The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-29

IloI new HiGIoSSH pIOuuClHS pldito
being built in greater number from
year to year and where the mill
tary estimates do not provide for
huge subsidies to the nitrogen indus
try. This applies equally to Britain
and France as well as their agents
in the East, Poland, Cxecho-Slova-
kia, Finland, and other countries Gas
witness the construction of new
plants in Chorzew in Poland; the
construction of plants in Cxecho-Slo-
vakia and the other countries).
On this head it as interesting to
read what Alfred Mond, the King
of Britain's chemical industry, has
to say regarding the plant being
built in Dillingham;. He says: In a
very short time we have created not
only plants but an entire factory
town under the skilful direction of
Colonel Pollit. We have, as far as
explosives are concerned, safeguard
ed Britain against the terrible dan
ger to which she was exposed in
the last war, and forever enabled
her to maintain her position on the
fields Of battle.
A. Women's Dyes Become Poison
Gases.
Coming now to the manufacture
Of dyes, one may we'll ask where the
production of the thousands of tons
of innocent dyes and kindred sub
stances in such wide use in peace
time finish and where the produc-
ton of deadly gases begins.
During the war the big German
combine for the production of dyes
in Lewerkusen was adapted to the
mass production of trinitrololuol, the
base for the production of explo-
sives. INT, as trinitrotoluol is pop
ularly called, is botained as a result
of the treatment of toluol with nj
trogen acid. In peace time toluol is
indispensable for the manufacture
of various kinds of dyes. Carbolic
acid, benzol and other substances
serve for the production of dyes
and at the same time furnish the
necessary basis for the production
of such poison gases as chlorpicrine
and other gases. Aniline dyes, which
are widely used, are so produced
that without any great changes the
process of manufacture can be al
tered to turn out such poison gases
as Acknowledgements.
An innocent substance like chlor-
inc which used to be produced at
0he time simply from evaporated
salts is now produced from caustic
soda. At the same time chlorine
has now become the basis for the
production of huge number of poi
son and asphyxiating gases all used
in the 1914-18 war. From chlorine
combinations there is obtained that
most terrible of gases known as
yph t e Observation-Disclosures +,
which possesses no smell and can
deal death to living beings or create
runnign sores on the flesh which
take a long time to heal, besides
which it can produce temporary
blindness and produce number of
difficult complications in the human
organism that only pass several
days later.
Cellulose factories have direct
connection in regard to the .produc-
ton of nitro cellulose, the most i'm
portant constituent part in the pro-
duction Of explosives. Without alco-
hol it is impossible to conceive of
the development of the explosives
industry. And do the millions of
consumers of sugar know that the
sugar industry using beet as raw
material can be transformed the
day after war is declared into an
industry for the manufacture of gly-
cerine used fog the production o