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Challenge. After quietly stating that no form of convict, forced or slave labor whatsoever is employed by the Soviet lumber industry, the Prime Minister challenged publishers throughout the world to send reporters to investigate, promised that they would be allowed "to go where and when they please...
...Passed a bill to broaden the Treasury's tariff embargo power against goods or raw materials produced by convict, forced or indentured labor; sent it to the Senate...
American justice has been vindicated. With unusual speed and efficiency the long arm of the law has reached out and convicted one Alphonse Capone, only a year after the commission of the offense. For some time this man has been the storm center of discussion of the criminal situation. It has been whispered that he has corrupted the police, that it was impossible to convict this man, the alleged head of an enormous criminal organization. He was suspected of instigating a war of extermination with paid assassins; accused of anything except the rather minor crime of carrying concealed weapons...
Last summer Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman embargoed Russian pulpwood on the ground that it was produced by convict labor. Within a week he was forced to lift the ban for lack of evidence that pulpwood workers of U. S. S. R. were legal convicts (TIME...
Lest the Treasury's embargo look like a political discrimination against Russia, the State Department last week instructed its consuls throughout the world to report on convict-made goods in their respective areas with a view to including other countries in the embargo. Complaint by U. S. tobacco producers, feeling the pinch of competition, that-Sumatra cigar wrappers from the Dutch East Indies were convict-grown caused the Treasury to start investigating. Under, study also were rubber imports from slave-ridden Liberia, phosphates from Morocco...