The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-01
Coffee Up 10 Cents;
Trust Blames 1t on
Revolution in Brazil
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the price of coffee has increased per
if she is given any for this boost in price, will
be told that is because there revolution going in
Sac Pauo province Of Brazil
from Brazil there is trouble down there and there you are
says the trust The housewife will probably wend her
way homewad, blaming "Boshevik" of her magma
o and pcturng in her mind the borders of Brazil touch
ing those of Soviet Russia.
In Chicago the city council committee the high cost
Of living gets busy and calls for the usual silly BOYCOTT"
that Chicago 1888 pounds of coffee per day. which
added $265ooo dropped into the pockets Of the
coffee trust, from this city alone.
We pages Of the July aoh issue ofthe New
tons that profit in food The housewife doesn't read it. She
gets further than the COMICS perhaps to the womans
Here are few headlines in the New York Commercial
the coffee situation: Rebellion Has Not Influenced
Coffee Prices;" Coffee Declines Brazilian News;
Market Closed 27 to 81 Points Lower"
But the coffee trust is deaf dumb and blind to all this
news The coffee trust like any other trust is only awake
to opportunities to increase the price of the commodity
Pauo had hardly gotten under way before the subsidized
press began carrying propaganda predicting boosts n the
" be dscerned in this This propaganda followed
by the 10 cent price boost
There is nothing about these repeated highway
robberes of the big business bandits 1t all part of the
The only exception that we know of is that no an
nounceent has yet been made of change in the price of
toothpckS because OF forest the West
haps this has slipped us past
There a time when coffee came from Brazil But
the proteers had other for increasing prices them
Arabia formerly supplied the world later the West Indies,
then Java way off the Orient But these fields
of coffee production have been suppanted by Brazil in
South America many thousands Of miles from Soviet Russia
and coffee trust agents have yet charged that the Sac
Pauo revolution, that is dropping millions of dollars into
their laps, is being engineered from Moscow
In fact, the Sac Pauo revolution is uprising against
the centralized authority in Rio Janero And Sac PauIo is
only of the four big coffee producing provinces of BRAZIL
trouble being reported from the other three.
There is reason therefore, for the boost in price of
coffee, except the rapaciy of the coffee proteers The
its scope sandstone the Arabian deserts would just
quickly become the basis for increase in the cost of
Mocha" while slight disturbance in the Of the
Indian Ocean might be used for increasing the
cost of Java"
merce July 81 in New York Dispatch declares that THE
stock of bags of coffee Santos Sao Pauo said
be largely low grade coffee and not suitable for the u s.
Trade
Some day the workers and farmers will become as in
ternatona the big They will discover the "con'
game that is being put on them.
The workers in the coffee fields, of Brazil, will feel
identity OF interest with the workers and farmers of the
United States who about onehaf of all the coffee
exported by the producing countries of the world
The coup etat of coffee trust boosting the price
of this household necessity ten per pound should be
little study in nernationasm for the farmers
Thus it will do good When the workers of the world
decide to completely unite they will be in position get
rid of the profiteers of the world,
AC wE GEE 1T