1931-

15092332; a Haw Soviet Russia a Kills British Trad

(By c. ill. Godden in London 1m.) Tablet) A

“n,” fourteen leading English irms contract to DRY 7-0001300 P0111103 run-arcs thc upkeep of the savage en- my 51am which calls itself the So- viet Govcmment, the transaction de- mud; notice in these pages, which m concerned with morals no less m“, vrith faith.

1; 1s only a few weeks ago that the ihe Merger known as the “Central soft Wood Buying Corporation" con- eluded an agreement with the Soviet Government. by which purchases n- mounting to £7,000,000 are to be mac; and it is stated, on the ox- part authority of the British Timber fgumill, that the Soviet programme ,5 to eypnrt to this country within 1pc ncxtnyfew years, 1 1-4 million riandards of sawn wood. The con-

“ience r; thcsg fourteen firms and 0i other Fnglish firms who have foi- pm-ed LL16 same poiiov this sum-nor, m vast, yer-chases of ‘wheat, Zrui‘; pulp, and other products oi Soviet forced 131ml‘, should he pricking them covertly on three several indictments. This sum of £7,000.00.) uill be a sub- itantial support for a Government which, as the Timber Trades Journ~ -.1 points out, makes commerce sub- ridiary to Soviet aici of world-rev- olution achieved through the foment- iqrq of economic unrest in all count- m-P Vast consignment’. of cheap con- Wit-sawn timber, poured into Eng- luui, means that "something little tzcrt of ruin" would seem to be in iiue for the Scandinavian industries. ,.f,rl ruined industries are the most ieiiile of soils for the revolutionary Communism which thi- Soviet agents are constantly disseminating. Precise- ly the some method‘ and the same result, were denounced by M. Mad- pail}, the Roumanlan Minister of Connrfierce, at the recent Assembly of the League oi Nations. At the moment when the markets of Rou- manin, Bulgaria, Yrgoslavla and

Hungary were most vulnerable the

scziet Government poured in grain,

ggpaply produced by forced and un- derfed labor; and thus achieved the drmoralization of th: local peasants.

‘in Roumania, said M Mndgearu, ihe

peasants are on the verge of star-

ldllilll. in the midst o2 a glut of

Ullfl; and similar conditions prevail

in Hungary. Soviet coal has lately

‘nu-n sold in Sirasburg at a price und-

rr thc rost of proriuctic-n and trans-

lull. With such a price the French

and Ruhr coal fields are quite im-

ab!!! to compete. The creation of un- must in the ruining in lustries nns been

n 1.1 rritc device ofihe Sovviet lac- hizns ever since IVVOIII“! treated 1hr Communist movement among tri- Iiflllih miners, in friendly touch with ihe then Secretary of the Min- e:s‘ Federation, befr-i his transfer n! "fl-z rral Borodin" to China. for thc purpose of paralysing British trade in the Far East.

The plastic commercial conscience oi certain British Jam-makers has creaiiy encouraged the Soviet eni- isiarics of trade disruption in Eng- land. Directed by the oft-mentioned Mr. Saul Bron, from his princely headquarters in Bush House, the So- v-ct agents succeeded in rwamping the English small frui’; markets this simmer with tons of fruit pulp, sold at less than half the cost oi pro- duction to the English grower. Many of these growers are einriil holders who have sunk all rheir llitle capit- |.1 in fruit farming. This year they rave seen splendid Cfnps left to rot on the trees and bushes, as the state i" the market, ruined by the Soviet invasion did not cove: the expenses oi picking and transport. The losses glut Anglia alone are computed

13.000 pounds. Mr. Saul Bron

could hardly have been more euc- loegul had he led an invading army ll the lhistcrn Counties. A like disaster ‘has been inniicted on our nmlllhlre strawberry growers who dhtl! ‘able to cope with So- fruit pulp cold at 2 pence per und—tfi0 product of Soviet child clove labor, according to Mr. Harold gihlon, a resident for many years in

"Ilia. Lost year the Soviet! fruit Illlll amounted to 200 tons-a spoon- ful of bait. The British jam manu- facturers "bit;" and this year 2,000 ions have been dumped in England; 13:1 Soviet program for next year is ' more extensive.

""1118 lo successfully attacked the Scandinavian, Germany. Czechoslovak :1 Ind Polish timber trades, the

ilhllrll. Bulgarian and Rumanlan "more, the llrench coal mines, and ll" Ihsliah fruit growers, the Soviet Government hal launched a great llllil-‘umn offensive on the English ‘W eat front" relying upon the co- llimation oi the corn merchants oi 5"" Britain. It was a reliance com- hletelv Justified by results. Fleets of steamers. chartered by the Soviet Government, have poured cargo af- ‘0’ "P80 of Soviet grain into Lon- ‘hll. Manchester, I-full, Aberdeen, “"1110 By October a, 00.000 tons or Bvarict ivhcat were imported into alone; the millers were buying

- wheat at much lees than the bare m" o! Production of the mum

wheat; and thousands of acres of Yorkshire corn were left uncut by the farmers who saw that Smploymenb oi hands to carry in thc corn would only increase their losses. It is c cult to imagine a sight more trag. io than those acres of yellow corn left to rot in the Yorkshire fields. This is war, and the moat terrible of all wars, economic war, with its? train of scarcity, unemployment, and "mass discontent."

Flanking and subsidiary lines of at- tack have not been' neglected. Mr. Buul Bron. 1n his position 6r chief oi the Soviet Trade Delegation, to which the British Government has afforded diplomatic immunity, is knocking the bottom out of the Eng- _ iish and Irish pig farmers‘ market] by ofierlng large. quantities of bac-i on, chiefly from confiscated British and other foreign bacon factories, and produced by forced labor at a weekly wage of the equivalent of 14 shillings, 8 pence. In Belgium and in Germany, Soviet matches have been sold with success that three Belgian match factories have had to close down and tiie German Government has been forced to create a State mulch monopoly. The French poult- ry farmer is attacked by the swamp- ing oi the Paris egg market with Soviet eggs, which can be re-cxport- ed to England marked as French eggs a subtle manoevre, and worthy oi ihe brains at work in the Kremlin. At Cardiff last month, 90 tons of S0- viet soap arrived by motor lorries from London; with the result that one English firm alone had to re- duce their output by 24 tone in eight weeks. As an lmglish soap maker said; "the dlsasterous effect on un- employment in the home factories is obvious." ,

The creation oi world wide distress. the subsidizing of chaos and unem- ploymentin all industries, the impov- erishment of workers, the shattering of economic and political stability, these are some of the results which should prick the consciences oi the buyers of Soviet products.

The Soviet state has by now become a Slave State with which no self-respecting citizen of a frce country should deal, far less should ha subsidize such a State by taking his share in the buying of 7,000,000 pounds of timber, 10,500,000 pounds of wheat and other Soviet products at similar figures. ‘This result of his tramcking should assail, with spec: iiil poignancy, the conscience 0f the English trader, who is entitled to the proud claim that wherever the flag of m-igland flies there is freedom. Are the present conditions of pro- duction imder the Soviet rulers nothing to him? It is well that he should be forced to remember a fcw of the salient facts of that Soviet "administration" whiclrhe so active- ly supports. Circular No. 87 of the Soviet Commissariat of Labor dated March 3, 1930, enacts the creation of labor gangs, the workers in which have no optfen as to where they shall serve and for which/only three days‘ notice is given in which to prepare. These forced labor gangs include women and young people ov- er sixteen years of agc. The gangs are specially dispatched to the ter- rible climatic conditions of Northern Russia. On the “timber front" un- iversal service has been levied. The working day is sometimes extended to twelve hours, and days of rest are ignored. Last spring, tens of thous- ands of Russian peasants were sent to convict labor camps, chiefly for the preparation of export timber. The captain of the Norwegian ship the Ada brought his cargo of timber to Portishead three weeks ago, from lgartha in Siberia. There he saw hundreds of men and vvcmcn assemb- led for the sawing and loading of timber; They worked sixteen hours a day; and bowls of soup were hand- ed to them from a few shops. They were afraid to enter into conversat- ion; but they did make it known that they had been taken from their small farms and forced to do work for which they were unaccustomed. The women, poorly clad, in Arctic Siberia, were anxious to secure any cast off clothing from the sailor. A month ago the Council of Labor and De- fence, in Moscow, ordered the con- scription of 182.000 laborers to ox- pgdflq the preparation of timber for export. The Council stated that 14,000 timber workers were recently sent in batches in the Archangel district, but 11,000 oi them escaped. "Stricter discipline is therefore imperative." A stowaway who succeeded in escaping from Archangel and who was land- ed at Welt Hartlepool, told how he was taken from a little village in the Ukraine because of his religious be- lief; and after he had b”! K095 ll! prison eleven months was lent to work in the docks with thousands of other prisoners, chiefly WBQWW! Christians. All that he had to eat was a email quantity of black bread. washed down with water thll W"

beliefs, and hie father lost his reas- cn. A Lutheran pastor, Adam Kuort- ti, has lately escaped from the hell upon earth which the Soviet Gov- ernment haa set up in Kareiia. “I was sent." writes Pastor Kuortti, "to do forest work in East Kareiia. At the lame time i500 prisoners chiefly political, were dispatched; and at a ‘logging place‘ we found a further i000, the greater part ‘political of- fenders.’ . . I was employed in all kinds of lumber work. There were no days of rest. Very little food was given. The constant hunger and heavy work exhausted many prison- ers so much that they fell by the road and died. Constantly watched by brultal guards, most of the pris- oners were forced to do their unpaid work almost night and day. The a- mount of work to be done every day ivas strictly fixed, but was so heavy that most of_the prisoners could not perform it, although they slaved for twelve and fourteen hours. If the job was left unfinished, the small food rations were further reduced. and night labor was enforced." The English buyers of Soviet timber are not without their share in the blood guilt for these twentieth century slav- ct-z, 51:11:‘. and starved till they full down and die. Again, six weeks ago, it was announced that 50,000 peasants were forcibly dispatched to the Don- etz area. coal mines, where the food shortage has led to "mass desert- lcn" by the miners after a previous or- der for the conscription of 20,000 farm workers for the some area. The peas- ants were trapped by being told false stories of their destination; they were cvcn induced to sell their cloth- es to raise money to pay for their railway fares. Last month, according to the Report of the Commissarlats of Labor, 40,000 conscript laborcrs were sent to ihe Soviet coal mines. A week ago it was reported that 100,- 000 conscript laborers were being sent; and that the new Chairman of the central management of the So- viet coal industry was assigned to the "Honorary Clvkist," Comrade Deuisch. The official organ of the Supreme Economic Council gives his qualifications. At the age of twenty he killed two important police offic- ers. Later he became one of the closcst- assistants of the butcher Dzcrzhinsky, President of the Chcka during the first period of the “Red Terror" when the people of Russia were being shot in the collars of thc local Chckas from thc shoves of thc Black Sea to the Arctic by the hund- red thousand. Soviet official statistics show that 547 prisoners have bccn shot in one Chekist prison alone, that of the Lubianka. in Moscow, during ihe first nine months of the present

number of Russians shot by the offic-

Will it make the consciences of thc coal merchants who arc buying So- viet coal the easier to realize what ihe conditions of convict labor in a Soviet coal mine will be under "Hon- orary Chekist" Deutsch?

Yet a third point for thc buyers of Soviet products to consider". Every ounce of foodstuffs exported from Russia today brings thc 170,000,000 of the Russian people appreciably ncar- cr to famine. In the Russian famine of 1911-1922 it is estimated that: 2,- 000,000 men, women and children perished. Already the threat of fam- ine for this winter has induced the Soviet Govcrnmcn tto appeal to Col- oncl Walter L. Bel! of thc former American Relief Organization, to un-

ion from central stations. At the same time thc Soviet Government has exported ovcr 5,000,000 quarters of wheat, oats, and barley. If the buy- ers of Soviet wheat wish to siccp quiet- ly in their beds they will b: well advised to avoid recalling the cannibal hor- rors of the Russian famine of nine years ago. For their conscicnccs will assuredly toll them that those who help to deprive a starving people of their food. are accomplices of the Criminal Government through whose acts famine is being created. By trading in the products of Soviet slave-labor, English merchants today are helping to sustain a system which defies the laws of God and of man.

CIIRLINE

The ice at the Curling Rink is now in good condition, and in view of the fact that there‘ will be a match be- tween East and West at an early date, the members are invited to turn out in force for practice Satur- day afternoon and evening. Suppl: up boys!

CLAssIFIEB ans ' Enables waunn-arTEiTT-i Orlebar BC. 1281-21

ro an - mules ruauisaan room, heated. Apply Guardian. l 1142-1

LOST-A GOLD WRIST WATCH on Great George St.. or Elm Ave. loader please return to no Elm Ave. 1202-31

TIACIIII WANTED I0! WHEAT- ley School, supplement $125 per

mo. Ten year! previously hi: moth-

ornadbouiahotforbcnlisiw

Irlifllllfl. Duties to commence at once. Apply Carr. Oyster Bod . '1 .' lfllr-l-l-di

year. Aumodcrate-ostimate-of" the.

IilI Chekist up to 1927 is 3,000,000.‘

dcrtakc the task cf food distribut-

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THE CHARLOTTETOW'N_ GUARDIAN

Central Guardian

SKATING THIS AFTERNOON, 3 to 5, band. 1283 MISS KATHLEEN LOGAN, of Halifax, gifted young violinist, will play at the Sunday evening service

‘rrlnity United Church, tomorrow. 1279

KINDERGARTEN OPENS IN TRINITY SOCIAL HALL, I January 5th with Berna Hucstls, teacher, who will be pleased to have new pupils.

1273-1-3-31

WILL RECEIVE 0N ‘WEDNES- DAY-The Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Dalton will receive at their resi- dence at 99 North River Road on Wednesday afternoon, January the seventh from 2.30 to 5.30. Ladies and gentlemen calling are requested to present their card to the A.D.C. in waiting. By order, M. Alban Farmer,

Private Secretary. i280-iii :

CLASS IbEUNlON—The i930 graduates of Prince of Wales Collcuc held a reunion dinnzr last evening at the Queen Hotel attended by a1.- most every member of the class, most of whcm are either enrolled at mainland universities or are teach- ing school. The excellent dinner ivas followed by an evening of social in- iercourse in which games, music, and reminiscences played an important part.

GOOD WORK—Ai. the entertain- ment given to the St. Paul's Sunday School children, the report of which appeared recently, Eleanor Mary Duffy and Peggy Palmer came out llCflfl oi their" class for attendance in ihe Primary Department. each re- ceiving an equal number of marks. These two little girls only missed three Sundays during the whole year. This is the fourth consecutive your that Foggy Palmer has come out head of her class.

AUCTION AND SOCIAL-A very enjoyable and largely attended auc- tion party and social was hclcl on New Year's Eve in the Caledonia and C. W. L. Halls, this being the first of a series of similar functions to be held iveukly. Thc names of thc prize ivinners in Wednesday night's game are as fellows: Ladies first.‘ Mrs. A. Gorniley; gentleman's first, Mr. Fred McAlcer; Consolation, Ladies, Mrs. Joseph Malone; Gentle- men's Mr. R. J. McDonald. All arc looking forward eagerly to next Fri- day night, January 0th, when thc LIICXIAEB-IIIEJYIILDGJIIRXEQ. ..._

RETURN FROM TUXIS fl0N-_ l-‘ERENLE—Island ilcicgziics to the Maritime Tuxis Boys‘ Conference rc- turned last evening from Sackvilic, where delegates from older boys’ groups hcld their eighth parliament, under thc ilircction of Rev. W. C. Machuin. Representing this Pro- vince were Benjamin Rogers, l-Ionicr Nicholson, Gordon Morris and Jack Herman. As a result of the election Malcolm Matheson, of St. John, was appointed Prcinicr, ivhiic Benjamin, Rogers became lcadcr of thc opposi- tion. It was decided to raise, $2,500 for the Maritime Rc- ligious Educational Council. Ban Rogers v/zis appointed to rcprcficnt the jnivliumcnt at iiic First World Young Men's Conference of ilic Y. M. C. A. at Toronto in July next.

Miss Iiclcn Nicholson. Sim-uncr- sirlc, and Miss Miiin‘e Iiroivli. R. N». iiezi-“iiigton. are the guests of Mrs. H. M. Stewart, City‘.

BOARD

(Continued from P030 11 land on trains provided for a winter time table, and that any air mail service asked for would be supp-ic- mcntary thereto.

It was moved by Mr R. E. Mui/ch and seconded by Mr A. A. Pomeroy that the special committee on air mail service be asked to prepare a letter i0 the Port Master General asking when the air mail service would be established.

Hon J. A. McDonald, M. l’. Kings, who Wil‘; prrsent rtaiccl that thc air m-ail serilnc W115 cf grcnt ad- vantage to Lhc caricrn section of thc Province. especially during the win- ter, as it was means of saving much time in the delivery of mail.

On behalf of the committee ap- pointed to wait on the Acting Sup erlntendcnt of thc Island Division of the 0. N. R... relative to the im- movement of the train service on the Murray Harbor Branch. Mr R. E. Mutch reported that lhc commit- tee had interviewed Mr. MoKinnon, and that he had stated it would not be possible to improve the service duo to the-fact that it is impossible to carry heavier equipment ovcr the I-iflidaorb Briqe than is at present in use. '

It was suggested that the secretary writs Mk W. U. Appleton, General Manager of the Atlantic Region of the C. N. R. asking what steps

N. S. Eastern League Barred

Canadian Amateur Body Gives Ruling—-Bearcats, Wolves,

Tigers And

eligible To Compete In Mar- itimeandAllanCupPlaydowns.

(Canadian Press)

BAIHURST, N. B. Jan. 2.—Offic- ial notification that the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association has dis- barred the Eastern Lcaguc of Nova Scotia, making it ineligible to com~ pete in Maritime and Allan Cup playdowns, as a result of action by thc registration committee of the Dominion organization in voting as- sociate membership to eleven play- crs, who migrated to the Maritimcs and joined clubs in the Eastern League, has bccn received by H. O. Schvycr, President of lite Maritime‘ Amateur Hockey Association, which includes in its membership the East- crn League, foremost hockey circuit in Nova Scotla. .

The decision of the C. A. I-I. A. was communicated to President Schryer

ininnuim PilA|SE8 c1’1]iwi

Manager and Coach of Verdun Team Pleas- ed With Treatment In Maritimes.

(Special lo the Guardian)

BATI-IURST, N. B, Jan. 2.-"Thc strongest team we rah UP 88am“ l" our series of games in the Maritimes. was undoubtedly the Bathurst Pap- cinnikcrs, whom ivc played tonight," ccclarcd Bob Iiollanrl, manager of the ‘Verdun hockey team of Mori- trcal, just bcforc thc team left here via the Canadian National Railways cn route to Montreal. “Thcy trimmed its 10-3. Unfortunately we were not chic to bring our complctc team with us this time, but we hope to re- iurn in February to play another ser- ies of games."

The Verdun tea-n played Sussex losing with a score of 4-3; next their’ played the Wolverines, of Halifax. S. which resulted in a tie, one all; New Glasgow N. s. Colts wuh from the visitors 3-2. at Charlotte- town, P. E. 1., two games were play-

'_ Busy

1 i i a iContinucd fvusn Page l) 1 i 1 I

New York, N.Y., Philadelphia. Pa.

Charleston, S. C., Savannah, Gan and over a quarter of a million bushels

Havana, Cuba. Altogether" The Company Ltd, have

the Company anticipated a healthy inovcnicnt of Island Potatoes to American Atlantic Seaboard Ports. particularly New York and Phila-

delphia throughout ihe Winter months from Halifax and Saint John.

l-lc cfiprcsscd the opinion that it did not rccm probable that ihe mar- kct would reach very high levels. at the same time there were good in- dications that prices would work gradually bcttcr. particularly lf farm- crs kept their potatoes movingwhcn they were wanted, but held back whenever thc demand slackcned of! until thc consuming markets could clcan up and buyers would again commence looking for supplies.

Mr. McNcclyi pointed out that last year during the month of January