The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 3, 1920, Page 9

-y < r L Cul Baer Packer-Control Bill Introduced Farmer and Labor Forces Co-Operate to Carry ADVERTISEMENTS Out SR Recommendations of Federal Trade Commission N.O~ PunCtu‘re Washington Bureau, Nonpartisan Leader. RGANIZED labor and the organized progressive farmers of the United States have co-operated in drafting and intro- - ducing in congress a bill for the control of the big meat pack- ers and to prevent the oppression of the whole wage-earning and farming population of the country. Jackson H. Ralston, counsel for the American Federation of Labor, drafted.the bhill, and Congressman Baer of North Da- kota introduced it in the house. It is H. R. 18526, and its title explains that it is “To create a national food com- mission, to define its powers and du- ties, and to stimulate the production, sale and distribution of livestock and livestock products, and for other pur- poses.” In two respects this measure is wholly different from any other pack- er-control bill before congress. It pro- poses what the federal trade commis- sion in its famous report to the presi- dent proposed—that the refrigerator cars and the stockyards be made a permanent part of the railroad busi- ness, owned and operated as railway property. It also proposes a new prin- ciple for enforcing the will of the peo- ple upon public servants—that either the president or the senate shall have power to remove any of the five mem- bers of the commission at any time, for cause, and without the endless red tape of impeachment proceedings. It will be remembered that on Feb- ruary 7, 1917, President Wilson direct- ed the federal trade commission to in- vestigate whether there were “ma- nipulations, controls, trusts, combina- tions, ' conspiracies or restraints of trade out of harmony with the law or the public interest” in the packing in- dustry, to the end that “proper rem- edies, legislative or administrative, may be applied.” The commission reported, on July 3, 1918, after a memorable probe of the affairs of ‘the Big Five meat barons, that every charge as to monop- oly, conspiracy, combination in re- straint of trade, etc., had been fully proved. R FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS OF FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION They made four principal recom- mendations. The first was that the government acquire as a monopoly, through the railroad administration, all rolling stock used for the trans- portation of meat animals. The sec- ond was that the government acquire, through the railroad administration, the principal and necessary stockyards of the country, to be operated as freight depots and under such condi- tions as would insure open, competi- tive markets, with™ uniform scale of charges for all services performed. The third was that the government acquire, as a monopoly, through the railroad ~administration, all privately owned refrigerator cars and their equipment. The fourth was that the government acquire and operate such cold storage warehouses and facilities as would be necessary to keep open the channels of free competition in the principal distributive marketing cen- ters. In the nearly two years since this report was made public the packers have spent scores of millions of dol- lars of their swollen profits in news- paper advertising and in other forms of “educational campaign” to discredit and kill the commission’s proposals. ! 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And because they know that they are bound to win before they quit, the labor-farmer forces have - drawn their ' packer-control bill to provide that the stockyards and the refrigera- tor cars shall be acquired by the com- mon carriers and shall be legally held to be a function of the carriers alone. Then, when the railroads are again in public hands, the stockyards and re- frigerator cars will come along with them as a matter of course. PRESIDENT OR SENATE MAY REMOVE OFFICIAL The proviso in the bill that “Any commissioner may be removed by the president or by a resolution of the senate for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in“office” is a safe- guard against the whims of any fu- ture occupant of the White House to protect a political or personal favorite whose conduct in the office might be- come a scandal to the public. 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