The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01
CAL IS FUNNIER
THAN RODGERS,
SAYSUNTE:RMYER
President Exposed in
Unexpected Role

1sfactioRf Of President Collidge over
the zecord of his Administration in
enforcing Antitrust laws, as report
ga in dispatches from Paul Smiths,
Samuel Cntermyer ISSUED a state
ment declaring that the President was
Joker" and that the claim that his
Administration had enforced these
laws was "humbug" Mr.. Untermyer
asserted that the laws were being
fouted openly.
Visit from Trust Head
Mr.. Untermyer linked the report Of
the Presidents satisfaction with his
Administration anti trust record
with the visit to him on the same day
Of Owen D. Young, Chairman OF the
Executive Committee of the General
Electric Company This company, Mr.
Untermyer asserted, was one of the
greatest Of the Morgan trusts" and
had been a persistent offender against
the Antitrust laws.
"In addition to the many other quail
ifcatons of the President, he has
added that of a satirical humorist,"
the role of a practical joker, but the
Joke is on the public, It'll is better than
Mr. Untermyer said "IIe appears in
anything that i'll Rogers has done.
Nice Baby Indeed!
Mr.. Young is an estimable gentle
man, but imagine him-the head Of
not only one of the greatest Of the
Morgan trusts but one of the greatest
of all American trusts-the General
Eelectric Company as an advisor to
our Government on the enforcement
and Strengthening of the antitrust
laws, against which his company has
been and is one Of the most conspic-
nous offenders"
Daugherty Hard of Hearing
Mr.. Untermyer declared that the
General Electric Company, by an
agreement with the Westinghouse
Company, controlled 100 per cent. Of
the electric bulb business, mot only
the manufacture but the distribution
all the way down to the consumer.
He said that the Lockwood Legisla-
tive Investigating Committee, Of
which ne was counsel, obtained the
facts and called upon Harry M.
Daugherty, hten Attorney General, far
criminal prosecution. He added
tnat the committee might just as well
have appealed to a stone wall, for it
obtained no action.
Champion of Trusts
"This Administration is and has
been throughout the champion of the
trusts" Mr.. Untermyer said. "Under
it's protecting wing, they have multi
piled and prospered as never before
in our history until the entire country
is now honeycombed with illegal COM
binations in almost every line of in
dustry.
Cites Case In Point
Mr.. Untermyer said that in a num-
Der Of cases, the action of the Gov
eminent consisted in relieving the de-
PENDANTS from the effects of judg-
ments that had been obtained by
hard-fought victories of preceding ad-
ministrations. Among these, he said,
was the case against the New Haven
Railroad.
Discussing five cases against the ce.
ment trust, which he said had first
been exposed by the Lockwood Com
mittee, Mr.. Untermyer declared that
the Governments counsel had failed
to produce all the evidence at the
trial with the result of a disagree
ment by the jury.
Scandal and TraVersity
nj the rare cases in which the AID
ministration has been goaded by pub
lie clamor into making a gesture OF
enforcing the laws, as in the case OF
the Bread Trust, the result has been
a scandal and travesty upon the ad
ministratiOn Of Justice" he added
This disgraceful performance has
been fully exposed in the report OF she
minority members Of the present Fed
.kral Trade Commission and on the
floor of the Senate, and has led to the
introduction Of a resolution by Sena
tor Walsh for an investigation. II
that case the Department OF justice
struck at a straw man., and under
cover Of that gesture the Continents
Bread Company, which was and re
mains the real offender and which
was then being investigated by the
Federal Trade Commission, was al
lowed to slide out and the proceed
ings against It were dismissed by &
fraud practlced upon the court"
Why not a small bundle Of TIT