Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-14
MOSES CHARGES
HUGE DYE FRAUD
Ou Points Are Urging Embargo
% MuIct American Consumers :.
Senator Declares
OTHER FIRMS IMPLICATED


I. du Pont de Nemours Company ana
the Textile Alliance were made tday in
the Senate by Senator Moses in the
course of an address in opposition TO
the dye embargo provision of the Ad-
ministration Tariff Bill. Senator Nose:
said these organizations were three OF
the actors in the gigantic fraud II"
was opposing. and added:
"These three are significantly inter.
locked in their related personnel and
in their activities: and II is they whose
subsidiaries. officers, stockholders. loo :
byists, paid propagandists and tnk"'
and kept organizations have been the
: most aggressive, avaricious and inSoL'nt
Of all the protiteering crew who peril
naciously push this legislation.
Senator Moses declared that what
ever the outcome of the Government
proceedings against the Chemical
Foundation. he always would believe
II was Conceived in conspiracy ana
fcstered by falsehood. He charged
that the conspiracy" was formed by
Francis p. Garvan, its president his
associates in the office of Alien Prop
erty Custodian and certain Of the dye
manufacturers OF the country.
Polk Signed Order
Calling attention that the foundation
was organized in the winter of l'l".
Senator Moses said that on February ~
of that year Acting Secretary loIk
signed an executive order which had
been carefully prepared for his sigma
ture' by the foundation, authorizing
licensing Of seized enemy patents and
trademarks by the organization.
In this connection he presented n
e ian trn
he said he had had with an unnamed
Federal official setting forth that Mr..
Polk. who was acting in the absence
in Europe of Secretary Lansing ana
President Wilson. had explained that
he had signed the order upon repre-
sentations that the action TO be taken
was with the full approval of the Fed
eral Trade Commission which was H.
censing the patents under authority
of the Trading With the Enemy Act.
The memorandum set forth also that
Mr.. Polk seemed very much dis
turbed' and held several conferences
, with officials of the Trade Commission
and had "intimated very strongly that
he had been made the victim of false
representations to induce his signature
to the executive order.
A week after the order was signed.
Senator Moses continued, Mr.. Garvan
became Alien Property Custodian. and
las such on April 10 sold to himself
for S250.O00 property whose earning
capacity thus far disclosed Indicates 1t
to have been worth many millions.
Turning to what he characterized as
''the orgy OF falsehood with which the
Chemical Foundation camout!agcd its
real purpose the New Hampshire
Senator asserted that while the foun-
dation had 'unctuously' advertised
that it was to carry out educational
purposes in the field Of chemistry, 1t
had spent nearly $500. 900 10 bolster
the propaganda for dye embargo.
He placed in the record number OF
letters sent to individuals and crganiza :
tions over the country IN which there
was made what the Senator said was
the ''false claim that the foundation
was Government agency
Senator Moses also introduced mum
bsr of letters to show that the Chem
ical Foundation agents had had the
Bureau of Education. under former
Commissioner Claxtou distribute artl :
cles about chemistry written by X. f.
Rose. of the chemical department of the
du POnt company.
AS another illustration OF how. he
said, great agencies Of the Government
were victimized by the dye makers OF
turned to use in private propaganda
''the Senator presented correspondence
designed to show that the dye exhibt'
recently shown at Chicago, PhiladeI
phia, Rochester. y. y. Washington
D. c., and other cities and nov in th'
National Museum here, had beer
financed by dye makers and had beer
prepared in the chemical warfare see
tion of the War Department. Th'
correspondence was between Captain y
E, Roberts. Jr.. and the du Pont com
pnny. the National .Aniline and Chem
ical Company and other dye concerns.
Du Points Made Millions
OF the T.. l. du Pont de N"moUrs
COMPANY, Senator Moses declared tha,
the people, through advances from The
Federal Treasury during the war. mot
only financed the du Points in tht ire,
mendous extension Of their business, bu'
were also mulcted by the du Points tC
an extent which enabled the company I,
increase It's plant value 70 an admIttc.
1920, 900 900, while at the same tim,
taking out net profits which in on" yea
amounted to S12J 900 900.
The Senator asserted that the d.
Points and the National Aniluc anr
Chemical Company constituted th'
monopolistic features Of the dye indus
try in this country, and that the du Pom
company, aside from entering into
contract with Leyinsten. LtA.. Il Brit
ish concern, to divide the world for tn
sale of their dyes, had sought also l.
enter into world agreement with tn
= Badische Company, the chief produc"
Of dyes.
Extended to China
After the I}adiSche Company de-
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