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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH Jafeuardiiio American INORDINATE GREED AND BARE. FACED FRAUD CHARGED BY FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION LANDING OF FIRST CONTINGENT FROM UNITED STATES FORMALLY ANNOUNCED. Meat Packers Said to Have Pocketed $140,000,000 in 1915, 1916 and 1917 Without Regard to Laws. Flour Mills Also Big Gainers. Bulk of American Troops Goina Italy Will Be Sent from France Their Place Being Filled by New Regiment from United States. Washington. Profiteering on a tremendous scale In practically all the basic commodities of life was reported to the senate Saturday by the federal trade commission as the result of an exhaustive Investigation. Inordinate greed and barefaced fraud as well as ."war pressure for heavy production," the commission reported as the causes. Iteappraisements of properties were made by great concerns when it became evident that the government was about to fix prices on a basis of return on investment, the report says, and salaries, allowances and expenses were in many instances padded to show of conducting business. The outstanding feature of its investigation, the commission reported, was the evidence of a tendency to increase and maintain prices against the forces of competition. Of all the big profits disclosed by the investigation the report says the profits of the meat packers and those allied with them and by the flour mills, stand foremost, despite the fixing of prices by the government. Manipulations of the market by the five great packers Armour, Swift, Morris, Wilson and Cudahy the comembrace every demission asserts, vice that is useful to them without regard to law. The report charges that the five cerns have monopolistic control of the meat industry and are reaching for like domination in other products. During 1915, 1916 and 1917, the report says, these companies pocketed Washington. Tlie safe u atriiu Italy of the first contingent of military force which will represent the United States, was announced June 2!) by (;en. eral March, chief of staff. Sent direct from this country, the troops landed on June 28, to supplement others erder-efrom France by General Pershing. Sanitary units compose the greater part of the first arrivals, but other special units also were included. General March reiterated the statement that the bulk of the combatant American troops going to Italy will bo sent from the western front, their place being immediately taken by new regiments from the United States. No definite plan for the lneron.se ot this force from the United States lm been reached, Secretary linker sail later, in commenting upon the announcement. It should be emphasized that the shipment of further increments depends largely upon- future d- . d Great Britain, Early in Conflict, Learned - evelopments. the Importance of Maintaining Former The first national army division has taken up a sector at the front, General March also announced. It Is the raised in Seven- New York, trained at Camp Upton and originally commanded by Major General J. Franklin Bell. It was taken across under Major General Johnson. (From Women of the National Council While the actions along the Amerof Defense.) sectors during the past week have ican N VIEW of the urgent nebeen inentirely local in character, the cessity for prompt chief of staff said the results have crease in the volume of shown that American troops are more production of nearly every GAUS XOUGf YARO WOMEf 00StG Af0 JMML than holding their own, and fine eA the article required for of individual valor have been conduct of 'the war vig- issued by the ordnance department as pie was going down, Holidays you xamples . , ilance is demanded of Till part of General Orders No. 13. The must remember were abandoned and reported. $140,000,000. those in any way associ- departments of women in industry of the strain was beginning to be felt. The experience with steel, flour and ated with Industry lest the womans committee throughout the The government set up a committee U. S. REBUKES CARRANZA. coal, says the report, referring to the safeguards with which country are doing and will do all in composed of employers, trade union Tax on the people of this country their power to put this Indorsement price fixing, shows that a high representatives and government' offi- Makes Solemn Protest. Against stimulating fixed price, while stabilizhave sought to protect la- into practical effect, w ith the Oil Lands. cials, an impartial tribunal. They ing an ascending market, produces an bor should be unwisely and unnecesof the department of women in came to the unanimous dtcision that Washington. Declaring that alt the economic situation which is fraught sarily broken down. of the womans committee at long hours and Sunday labor were dis- United States asks of Mexico for industry This sentence sounds the keynote with hardship to the consuming public astrous, not only to the health of the American citizens is justice and fair and" with ultimate peril to the high of the Industrial policy of the two Washington. What are these standards, and why men and women, but to the efficiency dealing, the state department pn June cost companies through increasing great divisions of the United States are standards for working women of of the service and they were unani- 29 made public a solemn protest" sent army today placing numberless con- such prime Importance to the nation mous in power of their low cost competitors. condemning long hours. And to President Carranza against tracts Of fabulous size and value at this time? 'Proper conditions of we say without hesitation, having redecree of February 19, 1918, the ordnance department and the womans labor have ITALIANS STEADILY ADVANCING. always been of gard to that experience, that it is un- establishing a tax on oil lands. quartermasters department. In Gen- peculiar importance to the state. In economical, It Is unwise and it is bad The statement sas the new tax Not Content with Ground Gained, eral Orders No. 13, from which this peace times the United States Supreme management to work men or women amounts' practically to confiscation, or sentence is quoted, issued not long ago court held Are Pushing Austria Back. that, for the sake of future abnormally long hours because it does at least unfair imposition and cites eby the ordnance department and later generations, it was constitutional to not xtracts from President Wilsons speech Rome. Attaching the pay in the end. lines on the Asiago plateau, the adopted by the quartermaster general, limit the working hours of women to of hours alone, to the Mexican editors on the future Proper regulation Italians have taken Monte di Valbella, are set forth in sorfe detail the prin- eight hours a day. Today in war- however, win not solve the problem. relations of nations as follows : ciples of this and in no uncer- time limitation of hours it is important The ordnance department knows that As long as there is supicion there captured 809 prisoners arid have held tain words thepolicy, reason for its existence. for an additional reason. Modern war- it will not counter-attackto limit is going to be misunderstanding, and It against repeated help production ,s a assumption, it goes on fare is not fought in the trenches hours if the men and women who work as long as there is misunderstanding This turn to the offensive came as a r to !5e most part these alone. The' army at the front is help- these hours are not secured in the there Is going to be trouble. If you. that for say, allied of the to the laymen surprise are fiiechanisms of ef- less if the second line of defense, the fundamental necessities of life if the safeguards Genworld, for it was believed that they once get a situation of trust then you Industrial ficiency. proves that army in factories, is not able to keep are hungry, poorly clothed and im- have got a situation of permanent history to his content hold be would eral Diaz lines in the mountains against a new reasonable hours, fair working condi- up production of supplies. In empha- properly housed. Therefore, it is peace. esand a sizing the necessity of rigid enforce- urged that standards of wages aloffensive, Intended by the Austrians tions, to proper wage scale are sential Enlighthigh production. ment of existing legal standards, and ready established in the industry and KEYMEN TO STRIKE JULY 8. and Germans. Italian attack was not limited to ened patriotism. In other words, de- urging that even where the law per in the locality should not be lowered, day, effort Monte di Valbella. On the left bank mands not that the workers shall work mlts a nine or that minimum wage rates bear a con- President Expects to Intervene in Time of the Brenta they captured the long hours at top speed for the least should be made to restrict the work of stant relation to Increases in the cost to Prevent Walkout. wages, but that for the sake women to eight hours, the ordnance of living, and thafi in the case of reheights of Sassa Rosso, just north of possible Chicago. S. J. Konenkamp, presof output they shall make a steady department has in mind primarily the placement of men by women, there ident Commercial Telegraphers Union the village of Valstagna. These actions may explain the fail- - reasonable expenditure of strength for output of munitions. In urging the should be equal pay for equal work. in America, on June 30 issued a genure of the Italians to pursue the Aus- a reasonable length of time under prop- prohibition of night work, they state In justice to our soldiers at the front, eral order to all subordinate units of We have long heard that "English investigators hqve found the standards of the trians across the Piave, when, on er conditions.demanded they have the union calling for a strike against for the good of that night work for women involves left behind must not jobs these things be lowered by the Western Union Telegraph comJune 23, the enemy fled from the west now new a but partner- proportionately larger costs for super- these new recruits, who' will, in inbank with a haste that Indicated some- the workers, on July 8 at 7 a. m. The action has been formed. Efficiency and vision and. protection. ship The human creasing numbers, take their places In pany of demoralization. thing of union follows months of negthe humanity go hand in hand. cost of night work has long been the industrial army. otiations through the national war laFrom the time of our entrance into known to social. Investigators. A British official estimates state that bor board, whose decision granting McADOO RETURNS SHORT LINES. the war, the importance of conserving world war has brought out its pecun- since the war began, some 1,400,000 the telepraghers the right to organize labor standards has been emphasized iary extravagance. women have directly replaced ien, ana was Government Relinquishes Management and rejected by the Western Union. by important offThe Saturday half holiday an ab- some 600,000 are employed directly on of Small Roads. icials In the government. The presi- solute essential for women, under all munitions. The replacement of men Advocate 80 Per Cent Tax. Washington. About 1700 short line dent himself, in welcoming at the conditions meal and rest by women has, comparatively, not adequate railroads were turned back to private White House the British labor com- periods, and one immediate effect Washington-O- ne days rest in seven, been extensive In the United States as of the disclosures of profiteering made management on June 29 by the rail- mission which visited this country last also find place in this government list yet. But day by day we hear of new road administration, a few hours be-- 1 spring, said that nothing would be of industrial standards. Even with occupations entered, and old ones ex- in the report of the federal trade in- - more fore congress passed legislation deplorable than to set aside the best will in the world, and despite tended. Women are. the reserve labor commission will be to stimulate the tended to prevent the relinquishment even temporarily thg laws which have the most ardent spirit of sacrifice, group of senators who last year dehuof many of them. Between 300 and safeguarded the standards of labor and man beings cannot do continuous work power of the nation, and, if the. war manded taxing 80. per cent of war goes on, will inevitably be called into 400 of the roads relinquished had of life, wlten we are fighting in a without losing their efficiency. The Industry in greater and greater num- profits. means eause which the under government to of the remain lifting sought English workers, who toiled such long bers. Increasing demands will be made About 400 short lines standards of life. Secretary Baker, hours at the beginning of the war, did Britons Drop Thirteen Hun Planes. management. them, unwise sacrifices will with were retained as part of the national as chairman of the council of defense so willingly for the sake of their sol- upon London. British aviators in aerial out doubt be demanded, in April of last year, stated In a let- diers. In the words of system. J. II. Thomas, attempts will be made to break down combats on the western front Friday airter addressed to the governors of the member of the British labor commislabor laws. But because, in the light shot down seventeen German out Bill. states a resolution passed by the coun- sion to this down others sent six Senate Approve Appropriation and country: of Englands experience, and of cur planes of control. We got reports of our lads being own best industrial Three British machines appropria cil, That the council of national deWashington. Carrying practice, we know are fense the of dolupon billion urge legislatures twelve more as a result of the comof than mowed tions down, unable to defend themmissing workers mean dethat exhausted as well as the ail administrawar states, lars for the prosecution of the selves, simply like rabbits in a hole, creased production and because in bats. and conferring authority on the presi- tive agencies charged with the enforce- being mowed down all for want of .the case of women workers, they Americans Take More Prisoners. dent to raise as large an army as may ment of labor and health laws, the munitions. You can quite understand mean, too, a deterioration of the race, of the final great duty maintaining to insure existing that public sentiment was that we had the victory, be necessary Capture of 309 GerWashington. people of the country must be .n as to welthe and health of safeguards afternoon passed senate to some man the Saturday give thci protection, and our guard with that vigilance demanded prisoners and the destruction tne army appropriations bill. There fare of workers, and that no departure men and our women were working 14, by its chief of ordnance lest the safe- three German airplanes by American General was not an opposing vote. The bill from such present standards in state 16, 19 and all manner of hours, 120 guards with which the people of our aviators was reported by had been before the senate almost con- laws or state rulings affecting labor hours a week, not so much because country have commuuiqoe official an in sought to protect labor Pershing should be taken without the declaratinuously for five days. they were compelled, dont get that should be unwisely and unnecessarily Saturday. tion of the council of national defense into your hends, but because the broken down. that such a departure is essential for circumstances, the moral influencevery Survivor of Dwinsk Reach Shore. of Building Collapsed, Twenty Injured. the effective pursuit of the national de- doing for these gallant lads Washington. After being afloat ten Sioux City, Iowa. The toll of dead something Beyond All Doubt. fense. The council has since strong- to give them a chance the brick an boat, in folllowlng open In us days the Ruff building, a three-storFirst Tramp And ore you reaffirmed this stand, and the wom- all to forget hours and compelled which sinking of the transport steamship ly else. and at Fourth itructure Douglas', everything tired, Rill? Now, as the war went on the sickDwinsk, twenty men were picked up an's committee of the council has at 1 :30 Saturday afternoon, Second Tramp Tired! Gee collapsed whiz, official as its taken, for standards the ness returns showed, an alarming inby a naval vessel on June 28 and were Im so tired that I could sleep was estimated at 10 to 20, with a score employment of women, the standards crease. The genera! health of the peo- - pard, landed Sunday at Hampton Roads. more injured. peacefully in a bathtub. ty-seventh, Labor Standards n a . - Austro-Hungaria- n , . s. ar ten-ho- short-sighte- d . - - y |