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...result of international altruism. It is perhaps more probable that the embargo arises from a desire to eliminate business competition, especially after the alarms caused by the dumping of Soviet goods throughout the globe. Using the same pretence the Government has considered spreading the restriction to handling by convict labor. Whatever the true motive behind the embargo, the treasury is safe in placing an embargo, for as long as Washington refuses to recognize Russia, any authorized Investigators will be barred from making a study of the actual situation...
...Horrors." Among Britain's most militant anti-Reds is able Sir Hilton Young. He wants Soviet lumber excluded from Great Britain under the Foreign Prison Made Goods Act of 1897. To prove that Soviet lumber is convict-hewn, Sir Hilton recently submitted to the Prime Minister sworn statements by three Russian refugees that they as "convicts" had been "forced" to cut wood in Russian forests, had witnessed "horrors" (TIME, Sept...
...Information which has now reached me suggests that the timber industry in northern Russia, including felling, removing, sawing and shipping, is at present carried on not only by means of convict labor and compulsory labor but also by free labor. It would therefore be impossible to prove legally that any particular consignment of timber was made or produced in a foreign prison, jail, house of correction or penitentiary...
...broken up in the giant sawmill pools. If the Soviet Government would permit, U. S. inspectors might be sent to watch each Russian log from tree to sawmill to ship. Otherwise the U. S. Congress must now decide whether to bar all Soviet lumber because some of it is convict-hewn, or to admit the inextricable mixture as Mr. MacDonald is doing...
...reported in the U. S. last spring. But the U. S. press, while feeling obliged to report the book's horrid insinuation that Mrs. Harding did away with her husband, at the same time took pains to set forth the unsavory record and reputation of Author Means, ex-convict. Not so the Vancouver Sun, which announced its feature with a sheet made up like the front page of an unspeakably yellow journal, topped by a shrieking headline: "WAS PRESIDENT HARDING MURDERED? ... Did His Shellfish Illness in Vancouver Provide 'Alibi' for Subtle Poison Plot? ... 'I HAVE...