The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
By Marguerite Young
CDaily worker washington Bureaul

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
Two Roosevelt cabinet members
cracked down on the Senate
arms investigation today, personally
intervening to suppress evidence
on the war-fomenting activities Of
the munitions manufacturers. The
investigation committee of Senators
also voluntarily suppressed five
cablegrams to the du Pont arms
dynasty because, it was announced,
publication would cause grave po-
litical repercussions in a South
American country"
Secretary of Commerce Roper
and Secretary Of State Hull Visited
the Senators just as the hearing
was scheduled to open, and the
entire investigating committee was
held in secret session for almost
an hour while the Roosevelt off,
Gals demanded that certain docu-
ments be kept out Of the record.
Waiting to continue their teSti-
mony we're four heads of the giant
manufacturing firm, L E. du Pont
de Nemours.
Profits from Imperialist War
The record already shows that
the du Points took profits from
imperialist wars in which millions
of workers were slaughtered and
with this money gained overload
ship in a domain that stretches
over almost all the earth. Among
the businesses they partly own is
the textile industry against which
thousands Of workers are striking
today for living wages. The Sen
ate Investigating Committee thus
far has carefully avoided po.n.-ng
out this fact although it has
shown that the du Points maintain
very close connections with Cow
eminent officials, especially with
the War Department, which is now
preparing federal troops to act as
strikebreakers around the textile
mills. The same Secretary of
Commerce Roper just yesterday
held a conference with big bust
ness men to discuss ways of end
ing the strike, and among those
present was John j. Raskob. one
of the directors Of General Motors,
also partly owned by the du Points.
Chairman Nye of the munitions
committee said the documents
Roper and Hull discussed we're not
the five du Pont cablegrams which
the Senate Committee suppressed.
Deals in Argentina
Those cables were assumed to
have to do with du Pont deals in
Argentina. The morning was filed
with testimony showing that the
du Points dickered with Argentina
/ regarding establishing a powder
! factory for that government but,
after German competitor ap-
peared, and was put out of action
/ by an agent who demanded SIS, 900
for the job, the du Points decided
not to establish the factory after
/ all because they could make more
by selling Argentina du Pont-manu-
featured powder.
Today's new proof that private
arms makers and other imperiaI-
lists vino exploit workers for pri-
vate profit actually control the cap
italist governments of the world
! (evidence shows that they try to
determine the course of both revo-
lutions and wars by deciding to
which side to supply ammunition)
included testimony that du Pont
agents bribed certain high Chinese
officials" to get oTt.9rs. And at the
same time they took up with AS
sistant Secretary of State Rogers.
the sale of manufacturing processes
to Japan. This was during Japan's
invasion of Manchuria. Yesterdays
session brought an exhibit in which
a munitions man referred con-
/ temptuously to government officials
as cookie pushers."
Not Preventing Facts
The suppression Of evidence today
demonstrated anew that tee Senate
! Committee is not prosentin~ eli
the facts-much less their imph.
cations-in the continual imperial.
ist fight for markets which leads
to war. But the record already
despite all efforts to keep it HARM
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