SOVIET SWEETS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1931, Page 2

SOVIET SWEETS

CAUSE OF UPROAR

LONDON, May 29. Strange scenes occurred on the floor of the Manchester Corn and Produce Exchange on Tuesday, when members refused to tolerate the presence of an agent selling Soviet sweets and chocolate. Shouts of indignation and “boos” forced the representative of the Russian agents in London to resign immediately (writes the “Daily Express correspondent). During t?ie rest of the day the Russians exhibits stood neglected in the middle of the exchange. Some of the eases were rifled and their contents strewn, on the unattended table. The Exchange authorities have been warned that if the Russians are allowed to set up theii stand no guarantees can be given for the good conduct of the members. “We told the president,” said one member, “that if the committee allowed this stand to be put up we could not be held responsible foT the lengths to which many of our members would go. This 4s the first time in the history of this Exchange that we have had such a scene a-s we witnessed today.” It is affirmed that however low a British manufacturer makes his price, the representative of the Russian manufacturers will go even lower. The Russians will di-pose of their stocks at i any price, Members maintain that the ! Russians are determined to flood the British market's in order to create Unrest and unemployment. The stand was reserved by a London agent, who did not disclose his association with the Russian manfacturers, nnd fees have been paid to the Exchange authorities for one year.

THE ALLEGED “IMPERIALISTIC” WAR. A delegate from Soviet Russia, Mr P. L. Ginsburg, addressed the 200 delegates to the Co-operative Congress, which opened at Bournemouth on Whit Monday. Russia under the Five-Year Plan, he said, had reached the highest achievements in the reconstruction of Socialist industry. There was no unemployment now. They had to find 2,000,000 new workers for their industries during this year.

He expressed satisfaction that the trade relations between the Soviet and British co-operators had further developed during the year. “We are particularly pleased,” lie said, “that our orders have contributed much to keeping some of your factories fully occupied.” Mr Ginsburg said a campaign was being waged against the Soviet Union. The« aim of their exports was to obtain capital for their imports, Although exports were much les9 than in prewar times, capitalists nnd the enemies of the Soviet Union fiercely opposed them under the cloak of “Russian dumping” nnd “forced labour.” Actually the object of these onmpaigns was to prepare public opinion for . a war against the Soviet Union. Ho urged that the ro operat’ve movement must use all its resources to unmask before the masses the preparations for Imperialistic war.

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