The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-28
HUGE GASOLINE
AUTO TRUST is
BASED ON DEATH
Rockefeller, Morgan &
Du Point Sell Poison

NEW YORK, April ga seourge
worse than tuberculosis will be loosed
on the peoples of the cities and au-
tomobiIe Highways of the United
States by the Ethyl Gas corporation
If its plans are not blocked, YandeII
Henderson, professor of applied psy-
choloay at Yale university, told the
American Society of Safety Engineers
and international Safety Council at
the American Engineers Societies
Building.
Not only will the general use of
tetraethyl lead treated gasoline or
'looney gas" in automobile motors i'm
peril the health of the general public,
but it will tighten the monopolized
control of the gasoline and automo-
bile industries by single group of
interests, he declared Ills poison
Gus gas actually does reduce knock
ing in motors and increases the gen
eral efficiency of the automobile to
such an extent that the motors de-
signed to its peculiar use are those
that will sell and the financiers be-
hind the gas and the automobiles de-
signed for its use are those that will
gain power.
Morgan and Rockefeller Money
Combined.
The Ethyl Gas corporation comes
from a marriage of Standard Oil of
New Jersey, the Rockefeller trust,
and General Motors corporation, the
Morgan auto trust, and it is closely
linked with the DUPONT powder trust
interests. AS Professor Henderson's
report was his expose of the bureau
of mines tfederaD for its report Civ
ing clean bill of health to the use
of 'looney gas" The investigation
that led to this report, was financed
by the Ethyl Gas corporation, said
Professor Henderson.
Will lnhaIe Poison.
Pollution of the atmosphere from
general us of this lead treated gas
will lead to the gradual absorbing of
lead poison by those living and work
ing along automobile highways. The
poisoning will come from the inhala-
ton of the lead dust. If he had to
choose between tuberculosis and lead
poisoning, said the physiological ex-
pert, he would take tuberculosis as
the lesser evil.
This is probably the greatest
single question in the field of public
health that has ever faced the Ameri-
can public" said DR.. Henderson. at
is the question whether scientific ex-
perts are to be consulted, and the
action Of the government guided on
their advice; or whether, on the con-
trary, commercial interests are to be
allowed to subordinate every other
consideration to that of profit. The
size of the financial interests involv-
ed is stupenduous. 1t is not a mat
ter of millions, or even hundreds of
millions, but literally of billions.
Will Control Auto Industry.
Except in New York and its i'm
mediate neighborhood, this loaded
gasoline is being introduced every
where turnout the country as fast as
it can be supplied. 1t is sold now at
little or no profit The profit is in the
future and will consist in control of
the gasoline business and control of
the automobile industry. The power
of combination of powers that holds
the patents on tetraethyl lead will be
the only one that will be able to make
the cars that we all want to buy: the
improved cars for which We will dis
card those we now have The power
will also control the only fuel on
which those new cars will run. The
financial stake is almost inconceiv-
ably great"
Eleven Workers Killed.
DR.. Henderson emphasized the adj
ditional peril garage workers, es-
pecially, will run, in addition to that
OF carbon monoxide poisoning. He
pointed out how just as the subject
OF legislation against lead poisoning
in other fields was becoming an acute
issue these gigantic plans for whole
sale lead poisoning we're getting I'M
der way. In opposition to the bureau
of mines report, financed by the great
private corporation, Professor Hen.
derson set up the opinions of DIR.
David Edsel, dean of Harvard medical
school and Professor C. X. Drinker of
the Harvard school Of public health.
Tetraethyl lead treated gasoline is
becoming more general in use in the
middle west, but il. is prohibited by
law in New York City as yet Eleven
workers in laboratories at Bayway,
N. J., Wilmington, Delaware and Day.
ton, Ohio, have already bee slain, but
this is as nothing to the lead poison
ing hazards Of the general population.