The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-06-23
Friday, June %, 1888
BENEATH The SURFACE OF
The LONDON CONFERENCE

Every so often the big nations of the world send
resentaes conferences which the press state will solve
the worlds ills After delivering miles OF oratory these rep
resentaves return to their countries and things go on
before John Farmer still needs shoes and can't see over
the huge stack Of his debts Jim Worker still out of
Job and his family hungry and in danger of being
put on the street, if that hasn't happened already
The London Economic Conference which has been
session week is exception. 1t differs from previous
conferences only in that the press owned and run by big
business offers hope that the world will be better
off when the final session of the conference has ended
In fact, according to wellknown conservative Eng
lish journalist
"PeOple in high places privately express the vivew
that it will be reason for cOngratulatOn if a result
of the conference, the world is not made worse"
Another writer correspondent OF the New York
Times in Paris, gives the French view:
"There is not a ray of hope far as Paris see
that the World Economic Conference is going to succeed
The government makes monetary stabilizzatiOn and
debt settlement the absolute necessity for
hope for either
"On tariffs it is not felt that there is any genuine
will to make reductions even in the United States
"Then these is disarmament. Norman H. Davis
promises and CajOlngs have made dent in Frasce's
firm conviction that there security like strong
army"
Another dispatch appearing in the New York Times
from London boldly the deception beneath the good
will statements of the delegates:
'"What depresses observers here is the knowledge
that economic natOnasm is rumblng beneath the
face in every delegation and that day during the
high. shy
"The international spirit may have everything it's
own way for the first fortnight, with every delegate
prOcaiming his world mndedness Yet it will be hard
to escape the feeling that while the statesmen here say
one thng their governments will be doing the opposite
In spite of these revealing statements by journalists Of
the capitalist Glass; the farce must be played out TO the
bitter end with the actors puppets strutng stage
and taking their bows while Wall Street. London and Paris
jerk the strings that tie them like dogs to their masters
And the cost of this conference modesty estimated
at $4125O0O While all the governments of the world save
one are cutting relief to the needy and starving the hungry
conference which they themselves confess will not crhe
the trade walls, employ the unemployed or build path to
was called for VIC '''is' ~
The ray of light shed on the whole conference pro-
ceedngs from the land where there no unempov
Soviet Union. WY
While every other country in the world is trying to
Destroy !6S socaled surplus at home dump over the
gh tariff walls erected by capitalist state against an
ne the Soviet Unions representatives astounded the dele
gates by offering to place 81 worth of orders To
ing ahead i'ie n0U'"S 10 loig-
This expenditure would consume from Ok 70
90 per cent of the worlds surplus of such metals as alumni
num- nickel copper and lead third of the annual world
On machinery and 100 per cent of last years total
Mr. Litvinoff his remarks by saying, 1--WE merely wish
70 set ts conference along the path which, in opinion
crisis" ''''''' - ''ieV'A'inS 'ne
THE delegates who nstinctivey had bent toward the
porm as M Lltvlnoffs voice rolled the figures shook
themselves and awoke again. For one moment the nearly
gates OF economic heaven had opened and shown the golden
The delegates afraid to tread the golden streets
o rear that by accepting the Sovies orders they would SO
strengthen that country that the workers in their own
ers - 'n "ViheIS anu IarIn-
The delegates had to get back to the sordd busis f
talking about pulling down tariff walls while Their ooe
menus at nome are building them higher: of issno sweet
wOtus on peace and disarmament while their governments
az nome build more arms and warshps Of course thew
PAU no atenton to proposal made earlier in the dav hy
inc opar5 a. pact OF economic non-aggresson look
fare. " ." weapons OF economic war
Never before in world conference have the In
seemed so recOnciabe the obstacles SO diff
cult and common ground so hard 10 find y royo~4a .
newspaper correspondent at Geneva 'epO's
This is just it. All the capitalist countries in tbo world
are in the throes of economic warfare which leads
to armed conflict ~ u' inevitably
The only way such outcome can be averted ;s for ~
workers and farmers in this country and every canta
county to unite behind slogan Of ro aroI. capCass
peace with the Soviet Union" wars ana