Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...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...