They defy Franco

Produced under the noses of Franco’s Falangist terror gangs,
the 100th issue of Treball has appeared in Barcelona. Treball is
the newspaper of the United Socialist Party of Catalonia. The
appearance of the 100th issue (reproduced here) has been greeted
by a message from the secretariat of the party now in France to
those who produce the paper inside Catalonia. It congratulates
them on the continued appearance of the paper “in spite of the

dangers of the brutal persecution

of the Franco police.” The 100th

issue pays tribute to a former editor of the paper, Joaquim Puig
Pidemunt, who was arrested and assassinated by the Fascists on

February 17, 1949.

Ouster order to WFTU

linked to arms boycott

By MARK FREEMAN

PARIS

_The French government has launched its first open attack
On the World Federation of Trade Unions by banishing from
French territory—under a 1939 decree on “foreign organiza-
tions”—the Seamen’s and Dockers’ Trade Union International

which jhas its headquarters at

Under the order just published,

© Seamen’s and Docker’s depart-
ment of the WFTU must “within
& period of one month dissolve it-
Self on French territory and liqui-
date its assets,”

This attack is regarded as a
Clear recognition of the world-wide
“™Mpact made by the seamen and
dockers who have been bearing
the brunt of the fight against war
Shipments from the United States
+0 Western Europe. It may also
Ndicate that the flow of American
pat is to be increased and ef-
orts made to remove every ob-
. Stacle hindering war preparations.
. Both in the U.S. and Britain,
pod War” advocates have recently
fen concentrating their fiercest
attacks on the WETU, thus ack-
Nowledging that the sole organiza-
10n entitled to speak and act on
Pehalf of world labor is also one
Sf the strongest instruments for
Preserving peace.
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U.S. refuses 40 get
out of Greenland

COPENHAGEN

A recent statement by Danish
Foreign Minister Rasmussen that
American evatutation of the
Greenland base “Bluie West
Right” should be “considered as
a link in the steps toward Den-
mark taking over stations in
Greenland” was immediately de-
nied by the Americans.

Washington reports state that
“this is no longer a matter _
can be settled through direct ne-
gotiations between. the United
States and eDnmark, but is a
problem for the military plan-
ners within the Atlantic pac

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Schuman plan super cartel

threat to British peop!

; LONDON
cree Schuman Plan for creation
he a Super-cartel of west European
to ¥Y industry is a serious danger
exh te and threatens: the inter-

of the British people, the ex-
ecutive committee of the British
ste pmtunist ‘party declares in a
actement, ‘With the aid of this
= erican -~ sponsored plan U.S.
wonoPoly capital wants to control
St European heavy industry, the

n oints out, and shows
Suen ‘a of the main agents of
the Americans will be played by
the West German monopolists.

In face of this, new danger the
British Communist party: is calling
on all British working people - to
protest against the Schuman plan,
and demand that the cold war be
ended and closer trade relations be
established between the west and
eastern European countries.

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‘‘American way of life” in Japan by

The paper charges that conduct
of American troops in Japan has
become so arrogant and crimes
against the Japanese civilian pop-
ulation so frequent that American
occupation authorities have been
forced to allow carefully approved
stories to appear in their own and
supporting Japanese publications in
an effort to convince the Japanese
people that those responsible have
been “severely dealt with.” Actual-
ly, adds the paper, those guilty are
not punished.

Quoting a saying widely used
in South Korea, that “the souls of
the occupation troops are filthy,”

from Stars and Stripes.

e' An American soldier, standing
guard near a freighter. at Kobe
fired his rifle into a group of
Japanese stevedores loading the
ship after using foul language
at them. One of the stevedores
was killed, :
In Okinawa, three American
servicemen grabbed a Japanese
woman, and beat up her hus-
band for resisting while they
raped her.

Five drunken American service-
men drove a motor vehicle into
a group of Japanese, seriously
injuring 11, carried on driving
along the Chofu-Tokyo high-
way, struck down and injured
a pedestrian. One American
then got out of the car and
clubbed the injured and helpless
Japanese to’ death.

In Toma. district near Tokyo,
an American serviceman butch-
ered a whole family of twoJ
parents and their two little
girls, in addition to. wounding
another woman and a child. An-
other soldier breaking into ‘a
shop, was seen by two girls.
He shot them, killing one and
wounding the other,

According to the Mainichi Shim-
bun, six servicemen “admitted that
they broke into the Thai Embassy
building ... and, at gun point, or-
ordered embassy employees to open
the safe, from which they took
away 245,000 yen.”

Looting has become a popular
“profession” among American mili-
tary personnel, the paper charges,
stating that officers and men re-.
turning to the U.S. are usually laden
with “souvenirs” looted from Jap-
anese. :

Japanese papers constantly carry
reports about Japanese being sen-
tenced for dealing in military sun-
plies and foodstuffs. The Japanese
press. however, is forbidden to re-
veal the source of these supplies. -

But, states Golos Pravdi, even the
American press cannot hide the
fact that U.S. occupation forces
uv to and including the rank of
general, ‘are buying and _ selline
everything from cigarettes to cars
and military supplies. Disciplinarv
action is usually taken only when
transactions are discovered amount-
ine to hundreds of thousands of

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J yen.

the paper then quotes these reports

PEKING

Stories appearing in the American army paper, Stars and Stripes,
are cited as an authority for the statement made by Golos Pravdi,
Chinese language paper published in the Dairen-Port Arthur area by
Soviet Army headquarters, that American troops are propagating the

murder, rape, robbery with violence,

looting and black market dealings on a wide scale.

(Last week, the Pacific Tribune
published a Washington report
that “the American occupation of
Japan has resulted in immense
personal profits for General Doug-
las MacArthur and his entour-
age,’ as an outcome of financial
transactions which have trans-
ferred huge blocks of shares in
Japanese monopolies to “Ameri-
can businessmen in uniform.”)

Work stoppage
called in N.Z.

AUCKLAND

A nation-wide one-day work stop-
page, called by the New Zealand
Trade Union Congress was to be
staged Wednesday this week coin-
cident with opening of the new par-
liamentary session. .

The congress was recently organ-
ized by militant unionists dissatis-
fied with policies of the New Zea-
land Federation of Labor, which
they term an arm of the govern-
ment.

The strike, the congress said,
would be “a demonstration against
recent actions of the national gov-
ernment” such as lifting price con-
trols and subsidies, which resulted
in rising living costs. |

At the same time the stoppage
was to highlight labor’s demands
for a general wage increase. In ad-
dition to stressing immediate econ-
omic problems, the congress call
denounced military conscription
which, it said, was linked with
plans for intervention in the Malay-
an colonial war.

Massacre “error

of judgement’

LONDON

Killing of 21 Nigerian mine-
workers and wounding of 50 others
is described as “an error in judg-
ment” in the report of the British
governmént commission which has
conducted an inquiry into the mas-
sacre of striking miners by colonial
police at Enugu, Nigeria, last No-
vember,

The report states that Senior
Police Superintendent F, S. Philip,
who gave the order to shoot, “fell
short of the standard that might
be expected,” and recommends only
that Superintendent Philip be re-
moved from his post.

The Daily Worker comments:
“To participate in an ordinary in-
dustrial strike in the British col-
ony of Nigeria is risk being
massacred,” and adds,’ the “con-
clusions of the report are scan-
dalous. There is no recommenda-
tion to remove the people re-
sponsible for sendimg the police

to interfere in the dispute.”

Pentel ae ltedtt teal Ud td

Italian mayors address
peace appeal to mayors
of 3 Canadian cities

Mayors of 18 famous Italian cities have sent a peace message to the mayors of 138
principal cities of the world inviting their adherence to the Stockholm appeal to outlaw
atomic arms. The message was signed jointly by the mayors of Genoa, Turin, Florence,
Bologna, Venice, Perugia, Livorno; Assisi, Pisa, Gubbia, Cretone, Asti, Fiesole,
Mantua, Orvieto, Asta, and Mirandola.

Rape, looting, murder
crimes charged to
U.S. forces in Japan

ROME

Parma,

Among these to whom the ap-
peal was addressed were the may-
ors of Ottawa, Montreal and Que-
bec City. The Canadian Peace
Congress has written to, the may-
ors of these cities urging them
to support the Italian mayors’
appeal and enclosing a copy of
the peace petition.

“All our cities suffered heavily
during the recent world conflict,”
the message declares. “Many of
them still carry visible signs of
devastation and death in their
ancient squares and famous pal-
aces. But over our people,’ as over
yours, intent on the civic work of
difficult reconstruction, again
hangs the threat of a more terrible
conflict, of new and total devas-
tations.

“In our, as in your, country atom-
ic arms menace not only the lives,
homes and property of dense popu-
lations, but also treasures of art,
history and culture that humanity
has created in the course of thous-
ands of years.”

“To meet this peril,” the m
continues, “Italy’s most illustrious
men in the field of politics, cul-
ture and religion have united under
the chairmanship of Senator Vit-
torio Emanuele Orlando, prime min-
ister after the First World War,
to conduct a peace plebiscite
against atomic arms.... Let us
make the powerful voice of mil-
lions and millions of citizens of
every country resound against the
perils of destruction and death.”

In the city of Florence during a

citizens signed the petition, and
in Rome over 150,000 people have
signed.

15,000 names a day

: HELSINKI
Over 200,000 people in Finland
have already signed the Stockholm
appeal for outlawing of atomic wea-
pons. In one day, 15,000 signatures
were received at the central office
of the Finnish Defenders of Peace
here. Indicative of the response to
the appeal is the fact that everyone
in the village of Pello-Maemmilae
in northern Finland has signed the
peace petition.

‘Illegal’ in Greece
PRAGUE

Free Greece Radio reports that
a Committee of Struggle for Peace

and had issued a peace call to the
Greek people.

The committee is obliged to work
underground because of the terror,
and because Premier Plastiras,
King Paul and Vice-Premier Pap-
andreou have forbidden the Greeks
even to pronounce the word “peace,”
according to the report, J

Declaring that “the struggle for
peace will save Greece’ from a
new slaughter, the appeal calls on
the people to sign the Stockholm
petition and send the signatures
to foreign embassies she
Ae ce ae World

a, ees
200,000 sign in'W.Y.
Over 200,000 New Yorkers signed
the world peace petition in one day
when the New York Labor Peace
Conference staged a concentrated
drive. Over 10,000 petitioners turned
out in the rain to roll up the im-

pressive total. :

titioning, thousands of signatures

leaflets which had been distributed
on subways and corners.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 30, 1950—PAGE 3

had been formed illegally in Athens

six-day period more than 100,000

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Peace Commit-

Following the day of street pe.

arrived in stacks of mail at the
labor peace office—fixed to petition —