The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18

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answer. After having adnonished the Rus
sian people that only productivity will save
them he added that production is conditioned
upon . the recognition by firm guaran-
tees of private property Here we have the
genesis of the dumping, fable. The Russian
people are giving an example of how produc-
tivity can be developed without firm guaran-
tees of private property And that happens
at moment when production conditioned on
firm guarantees of private property" in Amer
lea is starving millions of jobless workers and
their families. Capitalism cannot tolerate the
Soviet example. For capitalism too much de-
ponds on the preservation of the illusion that
the capitalist is an indispensable cog in the
machinery of social production. How dare the
Soviets make the social machinery of produc-
ton go, and go even better without the toll
collecting capitalists.
In the rush against this socialist system of
production the capitalists completely overlook
the fact that their accusation of dumping is a
certificate of success to the socialist machin-
cry of production in the Soviet Union.
But what about Soviet dumping Do not
Soviet imports steal jobs from American
workers?
More than half of all Soviet imports in the
United States are imports of raw material
One-half of these imports consist of man.
ganese and undressed furs. The amount of
American jobs stolen by the imported I'M
dressed furs should be figured out by some
anti-Soviet maniac. Tt is quite certain that
the time lost in this endeavor will be worth
more than the wages lost to American work
ers by the fur imports, even if the maniac is
Yoo+ he 1iIyoIxy WOULD bo i
capitalist editor.
Manganese is needed for steel production
Before the war America produced / per cent
of its required manganese. Czarist Russia
which controlled 48 per cent of the world pro-
duction exported SO per cent of America
needs of manganese. At present the Soviets
control about 40 per cent of the worlds pro-
duction, and supply about 33 per cent of Amer
ca's needs The prices of Soviet manganese
as quoted by the U S. Department of Com
merce are not even a fraction of a cent lower
than the prices quoted for Brazilian man
ganese or for the same product from other
places Manganese is a mineral. It must be
mined; it cannot be manufactured. Where
there is no manganese it cannot be mined
The Soviet Union has manganese. It has the
best that can be found. That is why the So
Wet Union sells it. The American steel mills
need it; that is why they buy it from the So
Wet Union. There is no internal mystery
about this transaction; there is no price-cut-
ting; there is no dumping, and finally there is
no stealing of American jobs.
But the Soviets are dumping lumber and
pulp-wood, yell the dumping propagandists.
What are the facts? The American pulp
wood industry is moving to Canada because
the American timber reserves have been de-
pleted by anarchist capitalist economy. More
than half of the pulp-wood used by American
paper manufacturing is imported from Canada.
The small Soviet import of pulp-wood ''does
not displace American wood; Statement of
international Paper Company. "Manufac-
ture of high-grade paper in the United States
is dependent on pulp-wood from the outside.
This (Soviet} pulp-wood is not displacing the
work of one single American laborer" Estate
ment of the Racquette River Paper Company
The director of the lumber division of the
u. S. Department of Commerce declared that
Soviet pine and spruce is the best that can
be gotten and fetches the highest price on
the market. At the same time the total So