The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-14
By Marguerite Young
Daily WORKER Warrington Bureaul

(Uaity NoFke- Warrington bUfe1ul
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. - The
Senate arms inquiry today indicated
but let pass. undeveloped - the
story of how the du P0nt munitions
kings converted the profits from
more than 1926 100000 World War
sales into an industrial domain
which spread to almost every con-
tinent through q range of products
from dynamite to movie films and
autos, and with international agree
ments parcehng out among arms
makers the lands in which each
takes the profits from the exploita-
ton of workers.
Three brothers dupont and their
cousin Felix, heads Of the giant z.
I. dupont de Nemours, possessing
so much wealth that they can
hardly count it, constantly turned
to their aides during their morn
ing's testimony Investigators also
had trouble keeping track of the
dupont millions; in one calculation
they lost sight of 157,OO0,0OO dupont
dollars.
Committee Soft Pedals
Spectators freely asked one an
other whether the committee or
some of its members weren't soft
pedaling when Senator George Of
Georgia (Dem) gave the witnesses
many opportunities to obscure the
facts and implications of their war
made fortune.
In his apparent effort to show
that the duPonts business is not
especially blameworthy. however,
George actually developed evidence
that the root of the war threat is
in the system of monopoly capital
rather than in the munitions busi-
ness. At one point George assured
the duPonts, there is no difference
between your business and any other
business of character and reputa-
ton"
This remark caused such a SEN
sation that liberal members of the
committee privately informed re-
porters that they didn't like
Georges line of questioning ard
would correct it later The liberals
are concerned solely with the
evils" of the munitions racket and
their conclusions will give the
false impression that by cleaning
up" this, the war threat can be
greatly reduced.
Linked to British Firm
Exhibits showing how the du
Points effected agreements with I'M
perial Chemical Industries, Ltd.
British giant in the same field, by
which, as the formal agreement
read, st is decided to divide the
sales areas" of South America, Eu-
rope. Asia. and virtually all the rest
of the world except British and
United States territorial limits. This
pact covered the sales by these
British and American imperialists
of war explosives. They had others
providing for the exchange of pro-
duction processes. some going back
/ to 1907. Senator George allowed
the duPonts to minimize the effect
of this by divecting attention to
such facts as that the agreements
involving military" products were
! strictly separate from those for nom
military purposes.
George asked whether most OF
! the plants under consideration
/ aren't convertible from peace to
war production basis and al
| lowed the duPonts to cover UP on
this point by saying that this was
true of only unimportant branches
Of their domain.
Companies Divide Spells
Naturally George did not point
out that the two corporations really
have a "gentleman's agreement" as
to who shall take how much lt
was a $3.50 propcsition of the
wealth produced by workers on near
paupsr wages. This will be shown
at the second American Congress-
Again War and Faccism which con-
ycnes in Chicago in a few weeks.
IL ives a "gentieman's agreement
a cablegram inserted in the rcc9-d
showed, because the British cons
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