Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-01-20
RUSSIAN TRADE
now.
READY TO Open.
Elaborate Plans Completed
For Resumption OF Com
mercial Relations With AL
Lied Countries.

Paris, Jan. 19.-Elaborate plans for
the resumption of commercial rela-
tions between the Russian people and
allied nations have been worked ont
and 1t is expected the bolsheviki will
permit the free interchange of manu-
factured goods and raw material and
1t Will be a comparatively simple mat
ter 10 distribute goods among the Rus
sian people under the agreement an
nounced last Friday by the supreme
council. II as said by Russians who as-
sisted in the negotiad ,ns that pr .ccd-
ed the & htuncement. Surplus stocks
of wheat, TAX and .u1nher await ex-
Fort from Russia, and all that is no .d-
cd is ocean tonnage to carry these ,r,-
duets to the markets oe the world.
Details Of the plan to be followed.
were given the Associated Press TODAY
j; Alexander M. Berkenheim ana { ,n-
slantin Rrovopouskoff, respectively
president erd mem5e' of the foreign
board of the Russian Cooperative I'm
ion, through which trade will be car
ried on. They conducted the negotia.
tions with the supreme council which
brought about the adoption Of a policy
reversing that followed by the allies
during the last two years.
System Non-Political.
1T must be understood the agree
ment has no political character what
soever," said M. Berkenheim. 'It Ii
merely an economic, financial and hu.
manitarian arrangement. Russian co.
operative unions, organized fifty years
ago, now number 500 branches an6
have $4,000 local societies with 2s,.
100000 members, These societies op.
crate throughout Russia whether un.
der bolshevik rule or controlled by 9th.
er governments. It is sort of Russian
economic Red Cross.
"In February, 1919, we laid befor,
the British foreign office and also be-
fore the secretary of Premier Lloyd
George our plan, which now has beer
adopted, for the exchange of Russian
raw material, for manufactured good
from allied countries.
This plan is very simple. We hav
in Russia great stocks of wheat, cereal
cattle and flax which are now large
than Russia ever disposed Of.
Three problems must be met in or
der to arrive at an exchange of goods
first, transformation of raw materia
Outside of Russia; second the mode o
payment to the Russian producer, an
third, distribution of imported good I
Russian consumers.
Implements Needed.
I'VE require farming and agricul
tural implements, cloth, shoes, loco
motives motors, automobiles and med
ical supplies, Ship tonnage must b
furnished by the allies as Russia
shipping has completely disappeared
We must import first in order to es
port"
Mr.. Berkehheim would not say whe
ther this tonnage had been promise
by Great Britain.
The correspondent informed n
Berkenheim that it was the belief /
France that the bolsheviki would supe
wise distribution and allow goods [
reach their adherents while the rest {
the population might go barefoote
and naked.
"Our stores are not under the cor
troll of the bolsheviki," he repliei
when the Moscow government ma
tionalized all stores and closed then
our stores continued business undi:
turbed. This was not through any III
due friendship with the de facto gol
ernment but because of the high 81
TEEN in which the cooperative soci'
ties are held by the population throug
out Russia. We feel sure our heaC
quarters in Moscow can reach a sati
factory agreement with the soviet al
thorities for an impartial distribution