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February 9, 1949

New Zealand Labor Gov't Threatens Civil Liberties

‘You May Not Be An
Angel, but String
Us Along’ Say Finns

Gag On
Criticism
Mooted

Government Defies
Popular Opposition
To Conscription

WELLINGTON, NZ.—
(Special). — New Zealand’s
Labor government, which al-
ready has cut social expendi-
tures to ‘compensate’ for in-
ereasing war costs, is now pre-
paring to crack down on all
Who oppose the war.

While claiming to “recognize the
right to freedom of opinion on the
war,” Attorney-General H. G R.
Mason has issued an announce-
ment of the government's deter-
mination not to “tolerate utter-
ances designed to divide or disturb
the people in the prosecution of
the war.”

Said the attorney-general:

“I have recently been examining
newspaper and magazine articles,
pamphlets and reports of speeches
which officials regard as subver-
Sive. I have no hesitation in saying
some of the matter deserves this
charge.”

The announcement reportedly
was aimed at the Communist party
but there is no doubt that repres-
Sive action would be extended to
all sections of the labor movement.

Attorney-General Mason himself
has made this clear in his defini-
tion of what he considers ‘subver-
Sive.’

To maintain that Britain and
France are engaged in a capital-
istic war is nonsensical and sub-
yersive, he said. It is also sub-
versive to maintain the war must

be fought on two fronts, one
against Hitlerism and the other
against the New Zealand econo-
mic system.

SYDNEY, Australia — It is free-
ly reported here that general con-
scription will be introduced in Aus-
tralia by the end of June. The
federal government, it is said, is
already making the necessary pre-
liminary arrangements.

Further confirmation of the gov-
ernment’s intention to introduce
universal conscription is seen in
the action of the ministry of sup-
Plies. According to official re-
ports, the ministry has already
placed orders for 300,000 pairs of
boots for the army.

Fears of a similar moyement by :

New Zealand’s Labor government
are contained in a report reéeived
here from Auckland.

Efforts of trade unions in New
Zealand to get a precise answer
from the government on this ques-
tion have been met with evasions.

At an Auckland Labor meeting
the government was asked
through the minister of lands
whether a referendum would be
taken before conscription were
imposed. The workers were an-
Swered that the last election,
when the Labor government was
put into office, was all the refer-
endum needed, and that if the
Severnment found it necessary it
would take 100 percent measures.

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MOSCOW NEWS

News Items in Issue of
Dec. 18th explain

(1) How the Soviet Union with a
population of 183 millions was
voted out of the League of Na-
tions by representatives of pop-
ulations totalling only 127 mil-
lions; and of fifteen nations
constituting the League, only
seven voted for expulsion.

Also news from Soviet Poland .. .

(1) How the budget for the two
months of December and Janu-
ary for the city of Lutsk equals
the expenditure of the former
Polish administration on the
needs of the town for five years.

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Sixteen Moscow workers are in-
vited by textile workers of Bel-
ostok to go to Soviet Poland to
help organize production effi-
ciently at the mill formerly
owned by the firm of Zilber-
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satirist writing in Pravda, last

the Reuter agency.
“Tt is precisely this official

nerheim’'s officers heavily intox-

icate their soldiers before going

into battle. The  inebriated

Schutzcorpsmen are, therefore,

capable of seeing not only an

angel in the sky, but the Lord

Almighty himself, closely sur-
rounded by archangels, heads of
the League of Nations and Swed-
ish Social-Democrats.

“One thing is clear, and that is
that if ome has to resort to the
help of angels, it means that mat-
ters are in a pretty bad state. An-
gels don’t fly when life is a bed
of roses. This celestial protector
is the best proof of the morale in
the camp of the White Guard
Finns.

For example, they place little
faith in their own planes, for, you
see, the Soviet falcons immediately
bring them down the minute they
soar into the air. So, let an angel
appear in the sky. Maybe then the
Red pursuit planes will not be able
to bring down the White Finn
angel which loops the loop over
Lake Ladoga.

“As for the British agency,
it spread this important political
information for some ulterior
reason. It appears that God and
his angels actively help all those
who come out against the Soviet
Union. And should any other
country involve itself in war, it
too will be provided with an an-
gel

There may be a shortage of
goods, but certainly not of this
type of commodity. Every country
that takes heed of Lord Churchill's
message will be supplied with an
angel dressed in full military equip-
ment. Visions and other such mir-
acles are invariably resorted to
when a losing game is being play-
ed.” :

Seamen Oppose
Aid To Finland

NEW YORK, NY — The Nation-
al Maritime union last week came
out flat-footedly against loans
“or any other form of material or
financial aid” by the United States
“to the Mannerheim government
of Finland or to any other warring
nation as a violation of American
neutrality and as callous disregard
of the needs of the people.”

The union’s stand was outlined
in a resolution passed unanimously
at a general membership meeting
here .

“Jt is well known,’ the resolu-
tion declares, “that during this cri-
tical period, when our country is
faced with vital problems at home,
powerful labor-hating big-business
groups are working to undermine
American neutrality in the present
European conflict.’

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MOSCOW, USSR The polar
Winter on Kola peninsula has not
interrupted construction work on
the first underground hydro-elec-
tric power station in the USSR on
the Neva river.

The biggest tunnel in the USSR
is also being constructed there.
An aluminum plant is being built
near the new power station in Kan-
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the armies of General Mannerheim in Finland—a British-sent
angel appearing in a vision to White Guard troops. te

In an article, “An Angel Appears at the Front, Ryklin wrote:
“Tf you should happen to be at the front in the region of Lake
Ladoga, be sure to look at the heavens there. Stand motionless
with you eyes lifted to the sky and then maybe, if you are
deemed worthy enough, you will behold an angel in all her
splendor floating in the sky over the theatre of military opera-
tions. It is highly recommended that you arm yourself with
binocular glasses for this purpose, for according to all informa-
tion that has reached us, the angel is disguised in a white sheet.

“What's more, God’s messenger, in adjusting herself to the
locality, skilfully hides in the clouds at an altitude which no rifle-
shot can reach. We've received all this useful information from
a very well-informed source. We are, of course, speaking about

January 25 to the whole of the civilized world, including the
dominions and neutral countries, the following miracle:
““Winnish soldiers at the front to the north of Lake Ladoga
declare that they beheld a vision. A big white figure of an angel
appeared before them and extended her hands as if in protection.’
“Tn order to make this sound more convincing, Reuters adds:
‘More than six hundred persons stated that they saw this vision.’
“Tt is a known fact that Man- «

witty pen of G. Ryklin, Soviet
week felled the latest recruit in

British source that reported on

Sovtet Dentes
Nazi Troops In
West Ukraine

MOSCOW, USSR.—Denial
that there is “a single foreign
soldier or officer in the terri-
tory of the Western Ukraine”
was last week made by Tass.
The Soviet press agency is-
sued its statement following
wide publication abroad of a
“new slander circulated by
Havas, French press agen-
ey, that German troops
were being stationed in
‘Eastern Galicia’ — Western
Soviet Ukraine — and that
these troops, variously esti-
mated to number “500 men
to 25 divisions,” were in con-
trol of railroads in that area.

Pritt Hits
War Plans

LONDON, Eng. —A prolonged
ovation greeted D. N. Pritt, KC.,
M.P., when, speaking at a delegate
conierence of trade unions and
Labor parties, called by the North
Staffordshire Central Labor party
in Hanley Town Hall recently, he
called upon delegates to stop at-
tempts to switch the war against
the Soviet Union,

Opening his speech, Pritt spoke
of the Soviet-German pact as a
treaty which scotched the war
plans of Chamberlain and Dala-
dier.

Continuing, he gave a detailed
review of the history of modern
Finland. He showed her close fin-
ancial and military connections
With Britain and her consequent
anti-Soviet attitude.

This attitude, he said, was shown
in the plans of the British govern-
ment to provoke a general war
against the Soviet Union. With
great feeling he asked the dele-
gates to do all in their power to
stop the slaughter of British men
in an anti-Soviet war.

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Laborite Quits

GLASGOW, Scotland—Glasgow’s
Labor leaders received a shock re-
cently when two prominent mem-
bers of their party signified their
intention of resigning from the La-
bor party and applying for member-
ship in the Communist party.
Robert Melachlan, prospective
Labor candidate in Pollock ward
for Glasgow town council up to the
time of the political ‘truce,’ an-
nounced that he has taken this step
following the manner in which the
leaders of his party had fallen into
line in supporting the war.
The other Labor party member
to resign and join the ranks of the
Communist party was John Speed-
man, veteran Glasgow Laborite.

Crew Honored

MOSCOW, USSR. The crew
members of the Soviet icebreaker
Sedov, which drifted 27 months in
the Arectie ice, this week each re-
ceived the title of hero of the Soviet
Union and 25,000 rubles ($5,000).
The créw conducted scientific ob-
servations during the time the
Sedov was carried within 300 miles
of the North Pole, a new record

Austrians
Hurl Defi
At Nazis

Leaflet Calls For
End To War, Urges
Socialist Austria

VIENNA. — (By Mail).—A
call to the people of Austria to
do everything in their power
to bring down the Nazi govern-
ment has come from Florids-
dorf, industrial quarter of Vi-
enna, famed for its heroic role
in the days of February, 1934.

In a leaflet now secretly circu-
lating through Austria, the Flor-
idsdorf Council of Action declares:

‘War has come, and with it un-
told suffering and new sacrifices
for our people.

‘Before they seized our country
the Wazis said that Hitler would
bring us work and bread, security
and peace. He has brought us kill-
ing work in munitions and war
plants, work which goes on day and
night at a mad speed. We have
not enough bread, and still less
butter. We get miserable wages.
Until now they have not dared to
take the ‘citizen tax’ from our
wages, Dut from Jan. 1 they intend
to do so.

Despite price control, everything
is dearer. Our workers are torn
from their families and sent like
slaves to work in Germany. We
have not enough to live on. Hitler
has brought us the security of
death. Our soldiers are asked to
die for foreign interests. Austrian
regiments are being massed on the
Maginot Line to fight British and
French, who are no less innocent
of this war than we are.

“Hitler is pushing the whole
blame for the war on to British
and French imperialism. Goebbels
tells about the oppression of India
and Ireland, of the persecution of
peace-supporters in France and the
smashing of French democracy.
But why is he silent about the op-
pression of -Austria, Czechoslova-
lkiia and Poland? Why doesn’t he
tell us about the way the whole
German people is kept enslaved?
LOOK TO USSR.

“Hitler and his bailiffs, who have
stripped our land bare like a
Swarm of locusts, will ne more be
able to eseape their responsibility
than their capitalist wire-pullers.
Our hopes are based on the
Strength of our people, who have
already proved their heroic cour-
age; on the strength of all peoples
within the Third Reich driven into
this war like us. Our hopes are
based on the British and French
peoples who, like us, hate war, and
on Soviet Russia, the socialist pow-
er,

“Twenty years ago the Sociai-
Democrat leaders prevented us
irom settling accounts-with those
responsible for the war. They
took over the job of guardians or
capitalists. They fostered reac-
tion. Their policy led to J uly 15,
1927, to the slaughter of workers.
in Feb., 1934, to Dolfuss and
Schuschnigg, and on to Hitler
and the crushing of our coun-
try. This time it mustn’t happen
again,

“If Hitler says there will not be
another November, 1918, this prom-
ise must be kept in another sense,
In Nov., 1918, we cot rid of the
Kaiser, but the capitalists Stayed.
This time we shall bury Hitlerism
and capitalism together and put
an end to war once and for all.”
‘WE WANT PEACE’

The leaflet urges men and wo-
men workers not to stand for wage
cuts through the new taxes, to de-
mand full overtime pay, to sabo-
tage work, to insist on factory
meetings to voice their complaints.

“Stick together in the factories,”
it tells them, ‘in unity lies your
Strength.”

“Housewives, demand adequate
food rations for your hard-worked
husbands and Starving children.
Do not keep quiet. Talk things
over with other women.

“Peasants, deliver as little food-
stuffs as possible. See that you
have enough to eat, demand proper
prices for your products.

“Craftsmen and tradespeople,
Protest against bad deliveries of
raw materials and goods which are
kept for the big factories, stores
and warehouses. Demand state
orders. Don’t pay taxes,

“Women and mothers, don’t let
your husbands and sons go to the
front. Demonstrate in front of
the barracks. Defy the ban on g0-
ing to the station with them.

The leaflet ends with the call:

“Away with the foreign invad-
ers of our country.

“Down with war.

“We want peace!”

Charter Sought

VICTORIA, BC. — Newly-organ-
ized here, the Painters and Decor-
aters union has applied for a char
ter. A further organization meet-

for ship.

ing will be held shortly.

In a referendum bailot conduct-
ed by Salmon Purse Seiners’ an
overwhelming majority voted in
favor of amalgamation. Out of 329
ballots sent out two wees ago, 253
voted for the merger, one member
spoiled his ballot, 75 refrained from
voting. Announcement of these
results at last Sunday’s regular
business meeting was greeted with
enthusiastic approval of all mem-
bers, Secretary George Miller told
the Advocate this week.

The SPSU decision will greatly
assist the United Fishermen’s un-

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