British Labor right-wingers, chagrined~ever defeat by Bevan, threaten party unity > : Despite the’ fact _ delegates’ LONDON Labor MPs regard Clement ‘Attlee’s speech last week, following the victory of the Bevanites at the recent Labor annual conference, a8 a warning of coming right wing action, which threatens party unity. . The ex-premier i has come down in favor of Herbert Morri- son’s plan to demand an end to the Bevan group when the Parlia- mentary Labor party meets, they said. That plan proposes to get La- bor MPs to vote for disbandment of the group. ‘Those who refuse to give up their right to meet to discuss how they can win the party for a progressive home and foreign policy will be expelled. Speaking to a Co-operators Tally last week, Attlee declared that “what is quite intolerable is ‘the existence of a party within a party with separate leadership, separate meetings, supported by its own press.” that Labor party members through their votes at Morecambe elected Bevanites to the national . €xecutive committee Attlee pland- ly claimed that these members Opposed the group. - *T am certain that the vast Majority of these members of the Labor movement throughout the tountry will agree with me when Tsay to those concerned ‘Drop it. Stop this sectionalism. ‘Work With the team. Turn your guns -©n the enemy, not on your own Side,’ ” He added a personal note in reply to right wing demands that he resign party leadership in -favor of Morrison. “I am prepaT- €d to lead the party just so long as it wishes me to do so,’ he declared, Several ex-ministers are Or . Zanised in a right wing group OLEMENT ATTLEE f which wants extreme action against the Bevanites, ‘They are said to include Hugh Gaitskell and his ‘‘economist’’ intellectuals, R. R. Stokes, Alfred Robens, Gordon Walker and Geo- rge Brown. At least one of their support- ers has declared his intention to move that the Bevan group be dissolved and those who continue to associate with it expelled when Labor MPs meet again. A bitter fight will take place if this motion is indeed moved ac- cording to plan. There is a strong possibility that the major- ity will reject it. Evidence of this is the surpris- ing intervention of the right wing ex-war minister John Stra- chey. Speaking at Ipswich he voiced the views of many MPs in neither group. “Wihat concerns and alarms me are some of these speeches which have been made at Morecambe and since,’ he said, in obvious reference to Arthur Deakin’s and Hugh Gaitskell’s outbursts. “Speeches have been made not by the so-called left wing. but by some of the most orthodox mem- bers of the movement which seems to suggest: that ‘they will not recognize or accept what our annual conference did. and in par- ticular. that they will not accept in results of the election to the national executive, “T say bluntly to those who have used this sort of language that the movement will not toler- ate it.” , Many Labor MPs believe that they must stop the right wing plot. The Churchill government is in serious economic difficulties because of its arms drive and its foreign policy. _ In the new parliamentary ses sion which opens on November 4, bills to denationalise steel and coal haulage will be presented. Good opportunities open up for a nation wide fight which can bring down the Tory government, with its small majority. Strachey is said to be concern- ed that in this situation the right wing can lose its remaining in- fluence if it pursues its disruptive proposals. 2 * * : . } . Reports of an American-backed anti(Communist movement in est Germany, said to have kept a ~ Seriously embarrassed American officia Week. in West Berlin. ’ On his first visit to Bast Berlin Tecently U.S. High -Commission- -&r Walter J. Donnelly was con- fronteq with a Soviet demand that these organisations be closed down, _ General Vassily Chuikov, So- Viet Army and Control Com- mission chief, termed the groups “spying and terrorist” Organizations whose chief aim Was sabotage and subversion in’ _ East Germany. Donnelly promised to investi- ‘Bate, but said he thought the Charges ill-founded. But now Comes the revelation by Socialist Premier August Zinn of Hesse that a secret anti-Communist Sroup planned to execute certain lett wing politicians “in the event “of war.” a rs The West Berlin anti-Commun- 4st organisations grew up shortly After the split of Berlin in 1948. Oday there are over 30 of them, “political liquidation” list, have Is here, it was admitted this : ! For some time, American and’ other vere agencies have ivi i i iv munist groups been giving moral and material backing, to anti‘Com g e Many of the groups have ad- mitted close contacts with West- ern intelligence agencies, and with the main West German pol- itical parties. Support comes from a variety of sources, Although there is no open United States financial sup- port, U.S. officials publicly praise the work of many of these groups. E Direct financial support comes from private groups in the United States and Western Europe. Subsidies, in the form of cheap accommodation, cheap » printing facilities and transla- tion service, are said to be sup- plied on recommendation of local U.S. officials. Following Premier Zinn’s rev- elation, the West German par- liament and a joint German-Am- erican inquiry commission began a probe of the secret organisa- tion, founded by the German Disclosure of West German terrorist group, U.S.-backed, ‘embarrasses’ Yank officials ‘BERLIN | Youth League and camouflaged as the ‘‘B.D.J Technical Service.’ vice.’’ . In Karlsruhe, the prosecut- or’s office of the Supreme Fed- eral Court said people involved in the organisation had been released from arrest last month because U.S. authorities had admitted sponsoring and fin- ancing it. This bore out Zinn’s‘ charge that the organisation, composed of Genman ex-officers, was back- ed by the U.S. High Commission, and a certain branch of the U.S. Army, as a guerilla group to op- ‘erate behind Soviet lines “if So- viet troops qdverran West ‘Ger- many.’”’ At a press conference, the | RDJ leader, Paul Lueth, said his former deputy Erhard Peters, whom Premier Zinn had called leader of the secret group, had ceased to be a BDJ member 17 months ago. ; He also knew that Hans Otto, an ex-lieutenant in the Nazi SS, had been chief of the organisa- tion’s ‘counter - intelligence branch.” Otto had once ‘been a BDJ member. ‘But Leuth denied that he per- sonally had been involved in the secret group Here’s three - year record What People’s China has already achieved . BY ARTHUR CLEGG ‘ LONDON The celebration this month of the third anniversary of the Chinese People’s Republic was no ordinary occasion. It marked a turning point in China. The celebrations both signalized the victories of the past three years and also looked ahead to the great plans of economic advance which are to be based on these victories. Here are some of the victories already won by the Chinese people in these past three short years: : % Wages In 1951 the average wage rate throughout China was 60 percent to 120 percent above 1949. This year, through a general 5 percent price re- duction, real wages have risen still further. In the countryside the end of landlordism plus ‘increased production has meant an in- crease in standards of liv- ing of from 50 percent to 100 percent or more for the vast majority. %* Health Over 2,000 health centres have been set up throughout the country in three years. This is nearly one to every coun- ty. Previously there were almost none. Health exhibitions have spread the knowledge of modern medicine everywhere, Many of the present health centres are building hospitals beside them. %* Schools When China’s schools reopen- ed for the new school year on September 1, some 49 million children went to primary schools. This was the largest number,of chil- dren in primary schools ever recorded in China’s history. %* Unions Up to August 1952, according to official figures, China’s trade unions had a total membership of 8,100,000. Under Chiang Kai-shek trade unions were persecuted an illegal. ; By June 1952 there were 106 million cooperative mem- bers in China organised in| 36,000 cooperative societies. This compares with only 30 million cooperators in 1945. %& Harvests This year the grain harvest will be 40 percent above the grain harvest of 1949 and 9 percent above the grain harvest of 1937, the last pre-war harvest. The cotton ‘harvest this year will be three times greater than in 1949 and 50 percent ~ greater than the 1937 har- vest. Chinese agriculture now pro- duces enough to feed and clothe China’s population, provide. them with tobacco and other luxuries and have a surplus of most things for export. % Farming Except in some of the small nationality areas, the last ‘remnants of landlordism were abolished this year. China now has at least one state farm in each of the 30 or more provinces, more than one in the north and north-eastern provinces. There are now ten collective farms, 4,000 agricultural producers’ cooperatives, and nearly half the peasants have organised mutual aid teams. % Industry © - The output of iron, steel and machinery this year will be between nine and ten times 1949 production. It will ex- ceed peak production in any previous year. Machinery and electrical equip- ment production will be very considerably greater than ever before. Cotton yarn output this year “or hi 60 percent more than %& Transport China’s railway system and river and coastal transport is being efficiently operated. Some 9,000 miles of damaged railway lines have been re- stored, 750 miles of new line built, and railway work- shops can now produce loco- motives for the first time. — Shipbuilding is also increas- ing. F China’s economy has been com- pletely freed from the yoke © of imperialism. The state now owns nearly 80 percent of heavy industry and 40 percent of light industry. State banking controls 90 per- cent of banking business in China. | Most of the rest is in the hands of banks jointly controlled by public and private inter- ests. the majority in the U.S. sector. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 24, 1952 — PAGE 5