Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-20
DUMPING OF GOODS
HELD WORLD Peril
Vienna Manufacturer Be-
IieVeS Soviet Practices
Are Trade Menace.
BY A. r. DECKER.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
VIENNA. Austria, January 20.-Oscar
Berl, Vienna manufacturer and brother
in-law of Prof Gebauer Fulnagg of
Northwestern University, believes that
Soviet dumping is not only disturbing,
but perilous.
Russia is awake" Herr Berl says,
''and the World sleeps. Soviet products
are being sold regardless of the cost of
production and are an important cause
of unemployment, which the SovietS are
trying to extend in order to prepare
ground for unrest. Unless the world
unites for self-defense, world depres-
sion will be hard to overcome.
Control Over Imports.
'"The Soviets exclude all goods from
abroad and permit imports only through
central committee. Thus, they are
able to bargain and purchase where it
is the cheapest and at the same time
exclude foreign goods. The world should
adopt the same tactics.
1T should exclude all Soviet goods
and allow exceptions only in cases
where dumping could do no harm. Ma
tional committees should be formed to
send delegations to world congress for
planning defense against the menace
to world industry and trade.
Trading with the Soviets as it is now
conducted, with the granting of ILL
considered credits, is immoral, just as
is the purchasing of stolen Russian jew
elry by Women-it is receiving stolen
goods. The Russian state has seized all
raw materials and IS paying its labor in
worthless tcherpoWetz, or orders on
Soviet StorehouSes, for other slave-labor
manufactured goods. It is slave labor,
for there is but one employer State
workers cannot quit their jobs or strike,
but must accept what is given them.
Hence, costs play no role in the
Soviet selling scheme. The only objects
are to obtain~foreign currency and to
make all sacrifices to obtain equipment
from abroad.
Low Prices Abroad.
Wood, lumber and pulp are sold at
little more than freight charges in
Germany, Italy, Holland and Great
Britain. Grain and flour are dumped
into Western Europe and Italy, matches
in Belgium and the United States, coal
and manganese in the United States,
France and Italy, hides in Jugoslavia
and Austria, lime in Poland fax in
France, Belgium and CZechoslovakia.
"a more serious DEVELOPMENT lately
is the purchase by Soviets of goods in
one country to be dumped at sacrifice
prices in another country. For example.
the Soviets are dumping solvay soda in
the Balkans and Czechoslovakia at
cheaper than solvay prices. Also, Ger
man chemicals are being dumped in
Hungary and Austria.
Therefore, the Czech fax industry
is at standstill Jugoslavia cannot
work its manganese mines nor its saw
mills and Austrian wood exports to
Germany have been hard hit Soviet
honey is being sold in Vienna at 10
cents a pound, one-third the price at
which Austrian can sell it.
Granting credits to support such
institutions is like committing suicide
If the Middletown Ohio, mills build a
rolling mill in Russia, they may have to
close their own United States mills
some day when the Soviet no-pay labor
gets busy.
Effect on Employment.
To-day the Soviets are throwing on
the market raw materials and only a
few manufactured goods; tomorrow
they might be dumping tractors. ma
chinery plates, machines-all goods.
"Perilous also is dumping in coun-
tries where unemployment is already
serious. This is done with the aim fur
Their to upset the world, making for
more unemployment and unrest. Soviet
dumping has passed the disturbing
stage and now is perilous."
(Copyright. 1879