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THE most frightening thing
about the atom bomb in the
United States today is that it is
completely in the grip of big
business and the trusts.

In name, the legal deed of
ownership is held by the U.S.
government. Im fact, the trusts
own and operate the atom plants.

For the first time the full facts
are assembled in a devastating
survey* by James S. Allen.

The key atomic plants in the
U.S. are the $750 million pluton-
ium plant at Hanford, Washing-
ton; the $1,500 million uranium
plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee;
and the $1,000 million H-bomb
plant at Savannah River.

Hanford is run and controlled
by the General Electric Company
of the great financial concern of
Morgan; Oak Ridge by Union Car
bide and Carbon Corporation; and
Savannah River by the huge ex-
plosive trust of du Pont.

These trusts make the stuff. The
U.S. government makes nothing.

The trusts enjoy a monopoly of
all atomic know-how.

Severe security restrictions pro-
tect their monopoly better than
any patent control ever invented.

No one in America outside Gen-
eral Electric, Union Carbide and
du Pont has ever mass-produced
the basic atomic materials.

Not only do they control and
work the plants. The Atomic
Energy Commission, in which the
legal ownership of the U.S. gov-
ernment is vested, is simply the
trusts in disguise.

Of the five Atomic Energy Com-
missioners,

The

By DEREK KARTUN

VAILABLE facts ‘about the

Joint Distribution Committee
and its activities show that claims
that it is an international Jewish
relief body and nothing more are
totally unfounded.

“The JDC — generally referred
to. as Joint — was named in the
Prague trial and in the Moscow

Statement on the arrest of Soviet

four are the trusts’

direct men.

Het

.

The other is a sci-
entist.

They are. Charmian Gordon
Dean, law partner of Brian Mac-
Mahon, the corporation lawyer;

Sumner T. Pike, associated for
25 years with mining, oil and na-
tural gas companies;

T. Keith Glennan, for two years
executive officer of General Ani-
line and Film Co. (U.S. branch of
the notorious German I.G. Farben
Chemical Trust); and

Thomas E. Murray, of the
Trustee Bank of New York (Mor-

gan and Rockefeller), and the fin-,

ance committee of the Chrysler
Motor Corporation.

The general manager of the
Atomic Energy Commission is W.

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Boyer, late of Esso Standard Oil?

The three non-scientific mem-
bers of the general advisory com-
mittee of the Atomic Energy
Commission are: :

Hartley Rowe, vice-president of
the United Fruit Corporation
(which owns half Central Am-
erica) :

Oliver E. Buckley, of the Bell
Telephone Trust; and

E. V. Murphree, of the Stand-
ard Oil Development Company.

In the United States there are
only small deposits of atomic raw
materials. They are owned by
Union Carbide and the Vanadium
Corporation of Avery Rockefeller.

With the main uranium sources
thus outside the U.S., the Raw

truth about /

doctors as a body through which -

the U.S. Intelligence Service has

~been working.

The ~ evidence’ confirms — this

charge.

On December 15, 1949, the head
of Joint in Hungary, an American
named Israel Jacobson, was charg-
éd with spying by the Hungarian
government and was a from
‘the country.

.- In ‘April 1950, career was
chief speaker, at a meeting organ-

ized by the United Jewish Appeal —

at Massey Hall in. Toronto.
At that meeting — and at others

in the U.S. — Jacobson indicated
that he was proud of his’ connec-
tions with the underground move-

ment in ‘Hungary.

He said he had “saved’ many
Jews and sent them to Israel, and
that some had returned to Hun-
gary to pursue underground acti-
vities.

He admitted that two weeks be-
fore his arrest Cardinal Mindszenty

had sent him a confidential docu-.

ment predicting the overthrow of

the government in a fortnight.

Mindszenty, found guilty of
treason and other crimes, was later
imprisoned by the Hungarian gov
ernment.

Among the documents used in
evidence against him: was a plan
to “settle” the Jewish question,
signed in his own hand. This read:

“It is our good fortune that
the great ‘reservoir’ of Galician:
and Bukovinian Jews, the mil-
lions of the Jewish massés in the
ghetto, have as a result of the
German war of destruction been
‘reduced to some 500,000.”

He added: “All Jews and half-
breeds must be dismissed (from
government posts).” -

This was the man with whom
Jacobson had contact.

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Joint was named until a few
years ago the American Joint Dis-
tribution Committee. "The ‘Ameri-
ean’ has been dropped. But Joint
is still controlled by the American
Jewish Committee, which has di-
rectors in common with Joint.

’ The AJC is the fountainhead of
many of the stories of alleged

_ anti-Semitism in the socialist coun-_
tries.

It is dominated by big bites

men, such as the Warburgs, Mor-
genthaus and Lehmans, and has
taken part in many ultra-reaction-
ary movements in the U.S.

The AJC took part in the Am-
erican Conference. to Combat
Communism at the’ Hotel Astor
in New York early in 1950.

Also present. was the National
Economic League, a fascist organi-
sation run by Merwin K, Hart,
one of America’s leading Jew-bait*
ers,

On sale was anti-Semitic litera-
ture. The conference was spons-
ored by the fascist-minded Ameri-
can Legion.

And among the speakers was
James Carey, CIO national secre-
tary-treasurer, who declared:

“In the last war we joined the
Communists ‘to fight the fascists.
In another war we will join the
fascists to fight the Communists.”

The AJC made no protest, and
kept first a delegate and then an

- observer at the fontetence until its

conclusion.

Joint has Be used relief as
a political weapon. '

In the famine in the Soviet
Union after the revolution it
worked as the agent of Herbert
Hooyer’s American Relief Admin-
istration, repeatedly exposed as a
body seeking the overthrow of the
Soviet government.

In France and Belgium since the

Second World War, Joint has
withdrawn all aid from the Jewish

Materials Advisory Committee of
the Atomic Energy Commission is.
vitally important.

Its chairman is Donald H. Mc-
Laughlin, president of the Home-
stake Mining Company.
ing made chairman he was ap-
pointed a director of the Inter-
national Nickel Company.

His eight fellow members of the
committee are men of the trusts
without exception. There direc-
torships are a roll-call of US.
big business.

The great Morgan financial
group predominates. But also

_present are the Rockefellers, North

Rhodesian Copper, the great Ana-
conda Copper trust and the finan-
cial house of Guggenheims.

relief bodies which grow out of
the Resistance because those bodies
are progressive.
@

At a meeting of Joint in New
York this month a budget of $25

million was adopted for future
work,

Joint’s budgets are usually of
this size. But a large part of the
money is spent not on relief, but
on ‘administration expenses, on
sending Jewish people to Israel,
and on other activities not direct-
ly connected with the feeding and
sheltering of needy people.

Distribution of the money is
also “political” in nature.

Thus, of the 1946 budget of
some $58 million, only two million
was allocated for work in Ruman-
ia, which had Europe’s largest
Jewish community apart from the
Soviet Union, and where there
had been two years of tga hs
drought.

The activities

Union in 1938 and in Eastern Eur-
ope within the past three years.

The revelations at Prague and
in Moscow confirm the experience
of the Hungarian government in
1949—that Joint is used as a cover
for U.S. Intelligence plotting
against the socialist countries.

And the facts about Joint’s con-
nections explain how this can be
so.

After be-—

‘of Joint were
brought to an end in the Soviet

CD a ayaa ladpneraua gundam aaa) gees

The great atomic racket

These U.S. trusts

own the A-bomb

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e : .

‘The Atomic Energy Commissio?s
the legal facade of U.S. govert

ment ownership, is the creation

of the trusts.

All the plants are in’ the hands
of the trusts. In this atomic state
monopoly cartel the trusts hav
in effect, taken over the state. 50
far as the atom bomb is concem®
they are the state.

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Nowhere is the trust contra

seen more clearly than in thé
international sphere of atom
politics.

Their control and ownership of

the main uranium sources in Cal

ada is assured.

They have ‘gained a major foot:
hold in the Anglo-Belgian trust
which owns the Congo uraniu!
exploited by the forced labor of
Africans. :

While the main Canadian uta

ium mine is nominally a Crow!
concern, its board is manned soli
ly by directors of the main
Canadian trusts.

They are International Nickel: a

of Morgan, du Pont, Rockefelles |

Mellon and the British ICI.

Then come the Bank of Mom
treal and the Canadian Pacifi¢
Railway, whose Consolidated Mil
ing and Smelting Company is
biggest mining company in
ada after International Nickel.

Congo uranium is owned
the (Union Miniere du Haut!
Katanga.

This notorious colonial true
was jointly owned by the ah.
Belgian ¢apitalist combine Societ®
Generale de Belgique and
ganyika Concessions Ltd., a pon
ful British-South African group:

In 1950 Tanganyika sold } its
shares to the Anglo-American oy
poration. Six months later
York investment bankers pout
600,000 share from Anglo-Amel
can.

Rockefeller and: Morgan had ! ar
rived in the Congo.

We are told that the Batt

Plan was a great American a
ture by which the U.S. atom
ness would be placed under i
national control.

In reality it was an attempt Pf
the U.S. trusts to own and: co?
the atom plants and resources
all countries under the facade
an “international authority.” ir

Millionaire-. Bernard Bart
British ‘Prime Minister Church
friend, is one of the leading right
of the Guggenheim- ‘Morgan cor"
per empire. es)

Associated with him in les
scheme was John Foster DU
the Rockefellers and others. ‘

One of the main draught?
of the Baruch Plan was
Winne, vice-president of Gee™
Electric. the

The plan was one to cornet the
atom and world uranium for
U.S. trusts. the

It is all this which explains * i
ferocity with which the U.S. rel

ei

ernment fights against any

scheme for atomic disarma”?*”
and international. control.
These frightening facts 5)°, “40
cause peace-lovers everywher® viet
redouble the fight for the So
proposal on the abolition ° tersl”

inte *
atom bomb and genuine ps vay

tional control of atomic
for peaceful purposes.
* Atomic Imperialism

James S. Allen-(obtainable in Ve

couver at the People’s Coope™® nde?
Bookstore, 337 West Pe

Street), $3.50.
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 30, 1953 — . PAG

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