Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-29 | Page 4 | Many Firms Want to Trade with Bolshevik

TRADE WITH BOLSHEVIK i Soviet Ambassador Submits List of American Business Houses to Commitiee WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Ludwii; C. A. K. Martens, Russian soviet "ambassador" "am-bassador" to the United States, has sent to the senate foreign relations sub-committee investigating Bolshevik propaganda a long list of American business firms who havo expressed, he claimed, "a positive desire" to enter en-ter into import and export relations with soviet Russia. Tho list wa submitted sub-mitted in accord with a request made by the committee at the hearing before which Martens appeared on Monday and Includes a total of 911 firms distributed dis-tributed among 32 states. The firms represented in Martens' list, in addition to some of the largest importing and exporting houses in America, Am-erica, include almbsi every line of American Am-erican manufacturers such as medical and optical supplies, dyes, paints and chemicals, agricultural machinery, leather., textiles, shoes, electrical sup-i sup-i plies, paper, talking machines, stoves, , automobiles, tractors tools, printing presses. Some of the firms whom Martens said wanted to trade with soviet Russia Rus-sia wero given as: Packard Motor Car company . Pierce-Arrow Motor Car company, F. I. A. T., Cudahy Packing ! company. Morris and company, Swift i and company, Wilson and company, j Washbuin-Crosby company. Borden's j Condensed Milk Sales company, Western West-ern Electric company, Pittsburg Steel company, National Lead company, Dennison Manufacturing company. Indian In-dian Refining company, American Thermos Bottle company, B. T. Babbit'., Bab-bit'., Inc., Colgato and company, the Palm Olive company, Certain leed Products corporation, the American ToDacco company, Bausch and Lomb Optical company, American Trading company, Gaston, Williams and Wig-more, Wig-more, Inc., Case Threshing Machine company, Deere and company, American Ameri-can Potash company. W- L. Douglas Shop company, Hershoy Chocolate 1 company, Bethlehem Motors corporation, corpora-tion, Case Plow Works, Ford Motor company, Paige Detroit Iiotor Car company, American Motors. Inc., Atlas Crucible Steel company. Westinghouse Electric annd -Manufacturing company, com-pany, Hoe and company, Fairbanks company, Ajax Rubber company, the Fisk Rubber company and the Repub. lie Rubber company. At the next session of the committee, commit-tee, Mr. Martens stated that he would submit a list of the firms with which contracts already have been entered Into by the soviet government for the purchase of American goods. oo