The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-01-14
FRAME UP" CHARGED
BY COMMISSION MAN
ntimates That Packers Conuived
With Reds
SOVIET" CHIEF INVOLVED
Makes Vigorous Demand for Legisla
ton to Regulate Meat Industry

Makes Vigorous Demand for Legisla-
tion to Regulate Meat Industry
Washington, Jan. 9.-Charges that
arrests of Federal Trade Commission
employees made in the recent Depart
ment of Justice campaign against
reds have been the result of frame
ups designed to build the theory that
the commission is a hot bed of Boil
shevism" were made today by w. S.
Colver, of that body before the Senate
agriculture committee.
Colver left the intimation that the
larger Chicago packing concerns had
connived in some degree to attain that
result, and involved Ludwig C. A. K.
Martens, self-styled ambassador of the
Russian Soviet republic to the United
States, and S. Nuorteva, Martens sec
rotary, in his account of intances to
prove the point. Given a whole day
before the committee, which tonight
announced its hearings ended, Colvcr
likewise voiced vigorous demand for
legislation to regulate the industry,
need of which was proved, he said,
by the recent agreement between the
packers and the Department Of Justice
in settlement of antitrust proceed
ings.
Monopoly Increases.
TO this testimony the commissioner
added a critical analysis of state
ments and motives of witnesses who
have opposed packer regulation dur
ing the prolonged hearings of the agri
culture committee on the Kenyon and
Kendrick bills last year, concluding
with the assertion that in the meat
industry competition in continuing to
lessen and monopoly to increase, even
through we exhaust the powers of
present federal laws intended to re-
strain it,"
The first instance the commissioner
said fthc "framc up" had resulted
in the arrest of Rafael Mallen, for
mer clerk for the trade commission,
cago communist ccntcrs by the De-
partment of Justice. }. j. c. Clay
baugh, head of the secret service at
Chicago, and his assistant, "a man
named Barry Colver said, both OF
whom have since resigned, were re-
sponsible, and Barry now was "spe-
cial agent" for Swift and Company.
Mallcn was later released.
Connected With Reds
Johann Ohsol, another employer of
the commission, Colvcr said, was az
rested in a Washington hotel during
the present week, while on visit to
5. Nuortcva, having been pointed out
to police officers as Martens, who is
being sought by the secret service
Reading an alleged claim Of Nuortcva
and Martens that purchase of large
meat supplies from an unnamed Chi
cago packer had bee narranged with
the object Of getting it into Russia
through the Allied blockade Colvcr
said he considered this connection be-
tween meat packers and the Soviet
representatives "signlicant" as it con
cerncd Ohsol's arrest, especially since
the latter had been taken into custody
when he came to see Nuortcva in
answer to specific telephone call.
Rcvcrting to the agreement pre-
pared by Attorney General Palmer in
concluding the Sherman law prosccu-
tions against the packers, Colver said
that merely settled the "Shcrman law
phase of the matter"
Added Another Concern
"Scparation of the packers from
their grocery holdings, however, as
in the case Of the transfer by Will
son and Company of it's grocery busi-
ness to Austin Nichols Company, Of
New York, Il wholesale grocer" he
asserted, 'mcrcly means that the
stockholders Of Wilson and Company
have added the Austin Nichols CON
cern to their holdings"
Dealing with persons who have
discussed regulativc legislation be-
fore the committee since the Kenyon
and Kendrick bills we're advanced