“EVERY PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE OPENLY FLOUTED

By PHYLLIS ROSNER
LONDON

“Very close to the Japanese
persecution, of people for dan-
gerous thoughts,’ was the an-
swer given by W. N. Warbey,
Labor MP, when asked by Al-
lied Labor News for his reac-
tion to the conviction of 11 U.S.
Communist leaders in New
York. “In a country which
prides itself on the mainten-
ance of democratic liberties, in-
cluding freedom of speech, it
appears regrettable that people
should now be sentenced, not
for having done anything
wrong, but on mere allegations
that they are thought to in-
tend to do some wrong at some
future time.”

Richard Whitty, chairman 0
the Labor party.in the Rich-
mond division of London, told
ALN he stood by a statement
1e made some months ago, in
lis private capacity as a Brit-
sh lawyer, upon returning from
the U.S. Whitty then said that
“the atmosphere in America
after a number of years of the
un-American committee and
the whole course of events
leading up to this trial made
it reasonable to suppose there
was little chance of an im-
partial trial before jury.” Whit-
ly also said he was shocked by
the jail sentences imposed or
the defense lawyers.

- British labor scores trial of ‘11’

L. C. White, general secretary
of the Civil Service Clerical
Association, also gave a per-
sonal opinion: “The decisior
will be regarded: with serious
apprehension over _ here. We
have already seen in the civil
service that the pattern in re-
gard to the victimization of
Communists, first cut in the
U.S., has been followed in this
country. Any development of
the vendetta in America means
there is always a risk of its
extension here.”

‘President Frank Foulkes of
the British Electrical Trades
Union, “I am not surprised at
the result of the trial,” Foulkes
said. “There is no difference
between it ‘and the trials of
Saeco and = Vanzetti, or the
trials of Negroes in the U.S.
from time to time. It seems
evident that whenever such a
trial is held in the States, the
decision has already been made
before the proceedings begin.
But ‘in spite of American juris-
prudence, progress will not be
stemmed. In fact, activities of
this character simply indicate
that those who carry them on
appreciate their own weak-
ness.”

Much stronger comments on
the trial came from two Labor
independent members of Par-

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liament, UCeslie J. Solley and
Konni Zilliecus. Both st ressed
not only the lJegal and civil

rights aspects of the convictions
but also its political sigmifi-
cance and relation to the ques-.
tion of war, and peace.
Solley told ALN that, speak-
ing not only as a politician but
also as an English lawyer, the
“socalled trial’ filled him with
“disgust and shame.” ‘
“It seems that every prin-
ciple of justice was openly
flouted in order to secure a
political conviction at the be-
hest of warmongers,” Solley
said. “This was part of a very
carefully planned campaign of
blackmail designed to prevent
the expression of liberal opin-
ion. If people are to be fright-
ened out of their wits by being
called Communists, when in
fact they are nothing of the
sort, if they dare to oppose the
U.S. policy of prepatring a third
world war, the conspiracy of
the atom bomb lunatics will
have succeeded.” ;
Zilliacus told ALN: “Medina
is of the stuff of which Hit-
lerite judges. were made. The
trial was a farce from all ac-
counts: there were two, prose-
cuting attorneys and no judge,
and the result was monstrous.
Unless this verdict is reversed
and the fascist thugs Governor
Dewey is. protecting after the
Peekskill outrage are dealt
with, the U.S. must be written
off as a democracy and re-
garded as Hitler’s successor.”

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MANILA

The Philippines, with a popula-
ion of 19 million, now has nearly
two million unemployed, accord-.
ing to President Amado V. Her-
Nandez of the Philippine Congress

°f Industrial Organizations.

Despite the seriougness of this
Situation, which anyone can see
for himself by counting the bes
8ars in the streets of all Philip-
Pine cities, none of the three can-
dates for the coming presiden-
tial elections has a concrete plan
°r easing unemployment, Hernan-
©z charged.

. Condemning those who blame
all the economic woes of the
Philippines on the war, Hernan-
€Z commented that “unemploy-
Ment is not a child of wat; 0M
€ contrary, it is one of the

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ries as well as in the U.S.
one Hernandez charged that
much Philippine misery Is 2 by-
product of U.S. economic policies.

“Thi hilippines
ain aes ona industrial equip:
ment,” Hernandez said, but
Washington talks: of sending arms
and munitions to kill peasant in-
surgents.” Consumer goods are
also being dumped in the country,
killing local production, and the
“shackled to the
arrangement of being: a
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their price again, This spells job-
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in four cities

CAPE TOWN

“The Malan government
literating freedom
the instalment plan,’ Sam Kahn,
the Uion of South Africa’s only
Communist MP, commented here
as ‘he
forbidding him- for one year from
attending any public gatherings in
any place to which the public
has access in the magisterial dis-
trict of East London.

This new ban means _ that
Kahn is now banned from four
of the Union’s largest cities—
Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban
and East London. F
“It is qutie impossible for the
minister of justice to conscien-
tiously maintain that racial peace
would be menaced in any way by
my attending or speaking at
meetings in East London,” Kahn
said, pointiig out that the minister
had excused his arbitrary actions
in the past by,claiming that the
Witwatersrand and Durban were
dangerous and explosive, areas.
“Nothing of the kind can be said
about East London,” said Kahn.
“No doubt this is the Nationalist
government's answer to the Com-
munist party’s splendid anti-apar-
theid (anti-separation) demonstra-
tion in Cape Town.”
Kahn has lodged a complaint
with the minister against his be-
ing shadowed by detectives wher-
ever he goes.
“During my recent visit to
Johannesburg,” he stated in his
letter, “I have been followed every-
where by detectives of the Crim-
inal Investigation Department who
fall under your contro] and juris-
diction.

“They, have shadowed me con-
spicuously on business and private
visits which I have made, to and
from the hotel where I generally
reside, and pursuing me by motor
car whenever I have travelled by
car.

“Their conduct has constituted
an illegal and improper violation
of my rights and has been en-
tirely uncalled for, unjustifiable
and in no way necessitated.”

Kahn has asked the minister
to isue instructions that this “il-
legal surveillance” be’ discontinued
immediately. He has received in
reply a letter from the minister’s

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Five new union internationals

American cities.

meet ‘in Berlin this weekend. A
preliminary meeting of this group
last July was attended by repre
sentative® from Australia, Ger-
many, Bulgaria, Ceylon, France,
Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czech-
oslovakia and the USSR. The or-
ganizing committee for the Berlin
conference includes President Karl
Sieber of the Postal, Telegraph
and Telephone Workers Union of |
the Free German Trade Union
‘Federation; Secretary R. Duhamel

of the French Communications
Workers; President M. Yussupov
of the Soviet Communications

Workers Union;: and General Sec-
retary E. Romei of the Italian
Postal, Telegraph and Telephone
Workers Union.
Representatives of food workers’
unions, throughout the world will
meet November 3-5 in Sofia, Bul-
garia. Preparatory conferences
were attended by delegates from
France, Germany, Israel, Hungary,
Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia
and the USSR.
Transport workers will meet in
Bucharest, Romania, December 10-
12. Secretary A. Drouard of the
French Federation of Railwaymen
heads the convening committee,
which also includes A. Ziartides of
Cyprus, S. Moraru of Romania, A.
Chevtchenko of the USSR and G.
Schlimme of Germany. The com-
mitte was elected at a conference
in which the following countties,
not already named, were represent-
ed: Albania, Bulgaria, Ceylon,
Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Transvaal, Tunisie
land Yugoslavia.
Oil workers were called together
‘to confer in Mexico City in Jan-
uary or February, 1950, by a group
representing France, « Hungary,
Italy, Mexico, Romania, Tunisia,
USSR, Venezuela and Yugoslavia.
The .WFTU has already spon-
sored the formation of six union

internationals of Seamen and
Dockers, Miners, Metal and En-
gineering Workers, Woodworkers,

Textile and Clothing Workers and
Shoe, Fur and Leather Workers.

Membership in these interna-
tionals is open to all unions re-
gardless of whether or not the
national federations to which they
belong are affiliated to the WFTU.

Thus the International Long-
shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s
Union (CIO) is part of: the Sea-

men’s and Dockers International,
of which ILWU President Harry

veners of the founding conference
of the Shoe, Fur
Workers International

and\Vice: President Abe Feinglass

of the International Fur and
Leather Workers (CIO).

Among examples

support of the Canadian deep sea

solidarity, and offers of aid

International.

Stage protest strike

Eight New

ment -for “having

plaint is being investigated.

tious .words.” te ia,
PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

Postal, telegraph and radio workers efrom many c

Bridges was elected president. Con-,

and Leather |
included
Secretary Treasurer Pietro Lucchi

of solidarity
actions which the new internation-
als make possible are world union

strike, concerted protests ‘by mari-
time workers against the arrests
and execution’ of Greek workers’
leaders and current expressions of
to
striking U.S, steel workers by the}.
Metal and Engineering Workers’.

- SYDNEY

South Wales coal
mines were tied up by a one-day}
strike this month when all their]
workers walked out in a protest
against the sentencing of Law-
rence Louis Sharkey, general sec-
retary of the" Australian Commun-
ist party, to three years imprison-
uttered sedi-j-

WFETU organizes

internationals

dustries-

PARIS

for various industnes will be set

up under auspices of the World Federation of Trade Unions at con-
ferences to be held during the next three months in European and Latin

ountries will

WFTU gets ready
for Asian parley

PEKING

Officials of the World Federa-
tion of Trade Unions and the
Women’s International Demo-
cratic -Federation have arrived
to prepare for the Trade Union

Conference of Asian and Aus-
tralasian . Countries, and the
women’s conference for the
same geographical area, to be
held here in November.

The WETU group, which was
welcomed at the station by
Vice-Presidents -Li Li-san and

Chu Hsueh-fan’of the All-China
Federation of Labor, was led
by three members of the execu-
tive committee of the world
body: S. Berezin, a leader of
the All-Union Central Council
of Trade Unions of the USSR;
S. A. Wickremasinghe, president
of the Ceylon Trade Union Fed-
eration; and Lu Due Pho, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Gen-
eral Federation of Workers of
Viet Nam.

Canadians at
peace meet

? ROME

Canada is being represented at

a meeting in Rome this weekend

of the International Committee of

Partisans ‘for Peace by Mary Jen-

nison, national secretary of the
Canadian Peace Congress.

The Committee, governing body
of the World Peace Congress es-
tablished in Paris last spring,
draws delegates from 70 countries.

The World Federation of Trade
Unions is represented by its presi-
dent Giuseppe di Vittorio and
general secretary Boleslav Gebert.
Others in attendance include: Pro-
fessor Frederic Joliot Curie. poet
Louis Aragon,’ painter Pablo Pi-
casso, det

Viet Nam : foun
African brigade

NORTH VIET NAM —

North African troops: in the ~
French armies sent to fight the
‘independent republic of Viet
Nam, in what used to be called
French Indo-China, have been
going over to the republican
forces in such large numbers

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