Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-10
CHARGES PLOT TO INVOLVE
AGENTS OF Commission
Federal Trade Body Member Inti-
mates Packers Sought to "I'ramc'
Federal Workers.
COLNER BEFORE COMMITTEE
Declares More Drastic Legislation l.
Required in Order to Control Great
Meat Conccrns-Changes Secured
or bookkeeping Nature.
CoLvER BEFORE COMMITTEE
IBr Associated Press

WASiilNGTON, Jan. 9.-Charges
tnat arrests Of Federal Trade Commis-
SION employees, made in the rcccn.
Department o: Justice campaign
against Reds have been ;he result
OF frame ups" designed TO build the
theory tina. the commission is a hot
ped Of Bolshevism. were made today
ny w. Il. Colvcr, Of that body. before
the senate Agriculture Committee.
ColNer lett the intination tnat the
larger Chicago packing concerns had
SontriFcd In some degree to attain
thai result, and involved Ludwig g.
A. IS Martens. self-sty!ed amba sSador
o, me russian Soviet republic To the
United states and ;. Nuorteva, Mar
tens secretary. in his account Of in
stances 10 prove the point
Given a whole day before the com
N!ttec. which tonight announced its
hearings ended. Colver likewise voiced
a vigorous demand Tor legislation IN
regulate the industry, need Of whinb
was proved. he said. by the regent
aercTneht between the packers and
,,' Depar unent OF Justice III settle
'''cnt OF antitrust proceedings
-Anniyzes Previous Evidence.
To this testimony the commissioner
aodco d critical analysts OF statements
ana motives OF witnesses who have
1poSnsd ppo@nS -, PIhcher h reg oa,ion during The
committee on the Kenyon aud Kend
.ick DIS last year. Concluding with
tnt assertion that In the meat in
austry competition continuing 10 les
sen and monopoly TO increase even
thouSh Ne exhaust the powers OF Dres-
ent Federal laws intended 10 restrain
The iirst instance. the commissioner
SAID. OF the 'frame-up'' had rastIl,s,
~ fn-,nn me arrest arrest Of Rafael Ma!len a
ior,ner iioI;mer c@ierk @ for the Trade Commits
SION, in raids directed last week a,
TTnnaso T,ns communist ccnters by the
bePar t!ncnt vi Justice.
II. j. {. Claybaugh. head of tho
secret service at Chicago, and his as
! slstant, "a man named harry" Colver
80 sa!u' ooth of whom have SINCE re-
now Was a special agent for Swif;
90. Ma.ien was later released
Another Employee Arrested.
mann Ohsol. another employee OF
.nc commission. Colvcr said. was ar
rested in Il Washington hotel durinc
The present Week. while on a visi, - -
=. NuortcFa, having been pointed otIr
he 10 ponce Con- oiiice,: aS Martens. who is
a,eadinG an alleged claim Of Nuor,ey.
anu Martens that purchase OF jarra
Ineat supplies from - unnatned
n'SSS" wi,b -, 1'; PAGER. bad been arranged d
I'n the onJcct OF getting il into RlS
SID through the aHied blockade C-oivc-
"aid ne considered this connrction hc
rsnrns rHnen meat packers and the Sovie;
.srned Ohsors arrest. cspec;aIlY GO, J"h-
,hs latter had been taken into cus,nd,. :.
.tn ne came 10 see Nuortcva =
'hswes n 10 a specific telephone cali. All
IeItins 10 the agreement Irn
fdren ny Attorney General pai,no ~
IiGmciudIng ,inn, the sherman law prosecn. y.
IONS AGAINST the packers. ColrcT e.; >,
M M merely settled the sherman Ia ~. "a
Merely bookkeeping Cb.n-e
Separation of the packers cr,>,
theif me grocery holdings. however. as ,s'ir IN
me me casr of the transfer by Wiis"n g. {.
20. OF its grocery business 10 Am,l;,, t,sSn X
.'n.'o'1s ssin %. Of New York. a whoIn- :
80 srocer. he asserted. ..mnvni,
eos co baye bast 'hs aSasn astnockhoiders of Wilson
concern TO their holdings" ''In"' Is
IInc'pirs Incorporated in Tho co.
uement decree, he urged shoni, e SCI l
fled. ''oh' and ampli-
TO show that the consumer ,
E Stock nriccs any 6snciit n, from lower live. We.
we we" bors SHOWING ing, that on August when q,s
@ ponk IONS sold in Boston for pe'n q, =
hSm,s hons Nih While on October %. When VIII - ,iy2
nn3fS sold at IL . cents. Ioins sn sn,,, hgt
cents in Boston. soiu al