88 Soviet Dumping
*“ Socialist ” industries, built and equipped by capitalists ”’
in search of profits.
Whether these ‘‘ Capitalists ”’ realise their role as assistants
 in a diabolical scheme for the enslavement of the
whole world is difficult to say. At best it is clear that they
have been, and are still being, duped. They have failed to
realise that the output of Soviet industry will have to overflow
 from Russia to other countries and that under Soviet
conditions the goods produced on lines of mass production
by slave labour can withstand all competition.
As regards Great Britain, the present writer has already
had occasion to point out in his booklet Can We Trade
With Russia? that the present trade between the two
countries is financing all Soviet Russia’s economic and
political plans against the British Empire. Between 1924
and 1930, as has been shown, this country has provided
Soviet Russia with about £130,000,000 in trade surpluses
alone. The amount given in credits for all kinds of machinery
 and chemicals is not ascertainable,
The remedy is obvious. If, as Sir Felix Schuster has
rightly pointed out, civilisation is to be saved from the
Soviet menace, then it is the solemn duty of all industrialists
and financiers to withhold immediately their support of
Soviet schemes and plans.
The measures adopted by certain Governments indicate
a line of official action that may be advantageously followed.
For example in the U.S.A. a Bill has been introduced and
passed to the Finance Committee which would “ prohibit
the importation of any article or merchandise from the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” At the same time the
Customs Department has been considering the possibility
of demanding that every importer of goods into the U.S.A.
shall prove that the goods have not been produced by
forced labour. And the import of Soviet timber from the
Northern Provinces has been entirely prohibited.
In France a special commission under the Presidency of
the Minister of National Economy has been created to
control import permits for Soviet goods. Great emphasis
has been laid on the subject in the Soviet Press, and M.