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THE MOKXIXCr OREGOXIAX. FRIDAY, DI-XEMKER 19, 1919. PACKERS SURRENDER SUBSIDIARY LINES Government Action Against Big Five Compromised. VAST INTERESTS GIVEN UP HiS Meat Operators Promise Dispose of All Their Out side Properties. fContlnu.d Prom FIrrt Pasre.) to "The fruits of his victory may be matle permanent . only by 1-gislation along the lines or the measures now pending;." "Tallinn: Blow" Delivered. Senator Kendriek said '.he decree was the "most telling: blow" yet de livered against the high ctst of liv ing. -Senator tCenyon declared the government should maintain over the packers the control provide by the pending bill. Inasmuch as "it Is evi dent that they are building the great est monopoly the country has ever known." Retirement of the packers from all lines of business except the meat and produce business ends a fight of long standing, which has been an is sue In elections and political debates for years, the subject of much at tempted legislation, the cause of the expenditure of thousands of dollars in investigations and untold bitterness between the packers on the one hand and the government, livestock pro ducers and small business firms on the other. The present settlement is an out growth of an investigation started by the federal trade commission by di rection of President Wilson on Feb ruary 7, 1917- A letter reviewing that work and what it accomplished was transmitted to the White House to night by Chairman Murdock and his associates. WllHon'n ld Appreciated. "The commission thanks you, Mr. President," the letter said, "for your unswerving support in its labors; ac knowledges the sympathetic co-operation of the department of agriculture and the department of justice, and the other branches of the government, and of the many good citizens whose aid has made the completion of Its task possible. And, lastly, the pa tience and generosity of the congress and of its committee in both nouses." Much evidence obtained by the com mission from the private files of the packers was made public, despite de termined opposition, in ex-parte hear ings in Waehlngton and other cities which were sensational in their reve lations of financial manipulation by means of dummy directors, bearer warrants and other devices to conceal the persons involved. When the investigation was trans ferred to Chicago, a hot legal fight resulted from a raid on the private vault of Henry Vecder, from which Francis J. Heney of California, spe cial counsel for the commission, took letters and papers alleged to have re lated to ollusion between the pack ers to control the market and price of livestock. . Veeder stopped Heney from further examination of his files by "obtaining a federal injunction, pending which both sides maintained guards around the vault-night and day. Gigantic Job Flniahed. "After eight months of exhaustive work and the placing of one branch of the matter before a Chicago grand jury, the results were ready to be placed before a United States grand jury, sitting in New York for the months of Nevember and December. Before the opening, however, of the hearings before the grand jury, Mr. Palmer was notified that the defend ants would submit to all proper re quirements of the government under the law." Mr. Palmer's statement then recites the alleged evils of packer ownership of stockyards, market newspapers and allied industries, as developed from the federal trade commission's inquiry into the packing business, and continues: "They how have, either jointly 01 separately, a controlling interest in 22 of the 50 market stockyards in the United States. Control Declared Abused. "The parent companies have availed themselves of the control so acquired by them in the stockyards aforesaid to elect the officers and directors of said stockyards and to dominate and control the policies thereof. They have granted exclusive privileges, such as the right to purchase dead animals, the right to furnish sup plies and facilities and the location of cattle banks and cattle loan com panies, to the concerns and corpora tions In which they, or some of them, or individuals who. are stockholders in said parent companies, hold the controlling stock, all of which has been done with the intent and pur pose and has had the effect of dis - couraging and suppressing the es tablishment of independent packing establishments and dwarfing the growth of such independent companies which then might be in existence, to enable said parent companies, their subsidiaries or the individuals who own and control the parent companies and their subsidiaries, to obtain vast profits from the management of the stockyards and the granting of the privileges appurtenant thereto, which profits are realized not only upon the livestock purchased by the pack ers, but upon that purchased by their competitors, and have thus enabled them to enjoy and realize such profits without the same appearing or be ing disclosed in the profits of the parent companies: and otherwise to further the attempt of said parent companies to monopolize the meat in dustry of the country and artificially control the ultimate price which the consumer pays fos meat and meat products. Pncfcera Power Extended. "The Investigation demonstrated that even with a practical monopoly of the supplies of meat in the country, they could not be controlled by the defendants without the control of substitute foods. To accomplish this purpose, the defendants availed them selves of the advantages; at' hand in auto trucks, route cars, branch houses and storage warehouses owned or controlled by them. The control was extensively and rapidly increasing. Yearly great nurabe rs of competitors abandoned the contest and quit busi ness or sold out to the parent corpo rations or their subsidiaries. Unless prevented by this decree, the defend ants, within the compass of a few years, would have controlled the quan tity and price of practically every article of food found on the Amer ican table. "In the 15 years from 1904 to 1919, Swift & Co., Armour & Co., Wilson & Co., Inc., and the Cudahy Packing company, according to their financial reports, grew from a net worth of approximately $92,000,000 to a net worth of approximately J479.000.000, but in this same period they paid In cash dividends J105, 000,000. Only $89,00,000 of their Increased worth was represented in capital. Though always asserting a very low rate of profit on sales, the five parent com panies have grown so rapidly that their combined net prpflt for 1919 has equaled nearly the amount of their total sales in 1904. Sales Reacn Billions. "The sales themselves In IB years have increased until for the fiscal year 1918 they reached the vast sum of $3,200,000,000. This was realized from meats, substitute foods and un related lines, as hereinbefore set forth. In stating these figures account has been taken only of profits and sales to the parent companies and subsid iaries included by them upon their books. No account has been taken of the many corporations which are owned or controlled by th"e same fam ily or financial Interests as own or control the parent companies. "In addition to these profits there have been other vast profits, difficult or ascertainment, realized by Indi viduals by virtue of either their per sonal control of other packing houses and slaughtering companies or their interests in stockyards, terminal rail roads, rendering companies, cattle loan institutions and banks'and other corporations, all of which corpora tions have their inception in and de pend for their prosperity upon ad vantages and privileges growing out of the interlocking control of the stockyards and stockyard appurte nances. 574 Corporations Controlled. "The parent companies or the Indi vidual defendants, and their families, maintain and control 574 corporations or concerns, including 131 trade names. They have a significant mi nority stock interest in 95 others, and an interest of unknown extent in an additional 93. Thus the total num ber of concerns in which they have control or interests is some 762. Prac tically all of these companies, how ever, come under the jurisdiction of the court through the naming of the above mentioned defendants. "In the years that have passed the parent companies have acquired or organized many other concerns and have maintained them so long as they were useful for their purpose. When no longer useful these concerns have been merged into the parent com panies or into other subsidiaries. The total of 762 above stated, therefore, falls far short of representing the numbers of concerns that corporate and individual defendants have ac quired or have organized in further ance of their general scheme and plan of action already explained. Enormous Growth Shown. "In 1916 the business of Armour & Co., in canned fish, vegetables and sundries, canned and dried fruits, fruit preserves and grape Juice, amounted to $6,396,036.73. In 1918. two years later, the same company's volume of business In these same items was $30,820,000 over sixfold Increase. While part of this increase of business may be attributed to the increase of population and the conse quent increase of consumption, the greater part thereof was acquired at the expense of competitors." DEGREE AGAINST BIG PACKERS SWEEPING Terms Made Public by Attor ney-General. ALL SIDE LINES MUST GO All Sales of Subsidiary Property to Be Made Under Supervis ion of IT. S. Court. ft NO MATTER WHERE TOU BUY BUY EARLY IN THE MORNINGS THEN A MERRY XMAS I DECREE HITS MAXY COXCERXS List of Corporations Affected by Agreement Given Out. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. The cor porations and individuals against whom will be directed the federal court decree under which the big packers will confine themselves here after wholly to the meat and provi sion business, follow: Armour defendants, corporations and individuals: Armour & Co. (Illinois), J. Ogdcn Ar mour; Armour & Co. (New Jersey), Charles W. Armour; Armour & Co. (Kentucky), A. Watson Armour; Armour & Co. (Texas), Laurence H. Armour; Armour & Co., Ltd. (Louisiana). Arthur Meeker; Anglo-American Provision company (Illinois). R. J. Dunham; Colorado Packing & Provision company ' (Colorado). F. Edson White, Fowler Packing company (Maine). Freder ick W. Croll; Hammond Packing company (Illinois), George M. Wlllettes; New York Butcher Dressed Beef' company (New York), George B. Robbins, and Atlantic Hotel Supply company. Swift defendants, corporations and individuals: Swift & Co. (Illinois), Louis F. Swift: Swift & Co. (West Virginia), Edward F. Swift; Swift & Co. (Maine). Charles F. Swift; Swift A Co., Inc. (Kentucky), Gus tuvus Swift Jr.: Swift & Co.. Ltd. (Louisi ana). Harold W. Swift; Swift Beef com pany (Maine), Alden D. Swift; United Dressed Beef company (New York), George H. Swift; J. J. Huntington ft Co.. Inc. (New Jersey), Laurence A. Carton; Blmbler company (New Jersey), Frank S. Hay ward; C. H. Hammond 'company (Michi gan), Charles A. Peacock; Omaha Packing company (Kentucky), Wilfred W. Sher man: Plankington Packing company (Wis consin), Willington Leavlt; Sturtevant & Halsey, J. M. Chaplin; Beef & Supply com pany (Maine), William B. Trainor: W. M. Pond Packing company (Illinois), Van Wagenen A Schickhause company (New Jersey), Western Packing company (Cali fornia)); Hammond Beef company (Michi gan); Omaha Meat company (California); Canfield Commission company (New Jer sey): H. C. Derby company (New l'ork); Metropolitan Hotel Supply company (New York); Vermont Supply company. Hotch ktsa Beef company, F. & C. Crittenden company, George Nye company. H. L. Handy company, Swif t-Coates company. Andrews, Swift Co., New Knsland Dressed Meat & Wool company. North Packing & Provision company, Sperry & Barnes company, John P. Squire company (Maine); John P Squire company. Inc. (Massachusetts); John P. Squire company Inc. (Rhode Island); Springfield Provision company, and White, Peavay & Dexter ccmpany. Morris defendants, corporations and individuals: Morris A Son (Maine); Edward Morris; Morris Packing company (Maine); Nelson Morris; Morris & Co, (New Jersey); L. H. Heymann; Morris A Co. Ltd. (Louisiana; C. M. McFarlane: Morris & Co. (Pennsyl vania); H. A. Tlmmlns; Joseph Stern & Sons. Inc., (New York); Brooklyn Beef & Provision company; Condlt Beef A Provi sion company; Corwin, Wilde & Co.: Don nelly & Co., Inc., National Hotel Supply company; Chamberlain & "Co., Inc.; J. M. Wilson & Co.; Middleton Beef & Provision company, and Glenn & Anderson company Wilson defendants, corporations and individuals: Wilson & Co., Inc., (N. T.), Thomas E. Wilson: Wilson & Co., Inc., (N. J.), Ar thur Lowensteln; Wilson & Co., Inc., of California, (Nevada), Jacob Moog; Wilson & Co.. Inc., (La ), V. D. Skipworth; Wil son & Co., (Okla.), A. L. Smith; South Dakota Provision company, J. A. Hamil ton; Gotham Hotel Supply . company, George D. Hopkins: Standard Beef com pany. A. E. Peterson; Steifel-O'Mara com pany. G. H. Cowan: Drexel Packing com pany, Wm. C. Buethe; Albert Lea com pany. Inc., C. F. Burrell; Mississippi Packing company; James C. Good: Morton Gregson company, (Delaware), Paul O. Reymann company: Standard Provision ' company and Central Products corpora ! tion. I Cudahy defendants, corporations j and Individuals: j Cudahy Packing company (Maine); Ed ! ward A Cudahy Sr.: Cudahy Packing com pany (Nebraska). Edward A. Cudahy Jr.; i Cudahy Packing company (Alabama), Guy I C. Sheppard; Cudahy Packing company, i Ltd. (Louisiana), John E. Wagner; Nagle I Packing company, A. W. Anderson; M. A. Strauss, Frank. E. Wllhe'.m and George Marp.es; Western Meat company. Nevada Packing company, and Oakland Meat & Packing company F. L. Wasbburn, WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. The of ficial outline of the agreement reached between the government and the five big packers, as made public tonight by the department of Justice, follows: "Attorney-General Palmer' today announced that the five big packers Armour & Co., Morris & Co., Swift & Co., Wilson & Co., the Cudahy Pack ing company, their main subsidiaries and principal stockholders and mana gers have submitted to all the con tentions of the government and con sented to the entry of any injunc tion decree providing for the carry ing out of these contentions. 'Under this decree, tne aeienaanis and each of them, either as corpora tions or as individuals, are compelled. In brief: 'To sell under supervision of the United States district court, prefer ably to the livestock producers and the public, all their holdings in puo- lic stockyards. 'To sell, under the same supervision and in like manner, all their Interests in stockyards, railroads and terminals. Market Paper Mast Go. 'To sell under the same supervision and in like manner, all their interests in market newspapers. "Dispose of all their interests in public cold storage warehouses, ex cept as necessary for their own meat products. "To forever dissociate themselves with the retail meat business. "To forever dissociate themselves with all 'unrelated lines,' Including wholesale groceries, fresh, canned, dried or salt fish; fresh, dried or canned vegetables; fresh, crushed, dried, evaporated or canned fruits, confectioneries, syrups, soda water fountain supplies, etc., molasses, honey. Jams, jellies and preserves. Ices, sauces, relishes, etc, coffee, tea, chocolates, cocoa, nuts, flour, sugar, rice and cereals (with an exception to be noted), bread, wafers, crackers, biscuits, spaghetti, vermicelli, maca roni, cigars, china, furniture, etc. "To forever abandon the use of the branch houses, route cars and auto trucks, comprising their distribution system for other than their own meat and dairy products. Further Combines Bnrred. "To perpetually submit to the juris diction of the United States district courts under an Injunction forbidding all the defendants from directly or indirectly maintaining any combina tion or conspiracy with each other or any other person or persons, or mo nopolizing or attempting to monop olize any food products, in the United States or indulging in any unfair and unlawful practice. "The decree further provides that jurisdiction is perpetually retained by the courts for the purpose of taking such other action or adding at the foot of the decree such other relief, if any, that may become necessary or appropriate for the carrying out and enforcement of the decree or for the purpose of entertaining at any time thereafter in the application which the parties may make with re spect to this decree. "Immediately upon Mr. Palmer be Coming attorney-general, in March, 1919, he personally 'took up the charges against the packers, and spe cial assistants were asked to study the investigation of the federal trade commission, at hearings before con gressional committees and to conduct independent investigations. "Of the corporations which have been acquired by the parent com panies in recent years, the large num ber are concerns manufacturing or selling these substitute foods or un related commodities. This fact, to gether with the increased activities of the parent organizations themselves in these lines, indicated a well-defined purpose on their part to secure con trol of the market for meat-substl tute foods. Competition Eaatly Killed. "In addition to trre companies In which control has been acquired by outright purchase, the parent com panles have in a large number of cases contracted for the exclusive out put of many other companies engaged in the production of substitute foods and unrelated commodities. The out puts of these plants are marketed by the parent companies or by their subsidiaries through the distribution facilities of the parent companies. In this fashion the parent companies! control the output .oftheee concerns and the market price of their products as completely as though they them selves owned the producing com panies, "The principal agent In stifling competition was. as has been stated, the fact that the distributing system of the great packers was an efficient and cheap way of handling not pos sessed by their competitors." . The statement lists the foods which the packers will be- enjoined from handling, including all kinds of fish, vegetables, fruits, cereals, etc., with the exception of allowing some of the corporations to continue their busi ness In cereals. This exception was considered necessary because "some of them had been in business since prior to the time they engaged In the meat business, and the prevention of their use of the distributing system min imizes the evil of their continuing in the cereal business. But, in general, the decree eliminates all the defend ant corporations from all unrelated lines or products not containing meat. Stork "Dealt-' Prohibited. "The decree further enjoins the In dividual defendants from individually or Jointly owning. B0 per cent or more of the voting stock in any corpora tion engaged in the business of man ufacturing, jobbing, selling, trans porting, distributing or otherwise dealing in any of the unrelated com modities; or from adopting any de vice or arrangement which, by rea son of their relation to the corpora tion, defendants, or any of them, would have the purpose or effect of giving to such unrelated lines any advantage over their competitors sim ilar in purpose or effect to any ad vantage now enjoyed by any of the corporation defendants through their distributing system. "The bill provides that Immediate ly upon the entry of the decree the defendants shall commence to dis pose of such commodities owned or handled by them as have been herein described, and shall commence to di vest themselves of all interests in firms, corporations and associations dealing in any of the so-called 'un related commodities' and shall con tinue In good faith to dispose of said commodities and to divest themselves of said interests as rapidly as may be consistent with the nature of-the business and the seasonal nature of the merchandise involved; that, in fact, they shall have completely dis posed of said commodities and com pletely divested themselves of these nterests within two years from the date of the entry of this decree: The attorney-general may apply to the court at any time within said two years to compel the defendants, or any of them, to make report to the court as to the progress being made by the defendants in divesting them selves of said interests." ACID POISON KILLS FOUR Women, Girl and Infant Found Dead in New York Bungalow. NEW YORK, Dec. U.Four per sons were found dead from acid poi soning in a bungalow at Sheepshead bay today. They were Mrs. Olga Brockberbon, her 4-year-old daughter and 2-day-old infant, and Alice Sher idan, a nurse. - The Brockberbon bungalow is lo cated on what is known as "Million aires' Row." DIFFERENCE HELD AT O S WEAKNESS Major-General Wood Asks Im migration Supervision. AGITATORS ARE SCORED Store Opens at 9 A.M. ' P9 All mail orders promptly leZ and carefully filled same day as received. 1 Indian Land Appraised. PENDLETON, Or., Dec. 18. (Spe cial.) Nine allotments of land in the Umatilla Indian reservation, totaling 600 acres and appraised at 180.410, or $124 an acre, are to be offered for sale February 16, the Indian depart ment announces. To rrevenc Innnenza Colds cause Grip and Influenza LAXA TIVE BI1UMO gt'lNlNK Tablets remove the cause. There Is only one Bramo Quinine. E W. GROV'H'a sicnatura ou box. ttoo, Adv. American Legion Referred To in Denver as Bulwark tn Coun try's Industrial Life. DENVER, Dec. 18 The marked in difference of the average American toward the 'performance of his civic duties and the willingness of the red alien and the agitator to usurp the functioning of the local government in many sections of the nation, are much the factors in the wave of un rest which ia sweeping the nation. Major-General Leonard A. Wood told the members of the Colorado legisla ture when he addressed a joint ses sion of that body here today. "We have been attributing much of our unrest to the rank of labor." said General Wood, "but during my recent travels through the riot zones, I have learned that 95 per cent of the American workingmen are straight but that In many Instances they are under the domination of the agitators, who are responsible for most of the unrest. "The remedy that can be most ef fectively applied righto now is a strict supervision of immigration. If we will take the foreigner in hand as soon as he leaves Ellis Island, we can counteract the influence which the radicals soon exert over-him and in this manner Instill Into the new comer the principles of real Amer icanism. "The American Legion can be looked upon as a bulwark in the nation's in dustrial life and to' the members of .the legion is going to be delegated the task of suppressing the treasonable activities of the rabid alien in event no other means of suppressing him can be found." General Wood also appealed for better commercial enterprise and pro duction in the light of the great steps now being made in Germany to re gain her pre-war footing. "I don't think our people as a whole realize the great Industrial competi tion that Is to come before long." he said. "Germany Is soon to become a keen competitor In the world's business; her laborers have a 12-hour day, 10 for the individual and two for the state, so it is imperative that we dili gently push forward our commercial enterprises." Speaking of Germany's apparent depletion of shipping, he said that thjs was but a temporary hindrance and would soon disappear under the pressure of the energy of national endeavor. "I think the watchword for us to day Is 'steady,' he said, "and let us hold on to the things that have made us what we are; we must have sta bility, law and order; we must ad here firmly to the wording of the constitution and to the American pol icy that has been established for us. There is too much talk directed to the people over the heads of the au thorities. This is not complying with the constitution. We must hold to this document like life iteelf, for it is the anchor of our republic." NO MATTER WHERE TOU BUY BUY EARLY IN THE MORNINGS THEN A MERRY XMAS silfflfB COMING! 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