Show V Disturbing Industrial I Conditions the tho solicitude of tho the present administration for TIlE J general welfare of tho the people n after the war is aptly apt apt- I ly 13 illustrated cl by Cleveland A. A Newton a n. member of or Congress who comes from Missouri which emphasizes tho the fact that ho will have o to bo ho shown Mr 11 Newton has garnered a harvest of facts from tho the testimony taken by the committee on expenditures in the tho war yar department and stored them away in tho the Congressional Record probably for future futuro use Tho The evidence clence shows the most astonishing adherence 1 to the policy of disposing dis- dis disposing disposing dis dis- posing of foodstuffs and other accumulated war material material ma ma- so as ns to disturb iI industrial conditions as littie little lit lit- tie tIc as ns possible but with no concern at all nIl as to how much tho the pockets of the people were disturbed by hy e exorbitant t prices As late Into as os Juno June 1919 1910 tho the war department was ns still debating the question as ns to the tho best hest method of disposing disposing disposing ing of its foodstuffs BO so as to disturb industrial conditions conditions conditions condi condi- as little as os possible according to Mr 11 Newton and it seems that industrial conditions as used by thu war department meant tho the pric price of foodstuffs intile in inthe tile the United States It was decided that to release such an on enormous quantity of foodstuffs upon the tho market would disturb industrial conditions in tho tile food market In plain English the tile people would be enabled to get their food rood supplies cheaper So what did tho the war de- de department de dc- do 1 It cabled to Mr l Hoover urging him to toI I uso use tho hundred million dollars appropriated by Congress Congress ConI Con Con- of food to feed the hungry j in I gress for tho pu purchase chase i 11 f L' L' L ii cr T. T ll Europe Europa and with that money buy ouy the uie by the war department so us ns to prevent such foodstuffs I from being sold into the tile markets of this countr country with the consequent II danger of bringing down prices fact th that t the tho I And this was done one in the tho face faco of tho the war department at that time had hundreds of millions worth of canned meats meats' and other food sh stuffs already in France lir and for fot which the army arID had h no further use Other and numerous instances are aro recounted from the evidence c where the administration in power kept foo foodstuffs stuffs clothing lothing textiles s and ond other necessaries off oft the American n market in order to avoid disturbing industrial industrial in in- in relations and even C where foodstuffs w were were re permitted to spoil thereby depriving t the tb P. P people o ot ItS ira I 1 use notoriously pounds of ham in storehouses store storo- storehouses I houses in Baltimore and pounds of bacon at Norfolk Y Vi Va n. n Mr 11 Newton says that 40 per cent nt of tho the government o foodstuffs was purposely held and kept off the tho market market market mar mar- ket by tho the war department nt and adds I havo o re released released released re- re administration could Had It so o desired the soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- It demobilized tho the leased this tills great food rood supply as ns diers and tho the food market would thus thue havo o been beon brought Instead It preferred to re retain raIt re- re down dO to a normal state But Dut tain It t. t the e f foodstuffs td until much ii of It t had o. o I spoiled Il n t I In K order Hl that Chat tao food rJ nu marKet mantei t in mis 1 country m i 17 g h t riot nut u u uv c thus making makingS It for the food profiteer to reap a harvest har unparalleled In history The Tue conclusion is irresistible that the administration cared more for tho bi big business concerns that had already al already already al- al ali i ready waxed rich out of government war contracts than it did for the people who ho in their loyalty and devotion and desiro desire to win in tho the war had produced and conserved ed and saved eaten brown bread and done without sugar only to see sec their self sacrificing icing economics economies used usel against them |