Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1920-01-10
BIG 5 PACKERS
CAUSED ARREST
Of j. 8. WORKERS
COLVER CHARGES
Federal Trade Commission
Employees Taken Into Gus
tody at Instance of Pack
ers, He Intimates

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-Charges
that arrests of federal trade commits
sion employees. made in the recent de-
partment of justice campaign against
reds, have been the result OF
frame ups designed to build the the
DRY that the commission is a hotbed
of bolshevism," were made today by
w. b. Colver of that body before the
senate agricultural committee. Colver
left the intimation that the larger
Chicago packing concerns had con-
nived in some degree to attain that
result and involved Ludwig c. A X
Martens, self-styled ambassador" for
the Russian soviet republic, and S. Nu-
orteva, Martens secretary, IN his ac-
count of instances to prove the point
Colver likewise voiced vigorous
demand for legislation TO regulate the
packing industry, need of which was
proved, he said, by the recent agree
bent between the packers and the de-
partment of Justice in settlement of
antitrust proceedings.
Criticizes Packer witnesses
To this testimony, the commissioner
added critical analysis of statements
and motives of witnesses who have OPP
posed packer regulation during the
prolonged hearings of the agricultural
committee on the Kenyon and Ken
drick bills last year, concluding the
sertion that in the meat industry
competition is continuing to lessen
and monopoly to increa, e, even thougf
we exhaust the powers of present fed
eral laws intended TO restrain it,
The first instance. the commissioner
said of the frame-up. had resulted N
the arrest of Rafael NIallen. former
clerk for the trade commission, in
raids directed last week at Chicago by
the department of justice. ii. j. G.
Claybaugh head of the secret service
nf l,,s,
named Barry" Colver said. both of
whom have since resiGned. were re-
sponsible and Barry snow was 'spe-
cial agent for Swift and company.
Mallen was later released
Johann Ohsol. another employe of
the commission. CoIver said, was ar
rested in Washington this week while
on a visit 10 $. Nuorteva, having been
pointed out to police officers as Mar
tens, who is being sought by the Sc
cret service Reading an alleged claim
of Nuorteva and Martens that pur-
chase of large meat supplies from an
Chicago packer had been ar
ranged with the object Of getting it
into Russia through the allied block
ade. Colver said he considered this con-
nection between meat packers and So
Wet representatives significant" as it
OhsoFs arrest, especially
since the latter had been taken into
custody when he came to see Nuorteva
in answer to specific telephone call
Says Packers Evade Decree
Reverting to the agreement prepared
by Attorney General Palmer in con-
Guiding the Sherman law prosecutions
against the packers. Colver said that
merely settled the Sherman law phase
of the matter"
Separation of the packers from
their grocery holdings, however, as in
the case of the transfer by Wilson and
of its grocery business to
Austin Nichols company of New York,
n wholesale grocer, he asserted.
merely means that the stockholders
of Wilson and company have added the
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