CONTROL URGED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1942, Page 4

CONTROL URGED

ALUMINIUM PRODUCTION IN U.S.A. CRITICISM OF PRIVATE CORPORATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, June 15. Senator La Follette told the Senate that a preventable shortage of aluminium. forgings had held down a year’s production of Martin bombers by 20 per cent. He urged the establishment of a Federal aluminium authority to direct all the aluminium production in the United States, declaring that the production of aluminium had been warped by an. overweening desire of private corporations to protect their post-war interests. Every day the aluminium crisis was allowed to continue the country was failing to produce planes, and the United Nations were losing fighting men due to their lack, the Senator asserted. The Alcoa corporation, he said, discouraged independent producing facilities and also minimised the shortage in over-optimistic advertisements and announcements, and maintained dangerous ties with I. G. Farbenindustrie, the German chemical monopoly.