The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-07

protect labor and has come to rely
upon its economic power"
Ovation for LaFollette.
After Morrison's speech Chairman
Walsh, referred briefly to the fight of
the elder LaFollette against the trusts
and asserted that the present Senator
LaFollette, the son, was proving that
he was worthy ito follow in the foot
steps of his great father"
AS young LaFollette stepped to the
rostrum the audience of thousand
or more gave him a long ovation, dur
ing which time the military band that
had played at intervals during the
evening struck up Columbia, the Gem
of the Ocean," while the audience
stood up. It was well-staged politi-
cal demonstration.
In his opening remarks the senator
recalled that it was in the same hall
that his father made his first New
York address in 1912 and that at that
time, when the elder LaFollette was a
candidate for the republican presiden-
tial nomination, he was assailing the
great trusts of his day that were in
process of formation. The son pointed
out that his father was defeated in
that campaign, but he was not dis
couraged."
"In 1924 my father said the para
mount issue was to break the power
of monopoly. He was defeated, but
was not discouraged. 1t is a crafty
| ing coincidence that should make my
first speech from New York plat
form on the same spot where my
father made his"
Describing how his father, rs months
ago, had introduced in the senate
resolution to investigated the bread
trust, and relating how that investiga-
ton had been deliberately stified by
the Coolidge administration, LaFollette
related in detail the steps taken by
the administration agents on the fed
eral trade commission to "whitewash"
the Ward outfit.
Individual initiative is supposed to
be made thot of in America and Coo
lidge proclaims it virtue, but during
all the time that individual initiative
was being crushed by the bread trust
not finger was raised to prosecute
the investigation" declared La
Toilette.
In plea for the small town bakers
he asserted that they were good citi-
zens, who practiced the virtues of in
dustry and thrift, that they had happy
families and were content with their
lot, until along came the octopus and
crushed them by unfair methods of
competition" The trust gives bread
to grocers free of charge in order to
induce them to handle it's product in
preference to the Independents and
charges it up to sales promotion.
Supporters of the peoples legislative
service and the members of the con-
ference of retail bakers of the eastern
states, who, with the Bakery and Con.
fectionery Workers. Union, sponsored
the meeting, almost wept at this de-
scription of the plight of the good
American citizen, the small town
baker, being crushed by the monopoly
The young senator had marsha1led
his facts so that he was able to pre-
sent horrifying picture of the fate
of the small fry who are being driver
into the ranks of the workers by tn,
pressure of the great combines.
The Food Trust.
Far more interesting than the fate
of the small town bakers was the ex
posture of the fact that the Ward out
fit, not satisfied with their MONOPOLY
of bread, had incorporated the Ward
] Food Products corporation with {