The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
DAILY WORKER GIVES FIRST EVIDENCE
OF EXPLOSIVES ON THE MORRO CASTLE
T e deral Laboratories,
Arms Shipper, Linked
TO Strike Terror

Federal Laboratories, Inc, whose
munitions were stored in the hold
of the Moro Castle on a trip from
which the vessel-and 1876 persons
were never to return, supplies tear
gas and bullets for use against
strikers in every section of the
country. Besides their land office
business at home, these particular
merchants of death do a flourish
ing business in supplying countries
abroad with arms.
War, the civil war waged by the
employers against the working class
at home and impcriallist wars be-
tween nations, is the medium in
which they operate; high-pressure
lobbying and bribery are their
standard methods.
just as those who danced gaily
on the moon-splashed decks of the
Moro Castle as it nosed it's way
into Cuban waters were ignorant
that below decks we're stored cases
upon cases of terrific explosives, so
are millions of people generally I'M
aware of the tremendous traffic in
arms shipments throughout the
United States and to foreign coun-
tries. Much of this transport on
steamships is done illegally, without
the proper precautions and with the
facts that arms are being shipped
carefully kept from the passengers.
The Ward Line, which raised
the cry to the high heavens that
reds" had set fire to the Moro
Castle, Studiously Withheld these
important facts of its arms-run-
ming from the attention of the
people which will force these
criminals to confess the true eK-
tent of their crimes-crimes which
are fundamentally responsible for
the recent holocaust at sea.
Federal Laboratories, Inc, are fit
ting partners in crime with the
Ward Line. While one manufac-
tured the arms-and did everything
under the sun to insure the sale
of its products-the other shipped
it.
These people batten on death.
Unfortunately for us it looks as if
the trouble will be settled amic-
ably wrote Frank S. Jones, Latin
American representative of the Fed
eral Laboratories, Inc, in July, 1882,
to one of his business associates,
referring to the Bolivia Paraguay
war.
Recently the Federal Laboratories
Company sold tear gas to millown-
ers and police in the textile strike
for the purpose of smashing the
picket lines of these heroic workers.
San Francisco longshoremen may
be interested to know that these
same gentlemen whose products
jeopardize the lives of thousands
of marine workers handling explo-
sives at the docks and on the high
seas sold tear gas to the San Fran
cismo police for use in the water
front strike.
I'VE should impress upon pub
lie officials" said Mr.. John w.
Young, President of the Federal
Laboratories, Inc. in letter to
one of his agents in March, that
they shonld spend money for the
purchase of tear gas equipment
even when they cannot afford to
pay salaries
This same man whose profits de-
ponds upon the manufacture and
steady sale of military weapons for
strike breaking, was instrumental in
defeating in the Pennsylvania legis-
lature bill which was unfavorable
to tear gas. He lobbied intensively
among members against the meas
ure, because, he said, the bill would
virtually put US out of business"
''More Humane Than Shooting"
But it is sheer humanity that
drives these men to sell tear gas
"Mr. Young consistently contended
that his company was not moved
by any hostility to labor and that