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States to-day.
The United Press learned from a high official source [that the United States Treasury Department, is secking an. embargo against the importation of all Soviet Russian goods into America, 'The Treasury Department, the in= formant said, takes the position in demanding the embargo. that all [goods produced under the Soviet Russian Five Years' Plan are the result of forced labour, Tt is understood here "that the Treasury contends that the Soviet control of labour under its Five Year Plan meets the definition of indentured labour as contained in the Smoot-Hawley tariff law.
'Treasury officials contend that in Soviet Russia the Five Years' Plan thas resulted in the Imposition of penalties for failing to perform a given amount of work, Penalties ate imposed for violation of the rules laid down under the Five Years' Plan.
Treasury Departmen This, to the according. nothings short of forced labour, Amtorg, the great Soviet Russian purchasing. and marketing agency in the United States, is expected to resort (0 the courts to protest against the contemplated embargo. tis also inevitable that American firms selling goods to the Soviets will protest against the embargo.
America's trade with Soviet Already contend that many
has suffered heavily because of American activities against Communist policies. Liberal leaders such, as Senator William E, Borah, Republican of Tdaho and the Chairman fof the Senate Foreign Relat Committee, are bitter in their Jeriticism of the United States for of taking. fu advantage of. the offered by Soviet Rossia.—United Press,
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