Nine million Japanese Innew democratic league Nine million Japanese are affiliated to the League for the Defense of Democracy, anew labor-backed Political alliance inaugurated here July 2. The league is composed of 95 different organizations, includ- ing labor unions, the Communist and Labor-Farmer parties, and industrial, youth, student, cultural and Women’s groups, Launched after months of preparation, the league seeks to unite all opponents of the Beers EFOl New York reactionary, anti-labor trend led by the government, which now : & co u n of | i mea ie proposes to expel elected left- wing members from the _parlia- ment, and increasingly defended | & on 4 f / by the U.S. occupation authorit- Ss an in rie Co ies, who used their power to di City Councilman Ben Davis ftendant called as a witness in emmuist leaders here... Davis, the most outstanding public figure to ere break two major strikes in June. NEW YORK. The league has announced a 7- has taken the stand as the third |point program: the trial of the 12 United States —To° defend deimocratio rights. Stabilize and raise the lestify thus far, is serving his second term as New York City council-| people's living’ atandiaaaht Ahinese bare U.S. spy ring Saas of a large American a WE in Manchuria has just ane disclosed by the public se- ee department here, New China a Agency reports. Principal nage agents in the case are i, a Japanese, Po Yentsang, °ngolian, and Wu Jen-chieh, tiean inese national of Sino-Ame- arrest Parentage. They are under €@nd will be tried according 0 5 the laws of the people’s gov- “ment, a They Were discovered with six €tican-made radio transmitting ators Teceiving sets, three gener- ae Secret codd books, ten gold locum, for espionage expenses, ne Baad on the organization of Fania €rican TS espionage or- tion, copies of intelligence, a 49 Military maps. Poland fulfils Impossible’ plan Wavland’s three-year plan, which Possip} “experts” considered im- stantian to fulfill without sub- be American help, can now tagy “Siderea an accomplished antic industries— steel, metal the;, Slectricity—win all fulfill Of thi Bets well before the end Rey S Year. In consequence, the the pear plan, which will lay 88is for socialism in Poland Jany Which officially begins on Sin 1, 1950, will actually be- fore gy, most basic industries be- ling op ® nd of this year. Out- “dminie: ©, Plan, prepared by its Minjlstration and passed by the the Rick council is now going to State, CTi€s, foundries, mines, and : one for further discussion Dahges, ffs on any necessary man. He represents Harlem. —To develop industry for peace roductidn and ed i Davis took the stand as Gil a. Sane eee or oF Green completed 15 days of testi-| —T9 obtain an early peace mony. During this time — and| treaty. under five days of savage cross-| —10 fight against fascism and for peace, examination—Green almost com- s —To unite all pro-democratic pletely demolished the basis of| forces for these aims. the indictments of the 12. They| —To cooperate with democratic : if movements in oth . are charged with having organ- other countries, ized a “conspiracy” in 1945 to teach the overthrow of the United 2 2 States government by force and no in ing violence, & a8 Despite restrictions imposed by stirs ritis his being remanded to jail for ti Medina’ lings, protesting Judge Me a =f ru ngs LO. ON Green was able to bring into evi- dence an article previously bar-| After five years of study, thé British Royal Commission on Population has produced a report This article, written by Eugene advocating increased breeding among upper income groups to Dennis, Communist party secre- swell “British elements in the em- tary, and Green, in 1938, was en-|pire for political and strategic titled “Notes on the Defense of reasons,” and birth control for the American Democracy.” workers, Needless to say, the re- port is not being received favor- Its reintroduction was permit-|ably among working people. red by Medina. Isserman contended that it re-| group could present. a Labor party futed justice department lawyers’| government with recommendations to reduce the size of working . eS class families because they are MUUDISE Party. positipd. gh. Frc! eso eauchted © Gade tees” Tabet. and violence. These allegations} sent” is a commentary on how were based on statements con-| confidently the British upper class tained in Young Communist Lea-| Still feels itself in control. gue pamphlets published up to] In a section dealing with edu- 1936. cational facilities for British chil- dren, the report shows the same But the Dennis-Green article,| arrogant bias in favor of the no- published in the Communist for | ility and the rich. Assuming that - working people have less need to May, 1888) Showed: Gatti ie DAG). aicaie: thele ciiiinan See ab: MeL been a fundamental change in} certs that “the economic disad- Communist policy on force and|tages of parenthood in the middle violence , following the rise of|and higher income ranges” are greater than for workers. There- fore it asks government subsidies for the snobbish private schools which pick and choose who may enter, allegations concerning the Com- German fascism, “This confirmed Green’s testi- mony on changes that took place in Communist policy during the ees in A Re eriod. The article also} inaily, e report gets in a ae, iad gore the views of racist angle. It urges that upper plackd = tarieu pany class British stock be bred to Karl Marx, Frederick Engels and) offset reproduction among “Ori- V. I. Lenin on the necessity for/ental peoples.” In its windup it ‘ j “ gol : “This question is not only struggling to preserve “bourgois| Says 1S democratic rights” against mon- one of military strength and se- ae t curity but merges into the funda- opoly capital's attempts to destroy! ental issues of the maintenance them, as in Germany and Spainjang extension of western values during this historic period. and culture.” British Labor, Tory versions (U.S. pressure blocked |visas for Chinese of Own policies too alike | Pressure by the 'U.S. was re- LONDON News-Chronicie’s top jour- to A‘ Ais. Cummings, had this a . Tecently; Party 82 Phillips, the Labor to 4 ‘ble secretary, was asked Labo ® & 5,000-word piece on the 1949 eae TEMent’s record for the fomayi wt of the American ‘In- R, A. = Please’ Almanac; and utler was asked to write p sponsible for the French govern- ment’s refusal] of visas to Chinese ‘ delegates to an international con- “These two masterpieces Were| ference of textile workers called duly received by John Kiernan,| under the auspices of the World the Almanac’s editor. Federation of Trade Unions at Lyons,- Chinese leaders charged “Soon afterwards’, Phillips tells Ere: me, ‘I was much amused to get @ letter from Kiernan saying that} Thé French refusal followed he thought it would be difficult for| similar action by the Italian gov- Americans to distinguish bétween|ernment, which has not yet ad- the Socialist and Tory policies, SO| mitted Chinese representatives dis- he asked us to do another 500/patched to the World Labor Con- 5,000 words on the Tory party’s policy. ted when defenee counsel A. J. Nevertheless, the fact that the|| EXPLOITED BY NAZIS : Berlin rail strike end confirms West aims : : ‘ as GS Workers remove bars (top) from the Zoo station in Berlin as the Western-inspired strike of elevated railway workers ends by order of American, British and French zone commanders, and (bottom) the first leaded coal cars leave the yards. , BERLIN Soviet and East German The Berlin rail strike has |®™9UPS have declared all along ended. But the very fact that |"@t U.S. Berlin commander Brig.-General Frank S. Howley and other Western officers ac- tually sponsored the violence to embarrass the Big Four talks. Their interest in doing so, it was charged, lay in the fact that one subject discussg in the talks was a return to four- power administration that would lessen their authority, and an- other was a peace treaty that would end the whole occupa- tion. : the commanders of the Ameri- can, British and French zones ordered immediate ending of the strike and the leaders of the Western-sponsored “inde- pendent” union promptly ac- cepted the order confirms the ufierlying pblitical motive of the strike and exposes the propaganda of the majority of the press in the Eastern coun- tries. Terms on which strikers were ordered back were payment of nea Oe ees Nazi elemen an accu 60 percent of their wages ir wit Eis — cet inal tees Minit. Western zone currency by the ern zone Free German Trade railway administration, some- Unions (FDGB) have been thing the Soviet authorities of-| making all along but Western fered weeks ago. In addition, | Zone authorities previously de- the Western zone administra | "ied, is now a generally - nized fact. Western zone com- tion agreed to exchange the re- manders, in their; order that maining 40 percent of their pay |tne strike cease, expressly stat- from Eastern to Western marks | ed that it was conducted in such upon presentation. a way as to take advantage of the East-West tension for Ger- The strike was called by the man nationalist ends. UGO, an independent union sponsored by western occupa- Exploitation of the strike by An understanding between the Western command and UGO tion authorities. just before union leaders is also indicated opening of the now conclude®/|from the latter's immediate Paris conference of the Big |Submission to the order, which Four Foreign Ministers. It was rN wag i pone. ot i ee Ss on the Russ’ cupa- |} featured by widespread vio- tion authorities. These nea: lence against Soviet and East-| included statements that the ern zone transport personnel, | strike would never cease while in which Nazi hoodlums admit- | “enemy” (meaning Russian) tedly having no connection with | troops remained in Germany, the railway took a leading part | offers to cooperate in a West- and with which Western zone | ern blockade of the Soviet zone police did not interfere at the | and even calls for war against time. the Soviet Union. words replying to each other’.” gress at Milan. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 15, 1949 — PAGE 4