Soviet Dumping
other nation will be able to compete and constitute
 a danger which cannot be ignored. In
short, a scientifically directed dumping campaign
in Europe would serve the double purpose of
disorganising international trade and of stimulating
 Bolshevism by the promotion of trade
disputes and unemployment.
Obviously, we are more threatened by this
danger than any other country, since we offer
a huge market which, owing to our fanatical
devotion to Free Trade, is quite defenceless ; nor
does it help us much to argue at length as to
what does or does not constitute dumping, or
as to the precise distinction between slavery and
forced labour. The essential fact is that imports
both agricultural and industrial, reach us from
Russia which are produced under conditions
which would not be tolerated elsewhere, and
that, in order to carry out the Five Years’ Plan,
some of the ordinary necessities of life are sold
here at one-tenth of the price which the Russian
consumer has to pay in his own country. It
might have been anticipated that the British
Trade Unionist would have shown some sympathy
 for the unhappy proletarians who are
subjected to a callous tyranny and forced to pay
exorbitant prices for such an elementary necessity
 as food, but hitherto all charges against the
methods of the Soviet Government have either
been ignored or derided.
At the present moment, we are considerably
exercised over the question of timber dumping
and evidence is continually accumulating with
regard to the inhuman conditions under which
this trade is carried on, but all attempts to
ascertain the truth in Parliament are frustrated

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