Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 8 | Favor Trading with Soviets

FAVOR TRADING ! WITH SOUS ; ( I Ogden Machinists' Local Asserts As-serts This Will Solve Unemployed Un-employed Problem The ogden local of the International j Association of Machinists har- voted ro -end conies of a pirbulat from Ihej j general headquarters In Washlngteo, t d, Cm to Lhi i 'ci i n Chamber of Coriv-merce, Coriv-merce, the Weber elub, the ICiwanis,! ' Rotar) and Erogresslve clubs. This circular deals with the efforts I uf the association to decrease unem-1 i plovment in the United States by entering intu trade relation's! with the ' Russian Soviet government. I The Internatiomil Association of' Mai hid lite contends tht thousands of men in the United States can he khiil f.. vnpli IT llir, y t en m rn I m.iNi n arrangotnents whereby the United 81 i Supply the millions of d61- lai ' w oi i ii of goods no",!eii in rus sia and which, the machinists slay, tho Sov lei governnieni will pa' golJ for an soon as rcvelved. HAV1 ORI)l lit VD1 The circular from the Washington ;' headquarter) iffilcb h5-' been ln-do ln-do ' ii bj the local union set forth thai the graird fodsje has rebelled detailed de-tailed InTormatfon from the commissariat commis-sariat of foreign trade of the Sov lei government that the bureau i ready to plaee DliUipns ot" dollars' worth of i ordena in the United 8tatea, ,i soon .is the waj i- paved for comhiorcloi -i rfl tisacl Ions between the 'w countries. coun-tries. Kcasons w hy trade cannot c on j in tween Russia and the United States is et forth by the circular as fol- j lows: "The newspapers of the country: have from tfm to time given you In-Cormatioh In-Cormatioh regarding me methods which amount to ;.n effective block-,idt block-,idt of I he Kusslan ropublir which prevents thi placing of tlicso orders with American manuacturere and which I'lohlhlt many American business busi-ness men who are anxious to sell ' their goods from undertaking these I Russian Soviet contracts. Although i here is no nominal restriction .i.niisi tho shipment of American goods to Soviet Russia, except the so-called so-called war materials, which 'restriction 'restric-tion Is still in force, nevertheless this ir.-nle is belhg restricted hy aelton of I the i-vderai Reserve board refusing J the riRhi of iransferrlng funds to the! United Stales from the Russian re-1 public in order to pay for tho goods' purchased in America The American Ameri-can manufacturer is otherwise pre-: vinteil by tlie authorities from disposing dis-posing of this gold In America in return re-turn for these poods, the question being be-ing raised thai there was a probability! of the gold used In payment being n-1 legriiix acquired by the Russian republic. re-public. 1 2 1 EST1 lo i i it r VISED "This question lias never been raised before to our knowledge. We have not questioned the shipment uf gold from TUrkey or from any of the BurOpean or Asiatic countries and even in .our own imtpn. We have never hefore censored the gold re-celved re-celved by the limited Slates treasury oi attempted to determine whether j il represents gold legally acquired or I not. These prohibitions amount to La practical blockade and prevent tho CuvM.m (,'iivi rnmrpf from entering , into commercial relations with the ! L'nlted .States." The circular urges that citizens and organizations send requests to con-' I grefsmen. Ihe state department and ihe fi ,li ral i ... -ve board at Wash ing -! ton that these restrictions be lifted I as soon as possible that American mills ;iiii factories m.iy go t, work making the great stocks that Russian i people want to buy in the I'nlted i Slates