Military CONTRACTS: $25 BILLION iq sile Committee poking at mis- Contracts has turned up ae mess of profiteering Rest ¢ & that some of the big- milli rporations have made Beers=0f dollars on con- . tracts (0) aS N which they di d Work at all y id nO, cre the amazing in- the pay rousht to light was ‘ Nisa hae to the Douglas “the Co. of $1,211,771 by whep ®fense Dept. on a job ion © there was no produc- ore and $3,316 in ‘sory costs. The job en subcontracted to Companies, Other A a the committee heard the sam ; ae € company show- $598 4 ofit of $45,180,000 on tracts .7009 worth of con- acoush Douglas had of Geo! $496 million - Panieg work to other com- ang cee did the work fits 5, lected additional pro- or themselves. : vag Western Electric Co. 4 Verheag $955,396 on top of Penges and supervisory ex- it gig -°f $75,000 on which all, a. Production work at tire ie Subcontracted the > a mats PYRAMIDED amples rt other shocking h Se of these hearings On Mie Whether profits € contracts are pyra- nie eoneh layers of sub- “Ollect, : oy of whom * profit. A (dg . 7 lstitieg mnittee investigator g acting that three subcon- More ders whi Co which cost ey holding the orig- D act $146 million, a ereent r Profit. This r. eeg €quipment was pro- 5 Ge Co., a subsi- e . ~'S. Steel Corp. It $9,285,000 profit. 354,659 and Western Electric $9,840,475. DOUGLAS MAKES 44% Douglas Aircraft Co. a committee investigator re- ported, made a 44.3 percent profit on work done on the Nike anti-aircraft missile in the last 17 years. The government was charg- ed over $11 million profit on a fleet of missile-base trailers that cost somewhat over $46 million to build. Sen. McClellan declared that the testimony showed that the Western Electric Co. U.S trusts grow rich On missile contracts missile directly from other companies, it was overruled by Western Electric which insisted that it get the prime contract and pass out the contracts for the components. When the Army asked Wes- tern Electric for production drawings for the components they were not produced until the work had been practically all been given out. The Army had to pay $23 million for the drawings. There is as yet no estimate of how much the government was overcharged through pro- Magazine Section a Ike Still Fears vw. | Military Clique “””” Again Warns U.S. of Dangers Of Defence Industry Growth WASHINGTON (CDN)—Old soldier Dwight D. Eisenhower is still worried about the influence of. the nation’s huge military spending program on American life and politics. The so-called “military-in- |, dustrial complex” in the $25}: He feels the program con- billion a year defence pro- ‘tinues to present dangers that curement program remains igould threaten the future of much on his mind 16 mont the country if “influences” it’ after he left the presidency. igenerates become too strong. In his farewell address Eisenhower said: “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence ... by the military-industrial complex.” Recently, as the above story Stern “ee Consolidated — fits on subcontracting charg- ed by prime _ contractors. Military procurement con- tracts this year came to $25 billion of which about 70 per- cent is for “hard goods’ such as aircraft and missiles, had “absolute control” over Defense Department policies concerning Nike guided mis- sile contracts. He said that when the government tried to bypass this corporation and order components of the Rockefeller General Dynamics Giannini California Douglas Aircraft Co. Lockheed Aircraft This chart shows the major U.S. monopolies who got the contracts for missile production. It also w these companies are controlled by ho é ee financial tycoons in the the most powerful country. _from_ the Vancouver Sun shows, he returned to the same question. The article and chart on this page give some idea, of the industrial complex, and the huge profits being made by U.S. trusts. Concentration camps await victims in U.S. t least six concentration A camps have been in ex- istence in the United States for the past 10 years to hold victims of the fascist McCar- ran Act in that country. This is explicitly stated in a letter written by James V. Bennett, director of the bur- eau of prisons of the U.S. department of justice, which upholds completely charges by Gus Hall made on March 17 and 30 of this year that such stand-by McCarran Act concentration camps existed. Bennett’s letter written in 1952 in reply to Miss Olive O. Van Horn of the National, Committee to Repeal the Mc- Carran Act, advised of ‘the pertinent facts relating to the - setting up of detention camps under the provisions of the Internal Security (McCarran) Act of 1950.” MONEY GRANTED Bennett continued that “for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, $775,000 was appro- priated to the bureau for the activation and rehabilitation of six camps.” These are ‘certain World War II and army and air force camps and former pris- oner-of-war camps,” and are located at Florence and Wick- enberg, Arizona, Avan Park, Allenwood, Pennsylvania, El Reno, Oklahoma, and Tule Lake, California. Such camps are authorized under subsection ‘“‘c” of sec- tion 103 of the McCarran Act which states “persons appre- hended or detained under this title shall be confined in such places of detention as may be prescribed by the attorney general.” ; The Bennett letter was re- leased last week through the Gus Hall-Benjamin J. Davis Defense Committee. In re- leasing the letter, Hall de- clared the camps should be closed down and the land put to entirely other purposes. “This is one disgraceful mess that the attorney gen- eral should get rid of if he expects to improve the image of our country in other lands,” Hall stated. “He can- not hide these camps under any other name in the federal prison system. They reveal the fascist character of the McCarran law and that this law endangers the whole con- cept of American freedom and liberty for all the peo- ple.” as - A pea rat made $10,- Key ne > F ‘ty’s Versions of “Free Choice” Goddess of Peace Friend of Labor Democratic Paradise Welfare State for May. 25, __ the Whole People Cartoon by Cheng Wen-chung For Disarmament .