The Penn's Grove record., 1919-08-01
AT THE DYE WORKS
German Industry Must be Met. Election of Conference Rep
resentatives August S. All Stars Down Palmyra
GERMAN CHEMICAL-DYE
CONSPIRACY

CONSPIRACY
tBy Francis P. Garvin, Alien Property
~Custodian)
For nineteen months | have been en-
gagged in a study of German industrial
life and its manifestations and ac-
Invites in the United States, and |
give you as briefly as | may a few of
the incontrovertible facts which my
experience has made clear.
First and foremost, be it understood
that this was an industrial war,
brought on by industrial Germany in
her lust-made haste to capture the
markets of the world. Industrial
Germany in its arrogance and pride
preferred the formidable hazard of
battle to the progressive and sure in
filtration which within ten or twenty
years might well have given her the
world domination she sought from
complacent and unthinking peoples.
Industrial Germany was In control
of Imperial Germany. Industrial
Germany sympathized and partici-
pated in the preparation of this war.
Industrial Germany waged this war.
Industrial Germany vas the first to see
deteat and forced the military peace in
order that with her industrial equip
ment intact she might continue that
same war by intensified and conScien-
trated economic measures.
Her ambitions are the same in peace
and in war. Her methods are the same
in peace and in war. Destroy your
business competitor by state aid, car
tel combinations, dumping, full-line
forcing, bribery, theft of patents or
inventions, espionage, and propaganda!
Destroy your military adversary by
tearing up sacred treaties, by unli-
censed and unbridled submarine and
poisonous gas warfare, by the destruc-
ton of factories, mines and vineyards,
by terrorism and vandalism!
You or | have yet to hear n word
of change of heart Or purpose; one
word of regret or shame; n word of
dispraise tor any leader in the past
holocaust. On the other hand, hold
to the fact that at this moment the
four men best fitted to conduct a
ruthless economic war upon this
country, the four men who planned,
instigated and paid for all the black
history of lawlessness under which we
suffered for two and a half years, DR..
Albert, DR.. D~ernburg, Captain Boy
I'd, and Won Bernstein, are the helms
men of the present German Govern
ment. DR.. Heinrich Albert is Under
Secretary of State; Herr Bernhard
Dernburg is now Minister of Finance;
Boy-Ed is Director of the Intelligence
Section of the Foreign Office, the
Espionage and Propaganda Division;
and that arch-criminal, Bernstein, is
over them all, directing and leading
the new Government
Has the war ended for you?
1t was Germany's chemical supre-
macy that gave her confidence in her
avaricious dream of world empire. 1t
was Germany's chemical supremacy
that enabled her to wage four years
of p~itiless warfare. And it is Ger
many's chemical supremacy upon
which she relies to continue this war;
and for that supremacy she pays hon.
age to her dye industry, and counts
upon the dye industry to maintain it.
Since 1866 Germany has recognized
the fact upon the development of the
dive industry rested her entire devel-
opment of organic chemistry; that
upon the development of organic
chemistry rested, in an ever increas-
ing measure, all the development OF
modern business, and modern warfare.
And so she cherished the industry
with wisdom and provision while it
was still in it's childhood, and by her
patience, by her persistence, by the
willingness of her people to sacrifice
in unselfsh cooperation, she has grad
ually transformed the plans made in
the year 1866 into the reality of to-
day.
And now she realizes that her dye
industry constitutes her keenest wedge
with which to force her way back into
the world trade. She calls the dye in
dustry her chief protective Industry"
and has laid out for it a program OF
state protection and aid which should
startle US. She proposes to use the
alleged necessities of the world for her
dyes to force all other exports. In
other words, she proposes to use it as
a club with which to fight her way
back into commercial society.
Prior to the war the German dye
industry was united into three cartels
with some independent companies out
side. All are now united into one
monster cartel, the l. G. Company,
with Mr.. Weinberg, the old head of the
Cassella Color Company, a its presi-
dent, and a capitalization of hundreds
of millions of dollars. Germany has
taken it under state aid and protec-
ton; she has decided to establish a
guarantee fund whereby all industries
share the losses the cartel may be
compelled to face through dumping,
bribery, or other expense incurred in
reasserting her dye monopoly of the
world. She looks forward to granting
it trade export premiums, freight re
bates. intensified consular service, and
state guarantees against labor
troubles.
AS a result, our young but victori-
GUS industry stands here today in di-
rect competition, not only with the
great cartel 1. G., but with the great
cartel sustained and supported ane
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