The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-12-14

,;,oton - (FP) - Secretary
N 5.sto kellogg, scuttling hastily
Of s's @ron support of the Cumber-
sTH Kan for financial control of
ano ,e gs1 by the State Department,
Mcale sS5sed to strike a blow at Amer
bas P..ado with Russia. Through the
can IIIio.fe-ceneral in Berlin he has
coii'liJG an American visa for M. Oss-
rel,u.s chairman Of the Soviet mission
insAl ,ras coming to Detroit to ne
F ll.44 with Ford and with General
gO'i1ssel for the construction of two
ho'.t' American motor vehicle fac
gIs@' in the Soviet Union. Since
toIles IS at the head of the motor
U''I'e and motor transport service Of
Ioo- ovenment, TIE fact that he has
Els barred after starting for this
besn +rv on an erraAd. involving scores
co buttons of dollais is likely to
OAK Gown the whole plan for long
Il The sole reason WY Kellogg inter
..-.J with the plan for opening the
r. kussian fell t. American mot
va s 'reblce production is THAT Ossinski
u pa q brief and Incidental talk at
~ rfcent meeting OF the Third In
t.,o,,ional in Mos ,ow. The Third
i..ttssrnational plans for the mainten-
10 10 nj communist propaganda thru
s a,Dt me world. Kellogg refuses to
Unit NV entry into this country of any
trs wDOin he can il nifty, and wishes
- 20 u nifty, as having taken part in
Srr meeting of this organization. In
e niow If the fact that OSslnski spent
.ar,o o.rpths in Washington, not long
s@o with Eellogg's full consent, and
a5er he was furnished desk in the
Dsugrtrent If Acricai;t re, where he
70. furnished a desk ir the Depart
mn. cf Agriculture, ~ ere he Was
arriving on scientific studies in be.
sslf of the Soviet ~, rnment, this
rdden ban is the more futile and de-
structive TO International goodwill.
Had the Soviet motor vehicle mis-
sion been allowed tC proceed to De-
hoit. it would probably have mace a
Mntract resulting in the building of
two of the biggest automobile fac
tories in the world, with American
capital, and to be run co furnish pro.
fit to American stockholders on the
one hand and cheap transportation to
millions Of Russian peasants and
their crops, on the other. Each OF
these automobiles or trucks would
have been an argument for the pro-
ductiOn of more of such machines
and the adaptation of Russian life to
the more general use of motor cars
From the outset, the Soviet republic
has looked upon American industrial
production methods as the best mode
to be cOpied-eXcept that the Soviets
will never subordinate men to ma.
! Ghinery. They are eager to prove
that mass production can go along
with real freedom for the workers.
that a modern socialized state car
give day by day to the workers the
full profit of all labor-saving machin.
cry and methods.
1t is possible that Mr.. Kellogg, ir
\ setting his impatient heel upon these
negotiations at Detroit. had this lat.
L ter consideration in mind. ALWAYS z
\ faithful follower of the United
States Steel Corporation, he is ap.
paled by the thought that worker:
may boss the great machines will
which they spend their days; thai
councils of workers may determine
policies of production, and that man
agement may one day, in American
industries as well as in those of Rus
STA, report special and regular divi
dendS to the producers rather than tt
absentee stockholders. Fer any con
tract with American firms would pro
nde for ultimate purchase of tn,
plants by the Soviet government, anC
any such dismissal of private capita
would be disquieting suggestion t,
the employees in basic industries i
the United States.
1t is probably fortunate for Mex
ean-American relations that kellogg,
Is to leave the State Department
uree months hence, for he coul
scarcely be expected to feel cordia
toward Emilio Portes Gil, the new
president of Mexico. Ambassado
MORROW, whose methods of concilia
uon are unique in this administra
1On will deal with Gil as he has wit
Oalles-smOothly and persuasively
Tmle resisting every one of his revo
lutlOnary tendencies. But Gil has be
gun by insisting that Article 1913 o
me Constitution of 1917, prescribin
modern labor code, be written int
Statute and enforced. This program
viii stir up the resistance of Ameri
can employers in Mexico. Morro1
Will resent it. Kellogg will be exas
& Possibly, if Ambassador Houghto
Is brought home from London a
4 NAenoggs successor, the new crisis
\ M%excan relations will be eased owe
mexican workers may gain bette
n OndlnOns without another threat G
war from Washington.
Il Washington = (FP) - Governmer
\ y the high-tariff lobby, bringing ne
increases in the cost of living fl
Wage-eamers.
n mat Is the first consequence of tt
4 EOnucal campaign of 1928, reflecte
~ the first act of the House Commi
&c on ways and means, when CO..
4 SieSs reassembled.
Inc Houston convention, Al Smit
E Chairman Raskob, bidding for p
4 -ucal support from manufacture
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