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Toruary 9, 1940

THE ADVOCATE

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| Russians Being
| Formed In East

SHANGHAI, China. — For
fs second time within the last
farter of a century, British
!d French agents in Shanghai,
Fentsin, Manchukuo and the
Year and Middle East are
qsiily recruiting White Rus-
ns for military service under
lied command. In these areas
jay, Anglo-French authori-
ss have organized extensive
eruiting campaigns. It is re-
rded as especially significant
at the White Russians selected
@ mainly those from Georgia and
e Gaucasus region familiar with
i languages of those areas.
| Recruiting activities have been
‘cing on since last November,
‘nd ships of these recruits have
jeen departing regularly for
Suez. Foreign military observ-
rs report that more than 2,500
‘Vhite Russians have left China
3 nd Manchukuo on French and
Vsritish ships during the last
hree months.

Wot since the first Allied inter-
nition against the Soviet Union,
nen France and Britain poured
oney and men into the White
uard armies of Denikin, Kolchak,

Trrangel and Yudenitch, has an at-

mpt been made to organize an

“my Of the beneficiaries of the

wrmer Gzarist regime.

The development is interpreted

. relation to rapid Allied. war pre-

arations in the Near Bast, and
9: conjunction with London re-

orts that the Chamberlain govern-
lent has now finally determined

) open an ‘alternative front’

zainst the Soyiet Union. :

Recent articles in London
newspapers have discussed tac-
fics of an anti-Soviet offensive
through the Near Bast, conclud-
ing that immediate objective of
such an attack wouid be Allied
Jcontrol of the Soviet Baku oil ©
fields just across the Turkish
border.

TILLION TROOPS.

Tt is-estimated that Britain- and
‘rance have concentrated nearly

million ¢olonial troops in Syria

md Palestine, territories held by
he Allied countries under League
f Nations mandate. In addition
5 their own colonial forces, the
lied powers have undertaken the
quipment and training of a large
turkish army. Considerable re-
ruitment of natives is also’ going
n in the countries of the Near and
fiddle Bast.

Meanwhile, attention focusses on
de coming meeting of the signa-
sries to the Saadabad non-aggres-
ion pact, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and
\fghanistan. it is predicted that
rurkey will attempt to turn the
.Breemient into a military alliance,
ssuming the leadership of the
maller states in a pro-Anglo-
french orientation.

Ffeachers Issue
Call For Peace

OXFORD, Eng. — Representa-
tives of 11,000 teachers attending
she national conference of the In-
sorporated Association of Assistant
Masters in Secondary Schools here
called for a peace conference in a
resolution stating:

“In view of the progressive dami-
age to education, arising out of
the war situation, and in the inter-
ests of the future generation of
this country, the council is of the
opinion that teachers generally
should urge the immediate calling
of a conference of nations, on the
widest possible basis, to find some
solution by peaceful methods of

Chinese Navy In Action

FIRST picture below shows sailors of China’s small fleet, using
4 Towboat to sow mines in the upper reaches of the Yangtze.
Second picture shows gunners at the Chinese naval base on the
famous river repairing an anti-aircraft weapon.

ir W. Citrine Acts As British ‘Ambassador’ To Finlana

Visit Calculated To Strengthen
Hand Of Reaction In Scandinavia

Continue
Resistance

—Chiang Kai-shek

CHUNGEING, China—The most
important task today is te continue
armed resistance. This was the
ringing declaration made by Chi-
ang Kai-Shek in a message to the
Chinese people and army, scoring
the ‘shameless traitor’ Wang Chai-
wel, for signing an agreement sell-
ing China to Japan.

“The four hundred and fifty mil-
lion Ghinese people have decided
to defend the independence of the
Chinse Republic,” stated Chiang
Kai-Shek. “No external forces or
intrigues can break our will.

“The shameless traitor, Wang
Ching-wei, signed an agreement
with Japan on Selling China. From
this agreement it follows that good
neighborly relations are under
stood as uniting Japan and China
under the Japanese protectorate.

“The so--called united front
against Communism means the
permanent stationing of Japanese
garrisons in China. The so-called
economic rapproachment implies
Japan’s economic monopoly in
China. In other words, this agree—
ment means the enslavement of
China.”

All of Wang Ching-wei's efforts,
the message continues, were aimed
at receiving a ‘forty million yen
loan from Japan on the eve of esta-
blishment of a ‘central puppet
government,’

“China’s national policy,” de-
clared Chiang Kai-shek, “re-
mains unchanged — to continue
armed resistance. The Chin-
ese goverument will develop a
counter-offensive to win back its
lost territories.”

Postal Workers
Ask Peace Aims

LONDON, Eng — Demand that
the Chamberlain government clar-
ify the terms on which if is pre-
pared to make peace, was made in
a resolution passed this week by
the British Union of Post Office
Workers,

Stated the resolution:

“The merely negative declaration
that the war is being fought
against Hitlerism is completely in-
adequate and may lead to world
catastrophe,” the resolution said.
“There should be no summary re-
jection of proposals to end the war,
from whatever quarter they may

the present international conflict,”

come.”

Labor Reports

Gains As

Cleaners, Dyers Organized

Organization of city cleaners and dyers into a local union
embracing all employees in larger plants and some in smaller
establishments has been accomplished after failure in several

previous attempts, Secretary P.

R. Bengough told delegates at

this week’s trades and labor council meeting, adding to a report
given by C. M. Stewart, organizing committee chairman,

A charter has been granted and
the new union will meet shortly to
instal its officers and affiliate with
the council:

Leslie Goal company at 929 Main
street this week signed a union
agreement with General Truck
Drivers and Helpers’ union. By
the agreement wages of the seven
employees are boosted from five
to ten cents an hour, reported Birt
Showler of the Teamsters’ joint
council.

Wegotiations were started last
week on initiative of Street and
Electric Railwaymen’s union mem-
bers, thus removing from the
trades couneil’s unfair list a firm

that has been on it the past two
years.

Expressing appreciation to the
Street Railwaymen, Reg. Atkinson,
of the Truck Drivers, stated the
union had been able to secure a
contract in two weeks with the co-
operation of another union what
they alone had been unable to gain
in two years.

Stewart reported success of a
petition among boot and shoe
workers, but said no meeting of
these workers had as yet been call-
ed.

Contact with paint makers had
been made, he added, and he ex-

pected a local would be organized
shortly.

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Miners In Convention

Labor's Role To Keep
US From War Defined

COLUMBUS, Ohio.—“Labor must play an increasing part
in determining the destiny of this republic,’ emphatically de-
elared President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers to
2,400 cheering delegates in opening the union’s golden jubilee

convention here.

In the crowded Columbus Audi-
torium, jammed with representa-
tives of the organized mines, Lewis
gave this solemn warning:

“Tf labor fails to play that part
and if labor lacks the courage or
the initiative to play that part,
then all the rules will be made by
those who are the natural ex-
ploiters of labor, and all the pol-
icies wil be uttered by those who
always hope to profit at labor’s
expense.”

As the CIO leader rallied Am-
erica’s workers to make them-
selves felt in th enational arena
in 1940, the international’s of-
ficers in a joint report indicated
that opposition to involvement
in the war and the battle for so-
cial security were the basis for
labor’s political activities.

“The United Mine Workers of
America declared that the United
States must not become involved
in foreign wars, stated the of-
ficers in an 82-page document read
to the convention.

“There can be no justification
for the United States being drag-
ged into the quarrels of foreign
nations. The only war in which
we should participate is the war
to destroy and wipe out the
causes that lead to unemploy-
ment, to sub-standard wages—in-
adequate purchasing power, the

inequitable, unjust distribution
of national income, all of which
adversely affect the principles of
economic justice and security un-
der our political democracy.”

A thunderous ovation greeted
President Lewis when he stepped
on the stage at the auditorium
and another storm of cheers broke
out when he was introduced by
John Ownes, chairman of the Ohio
Cio.

PRAISES FOUNDERS

Praising the men who had first
organized the United Mine Work-
ers 50 years before, Lewis review-
ed the history of the struggle and
sufferings which had been the fate
of the coal-diggers for centuries.

“Those men (who founded the
union),” he declared, ‘realized
that the men who engaged in min-
ing throughout most of the de-
eades of history have been men
who have been exploited, denied
their proper political rights, pre-

vented from achieving their right-
ful social status, and in every eco-
nomic, moral, social and political
sense, have been harried through
the years of history by those who
sought to use them, to exploit
them, to utilize them to serve the
selfish ends of those most fortun-
ately situated.

“J mention these things,” he
continued, “to show you that down
through the centuries of the devel-
opment of the financial area of our
modern civilization the men who
worked in the mines, like the men
who work in other industries, have
had no protection or no friendly
assistance, counsel or help, except
insofar as they had sufficient vis-
jon, courage, and enterprise to
form themselves into a union.”

Extension of social security —
“supported through federal tax-
ation primarily through taxes in
the higher individual brackets and
from an increase in gift and estate
taxes” — was urged at length in the
international officers’ report.

“Your officers wish to empha-

size,” said the report, sharply,
“that labor does not want to de-
pend upon the manufacture of
armaments, and the war boom
for jobs. Labor wants steady jobs
in private industry, producing
for peacetime needs. When such
jobs are not available to private
industry, then the government
must assume its obligation to
provide jobs in useful public
works.”

Blaekout Used
By Anti-Nazis

HAMBURG, Germany. — Air raid
wardens have been instructed to be
On special lookout for suspected
‘enemies of the state’ here.

At a wardens’ meeting in Ham-
burg a Nazi speaker declared: “Our
opponents are making use of the
blackout to hold many more meet-
ings in their houses than they used
to.

“Myery suspected house must be
constantly watched. There must
not be any intensified activity of
these erlminal elements. Look upon
this as one of your most important
tasks and make sure that the police

north.”

Higher
Wages
Urged

British Communists
Say 9,000,000 Need
Immediate Increase

LONDON, Eng. — Latest
move in the fight to defend
the real interests of the Brit-
ish people is that taken by

the Communist party which
recently issued an eight-point
program demanding wage in-
creases to meet the rising
cost of living, adequate allow-
ances for dependents of men
in the army, restarting of es-
sential social services paralyzed
by the war, better benefits for
unemployed and old age pension-
ers, safeguards for Factory Acts,
and taxation of the rich to pay
cost of the war.

Declaring that the government
and emiployers are making a
great attack against the working
class, the Communist party state-
ment said:

“The main blow is directed to-
day against wages and against
demands for wage increases to
meet the rising cost of living.
Wages are to be kept down,
while prices are sent up by the
profiteers. Levies on wages or
deductions of so-called savings
are planned. Proposals are put
up for family allowances systems
in order to reduce the basic level
of wages. Rationing is deliber-
ately designed to reduce con-
Sumption by the workers. Es-
Sential social services have been
cut.

“These things are already
meeting resistance and as resist-
ance develops the attack is turn-
ed against the democratic liber-
ties and the rights of the worlk-
ing class movement.”

The statement declares there is
need of immediate wage in-
creases for 9,000,000 workers,
calls on the whole working class
to fight for better conditions and
to end the war.

Leaders Killed

CHUNGEING, China. — Several
generals and other prominent lead-
ers—supporters of Wang Ching-wei
—have become victims of split and
intrigues in the ranks of Wang
Ching Wei’s supporters, it is re-
porter from Shanghai. All were
killed by special agents of Wang
Ching-Wei's secret service.

By PHILIP BOLSOVER

LONDON, England—Well to the fore in the news is the
sinister figure of Sir Walter Citrine, knight of the British em-
pire, secretary to the British Trades Union Congress, ‘ambas-
sador to Finland from the British anti-Soviet forces.

Citrine left London for Scandinavia last month. With him
were John Downie, representing the Cooperative movement,
and Noel Baker, representing the Labor party. While the dele-
gation was still on its way, Winston Churchill broadcast his
speech calling for the extension of the war, aroused a storm
throughout Scandinavia and the rest of Europe.

Telling the neutrals “to stand together with the British and
French empires against aggression and wrong,’ Churchill de-
clared: “he war will rage and roar ever more loudly and ever
more widely. It will spread to the south. It will spread to the

Effects of this blatamt attempt
to bring the neutrals, from Sweden
and Finland in the north, through
the Balkans in the south to Turkey
and Irak in the east, into a front
with the Allies, were still the sub-
ject of universal discussion when
Citrine reached Stockholm.

Arrival of Citrine, declaring he
had 15,000,000 people behind him
in support of the war, had the ef
fect—as it was intended to haye—
of strengthening the hands of the
reactionary pro-war and anti-Sov-
iet leaders of Social Democracy
in Sweden. The Swedish Commun-
ist paper, Ny Dag, said unhesi-
tating that the Citrine visit was
supported by the Brtish govern-
ment in the hope that it would
help to draw Sweden into an anti-
Soviet war. Citrine’s visit coincid-
ed also with introduction into the
Swedish parliament of a bill for
suppresson of the Communist par-
ty of Sweden,

Britain’s No. 1 Laborite Sovier
hater lost no time. Said he, not
troubling to investigate the sit-
uation first: “If necessary we
will get those in power to do
more than they are doing al-
ready. We have influence in the
government.” This reference fol-
lowed his admission that his pur-
pose was to see what the Man-
nerheim government needed, his
aim to see it was supplied.

This eager attempt to extend in-
tervention against the Soviet Un-

ion and promote extension of the
War must have caused the 15,000-
000 people he fondly imagined were
supporting him to wonder. For,
when the Spanish people appealea
for aid against Franco, Citrine said
intervention was dangerous and
declared it would extend the war.

He put the finishing touch to his
interview by attacking the British
Communist party, saying “It is pos-
sible there will soon be no Gom-
munists in parliament,’ which ap-
parently means he would like to
see the same state of affairs here
as in France.

Here, in one man’s activities dur-
ing a period of only a few days, is
Summed up all the worst betrayals
of the Social Democratic leaders
in these critical war days. His
activities back the government
drive to extend the war, violently
oppose the Soviet attempts to se-
cure its borders and aid the Fin-
mish people, and threaten demo-
eracy at home and abroad. This
man and others like him in Hurove
and America talk as workers’
friends and act as their enemies.
For the only real means of be-
friending the people is to fight for
peace ,to defend their living stand-
ards.

Repeal the War Measures Act

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