New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-15
Harding Told
I've Surrender
Doorlls Industry
Delegations of Manufacture.
ers Calls ON President to
Protest Against Return
of Patents to Germans
Moses Attacks Foundation
Charges Huge Conspiracy to
Keep Foreign Formulas;
Bitter Against Caravan
v,sr rss grsoare's Washington Bureau

WASHING1ON, July I4.--heturn of
,hs German patents held by the Chemi-
cal Foundation, Inc, to their former
ovuers would bring disaster to the
American dye industry, President
harding was told to-day by representa-
tive dye manufacturers. The con-
terence, brought about by the Presi-
dents instructing Alien Property Gus
.odian Miller to get back from the
Chemical Foundation the German pat
.nts sold to it under the Wilson Adj
ministration, came on the heels of an
attack in the Senate by Senator Moses,
# New Hampshire, on the Chemical
foundation, the Textile Alliance and
he E. /. du Port de Nemours Company.
The Senator denounced these COM
panies as actors in ga gigantic fraud"
and expressed the belief that the De-
psrtment of Justice would develop full
details Of what he called conspiracy
In German dyes. He assaulted Francis
P. Garvan, former Alien Property Gus
todian, who is now president of the
Chemical Foundation, and charged that
that company had camoufaged it's real
purposes in an orgy of falsehood.
The Chemical Foundation, the dye
manufacturers told the President, was
o non-proft-making organization of
auasi-public character, organized with
the approval of the government for the
express purpose of preventing monop-
olistic domination of the American dive
Industry through ownership Of these
patents.
First Step in Industry's Passing
@Any removal of these patents from
their present trusteeship can be re-
garded by the American industry only
as first step in their eventual return
to their former owners and the conse-
auent loss of the industry to America"
said a memorandum handed to the
President.
The delegation representing the
American manufacturers was headed by
Dr.. Charles H. Herty, president of the
Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufac-
turers' Association of the United
States.
The Chemical Foundation, the
Textile Alliance and the E. I. du
pont de Nemours Company, asserted
Senator Moses, are only three of the
organizations engaged in the alleged
conspiracy, but it would take him days
y outline the others, he added. Re
viewing much of the information that
has been brought out by Congressional
committees, Senator Moses charged
GaTan with having sold to himself
FOR S250.000. property whose earning
capacity thus far disclosed indicates
to have been worth many millions"
The three organizations named, >"
said Senator Moses, "are significantly
interlocked In their related personnel
and IN their activities; and it is they
whose subsidiaries, officers, stockhold-
srs. lobbyists, paid propagandists and
faxed and kept organizations have
beer the most aggressive, avaricious
and insolent of all the profteering
crew who pertinaciously push this
legislation"
Calls Dye Embargo "Un-American"
he declared that the proposed en-
barge on dyes was can expression of
organized greed and was "un-Ameri-
can un-Republican and un-Demo-
cratic" Whole broadsides of ad-
!eclwes of anathema were hurled at
the dye rates in the tariff bill and es-
pesialy at the embargo proposition.
senator Moses said that the pending
ssrln Dill gave the American dye man
g y. hve elements of protection.
i ue heid that the duties carried in the
Dih were more than needed to protect
sae aye industry, but that to provide
"a addition for extension of the en-
largo one year, with possible extension
i,r another like period, was unspeaka-
y. oe. :, he declared if the Republicans
no TINS they would go before the coun-
ay with color given to all the accusa-
uons against the bill and convicted of
sarsenderng to an iniquitous, impu-
VEIL a. and avaricious monopoly"
-. Inc dyestuffs industry" said Sena-
tor moses, sis no puny infant to-day.
!. mas enjoyed eight years of full en-
largo, either through war or by stat
we. II produces at least 80 per cent
~. the total domestic consumption, and
ss exports are already large and
s growing. There is no reason why the
oargo should be continued for it's
ment should longer be laid upon the
american dye consumer, and there is
especially no reason, Mr.. President,
sny this unusual gratuity should be
ssseh 70 an industry whose chief ben
ee,nclaries have enriched themselves
,.hrough the use of capital advanced
rom rom the Federal treasury, without in
u ssrest and without proper security.
Shcse subsidiaries, after three and a
naii years, continue to withhold an ac-
counting of $4,000 900 of public
money, whose agencies have penetrat-
"a 60 the inner precincts of the execu-
I've departments, whose propaganda
mas been one of extravaganza, both in
money and statement, and whose chief
ssctivities have been devoted, not to
s sae development of the dye industry,
W. 10 besieging Congress with a de-
nahd for extraordinary privilege.
Says He Would Not Prejudice Case
The Chemical Foundation is now be-