The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-08-22
TRADE WAR
AGAINST RUSSIA
IS POSTPONED
BY HARVEY O'CONNOR
Federated Press

New York-FP-There will be
no commercial war against Russia
Just yet. The two-man and
committee war, whose tom-toms
were beaten so vigorously by Asst.
Sec. of Treasury Lowman, Mat
thew Woll and the Fish commit
tee, died away with the extreme
heat. Pres. Hoover took care of
Lowman with a few curt words,
while Pres. Green reminded Vol,
holder of many presidencies, that
he had no authority to speak for
the A. F. of L., which discounten-
ances any trade war on the Soviet
Union. The Fish committee. re-
1apsed into silence, some OF It's
members being rather bored by
the trivilaities put before it by po-
lice sergeants and professional pa
triots.
The New York press, from ex-
treme right to left, with exception
of the Hearst sheets, found little
to praise in either the Fish COM
mittee hearings or VOLTS single
handed war on Russian pulpwood.
Tory Republican papers either de-
cried the sound and fury or spoke
out vigorously in behalf of the
growing $125, 100000 annual trade
with the Soviet Union. Even the
Washington Post, perhaps the
most reactionary in the country, in
a signed story on page one, was
obliged TO admit that for Asst
Sec. Lowman, "bedeviled retreat
was in progress, not unlike that OF
Napoleon. From such boisterous
statements as that attributed II
/, him Monday, that a general bar
on Russian importations was con,
! templated, the assistant secretary
} had dropped to reputation Of
; this statement in the first place
and in the second to admissions
that there was no definite evi,
: dence that pulpwood now being
, held in port in this country came
from the hands of convict labor"
/ Federated Press learned that the
! heads of stevedoring companies
= affected by the pulpwood ban whC
testified for its reversal in Wash
ington had conferred with Pres
/ Joseph p. Ryan of the Intel. Long
! shoremen's Assn. and had beer
; told by him in no uncertain Ian
guage that scores of his members
{ have been thrown out of work, Il
! the tune of $4,000 day, by WoIl'i
, efforts. Ryan, also president o.
the New York Central Trades anC
Labor Council, said he would no
: comment publicly until he haC
, seen Pres. Green of the A. F. of L
: VOLTS war on Russia had NOR,
E than one interesting sidelight, no
D the least of which was the ridi
: culous position that Tory Sen
{ Reed of Pennsylvania put himsel
in when he rushed to Woll's sid,
: in support of the ban on Sovie
5 manganese. The big steel inter
n ests, who put up the funds TO
n Reeds election and are heavy buy
!, ers of the Russian product, sool
/ put the statesman right. Thi
5 country produces only 10 of tn
1 manganese consumed. Reed vote
in Senate debate to put mangan
i csc on the free list, at behest o
v his steel trust friends, only to b
Il trapped later by Woll in an en-
It barge demand.
II Perhaps one reason the newsps
o pers refused to join VOLTS war
l. that they are vitality interested j
It cheap pulpwood. With Russia bal
n red from the American marke
o Init. Paper Co. would have tn
s newspapers at a disadvantage
signing new contracts. Canadian
have fixed a minimum price Q
I. their pulpwood and Russia remain
the last immense reservoir of Il
\ stuff of which newspapers a
made.
- Morris Hillquit, chairman of Il
Socialist Party and no friend
Communism, described VOLTS e
forts to "force an economic bo
colt against a nation of 10000
r 900 human beings because he
he opposed 10 its form of COVER
VS. ment" as "tantamount to the "a
rs vocacy of a war measure. TT
en- proposal stands in violent ccntr
diction to the best traditions, po'