The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-08

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Finally, on the other sile this affects the
imports from the U. s. A. to the Soviet Union.
The honorable gentlemen who permit us to
trade with America without recognition and
therefore without solid credit basis for this
trade, with the result that We have to pay for
everything with cash, thereby compel u.s. in.
order to make these cash payments, to sell
a more or less corresponding quantity of goods
to America. In America they complaining
of Soviet dumping. These complaints are, to
put it mildly, exaggerated. No barons of
monopoly capitalism will succeed in stopping
the Soviet Union from developing its home in
dustry. For that, at any rate, is our own. in
ternal affair. And when, in order to realize
our Five-Year Plan, we have to eXpend thou
sands of millions of roubles on factory equip
ment, large part of which comes from abroad,
it means that either foreign credits are placed
at our disposal in order to prevent the in
creased development of Soviet export and of
Soviet competition, (what happens today
there is an increase of Soviet exports.
The foreign bourgeois gentlemen ought to
have understood long ago that the realization
of the Five-Year Plan necessarily means an in
crease of Soviet exports. Nevertheless, our
learned foreign critics" who have been taught
by experience, cannot yet grasp this truth.
There are, of course, two alternatives: to divert
orders for factory equipment from the United
States to Europe, or to refrain from placing
orders abroad and to develop the production of
factory equipment to the maximum in the
Soviet Union itself We have become tech
nically and economically so strong that we
could adopt the second course, although this
would cost US considerably greater efforts than
if we adopted the first course. 1t is clear
however that in this case, general restrc-
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with the bourgeois world would be inevitable
In reality it means for the bourgeois countries
the complete loss of the Soviet market, of the
former Russian market. And it is already
clear today that this loss would be severe
blow both to American and European iniustry
What are the immediate causes of the pres
ent crisis of "Soviet-American relations ?"
Without doubt they are: /. The worsening of
the position of American industry, due to the
economic crisis, and, in connection Herewith,
the efforts of certain branches of industry to
get rid of the competing" Soviet imports;
2. The increasing discomfort of the working
masses and the growth of the Communist
movement in the U. S. A.-both of them also
due to the economic crisis. These circum-
stances give rise to particular anxiety in the
ranks of the yellow trade unions, who fear
a defeat by the American Communists. Pre-
clsely for this reason the chief instigators of
the present anti-Sovet campaign in the U. S.
A. are, on the one hand, the heads of the tim
Der industry, the owners of manganese mines,
the coal mine owners, ETC., and on the other
side, Mr.. Matthew Woll, together with the
heads of the American political police
We can at present Individually record in the
first place an enormous growth of the trade
turnover between the Soviet Union and the
U. S. A. with the prospect of possible still
further growth This fact sharply raises the
question of transferring Soviet-American trade
to the normal basis of usual international econ
omic relations. "Trade without recognition"
on this scale is impossible. Secondly, the in
crease of the foreign political strength of the
Soviet Union is of fundamental importance:
the Soviet Union is great Power with whom
the bourgeois politicians are compelled to
reckon. The Soviet Union can thwart any
tricks on the part of bourgeois diplomacy.
This is becoming clearer both to our
bourgeois friends" and in particular to the
enemies of the Soviet. Union in the U. S. A.
1t is palpably clear that the latter, in the
given circumstances, must strain all their
forces in order to stop-if that is at all pos
sible-the ineXorably approaching change.
Wherein lies this inevitable change? Pre-
cisely in that which American government
circles have for ten years evaded: the estab-
lishment of normal diplomatic relations with
the Soviet Union. The establishment of such
relations lies in the interests of the American
bourgeoisie themselves; it is fully in accord
ance also with the principles of our policy,
which is directed towards the peaceful CO.
existence of two different economic systems.
Only the establishment of such relations is
capable of securing to American industry an
increasing number of Soviet orders, the i'm
portance of which the American machine-tool
making industry, the American tractor fac
tories, etc., are thoroughly convinced And
only the establishment of such relations is
capable of securing to the American wood
working industry, the paper industry, the metal
industry and other important branches of in
dustry the regular supply of qualitatively
high-grade and cheap Soviet raw materials
1t does not require any great amount of COM
mon sense and logical thought in order to un-
derstand that all these things are to bourgeois
America of no less, and perhaps even more,
Importance than the Soviet Union.
Finally, the American workers are interested
in the establishment of normal diplomatic rela-
tons. The scourge of unemployment in the
U. s. A. calls for the creation of favorable
preconditions for the placing of orders by the
Soviet Union Hence there arises the ever more
insisted demand of the American workers for
settlement of relations with the Soviet Union.
Bourgeois America must also bear two things
in mind. Firstly, the development of Soviet
American trade must, after the settlement of
the diplomatic side of the question, necessar-
lily be based upon broad development of
credit. If the Americans do not like the all
round increase of our exports, then they have