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...guilty, said the United States, of conspiracy, monopoly, coercion. Item: its members have blacklisted certain warehouses, wholesale grocers for refusing to cooperate; they have forced brokers and others in the sugar trade to open their books to the Institute's detectives and accountants; they have induced or compelled beet sugar refiners (none of whom belong to the Institute) to adopt many of their rules, thus restricting their competition. Item: these lawless practices helped sugar refiners to increase their margin of profit 30%, take it out of the public's pocket. To prove their point Lawyers Fly & Rice compared two refiners...
...Sugar, Oil v. Oil. The independence sentiment which Secretary Hurley encountered on his "eyes-&-ears" tour sprang, as he well knew, not from any major development within the Philippines themselves but from a sudden and significant shift of economic and political opinion when the U. S. Rocky Mountain beet producers two years ago began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came the cry of dairymen that...
...most Colorado coal operators President Roche of Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. is a dangerous industrial radical who brought the United Mine Workers of America back into Colorado. Her father founded Rocky Mountain Fuel. His big customers were sugar beet factories. Miss Josephine was sent to Vassar (1908), did postgraduate work at Columbia, developed a consuming interest in progressive social causes. She did volunteer settlement work, researched the cost of living, helped locally with Belgian relief, returned to Denver to serve as chief probation officer of the Juvenile Court under Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (since ousted). For her liberal views...
...Hawes's crusading passion for Philippine independence. The question was not a live political issue there. His friends ascribed three reasons: 1) an original human and unselfish interest in freeing the Philippines; 2) publicity accruing to him as the leader of a Cause; 3) promptings of U. S. beet sugar interests which want to shut out the Philippine product. In Washington last week Governor General Davis' annual report on the Philippines was made public. He declared that, during the 1930 Depression, the islands had been saved from "a major economic disaster" because they had free trade with...
...rails at $43 per ton. But far more spectacular was his suit in the U. S. District Court, New York City, to dissolve the Sugar Institute, whose 50 member-corporations refine more than 85% of the nation's granulated sugar. The petition charged that the Institute had induced beet sugar refiners to restrict competitive activities, had maintained the price of cane sugar 20? per hundredweight higher than refined beet sugar...