The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-17
THE WAR MOVE OF THE u. S.
SENATE AGAINST THE
SOVIET UNION


Institute itself publicly stated that its only in
tention is to injure the Soviet Union. General
Disque, the executive director of the institute,
publicly stated that they have mo intention to
injure Canada" and that they requested "the
Senate Committee to so word the bill that coal
from Canada and the British Isles should not be
taxed" quoted from the New York Herald
Tribune April 28, 1922 ...
1t must be remembered that two thirds of all
the coal imports of the United States come from
Canada and Great Britain, whose coal is not to
be subjected to the import duty. In the New
York Times of May IA, General Disque is quoted
as asking whether 'you prefer to give employ
ment to Chinese and Russians" rather than
Americans. Presumably the General mentions
China merely to provide some camouflage for
his real intention of pushing war preparations
against Russia Or is it because General DiSque
unWittingly betrayed the real intent Of this move
to encourage Japan in its war against China
and its war preparations against the Soviet
Union? For it must be remembered that not
single tons of coal is being imported to this
country from China nor is there any likelihood
of its being imported. few tons of coal mot
over 900 tons) have been imported last year
from French Indo China, so the only intention
of this import duty is to injure the U.S.S.R, to
impose embargo upon its coal as a move in
the war campaign against the Soviet Union. 1t
is well to remember that Assistant Secretary Of
State Castle recently declared that trade boy
colt is first step towards war.
The workers of this country, whom Wall Street
is seeking to inveigle in war against Russia
under the pretext of protecting labor, must
know few elementary and important facts
The Soviet Union purchases in this country
about eight times as much as it sells here. Last
year this country exported to the Soviet Union
according to official statistics from the Depart
ment of Commerce, goods to the amount of 103
million dollars. During the same year it i'm
ported from the Soviet Union only 10 million
dollars worth 1t does not demand any proof
that imposing an embargo upon imports from
the Soviet Union is bound to discourage Soviet
purchases in this country. There Is the pre-
cedent of Canada. Canada imposed an embargo
on some imports from the Soviet Union and as
result lost all of it's trade to the Soviet Union.
We have seen that according to the estimate
of the Treasury Department the stopping of the
imports of Soviet coal would not supply even one
days work to the miners in the anthracite region.
But the jeopardizing of the exports to the Soviet
Union will cost thousands OF American workers
their jobs The United States Department Of
Commerce recently estimated that 100000
workers are employed directly by the industries
working for the export trade Of this country and
that another 100000 workers are employed in
directly in connection with the export trade.
Since 43 per cent of the total exports OF this
country went in 1881 to the Soviet Union, no
less than $4,000 workers we're thus directly en-
ployed in the shops and factories manufacturing
exports for the USS.R. and about another
10000 workers were employed indirectly in con-
nection with Soviet trade. Hence, according to
the estimate of the Department of Commerce,
over 100000 working-class families of this coun-
4l,n .Ha,
Soviet American trade. Far from being intended
to supply employment to American workers
The only possible effect of this war measure
against the Soviet Union would be to deprive
tens of thousands of American workers of en-
ployment and throw them into the ranks Of the
many millions of unemployed.
The sinister features of this embargo move
against Soviet coal is that it is timed with the
feyerish preparations of Japan to invade the
Soviet frontiers. The New York Times of May
ID reports that:
ut has been estimated that Japan's forces
at all times in Manchuria total nearly
100000. In addition the Manchoukuo SOL
diers differed by Japanese number about
$4,000 and there are $4,000 Man>houkuO 10
cal police under Japanese domination"
Japan has concentrated immense armies on
the Soviet frontier. The imninence OF war
attack by Japan on the Soviet Union is adj
mitted by the bourgeois press and their COM
petent militant observers. 1t is under these
conditions that the Senate is urged to put an
embargo on Soviet coal The Finance Com
mittee of the Senate has already put its seal
of approval on it. The U. S. workers being
dragged into war against the Soviet Union. The
working class must be warned and must mob
ilize against these war Vaccinations of Amer
lean Imperialism