The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
THE IMPERIALIST CHICKENS
COME HOME TO "DUMP"

lean dumping and they may find it convenient
to borrow Litvinoff's proposals for a time, in
order to thwack American rival bumpers over
the head
This explains the sympathetic" reception Of
the Soviet proposals by such an old imperialst
fox as BRAND Whole it noted-iS so cynical
as to indicate privately that he accepts the
Soviet proposals only hypocritically. That is the
only meaning of the following lines, taken
from the Geneva dispatch to the N. Y. Times
of May 20:
''Those close to NJ. BRAND represent him as
not attaching much practical Importance to M
Litvinoffs economic non-aggression pact but
is willing to enter it if Moscow sets store by it,"
Truly a revelation of imperialist hypocrisy!
But the French have no monopoly in that! 1t
is absolutely astounding that American imper-
ialism dares to raise a whisper against Lit
vinoffs proposals Yet the N. Y. Herald Trib-
une, May 20, one of the leading voices of Amer
lean capitalism, equals the Post in its venomous
attack 1t says:
"The proposals which Maxim Litvinoff, Sow
let Commissar for Foreign Affairs, made at Ge-
neva on Monday about the most naive and
revealing thoughts that have yet come out of
Russia. In a sense they also the most
impertinent.'
Yet what are these impairment" proposals?
In essence they are that all nations should
pledge to sell goods in foreign countries at the
some price as these goods are sold at in their own
countries; that they should not be sold at lower
prices abroad than at home, namely, not
dumped.
Well if Iityinof is impairment" in asking
that, he is only asking that the United States
obey its own law! For that is exactly what is
provided for in the "Anti-Dumping Act" OF
1921, passed by the U. S. Congress and in effect
in the United States today! The U. s. law,
of course is against goods being dumped into
the United States at price less "or likely to
be less, than the foreign market value, TINS
foreign market value to be determined BY
1.-THE price, at the time of expectation of
such merchandise to the United States, at
which such or similar merchandise is sold
freely offered for sale to all purchasers In
the principal markets of the country from
which exported. in the usual wholesale guam
titles and in the ordinary course of trade
for home consumption"
This is the U. S. lawl But it is impairment"
for the Soviet to propose that it be obeyed by
the United States! Obviously the United States
wants other nations to be barred from dumping.
while it demands the right to dump wherever
it wishes! And Litvinoff is IAN inpudent old
man" for suggesting that America obey its own
laws
LitYinoff, speaking in the name OF the Soviet,
demands this because it is to the benefit OF the
toiling masses of all nations that goods be sold
in their home countries at prices no higher than
those exported to foreign lands.
If there is any "impudence" in this proposal,
it does not belong to Lityinoff, but to such
tricksters as BRAND VINO for their imperialist
purposes of making war against Americas high
tariff and wholesale dumping of goods, pretends
for time to enter such aggression pact
as the Soviet proposes chow suddenly amiabe is
the old foxD ''if Moscow sets store by it,"
1t is clear, then, why American imperialism
has flown into such towering rage at Soviet
"inpudence" 1t is also clear why imperialiSt
Europe can offer smile, for the moment to
Litvinoff But Litvinoff, as both camps OF i'm
perialist robbers will find out-also addressed
the toiling masses of the world.
He showed them that only the Soviet has
the solution of hunger they suffer and the cure
for the war looming over them. And when
the imperalists, be they in America or Europe
continue their plumber and robbery and once
again launch the peoples into world war-then
they will find that the masses will turn against
them, and to the Soviet Unionl