Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-21
ELABORATE PLANS
 FORMED FOR TRADE
 WITH TIE RUSSIANS
Lifting of Blockade Brings Signal Expansion
 Movement

Paris, Monday, Jan. 1a.-Elabor- ate plans for the resumption of com mercial relations between the Rus sian people and allied nations have been worked out and it is expected the bolsheviki will permit the free interchange of manufactured goods and raw materials. It will be a comparatively simple matter to dis tribute goods among the Russian people under the agreement an nounced last Friday by the supreme council, it is said by Russians who assisted in the negotiations that preceded the announcement. Surplus stocks of wheat, flax and lumber await export from Russia, and all that is needed is ocean tonnage tc carry these products to the markets of the world.
 Details of the plan to be follow, ed were given the Associated Press today by Alexander M. Berkenheim and Constantin Krovopouskoff, res. pectively president and member o1 the foreign board of the Russian co operative union, thru which trade will be carried on They conducted the negotiations with the supreme council, which brought about the adoption of a policy reversing that followed by the allies during the las i two years.
 Ut must be understood the agree ment has no political character what 1 soever," said M. Berkenheim. q is merely an economic, financial ant humanitarian arrangement. Russian cooperative unions, organized 5 years ago, now number 500 branche and have 50,00O local societies wit 25,000,00O members. These societ ies operate turnout Russia whethe under bolshevik rule or controlled b other governments. 1t is a sort o
 Russian economic Red Cross.
 "In February, 1919, we laid be
 fore the British foreign office an
 also before the secretary of Pre-
 mer Lloyd George our plan for tn
 exchange of Russian raw materis
 for manufactured goods from allie
 countries. M. Krovopouskoff an
 myself were summoned last week be
 fore the supreme council where tn
 plan was adopted
 "This plan is very simple. w
 have in Russia great stocks (
 wheat, cereals, cattle and flax whicl owing to the complete suppressio
 of exportaton during the last fe'
 years and the record crop of 191!
 are now larger than Russia ever dis
 posed of previous to the war. Thi
 is especially true in the interior c
 Russia where consumption has als , diminished
 "We require in return farming an ] agricultural implements, clotl
 shoes, locomotive, motors, automc piles and medical supplies. Shi tonnage must be furnished by tn
 allies as Russa's shipping has con
 pletely disappeared. We must in /, port first in order to export. Ship l may enter Black, Baltic and Whit sea ports loaded with goods needle :. by Russia and may return with ou exports"
 M Berkenhem would not sa whether this tonnage had been prom ised by Great Britain.
 Russian peasants absolutely refus 7 to accept any sort of paper none : and the question of payment fc l goods exported presented consider able difficulty. but a solution wa
 reached, according to M. Berkenheil
 as follows:
 "Imports will come to Russi
 consigned to us," he said. "The Q will be distributed to our store = turnout the country and we wi r purchase grains and cereals frol peasants. paying them in rubles at fixed rate We will also give thel scrip entitling them to purchas from our stores imported goods fc the identical amount of rubles W
 paid them when they were sellin
 their own stocks. All dealings mus
 be done thru our cooperative SC
 cieties."
 ' The correspondent informed \ V Berkenheim that it was the belle l, in France. the bolsheviki would sl /, pervise distribution and allow good to reach their adherents while tn Z rest of the. population might g barefooted and naked.
 !, , "Our stores are not under the COT trol of the bolsheviki," he replie "When the Moscow government ns
 tionalized all stores and closed the1 : our stores continued business undi:
 turbed. This was not thru any LII
 due friendship with the de facto gov
 ernment. but because of the high e'
 teem in which the cooperative SC
 cieties are held by the populatio
 turnout Russia. Altho the Mosco
 government considered us a some
 what reactionary organization an
 elaborated plans to close our store