Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-07-14
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON

ernment were victimized by the
dye makers of the country and our
public agencies turned to use in
private propaganda, the senator
presented correspondence designed
to show that the dye exhibits
recently shown at Chicago, Phil
adelphia, Rochester. N. Y, Wash
ington and other cities and now
In the national museum here, had
been financed by the dye makers,
having been prepared in the chem
ical warfare section of the war
department. The correspondence
was between Captain w. o. Rob-
erts, Jr., and the Dupont COM
pany, the National Aniline &
Chemical company, and other dye
concerns.
OF the Ell DUPONT de Nemours
company, Senator Moses declared
that the people, through advances
from the federal treasury during
the war, mot only financed the
DuPonts In the tremendous exten-
sion of their business but were also
mulcted by the DuPonts to an
extent which enabled the company
to increase its plant value to an
admitted $220,O00,000, while at
the same time taking out net
profits, which in one year
amounted to $129,000,000." He
charged also that of the $99,250.-
900 advanced to the DuPonts dur
ing the war there remained "un-
recouped" on July 1, 1922,
$35, 900, 900.
The senator asserted that the
DuPonts and the National Aniline
& Chemical company constituted
the monopolistic features of the
dye industry in this company and
that the DUPONT company, aside
from entering into contract with
Levinstein, Limited, British con-
cern, to divide the world for the
sale of their dyes, had sought also
to enter into world agreement
| with the Badische company, the
| chief producer of dyes which,
with the German dye cartel, he
added, had been held up "as the
bogie to men OF the dye world
since the agitation for an en-
barge was started. After the
Badische company declined to en-
| ter into the agreement, Senator
Moses said, the DUPONT company
had submitted a proposal to the
| American trade consul in China
"that his office would attempt tc
effect an arrangement whereby
| the Chinese government would
confiscate $4,000 trademarks held
by the Germans for dyes marketed
in China and form joint Chinese
| company or an American-Britisf
| company to license these trade
marks from the Chinese govern
ment,"
Senator Moses added that fol
more than year he had heart
| nothing of the imperialistic plans
of the DuPonts in Europe or II
the Orient and that the prob
ability that both schemes hav
crashed to the ground" was sup
ported "by the pressure tn
DuPonts now are making" for
dive embargo in order that the
may mu1ct from American consun
ers the funds which they haV
4 found themselves unable to TAX
from war-stricken Europeans c
n simple minded orientals."
Explaining that the govern
ment had entered into an al
rangement with the textile a.
lance to distribute German repa1
alton dyes in this country, Sen
ator Moses charged that the all
ance, originally formed to elm
ate unfair practices in the textil
trades, had in the handling of tn
dyes, "resorted to the most un
fair business practices Of whicl
there is any record He pre-
sented a mass of documents re
lating to the reparation dye
which he said contained "ampl
proof" of the charge.
Asserting that the alliance hat
committed It's iye interests, to
committee of seven members, Sen
| ator Moses said this committee
which included in it's membership
representatives of the DuPon
company and the aniline company
also had been constituted as tn
advisory committee on dyes TO
the war trade board. Thus, n
added, these two dye concerns ha'
constant representation in every
thing that was done concerning
the reparations dyes and also hat
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