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The Story of the Promotion Of Brotherhood Banking By JOHN GABRIEL SOLTIS (Continued from last week) MR. GEORGE T. WEBB He was vice president of the Brotherhood Bank of Cleveland. Also was first vice president of the Empire Trust Company of New York. The latter company joins with the Brotherhood Investment Co. in under writing bond issues. He owes his position, indirectly, to be sure, to Jack Hastings. Mr. Webb was a large scale farmer, a small town banker and general all-around promoter at Ellendale, Koith Dakota. He failed in the deflation of 1920. Mt Webb and Hastings are very close collaborators. Webb, it is hardly necessary to relate, has had abso lutely no connections with the world of labor. He could not differentiate between a trade union and a woman's sewing circle. So, upon Webb's failure as a Capitalist Farmer, Banker and Financial Proomter, Hastings took it upon himself to take care of Mr, Geo. T. Webb. This he did. About the year 1920, upon the pull and influence of Jack Hastings, Webb was appointed by the INDUS TRIAL COMMISSION of North Dakota, a Nonpaiti san League creation, as fiscal agent for the Bank of North Dakota, a state institution. It was the duty of Mr. Webb, as fiscal agent of the Bank of North Dakota to market the bonds of the state bank in the Eastern market, in an effort to se cure operaing funds for the bank in question. He es tablished offices at Chicago, Cleveland and New York. Mr. Webb, then, left for the East to accomplish his work. The trip to the East cost the people some sixty thous and dollars, I am reliably informed. However, as a re sult of Mr. Webb's journey to the wise men of the East, he succeeded in selling himself to the late War ren B. Stone, on whose trail he camped daily. He es tablished firm connections with the late brotherhood chief, and thus became an employe of the Brotherhood Bank at Cleveland. It is no exaggeration to say, that Mr. Webb was the principal cog in the financial ma chine of the railroad brotherhoods, as we shall amply prove in this monograph. Of course, none are so blind as those who will not see nor none so deaf as those who will not hear, as the Bible says. MR. H .A. PADDOCK Paddock is a lawyer. He was general-counsel for the Brotherhood financial enterprises at Cleveland. Thru Jack Hastings, Paddock became some pumpkin in the politics and economics of North Dakota. His record, in connection with the Nonpartisan League enterprises, is, to say the very least, very shady. One of the most sensational steals that the "wreck ing crew" engaged in, was that of the Consumers Stores Company. It cost the farmers many millions. About August, 1918, Paddock assumed charge of the entire note and cash assets of the Consumers Stores Company, and also the business relations of these stores with the Scandinavian-American Bank of Fargo, North Dakota. Hastings was the president of the Consumers Stores Company, and the acting associa of H. A. Pad dock in the Scandinavian-American Bank of Fargo, North Dakota. Hastings was the president of the Consumers Stores Company, and the acting associate of H. A. Paddock in the Scandinavian-American Bank. Under his management and with his knowledge, he jermitted Hastings to misapply funds and embezzle them. He also winked at false entries in the books of the company, criminally dissipated and the stores thrown into bank The main portion of the assets were ruptcy. Paddock covered up and protected both the transac tions in the Consumers Stores Company and the Scan dinavian-American Bank, both of which institutions were wrecked. He did this as manager of the stores company, and as legal advisor of both institutions, and in the teeth of a protest of the former manager, who resigned because of the black deals put over the farm ers. All these facts are a matter of court record, in the state of North Dakota, as well as in the report of the Legislature on the "wrecking crew." In 1920, he was indicted, together with Jack Hast ings, on a charge of wrecking the Scandinavian-Amer ican Bank, he was the bank's attorney. The Statute of Limitations, however, saved them. He was also in dicted for malfeasance of office, as a public official, which indictment was dismissed on error, and later out lawed by the Statute of Limitations. This was in con nection with his work on the Industrial Commission, as its secretary. Paddock was attorney for, and active agent of, the following corporations, all of which vanished into thin air, costing the stockholders millions of dollars: U. S. Sissal Trust Consumers United Store Company Scandinavian-American Bank of Fargo, N. D. As a member of the exclusive, inner-circle of the wrecking crew," Paddock had his finger in all the pie that was cut for delectation. In the early part of 1922, Mr. Paddock and the slip pery H. E. Merrick, organized a collection agency in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The purpose of this fraud was to collect the postdated checks that the Minnesoa farmers had issued to the defunct Nonparti san League. Their office was established at 914 Phoe nix Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota. In order for the reader to clearly understand, the \ (< CHRYSLER-DODGE FUTURE POLICIES Acquisition of Dodge Brothers, Inc., by the Chrysler Corporation now a waiting approval of the stockholders 1 1 ! Reboring and Regrinding We have installed a Reboring and Regrinding chine. Bring in your motors and have them made like new. All work guaranteed, at reasonable prices. Don't forget we can recharge your Ford Magneto while you are in town shopping, with the latest Colpi magneto charger. ma in *♦ Plentywood Auto Company will not affect the identity or products i of either company according to the statements just released by officials of the two corporations. The products of the two manufacturers will con tinue without interruptmn. niÂ* J^ herS T 1 '! contmue to be Dodge Brothers and Chrysler will be Chrysler says the statement, and the , . , I nature of this fraud, we must know that the postdated checks which he farmers made out to the Nonpartisan : 11 Mr. Paddock with his keen legal mind, together with the elusive Mr. Merrick, former secretary-treasurer of I the Pacific Brotherhood Investment Company, saw in these unhonored postdated checks a golden opportunity to rake in the cash of the farmers, by employing pro League, were in payment for two newspapers that they were to rceive from the organization, were weeklies; one national, and one state paper. Both of them However, owing to the demise of the League, no such papers were published for a long time, natural death with the ramshackle League. Therefore, the farmers quite rightly refused to pay those checks, since they got nothing in return. Many thousands of dollars of such checks remained unpaid. They died a per legal methods to force payment. They hired a crew of professional bull-dozing and "hard-boiled" collectors to visit the farmers and intimi dat ethem into paying on those checks, ^r face legal action. Many farmers were thus fleeced by these two exponents of "labor banking," to whom the term Class Collaboration cannot apply simply because it would de scribe nothing in their case. This operation was a high handed fraud, smacking of plain unadorned rob Fresh from his triumph as a "hard-boiled' collector; of getting something for nothing, we find Mr. H. A. ! bery. Paddock, departing for Cleveland, Ohio, there to func tion as general-counsel of the Brotherhood Financial Institution. How does that come to pass? Well, Mr. Geo. T. Webb, whose rise in the world of finance, was due to the warm friendship of both Hast ings and Paddock, et a., found him.eff in a position not only to repay for past services rendered to him by the "wrecking crew", but also to place a man whose . qualities he knew only too well, where he could do tne J . the original staff of the Townley-Hastmgs crowd, as we shall soon have occasion to note, beyond any shadow of a doubt. That's how Paddock got there. MR. HENRY E. GASS Cass was president of the Pacific Brotherhood In- j vestment Company of Seattle, Washington. Also was j president or vice president of the Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle and Portland Brotherhood Banks. He is also a product of the League machine, being one of its later productions. greatest good to the smallest number, that is to say, to He was employed for about ten years in the North western National Bank of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1 the capacity of a clerk in the transit department. He was for a short time cashier of the Capital Security Bank of Bismarck, North Dakota. However, due to rather embarrassing entanglements into which he got himself at Bismarck, not related to the banking business at all, he was constrained to abandon the post. He became organizer of the Nonpartisan League , ^ . , , . about 1920, going into the state of aKnsas with the Townley organization in the winter of 1920-1921. He was a very close friend of H. A. Merrick, who did all r* __ « 4 ., t he could to advance Mr. Case. But the League was entering definitely into its ec.ipse, so that Cass had to move to other fields for easy money. Later he became a promoter of "Mary Murphy's Seb This did not o-o over Fnllnw. • _ tV , Jc s . , , n . g ' ^ ^ a w ^ ee ^ i ' a ^ Cleveland, Ohio, and then went to Spokane, Washington, and became cash-1 ier of the Brotherhood Bank there. Soon afterward he became the president of the Pacific Brotherhood In vestment Company, followed by his presidency of prac Soaping Wash Board". tically all of the Brotherhood banks Coast. n on the Paciiic 1 When one asks what was the ladder that Cass climb ed to ascena his former height of financial eminence, • he is puzzled for an answer, unless he knows the ways cf the game played by the Webbs and Paddocks. From the standpoint of a successful man, a practical ■ banker as they run under Capitalism, Mr. Cass had On the contrary, all of his _ . Therefore, his qualifica tions from this point of view are non-existant. .. HaS ,. h ® ^ een loade(1 down with ail of the responsibil 1 > which he carries because of his superior knowledge of the world of labor? Not at all. It is doubtful whether Mr. Cass knew that the real workers were or ganized into sixteen different craft unions, before he got placed in the bank at Spokane. He is not a member of a labor union. ; I positively no record, tures were dismal failures. ven He never was for that matter, him labor organizations are all Greek. Moreover, he is not at all interested in them as labor organizations. As fields for the getting of is a horse of another color. To easy money, that, of course, What, then, was his shining qualifications that in duced somebody at Cleveland to place Cass at the head of the Brotherhood institutions on the Pacific Coast? Simply that Webb and Paddock, the master minds be hind the organization of the Pacific Brotherhood In vestment Company, knew that Mr. Cass could be a trusted soldier who would carry out the orders implicit ly, and without murmur, as transmitted to him by the two master minds at Cleveland, Ohio. In other word?, they knew their man as the graduate of the Townley Hastings school of fast workers. Hence, the selection of Henry E. Cass for the strategic post of president of the Pacific Brotherhood Investment Company of Se attle, Washington, and officer of the string of Brother hood Banks on the Pacific coast. (Continued next week) sales organizations will be unrelated excepts as they shall mutually share Jin the advantages of the consolidation, | Their cars will continue to be pro duced and marketed independently, T he statement continues^ "The widespread public interest in recent events affecting the Chrysler J corporation and Dodge Brothers, Inc., deserves an authentic and official I statement, and an assurance regard j the future of these two 1 tions. j Each will benefit from the consu ! mat ion of a plan which unites such j tremendous resources in materials, ! manufacturing facilities, financial power and «manufacturing genius. I Both the public and the dealers i may look forward to the greater ben j efits which the consolidation of such tremendous resources will produce, and the men identified with these bus | messes may be assured of a stable an ddefimte futuer, inspired by the progressiveness which has been sponsible for the uniting of i great companies." corpora re two I COW IMITATES AUTOMOBILE Middletown, N. Y., June 12 (Auto i caster) A Holstein cow here discov ered a pail of five gallons of gaso • Ime and hurriedly drank it. The cow sufferde no bad effects. I i«ij B Istahlberger SANDWICHES : JOHN ARTHUR STAHLBERG 6 E. . . ... 1 Do you know Vera, *ho »dvis« oM I iids and other curios in the ff Lr ! ^ I ly Confidential" column? Well, the nthpr dav whpn t u «wav looking ! Ov^er wnen she was J® , after a matter of strict continence, she asked me to iun through t e ay s j mail. Here are some sample 01 found, together with the answers which I felt would best follow out Vera's poucy; Dear Veia. I am a very beautiful and sweet young thing of the feminine gender, with tender blue eyes, an exquisite nose, pretty pink 'ears, teeth Jike pearls, a complexion like the Great white Way, lourteen-kaiat hair, dim pled cheeks and knees, Gloria Swan son eyebiows, cupidVbow Ciara-Bow "D/ ÆToTîcTïut"^»'^ " voice llke the father and mother oi a li silver bells, a lot of artistic teeling and dramatic talent, and all the boys aie wild about me. Do you think I ought to go to Hollywood ? C. LO'iTA RUBBISH. Lottie Dear: I think you ought to go to Jericho, and so is y° ur Uncle Eliphaiet! Dear Veia: 1 am a young divinity student with decided views on all subjects, from tne crossing of the Red fc>ea to this i terrible Darwinism which is corrupt - i n g the morals ot the >outh of our misled nation. I am making it my per sonal business to save the world Irom the spiiitual dangers that threaten it, i and 1 am to that end cultivating a dis position like the morning after the • night before. (1 got that simile from a y°. ua ^ ^^ther in the Lord at the ; ^ wL°sot''at"" £CU ndness of his morals, 1 presume that there is nothing indelicate about the saying.) 1 do not approve of these new fangled preachers like Dean Inge and Doctor Dielfenbach who are hardly ever properly gloomy any more, and seem to nit to be shirking in the execution of their duty, as laid, down in the Thirteenth Epistle of Pill the iJ^^^Pil^four^eleven^ 1 ^^ 618 * Yours for the 6 old-time fire and brimstone, IVAN OFFALHEAD. You sweet Thing: I have nothing to say for or against the execution of Dean Inge or Doctor Dieffenbach, but shall look forward to yours. Vera, Old Thing: The last time I announced that I was in love, I made a sad mistake, and got a whole pack of human hound dogs yapping after me. That made me a little shy. man begins to feel that if he doesn't J get to a certain girl's house before the other fellow gets there, the whole , world ma y as wel1 to—well, I don't know; Nicaragua, perhaps — that means he b in * lov ^ it* Or does it? • | JOHN ARTHUR. . ** ! Johnn . ie . you old breeze receptacle, everything depends on how long the feeling may last. The only way to find out for certain is to take your ' cou rage i n both hands and jump off the deep end - The water ' s fine. " But, dammit, when a To-day's Bi^est Lie: There was . once a man who was told ■ that he, could not miss a certain road—and actually didn't! Further Notice to National Party j Conventions: My Swedish brother-in law does not choose to iun for Presi den t in 1928. Who says that Mother Nature has no sense of humor ? thoroughly stylish Just look at a young man! Historical Note: During the wars j between Spain and the Netherlands, | many Dutch people died of Spanish 1 influence-a. Last Notice to National Party Con ventions: My aunt's pet poodle does; not choose to run for President, WHAT PRICE AUTO? London, Jure 12 (Autocaster)—A man bought a motor car for $20. He thought he had a wonderful bargain, but here is what happened; He knocked down a lamppost. He was asked to come to court for driving without a license. He sold the car for $3.75. The court fined him $5. BAKING POWDER Sam Price forcier 35 Jean 25 ouncesfor 35 ' Guaranteed Pure and Healthful Our Government used millions cf pounds cents 'cffenQcfy • Letters intended tor pnoucauon in th^oo^.houlu should not be long and should hear the name and address of the writer. Com munications written over a nom de will be published only if accom p aB ^ W jth the name of the author, Cashier Koester of Security Slate Bank of Outlook Says No Foundation to Charges The Producers News is in receipt of 1 the following letter from the cashier of the Security State Bank of Out- j look, Montana, which we publish here with: Outlook, Montana, June 6 , 1928. Producers News, Plenty wood, Montana, Gentlemen ; The article in last weeks issue rel ative to the Wanda Hass lot deal is mis-leading. I did not induce Miss Hass to buy any lots as the last week's article indicated. She had been at the house three or four different times this spring wanting to buy those lots being the south half of block twenty three but never found me at home un til Sunday, May 27. This day I ar rived home in the evening and Miss Hass had come to see me for the pur pose of buying these lots so I in formed her that a cheaper location of which we had several that we could sell her for $25 would answer her pur pose and upon showing her those lo cations she felt that I wanted to keep her nom geting her choice as she had her mind firmly made up on those lots in the south half of block 23. Seeing her frame of mind I told her that she could have her choice in whatever there was in the townsite and that 1 would get her those lets in the south half of block 23 for two hundred dol lars whereupon she said that she could buy a similar location for one hun died fifty dollars but preferred to ! have this if she could get it at the same pi ice phereupon I told her that I would let her know the next day at noon. ' 1 I then shaped the title and paid the taxes and at noon on Monday went to her and told her that if she wanted to close the deal that we were ready to do so and she paid me the one hundred fifty dollars agreed upon for said half block. There is over three hundred fifty square feet of substan Ual cement sidewalk worth more than the price paid for the lots and that is the reason she was set on this piece of property. Our equity in this property was over five hundred dollars. From this you can judge for your self whether or not there is any foun dation to the charge made against us. Respectfully, FRANK KOESTER, Cashier. DATE AND NUT SPREAD For luncheon or tea use this spread on slices of buttered white or graham bread. With these open sandwiches, serve others of pimiento cheese (this may be bought in jars). your bread in fancy shapes, without crusts. V* cup dates, shopped; % cup chop ped nuts, 4 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk, 2 teaspoons lemon juice. Beat milk and lemon juice together with a fork until thick. Add dates and nuts and mix well. And cut OPENING NEW TOWNS On the Saco -Turner Branch of the Great Northern TOWN LOT SALES Turner, July 12th Hogeland, July 13th Good openings for banks, general stores, hardware, lumber, machinery, garages, hotels, newspapers and many lines of busi ness. Turner and Hogeland FLAT, one of the largest and best wheat growing and farming districts of the North west. The district is partly developed, but thousands of acres of good farm land re main to be placed under cultivation. Tow nsites are developed and sales man aged by the Dakota & Great Northern Townsite Company, a subsidiary o ■ :he Great Northern Railway. Reasonable minimum prices have been established to encourage . development and prevent speculation. 100,000 acres under option at $5 to $20 per acre for protection of Write for FREE BOOK about the country and detailed information E. C. 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