The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-23

ent time no more than 80 per cent OF the pre-War
export of former TzariSt Russia. 1t is obvious
that the Soviet Government in selling its raw
materials in foreign markets is not at all in
terested to sell at a loss, since in that case it
would be unable to cover its obligations on the
purchase of the machinery which the country
requires for the speedest completion OF the Five
Year Plan. On the contrary, all the capitalist
countries make unlimited use of dumping, SELL
ing the commodities at triple price within their
own countries and at half the price in foreign
markets, so as to supplant and defend their
competitors.
In Geneva, at the conference called on the
initstive of the French imperialists, with the
osentatious object of studying the economic con-
dition of Europe and with the view of discovering
a way out of the most difficult economic crisis,
the chairman of the Soviet delegation Comrade
Iitvinov with the same directness and con-
sstency which have characterized all the pre-
vious peaceful proposals of USSR, put before the
bourgeois diplomats the Soviet point of view.
The USSR does not intend to propose to the cap
italist countries any panaceaS for the economic
crises. Humanity only cure itself OF this i'll
ness after abolition of the capitalist system. The
accusations of dumping against USSR are quite
IdS6 anu DdS6l6SS although UllSI6 10 III OOuDU
that the crisis is being intensified thanks to
dumping practised by capitalist countries and
the system of tariff walls with which one cap
italiSt country fences itself off from another.
In view of this, Comrade Litvinov in the protocol
read by him proposed to all capitalist govern
ments to conclude an agreement on the basis of
the principle of the peaceful cO-existence of all
countries irrespective of their political and
economic systems and an undertaking not to
apply in their mutual relations any open
yelled forms of economic aggression against
each other. The meaning of the Soviet protocol
amounted to this, that side by side with the re-
nounciation of war as a method of the solution
of international conflicts the imperialist gov
ernments should also abstain from open or
yelled economic warfare which had become more
intense in the period of the crisis. BRAND,
Henderson and zalesky the ministers of foreign
affairs of France, England and Poland, made
the best of a bad job and welcomed the de-
clarations of Litvinov assuring him that all talk
of intervention is not true and at the same
time manifested great joy when 1itvinov did not
insist on the immediate consideration of the
proposals introduced by him.
Everyone who followed the peace policy of the
Soviet Union must recognize that the basis of
all its efforts lies not only in the all-round eX
posture of the imperialist plans of bourgeois
governments which is undoubtedly also of vast
Importance for the avoidance of new wars, but
also in the sincere ASPIRATION to support every
undertaking which places moral duties on the
bourgeois governments in front of the masses,
and makes it more difficult to take up war as
a means for the solution of disputes on account
of world conquest. The Soviet Union adopted
also the so-called Kellogg pact not because it
believes in the ''sacredness of agreements for
the bourgeoisie for whom every peaceful agree
ment serves but as step for the preparation of
new wars. 1t placed its signature under this
document because the imperialist even though
only formally and with a number of all sorts of
reservations have taken upon themselves the
duty to renounce war in future. More than this,
side by side with the Kellogg pact, the Soviet
government signed the so-called Litvinov pact
with it's immediate neighbors-Poland, Rumainia
and others, where it again confirmed its refusal
to adopt war as a method of the solution of
any conflic which may arise.
We know from the trial of the engineer
wreckers and the menshevist interventionists
how imperialist France and its vassal countries
after the signatures by the interventionists of
pacts, reonuncing aggression and war, have
criminally prepared and are preparing interven-
tlon against USSR. And yet nevertheless the
Soviet Union in the full consciousness of its
responsibility before the toiling masses of the
whole world, continues with the same persis-
tency and consistency its struggle for peace In
this struggle it relies on the support of the
strong will of tens of millions of workers and
collective farmers of the Soviet country which
is standing as the watchguard of the October
gains and relies also upon the friendly aid of
the whole International proetariat which is
ready to rise in defense of its Socialist father
land