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priest aloft after he had

Dulles threatens new
Korea in Indochina

NEW YORK

U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles this week followed up his recent
thinly-veiled threat to transform Indochina into another Korea by asking France, Brit-
ain, Australia and New Zealand to join the U.S. in a note to the Chinese People’s
government that Chinese “‘intervention’’ inIndochina might lead to concerted military

“retaliation’’ against People’s

China.

H-bomb victims
gravely affected

TOKYO

Japan’s top radiation specialist,
in a talk to scientists here, has pro-
nounced what could be the doom
of millions if atomic weapons are
not outlawed.

Dr. Masanori Nakaizumi, who has
Been treating the 23 Japanese fish-
ermen exposed to the Bikini H-
bomb explesion, said this week that
radioactive elements have lodged
in the bones, liver and kidneys of
the victims.

The only known cure involves
use of a method for cleaning out
the radioactive elements but it is
dangerous because it also destroys
the body-building ealcium, Dr.
Nakaizumi, top radiation specialist
at Tokyo University, told the sci-

entists.

British TUC issues strong report

Malan destroying unions

By GEORGE SINFIELD
LONDON

Ruthless witch-hunting and er

secution by Malan’s fascist govern-
ment threatens to destroy the

uth African trade union move-
™aent completely.

The aim, according to a report
Published by the British Trades
Union Congress, is to disrupt
workers’ unity and excite racial
hatred. The report
that the policy of the Malan gov-
€tnment is further to segregate
amd degrade native Africans and

Permanently deprive them of
Political, social and industrial
tights.

Trade unionists can be held
Without trial. They can be hound-
ed and victimised, secretly black-
listed and imprisoned, fined and
whipped.

The report is a factual account
of a visit by James Crawford,

President of the National Union of
t arid Shoe Operatives, a TUC|;¢

Seneral council member, and

Ernest Bell, of the TUC interna-|;

“onal department.

The two observers spent over
five weeks in South Africa at the
®nd of last year. They interviewed

sections of the trade union
Movement — European, Asiatic,
Colored and African.

They also conferred with. repre-
Sentatives of the Labor party, the
United party, the Liberal party,
Bative educationists and church
leaders, including the Bishop of

annesburg.

An examination of laws passed

by the government led Crawford |!

and Bell to the conclusion that the
Ukions face a “direct and serious

‘allenge to their existence as free, | :

democratic and
88encies.”

They found the Suppression
°f Communism Act, which was
Passed in 1950 and amended a
year \later, to be the “greatest
Single threat” to the trade unions
and to the “entire democratic
life of South Africa.”

This Act, according to the TUC
servers, gives despotic power to
the Nationalist government. and

“little or nothing to do with
Communism.”
The act defines Communism and

self-determining

emphasises |

a Communist so widely that any-
‘one who differs from the govern-
|ment could be termed a person
guilty of “furthering the interests
of Communism.”

Under the terms of the act over
'50 union leaders have been banned
ifrom union activity.and member-
ship, and two native parliamentary
| representatives and a Cape Pro-
-yincial councillor have been ex-
pelled from office.

There are approximately 10,000
| Africans in some 20 unions but, it
is stated, recent legislation will re-
tard their development if they sur-
j vive at all.-

As the idea of organising Afri-
cans is regarded as Communist
philosophy it is easy to imagine
how the act could be used to deny
completely any form of industrial
organisation for natives, say Craw-
ford and Bell.

When the Malan govern
notorious Suppression of Comm

Johannesburg garment workers
refusal to obey the order.

Some of the banned trade union-
ists are Communists, but many of
the persecuted have been no more
than “loyal to the basic principles
of trade unions,” they add.

Further moves are contemplated
by the government during the pre-
sent session. These moves, the re-
port states, will give greater gov-
ernment control over union fin-
ances and elections of officials, and
“enforce racial segregation within
unions.” j

Unions with mixed memberships
—there are 90—will be forced to
dissolve and form themselves into
separate, self-governing bodies.

“No better way can be devis-
ed for destroying working-class
unity, and this move is a per-
fect illustration of the policy

ment named Solly Sachs under its
unism Act and ordered him to step -

down from the leadership of the Garment

‘divide and rule.’ ”

rs

Workers Union in 1952,
went on strike to support his

This picture shows: police attacking
a garment workers demonstration.

Premier arrested

Dr. Cheddit Jagan (above),
leader of the People’s Progres-
sive party and democratically
élected premier of British Gui-
ana until his government .was
deposed by the British govern-
ment last September, was arrest-
ed last weekend for defying a
British order not to leave George-
town. Subsequently police ar-
rested Mrs. Janet Jagan, his wife,
and eight other leading members
of the People’s Progressive party,
and charged them with holding

(The U.S., which is giving large-
scale military aid to the French
colonial forces in their “dirty war”
against the Democratic People’s Re-
public of Viet Nam, already has
technicians servicing U.S. planes
supplied to the French in Indo-
china. This week, in a statement
made before a House of Represen-
tatives Foreign Affairs Committee,
Dulles claimed that “nearly a score
of Chinese technical advisers” were
with Vietnamese forces beseiging
ain Bien Phu and that Viet Nam

as receivin ili li
oer & military supplies

Speaking to the Overseas Press
Club of America in New York last
week Dulles demanded that allies
of the US. join in new ‘united
action” against the people of Indo-
china.

Implying that he had in mind
military intervention by Britain and
other countries in concert with
the U.S., he said that the Policy
he was demanding “might involve
serious risks.”

At the same time he moved to
block any success at the forthcom-
ing Geneva conference.

He informed People’s China that
whatever it did or proposed at
See. the ty would not recog-
nize it nor allow it to b i
et an e admitted

He accused the USSR and Peo-
ple’s China of wanting to domin-
ate Southeast Asia.

But when he recounted the re-
sources and key position of South-
east Asia he was, in reality, only
counting the reasons why the U.S.
wishes to strengthen its grip on
the area at the cost of war.

“The area has great. strategic
value. Southeast Asia is astride
the most direct and best-developed
sea and air routes between the
Pacific and South Asia. It has

an illegal processsion.

major naval and air bases.”

Calls for ban on H-bomb

LONDON

Only one British Church leader
has yet had the courage to accept
the Dean of Canterbury’s challenge
on the hydrogen bomb, ahd to join
the demand for the banning of it.

To those who know him, it is
not surprising that it should be
51-year-old Dr. Donald Soper, who,
as president of the Methodist Con-
ference, is the leader of ‘a million
British Methodists.

For Dr. Soper has never yet been
afraid to speak his mind — even
when it has meant being shouted
down on Tower Hill, or being
knocked off his platform and
thrown to the ground at Hyde
Park.

To him, Christianity would
not be worth believing in if it
were not worth rolling up one’s
sleeves and fighting for. And the
fight for Christianity includes the
fight for peace.

War is a sin, says Dr. Soper
simply. Nor does he care whose
toes ‘he is treading on when he
says so—least of all the brass hats.

Those who talk so glibly of the
next war ought to shut up, he says.

Including the retired colonels and
generals who are good enough at
the killing business but are no good

talking peace.

Crusading Methodist
backs Dean’s appeal

Many who pay little more than
lip-service to their religion were
shocked when he criticised the
Queen for attending races, and her
consort for playing polo on a Sun-
day.

They were still more shocked
when he declared: “Every Christian
should be a left winger.”

He told them: “You cannot fight
Communist with guns, but only
with ideas.”

He told them: “We are the ex-
pendable aircraft-carrier off the
coast of Europe in the eyes of the
American High Command.”

A portable platform was his pul-
pit and Hyde Park his chapel when
he preached on behalf of the Ro-
senbergs.

Atrocities against the people of
Kenya roused him to protest—and
to demand the complete withdraw-
al of white settlers.”

Dr. Soper’s views are not to
the liking of many highly placed
Churchmen. Still less to their
liking is his trenchant way of ex-
pressing them. They would stop
his mouth if they could.

But they cannot, because Dr.
Soper speaks for hundreds of thou-
sands of rank-and-file Methodists.
He puts into words what they are

thinking.

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