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...real American Federation of Labor. It is a jack of 1,619 trade unions, a many-millioned mass which has virtually no credo because within it is every credo under the U. S. sun. But there are other A. F. of L.s. The one usually labeled in newsprint as "the A. F. of L." is a tight little club of 17 executive councilmen who expound and at intervals alter the otherwise missing credo. Last is the A. F. of L. which goes on show as "the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor...
Last week it became public knowledge everywhere but in Mexico that the Mexican Government Petroleum Administration was swapping oil for newsprint with Nazi Germany. A very good reason for loudly proletarian President General Lázaro Cárdenas' Government failing to broadcast this news for home consumption was that simultaneously in Mexico City was convening the first Latin-American Labor Conference, which opened with many a sharp cry against "Nazi and Fascist penetration of Latin America." Host to the conference was ascetic, sloe-eyed Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only...
Died. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty, 70, onetime president (1915-16) of potent American Chemical Society, editor (1917-21) of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, adviser to Chemical Foundation, Inc.. discoverer of a method for converting the South's cheap slash pine into newsprint; of heart failure; in Savannah, Ga. Mindful of Dr. Herty's revolutionary developments in southern turpentine and pulp industries, grateful Georgians early this year named him "Man of the Year for Georgia and the South," dropped Court House flags to half-mast at his death...
...reduces the cellulose in mulberry leaves to a protein liquid which it spins into a cocoon. Result of man's learning to imitate this technique is the 45-year-old rayon industry. A major source for the cellulose is "dissolving pulp," wood pulp processed further than for making newsprint. Last week, the largest "dissolving pulp" company in the world, Rayonier Inc., announced "the highest earnings in the history of the company and its predecessors"-$3,124,703 for the twelve months ended April 30; this was almost a million more than for the previous twelve months...
Rayonier is an outgrowth of Rainier Pulp & Paper Co., founded in 1926 by Edward Morgan Mills. Newsprint-maker Mills made money ($487,000 in 1929, $760,000 in 1930), and launched two more pulp companies in Washington's "Northwest Corner" before he felt Depression in 1931. That year in the general tumble of newsprint pulp he lost $170,000, thereupon borrowed a top-flight Du Pont chemist named Russell M. Pickens and began experimenting. In 1933, Rainier produced 45,000 tons of "dissolving pulp." By 1935, all three Mills mills were in the business; last year they merged...