The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
Bv HARRISON GEORGE.

THE speech of Maxim LlJVlnoII' SoF4eV
Spokesman at the Geneva League Of Ma
tions Council and Pan-European Conference,
has caused a tremendous flutter IN the dove
cote of American imperialism And with
good reason. For it is clear that Dwight Nor
rows pleasure trip" to Europe this Spring as
secret representative of Hoover, has not been
successful. It was supposed to rally European
nations against Russian dumping" But in
fact the European nations are rallying against
American dumping!
No wonder that the American capitalist
press registers CONSERVATION! The N. Y. Post,
especially smarting under the annoyance OF
having its Knickerbocker series on Soviet
dumping" upset the first day they appeared,
flies into a rage calls Litvinoff AN Impudent
Old Medicine Man." and ends its diatribe with
the following snarl:
Never has there been such cool nerve!
Commissar LitvinOff gets away with his inn
pudent propositions through that character
istic alone We devoutedly trust that Geneva
will shake itself free from the spell of his
ghost dancing"
Undoubtedly the worried Yankee diplomats at
Washington likewise "devoutedly trust" that
something can be done to conjure away the
spectacle of peril to American imperialism in
Europe, even in1perialist Europe, making
move even gesture, against the principal Of
fender in "dumping'-the United States OF
America!
The best that the unofficial spokesman of
the administration at Washington could think
up when confronted with the Litvinoff speech
and its apparently sympathetic response at
Geneva, was to sheer about the Soviet bar
gaining for credits" What of it? Since when
has that been forbidden?
But what American imperialism really fears
is a campaign against American dumping. This
is one reason why its Fish, VOL and all other
reactionaries have been splitting our ears with
cries about Soviet dumping" 1t turned atten-
ton away from the fact that America IS the
chief bumper of the world!
Firstly. please observe how ridiculous it is for
the United States to point at Soviet exports as
the menace to world trade, when a COMPARE
son of the share of these two countries in world
export trade reveals the following:
Share of World Exports
U. A. Soviet Union
1e11-13 1887 41%
1929 1880 1.49o On 1880
No wonder that correspondents at Geneva
hint that the realistic diplomats Of Western
Europe are privately saying that Soviet ex-
ports are no special menace but that Amer
lean trade is the real danger to them. America
keeps her doors locked with tariff, charges
high prices at home with the aid of that tariff
and really dumps goods abroad. 1t has done
this most noticeably in wheat, for example, and
Secretary Hyde boasts Of it,
More, the refusal of McKelvie, at the London
Wheat Conference to enter into any interna-
tional agreement. is a warning that American
capitalists are determined to continue to dump
wheat abroad at half the price it sells for be-
hind the tariff wall in America-thus gouglng
the bread eaters Of America-and not help
ing" the American farmers either, because they
had to sell at a far lower price the moment
they harvested their crop.
No wonder that the rival imperialists Of
Europe-without for moment forgetting that
ultimately they must clash with the socialist
system of the Soviet-refuse to be misled by
Yankee humbug from turning their attacks
upon their most immediate trade rival the
u. S. A.
1t makes no difference that they, these CAPT
talist nations of Europe, are themselves engaged
in dumping-as Litvinoff proved conclusively.
They have previously cried out against Amer