The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-30
PRESIDENT MAY
ASK FOR Time
TO STOP LOSS
Business Is Frightened by
Treasury Embargo on
PuIpWood.
A. F. OF |. VIEW GIVEN
Green Not for General Bar
to Reds Goods; Mellon
Probe Asked.
~ Times Special

Fy Times Special
WASHINGTON. July 30.-Presi-
dent Hoover gave his personal at
tention today to the foreign trade
problem by the ban on Russian
pulpwood, with American business
interests pressing for a modification
Of this embargo and expressing
alarm that it may be a forerunner
Of a general embargo that will
threaten the valuable 100000 900
yearly trade with Russia.
While there is no indication that
the embargo laid by the treasury
department against pulpwood would
be lifted, there is a possibility that
. period Of grace might be given to
prevent heavy losses to shipownerS
and importers in cargoes now en-
route to the United States.
Such an extension was urged by
business representatives appearing
here before Assistant Treasury Sec
retary LoWman. Shipping lines,
longshoremen, paper companies and
the Russian Amtorg Corporation
were represented at the hearing to
protest against the pulpwood en-
barge.
Sudden and Drastic
They regarded the embargo laid
by LoWmaI as rather sudden and
drastic
The administration has moved to
mollify the resentment of the Rus
sian government by emphasizing
that Russia was not singled out,
that the ban had nothing to do with
Russla's communistic form OF gov
ernment, hut that the embargo
would be laid against any nation
which violated the tariff act by
seeking to import goods produced by
convict or forced labor.
This assurance was interpreted
as indicating that the administration
will 20 slow henceforth and inspired
the belief the embargo might be
modified as a temporary relief to
protesting American business in
terestS.
Lowman has promised an early
decision on the pleas by Russian in
terestS who want the embargo
raised and by American interests
which want il lifted, at least tempo
rarily.
Green Repudiates Vol
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor de-
clared today his organization de-
sires enforcement against all ma
tions of tariff law provisions, bar
ring importation of goods produced
by convict labor, and has not advo-
Gated an embargo against all Rus
sian imports.
Green declared that the state
ment of Matthew Woll, ce-preSi-
dent of the federation, urging a
general embargo against Russian
products, does not represent the
viewpoint of the organization.
Green's statement of policy was
the first official word from him.
Green explained that no one has
authority to speak for the fedora
ton except himself or the execu-
tive council which, he said, has ex-
pressed itself in harmony with his
statement on the subject of convict
labor. He said the committee has
authorized no campaign against
Russian imports.
only Personal Opinion"
Mr. Vol was expressing his own
personal opinion when he urged an
embargo against all Russian goods, I"
Green said. IF there is evidence
that convict labor is being used by
Russia in the manufacture of goods
intended for export to this country,
they should be excluded under the
tariff law. This. Of course. applies
equally to any other country"
The Peoples lobby of Washington
today called upon Lowman TO in
vestigate labor conditions in the
Bauxite mines of Secretary Andrew
w. Mellon abroad. The letter also
urged an inquiry into labor condi-
tionS in Rockefeller mine and oil
fields outside the United States as
well and the copper operation OF
American interest in Chile.
President Hoover's statement that
Russian trade should not be dis
criminated against on political
grounds was believed today to have
weakened LowmanS determination
in the matter of the embargo.
There were indications that follow
ing a treasury conference today