops come
home from Venetia and Fiume with
seven brides, none Of whom are 1tal.
ian! All seven of these war romancea
are American-Jugoslav!
The offending soldiers are members
of the S32d infantry regiment, who
went into Italy after the disaster to
Italian forces on the Isonzo front and
were marched and counter-marched
! through dozen Italian cities in order
to buck up the spirits of the people
| and give the impression that the
! Americans had sent at least 100000
soldiers to their aid. They fought on
the Pave, and they took part in the
final defeat and pursuit Of the Aus,
TRANS which ended in the absolute sur
render of the Hapsburg army. The
| regiment was part of the time in and
near Venice, and later was stationed
| In Dalmatia and in the city of Fiume.
II seven Yankee soldiers won brides
in F1ume, and If all of these fair
ladies were Jugoslavs, how can Pre-
mier Orlando expect US TO credit hia
claim that Fiume IL IN Italian city?
The Railroad Situation.
Railroad legislation IL now boine
framed up by conservative Republican
and Democratic leaders. It provides
for the early return of the roads to
private operation, thus attempting to
head off the demand of the 100000
organized railway workers for govern.
met ownership and operation a. q
permanent policy. The financial aid
@ be voted by the conservatives In
BIDS WANTED.
Bids will be received until two
o'clock p. m. May 10, 1919, by August
A. johnson, clerk of the Swedish
Lutheran congregation, at Svea, Mimi,
for the raising and remodelling, build