> December 15, 1939 BoE AD VOC AT Page Thres iBritish Public Suspic ‘Can’t Soak The Rich,’ Says Sir John Simon: Put Cost On Workers By PHILIP BOLSOVER LONDON, Eng —(Passed by British Censor).—The anti- Soviet pack in Britain is now in full ery. Last week witnessed a storm of abuse, misrepresentation and hate such as the country has not seen since the Russian revolution. The man in the street was star-d tied when he heard that British war planes had been sent to Fin- jand. He was still more startled when the papers announced that British planes were accompanied by Itahan fighters and rifles from Germany. He received his final Shock when he heard that Britain, italy and Germany were beinz jeined by the United States in rushing arms te Finland. Today the public is questioning. What is the meaning of the sud- den united front of fascist and Gemocratic states, enemies and friends, neutrals and belligerents, all in a common anti-Soviet bloc? Phe questioning will quickly Srow, despite the efforts of so- called Labor leaders to mislead the meet people and whip up anti-Soviet feeling. A manifesto issued by the Na- tional Council of Labor abuses the Soviet Union and concludes with the declaration: ‘On the eve of the meetine of the League Council we Call the free nations of the world to a concert of measures Giving all practicable sid to the Finnish na- tion in. its struggle to preserve its Own imstitutions of civilization and democracy.’ 5 COMMUNIST STAND. A call of a different kind was issued by the Communist Party 12 its statement The statement d= clares that the Finnish people are Sweeping forward to victory against the fascist rulers and the foreign financiers. it calls the British people to rally in support of the Finns against the war of intervention organized by the capi- talist powers led by the British eovernment. The manifeste of the National Council of Labor is described by the Communist party statement 2s ‘epen, violent war-mongering against the Soviet Onion. The abor leaders have now become avowed pacemakers for switch- ing war against the Soviet Union. They haye even fone so far as to urge the League of Na- ions to organize the holy war against Bolshevism which Hitler had been compelled to renounce” Meanwhile, anti-war feeling con- tinues to rise throughout the coun- try. More than 200 labor organiza- tions now have declared them- selves against the war. No small part in this growth of anti-war feeling is being played by the increasing burden being placed on the workers, and the govern- ment’s announced intent to make the workers pay for the war. Addressing a meeting of the Na- tional Council of Industry, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon declared that this must be a ‘pay as we go’ war. Workers, he Said, must forego wage claims. This followed an earlier radio speech in which he said that the whole population must make sac- rifices—except the rich. “We can’t sock the rich any more,’ he said, ignoring the fact that 10,000 people have weekly incomes of £120 after paying supertax, while more than 95,000 have weekly incomes of £40. Cost of living has risen approxi- mately 25 percent since the war. But 10,000,000 of Britain’s 13,500,000 employed workers have not re ceived wage increases. Sir John Simon said that not only must the poor be soaked, but national production must be directed more and more from clothing and housing to muni- Gons and guns. it is Significant that Simon uses the Wational Council of Industry to Make these plans known to the labor leaders. The national coun- ‘cil is the body on which labor lead- ers and employers sit, with a gov-— ernment chairman. Palmer Raids Repetition Foreshadowed In US WASHINGTON, DC.—Plans for a far-flung drive against the Communist party reminiscent of the Palmer raids of 1920 had White House blessings this week. After conferring with the president, Attorney-General Frank Murphy told newspaper- men that he expected to press shortly for a ‘considerable num- ber’ of indictments of Communist leaders. The attorney—-seneral’s statement made it plain that prosecution of Earl Browder, Communist party General secretary, and of William Weiner, party treasurer, were but the beginning of an intensive Ad- ministration drive against the one Party that has stood out in oppo- sition to the imperialist war in Europe. in outlining his plans to report- ers, Murphy indicated that the de partment will dodge the main issue Which has led to the present witch- hunt — Communist opposition to American involvement in the war. What the department will do in- stead, according to Murphy, is to charge first, that Communists are ‘foreign agents’ and second, that they are guilty of technical viola- tions of the law. Directiy in charge of the depart “ment’s red-hunt is J. Edgar Hoov- er, labor-baiting chief of the Fed- €ral Bureau of Investigation, who XMAS CAKES (Many Varieties) PUDDINGS SHORTBREADS ALMOND PASTE @was one of the key figures in the Paimer red-raids of 1920; While Murphy did not specifi- eally mention the deportation tech- nigue, the justice department is again, as in 1920, expected to press for deportation proceeding by the department of labor against those Communists and militant unionists who have not yet become full- fledged citizens, US Communist Writer Arrested NEW YORK, NY—Harry Gan- nes, Daily Worker columnist, was arrested on fraudulent passport charges here this week. Gannes was indicted on federal Srand jury charges «similar to those returned against Earl Brow- der, general secretary of the Com- munist party of the United States. ious Of Gov’t’s Aims Peasants Welcome Red Army Resolutions Passed In Finn Villages Hail New Regime TERIJOKI, Finland—Greet- ings to the people’s government of Finland and resolutions en- dorsing the declaration and treaty of mutual assistance and amity between the Soviet Union and the Finnish Demo- cratic Republic were this week received from meetings of the inhabitants in the towns and villages of the liberated regions of Finland. A resolution adopted at a meet- ing of the inhabitants of the vil- lage of Harmaa declared: ‘The new government headed by Otto Ku- usinen is a government of the people, of peace, of a democratic and independent Finland. ‘It is with particular joy that we note that in its declaration the peopie’s government placed as one of its tasks the con=iscation of the land of the big landlords and land- @€d proprietors and its transfer to the peasants with no land or little land: releasing the peasants from payment of tax arrears, giving all Possible aid to the improvement of small farms, primarily by allocat- ing additional land and pastures to them. We would never have re- ceived this from the Cajanders, Tanners and Rytis so hated by the people.’ LIBERATORS. A meeting of citizens in the yil- lage of Lautsilta adopted a reso- lution Stating that for over 20 years the working people of Fin- jland had jlanguished under the yoke of the Finnish White Guard clique. ‘Ihe corrupt rulers of Finland,’ it declared, ‘having drowned the democratic liberty of the FPuinnish people in blood, have, to please the international imperialists, be- gun a war against the Soviet Union and thereby still further worsened the conditions of the workers. The formation of a Finnish peoples government puts an end to our long years of torment. We are convinced that the Red Army comes to us not as conquerors but as liberators of the Finnish people from the yoke of the landlords and capitalists. “We call on the working people of Finland to render all possible aid to the units of the Red Army and the First Corps of the Finnish Peoples Army in their heroic struggle against the executioners of the liberated people of Finland.’ JILMPERIALISM IN FINLAND fully to the United States. Gentlemen at 67 Wall Street, headquarters of International Wickel corporation (assets: $254,- 000,000), are justifiably worried by the turn of events in Finland, for One of the planks of the new pec ple’S Bovernment provides for’ in- stitution of ‘state control over large industrial enterprises.’ BiG TRUST. A $7,000,000-investment is some— thing worth fighting for even to a corporation that controls 930 per eent of the world’s nickel output, thus placing it in the class of one of the world’s most exclusive mono- polies. An estimate of Wall Street’s stake in Petsamo was contained in Poors Financial Survey of Novy. 8, 1939, which reported: “The company has a stake of over $7,000,000 in the nickel mine of the Kaulatunturi region at Pet- samo, Finland. Since 1933 expen- ditures on the property have to- talled $2,975,000 and capital ex= penditures for 1939 were estimated at $4,300,000, which would make a total investment of $7,275,000” The Helsinki government, head- ed by Sir Risto, and Baron Man- merheim, discloses in one of its Publications, Ryri: “The supply of nickel ore at Pet- Samo is estimated at about 3 or 4 million tons and the annual out put is estimated at 3 million kilo- srams or more than the present output in any other country in Europe.’ ; in controlling: the Petsamo mines, Wall Street controls the nickel supply of Finland and of Europe. But who controls International Nickel? its president is Robert G Stan- ley. Stanley is a member of the board of directors of United States Steel corporation, where he looks after the interests of the House of Morgan. Miss Anna Rochester States in her authoritative book ‘Rulers of America,’ that Interna-— tional Wickel ‘has at least one Morgan man from Bankers Trust. That man is Seward Prosser. ‘Mighty to ninety per cent of the world’s total nickel supply is con- trolled by International WNickel, which is in turn definitely con- trolled by E. I. DuPont, the House of Morgan, Hayden Stone, of Wall Street and the Imperial Chemical @ndustries of London.” (page 189.) DISCREET HINT. The Wall Street Journal of Dec. 4 dropped a discreet hint as to Wall Street’s interest in the Ryti- Mannerheim government. It quot ed Robert C. Stanley’s 1937 report to stockholders: Morgan-DuPont Has 7,000,000 Stake NEW YORK, NY.—One reason for certain American con- cern over the Finnish-Soviet fighting at Petsamo was revealed this week when it was learned that Morgan - Du Pont interests have a $7,000,000 investment in nickel mines in that resion. Seven million dollars is no paltry sum, being about a million less than the famous ‘war debt’? which Finland | has paid so faith- ‘A substantial tonnage of ore of excellent grade has been proved by Giamond drilling at the mines 40 miles southeast of the town of Pet Samo, Finland, near the Russian border, and prompt steps are being taken to develop the property for an output of 1,000,000 pounds of nickel and 500,000 pounds of cop- per per month.’ When the people’s government in Finland attempts to introduce Geep-going social reforms, it must buck this Morgan-DuPont dynasty. And while some will pass it off as ‘pure coincidence,’ President Roos=— velt’s ‘moral indignation’ at events ip Finland is in actuality helping to protect the $7,000,000 investment Gf Wall Street. Morgan-Du Pont Professes Unconcern SAN FRANCISCO, Cal To forestall depressive reaction in Morgan-Du Pont-controlled Inter- national Wickel corporation securi- ties, anticipated because of the oc- cupation of northern Finland by the Red Army, it is being stated in financial circles here that the niekel trust may be ‘in a strong enough bargaining position to al= low it to ask and get a fair price for’ its $7,000,000 Finnish holdings. This ‘bargaining position’ is se cured, according to the Daily GCom- mercial News, because ‘it would take the Russians at least two years to get into production at an €,000-ton rate, which she needs for self-sufficiency, and for that per- i0d she might need to buy from Wickel.’ China To Get Memorial Fund VICTORIA, BC—As a memorial to Dr. Norman Bethune, well known Canadian doctor who died recently of septecemia in China while working with the 8th Route Army, $2,000 has been forwarded to Hong Kong China Defense League by the local committee for Medical Aid to China, with instruc- tions that it be used to purchase some much needed hospital equip-— ment. With the regular monthly ship- ment, nine big tea boxes of medical Supplies, almost ready, the com- mittee reported that more fhan 300 blankets had been received in re- sponse to its campaign for blankets. 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