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Silverman said the British dele- gation started the process, which became fairly general, of negotiat- ing directly with trading missions during the conference. ‘We made agreements,” he said, ‘‘to- taling £28%4 million (about $79 million) with the Bulgarians, the Czechs, the Russians, the Chin- ese and East Germany.”

Twice during the press con- ference he drew attention to an “extremely interesting’ devel- opment. This was the Soviet Union’s agreement to make an immediate delivery to Pakis- tan of 100,000 tons of steel. “Here we are,’ Silverman said,

“imposing all kinds of restric- tions on the selling of strategic materials to the Soviet Union, and here they are selling 100,- 000 tons of steel — the most strategic of materials — to one of our own dominions.”

Asked whether there might be any difficulties imposed by the British government in implement- ing the agreements made in Mos- cow, Silverman replied: “I see no reason why licenses should not be granted. If they are not it would be on narrow political grounds, And if any government went into my constituency, with its 50 per- cent unemployment, and said we don’t want this market, it would.. have a lot of difficulty.” All the delegates were free to go wherever they wanted to with- out surveillance and they visited factories, schools, hospitals, uni- versities, Silverman said, Davies interrupted to explain how he had wanted to find out how Soviet youth spent their leisure time. ‘J went to the cafes. off the beaten track,” he said. ‘They danced and enjoyed themselves as much 2S any young people in the world.” 5

All three MP's stressed the normality: of life in Moscow and the absence of nervous strain. Silverman said the chil- dren had impressed him most: “I have been about the world a great deal,” he said, “but I have never seen children so completely uninhibited, so use- fully and creatively occupied, and with such amazingly good manners.”’

British delegates to parley ‘flooded with inquiries’ about prospects for Soviet trade

British Labor MP’s Sidney Silverman, Harold. Davies and Emrys Hughes told a press conference here that since their return from the International \Economic Conference in ‘Moscow they have been flooded with inquiries about business with Russia and China. :

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BY SAM RUSSEL?7,

LONDON

Britain faces ‘“‘the most serious danger of large-scale unemploy- ment and destitution,’ according to the Churchill government’s Econ- omic Survey for 1952, published last week.

But the government holds out no prospects for the growing army of unemployed in Britain’s consumer idnustries other than a pious hope that world trade may improve some time soon.

The survey declares that ‘“‘some industries may have to contract in order that others can expand. Ad- justments of this kind are always difficult and they must inevitably cause a temporary increase in unemployment, .

“The government’ hopes that the consumer goods industries will succeed in finding new markets and improving their competitive position,”

The survey gives the Tories slogan for 1952 — Work Hard- er and Eat Less—with a strong hint of worse to come in 1953 if Churchill has his way.

“We must produce more,” says the survey ‘‘without for the mo- ment consuming more.”

The average daily amount of food consumed per head in Brit- ain has already deteriorated from 3,010 calories a day in 1949 to 2,- 990 in 1950 and 2,970 in 1951. and the survey declares that in 1952 “the reduction in imports of various foods” will make the food situation even worse.

As the figures for calorie con- sumption are average figures, they conceal the fact that for the lower income groups the position has worsened even more than the figures indicate,

“In considering the prospects for production in 1952, it cannot be assumed. that there will con- tinue to be a demand for the largest increase in output which every industry is capable of achieving, as there has been, with

New British import cuts next fall will hit Canada’s trade

LONDON Further import cuts may be made in the fall, was the view in government circles after pub-’ lication of the Economic Survey.

Unless sufficient goods pro- duced from the engineering and metalworking. industries are sold abroad to cover the loss in textile and other consumer goods, the trade gap will be worse than it is at present.

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few exceptions, since the war.” And for the rest, the survey again asks for ‘restraint iD claiming larger incomes, whether wages, salaries or profits, ynless we haye first justified such claims’ by increasing our individual con- tributions to the national output.”

But the same survey records that while the total wage and salary bill increased by only 11 percent between 1950 and 1951, company profits increased by 20 percent over the same period.

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