Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-30
MANGANESE.
lore BAN IS URGED.
Senator 0ddie Asks That
Embargo Be Placed on
Product From Russia.
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
Senator Oddie of Nevada today asked
| the Treasury Department to place an
| embargo against the importation Of
| manganese ore from Russia.
He said, in letter to Assistant Sec
| rotary LoWman, a crisis existed In
| the American manganese industry, and
| he had been informed the Soviet gov
| eminent was dumping its products here.
| Oddie'S request came while Treasury
| officials were studying the protest Of
| the Amtorg Trading Corporation, OFF,
| cial Soviet business agency, against an
| embargo placed on Russian pulp wood.
[ He is the third Senator to ask that
steps be taken to prevent the importa-
ton OF Russian products. Senators
| Reed of Pennsylvania and Black OF
| Alabama have urged that something be
done to keep out Russian anthracite
| and lumber.
Treasury officials are investigating
| circumstances surrounding the produc-
| ton of lumber in Russia. An embargo
may be placed against any Russian
product If it is determined convict
| labor figured in its production. Other
wise a tariff increase of SO per cent
! because of dumping" Is the only re-
| source.
While agitation continued for whole
sale prohibition of imports from Russia,
| in connection with the pulpwood issue,
| authoritative word came that the Amer
| lean Government would not take such
| action and would not let the question
| of its diplomatic non-recognition OF
! Russia affect the trade relations OF the
| two countries.
The recent order barring shipments
Of Russian pulpwood on the ground it
was partially produced by convict labor,
met with determined protests yesterday
from the Amtorg Trading Corporation,
which handles Russian trade interests
| in this country, and from American
| paper manufacturers, ship owners and
| chartererS, as well as an organization
of stevedores.
| The appellants asked that If the Or
| der was not cancelled its applications
be postponed 80 days to prevent serious
| loss to the manufacturers, shipping in
| terests and the laborers deriving their
livelihood from unloading the vessels.
Decision in Two Days.
A decision on these appeals was
promised within two days. Lowman
| yesterday, however, said no one hao
shown convict labor had not entered
into production of the pulp. He gave
| the Russians leave to submit any EVIL
| dence on this point.
| Under the tariff law convict-made
goods are barred from entry, whatever
the country or origin. The act also in
| cludeS provision for raising duties u
prevent dumping or sale in this country
| of manufactured products at price:
lower than those obtaining in the ex'
! porting nation. The latter phase Of
| the law recently has been invoked
against Russian matches.
! j. S. Makodzub, vice president Of the
Amtorg, the official Russian commercial
organization, introduced cablegran
from the head of the exporters, which
controls all Russian exports, in which
he denied that convict labor had beer
used in producing lumber 1t was asked
that this cablegram and other evidenc,
submitted when Lowman admitted two
ship loads OF spruce lumber, be accepted
as bearing upon the pulpwood question
Admission Is Asked.
George E. Nelson, vice president o.
the West Virginia Pulp 81 Paper Co.
urged Lowman to admit the pulpwooC
that was here or on the high seas. HI
said that his company had purchased
it in good faith and needed 1t to keel
their mills in operation.
F. H. Weeks. representing an organ!
cation of New York stevedores, urgei
that the Treasury admit the pulpwoot
to provide work for longshoremen wh'
needed work He said Matthew Wool
vice president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, had no authority Il
speak for the longshoremen in urgini
that all Russian imports be prohibited
Kenneth Gardner and c. v. Tha
venot, representing the Spanish-Amer
lean line, an American corporation
urged delay in enforcing the order, say
ing that it would cost their firm larg
amounts If the pulpwood were not ad
mitted. They said the company hat
chartered 81 vessels from other owner
to carry pulpwood.