NOTES FROM AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 137, 11 June 1936, Page 8

NOTES FROM AMERICA

MAJOR CRIME PROSPECTS FACTORY GOES TO BRAZIL ! (From "The Post's" Representative.) NEW YORK, May 20. During the Prohibition period distillers and brewers in Canada made huge fortunes supplying Americans by devious methods. When Prohibition ceased the United States Government claimed approximately 100,000,000 dollars from Canadian firms for excise and other taxation charges on the illicitly exported liquor. Both Governments have been negotiating for a settlement for three years, and an agreement has now been reached which will permit Canadian firms to resume their business with the United. States, without their funds being seized as security for the claim.

The amount of the settlement is not disclosed, although it is believed it runs into many millions.

A Vancouver distiller who paid a visit to the United States last year was arrested and held against a claim of 17,000,000 dollars. He and his son were released on bail of 100,000 dollars each, which they estreated. The head of the "G Men," the United States detective force that has been remarkably successful in arresting major criminals, states that there arc still 150,000 murderers at large in the country. Ip addition, he says that 200,000 of the present population will commit murder before they die. Even beyond the country's 3,000,000 convicted criminals, one out of every twentyfive persons, he says, is "inclined toward criminality." "Throughout our country," says the official,*"law enforcement has been hampered, hamstrung, and strangled by the bloodcaked hands of crime affiliated politicians." One of the largest rayon silk manufacturing plants in the world, which was operating at Hopewell, Virginia, has been moved to Brazil, as a result of labour troubles. The Tubize Chatillon plant is now being re-erected at Sao Paulo, and will be operating again in a few months. The Virginia factory was closed by a strike in 1934. when many other plants in Ihe United States closed down as a result of the award of the Labour Relations Board, set up under the New Deal. It employed 1800 workers. The conflict, after many months of negotiation, was ultimately resolved by the Labour Board, but the owners negotiated for a site in Brazil, which offered conditions that were acceptable.