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THE ADVOCATHE

Page Three 7

British Labor Leaders Support Anti-Soviet Intrigue

Hundreds
Arrested
In India

London Daily Worker
Tells Of Widespread
Anti-War Movement

LONDON, Eng. — Hundreds
of Communists and Socialists
have been arrested by British
authorities in India for con-
ducting anti-war activities. This
charge was made by the Lon-
don Daily Worker in a special
article on India appearing in
last Saturday’s edition.

“News reaches us of hundreds
of arrests for anti-war propa-
ganda; house searches, and the
seizure of books goes on daily;
the prison gates are being
opened to take in Socialist and
Gommunist workers,” the article
stated.

Describing the powerful influ-
ence of the anti-imperialist and

anti-war movement, the article
continued: :

“The Indian Communists can
claim to have a political influence
in India that is second only to that
of the Indian National Congress.

The mass support Communists
have built up amongst the workers
and peasantry gives them the op-
portunity of leading the day-to-day
struggles of the Indian people and
puts them in the -forefront of the
national fight against imperialist
exploitation.

“All oyer India, in meetings big
and small, the Communists are ex-
plaining the nature of this imper-
jalist war and calling on the people
to resist.

“During the last year our Com-
munist comrades in India have in-
creased their influence among
workers in the trade union move-
ment and haye taken the lead in
all the big strike actions. In the
peasant organization, with its 750,-
000 membership, they hold the
most influential position and haye
led mighty demonstrations on 2
scale never before known in In-
dia.”

KABUL, India. The Soviet
‘Union’s demands on Finland were
fully justified, Jawalharlal Nehru,
leader of the Indian people's move-
ment and former president of the
Indian National Gongress, declared
in an interview published in the
Indian press here.

“There can be no doubt,” said
Nehru, “that the Soviet Union
was confronted with the danger
of intervention prepared through
Finland. The big Soviet city,
Leningrad, is located only a few
miles from the Finnish border,
and it is commonly known what
kind of war plans haye been
worked out in Finland.”

Indonesian
Rallies Held

AMSTERDAM, Holland — (By
Mail) — More than 3,000 people,
including representatives of Indon-
esian political trade union organ-
izations, attended the Indonesian
People’s Congress held in Batavia,
Java, at the end of December, ac-
cording to delayed information re-
ceived here.

Gonvening of the congress, de-
spite persecution by the Dutch
political police, was a highlight
in the campaign of the Indones-
jan national movement for estab-
lishment of an independent par-
liament.

At a public rally held in Batavia,
Gongress President Abikusno Tjor-
koaminoto started to read a letter
of greetings from Indonesian stud-
ents in Holland condemning the
European war. Political police,
however, intervened and prohibited
Tjorkoaminoto from completing
his reading of the letter.

Throughout the congress’ ses-
sions, speakers were constantly in-
terrupted by the political police.
Whenever delegates dealt with the
oppression of the Indonesian peo-
ple the police interfered.

The congress, nevertheless,
adopted a resolution calling for set-
ting up of a permanent Congress
of Greater Indonesia, demanded
establishment of an independent
parliament and use of the Malayan
language in public councils.

Elsewhere in the Dutch East In-
dies, in Java and Sumatra, thous-
ands attended local demonstrations
defying warnings of the political
police not to support the “political

China Builds Cooperatives

M@ELLIONS of Chinese are busy building new cooperative industries beyond the reach of the

Japanese invaders. This picture shows a lithographic printing cooperative in the interior

of China.

Soviet Newspaper Terms Welles
Of Second World War

Col. House

Shaw Would Put
Commentators
Into Asylums

STOCKHOLM, Sweden.—
Sweden should keep her dis-
tance from anti-Soviet in-
trigues and “should put all
those who believe that
Charles XII and Peter the
Great are the present repre-
sentatives of their two coun-
tries into insane asylums.”

This is the opinion of
George Bernard Shaw,
whose anti-war barbs have
frequently been hurled at
British ruling class policies
during recent months.

The famous playwright’s
comment was made in reply-
ing to an inquiry sent by the
editors of The Voice of
Youth, new Swedish pro-
gressive periodical. The in-
quiry asked what he thought
of Soviet foreign policy.
Shaw replied that the Soviet
Union’s foreign policy was
necessarily dictated by en-
mity of the capitalist states.

A typical Shavian remark
concluded the reply. Said
Shaw:

“Tt is hard for me to under-
stand why The Voice of
Youth wants to have the
contribution of an old man
of 83 years.”

Thousands
Starving

BUENOS ATRES, Argentine—In
accordance with a recent cabinet
decree, the Argentine administra-
tion is preparing to ship 50,000
tons of wheat to the Mannerheim-
Ryti regime to assist it in its war
against the Soviet Union.

The money to pay for this ship-
ment is being appropriated from
the national income. In this way
it is the people who pay.

One might think the country had
a large surplus of wheat in the
face of this ‘generosity.’

But, in his recent message to
Congress, Dr. Ortiz, president of
Argentine, pointed out that the
nation was confronted with an
urgent problem — thousands
upon thousands of starving Ar-
gentine people, who did not have
enough bread.

He revealed that the death rate
Was rising among children, due to
a lack of bread, and that the army
recruits were bad in the great per-
centage of cases because they did

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MOSCOW, USSR.—Sumner Welles is the Colonel House
of World War II, Trud, organ of the Soviet trade unions, charged

this week.
Commented Trud:

“Welles’ trip to warring Europe is extremely significant.
“When the first imperialist slaughter started, the United

States did not enter at once.

“The American President, Woodrow Wilson, at that time sent
his closest adviser, Colonel House, to Europe, to sound out the
ground, to ascertain the situation.

“The clever and observant House handled his mission as a
travelling salesman of American capitalism brilliantly. Shortly
after Colonel House visited Europe, the United States actively

joined the world carnage.

“History repeats itself, As in the first world war, so now
too, American capitalism is not entering the war immediately.
In 1917, American capitalism, deceiving the working masses,
joined the Allies and participating in the war, extracted maxi-
mum benefits. At that time the mission of the travelling sales-
man of American imperialism, to sound out the ground in
Europe, was carried out by House, whereas today, this mission
is entrusted to Welles. But the aims of the American multi-
millionaires in 1914 as now, are exactly alike; they are striving
to turn the present war into a world conflagration.”

Mexican Franco Threatens
To Use Force If Defeated

MEXICO CITY, DF.—Authorities this week continued their
investigation of the fatal shooting of the aide of presidential
candidate General Manuel Camacho, with suspicion fastening
on the opposition presidential candidate, General Juan Almazan.

Though early investigation plac-
ed blame for the killing on Private
Chavez, who claimed he shot Cap-
tain Navarrette Pimentel, chief
aide to Camacho, and Private
Guillermo Pimentel, his nephew,
because the captain had repre
manded him, authorities expressed
dissatisfaction with the obvious
explanation.

It was pointed out that Cama-
cho’s aide was killed near the can-
didate’s home in Chapultepec
Heights after a veiled threat by
Almazan to take matters in his
own hand. The opposition candi-
date, repeatedly linked with fascist
froups both inside and outside the
country, declared he was prepared
to use force to achieve his ends,

Almazan spoke to an election ral-
Iy in Xochimilco three days after
he had claimed an attempt against
his life by Camacho’s supporters.
The general confirmed with his
own words the fears frequently
expressed by Mexico's leading la-
bor organizations that he would
lead an armed uprising against the
government if he failed of election.

“Tf the government attempts
to thwart the will of the people
by ‘manipulating votes of the
election in July,” be declared, “TI
will Knew what course to follow,
and believe me, I'll follow it with-
out hesitation.”

The general's threat has aroused
considerable alaym in labor circles,
which have charged that Alma-
zan’s uprising would be the signal
for United States intervention at
the behest of expropriated oil com-
panies for the purpose of destroy-
ing the reforms initiated by Presi-
dent Cardenas.

Recently Secretary Vicente Tole-
dano of the powerful Confedera-
tion of Mexican Workers (CTM)
replied to Almaazn’s threat:

‘Tf they provoke an upheaval
in our country, the enemies of
the Revolution will have to pay
hard and plenty,” he declared.
‘With the first act of rebellion
in Mexico, we shall finish with
counter-revolution, smash it

within very short days.

Aircraft
Strike Won

LONDON, Eng. — In the biggest
action on the wages issue since the
outbreak of war, more than 2,000
men at Napier’s Aircraft works re-
fused recently to go to work as a
protest against employers’ refus-
al to grant the engineers wage in-
creases.

In a dozen other engineering

works, mass meetings of the men
were held to protest against the
employers’ action.

The action of the Napier’s men
was carried out with complete suc-
cess. The workers simply stayed
at home, and outside the factory
nobody was to be seen. They re-
turned to work the next day.

Labor Leaders
Betray Workers

WELLINGTON, New Zealand.
Following the lead of the national
executive of the British Labor
party in betraying the interests of
the workers, the national executive
of the New Zealand Labor party,
in a statement issued this week,
sought to perpetuate the myth of
a war for destruction of Nazism,
fully endorsed the policies of the
British government. To fail to do
so, the statement declared, would
brand the New Zealand Labor par-
ty as ‘politically irresponsible or
worse.’

New Zealand's Labor govern-
ment has already jettisoned its
social reform program for war ex-
penditures, is now threatening to
curb civil liberties in an effort to
silence mounting protest among
the people.

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National Statement

Ignores Interests Of
British Working Class

LONDON, England—The national executive committee of
the British Labor party, nominal leaders of the British working
class, today stands on record as favoring full support of Britain’s
imperialist aims against the Soviet Union.

Last week the executive committee issued a document with
far-reaching implications for British labor and Allied war
strategy. The document included:

1

of the labor leadership.

—Mild criticism of the government's prosecution of the war,
implying a bid for inclusion in the war cabinet of a member

—A. peace program providing for a federated Europe, in=

auguration of international public works projects to relieve

unemployment, and exploitation of colonial countries by an in-
ternational mandate system—if and when the war is over.

—Support of Chamberlain’s attempts to promote a rightist
coup in Germany, for the purpose of returning the Reich
to its Munich status as the spearhead of an anti-Soviet drive.

rt Hee approval of Allied war plans against the Soviet Union.

Hugh Dalton, Labor party spokes-
man, declared the document was
the most specific labor statement
on war aims issued to date. It will
be submitted to the party’s na-
tional conference in May for de-
bate and adoption.

Strong opposition to its adop-
tion is already foreshadowed in
the refusal of local trade unions
to accept direction from the
Labor party leadership on ques-
tions of wages and hours.

The statement’s chief emphasis
was on the question of concluding
a@ peace with Nazi Germany. The
Labor party leaders fully endorsed
Chamberlain’s position not to agree
to a peace with a National Social-
ist regime, but left the way open
for an aprsement between Britain
and a rightest government, as fas-
cist as the Hitler regime but under
a different name.

“The Labor party is convinced
that the Allies ought not to enter
into peace negotiations except with

a German government which has
not merely promised but actually
performed certain acts of restitu-
tion,” said the document. “Restitu-
tion must include freedom for the
Polish and Czecho-slovak peoples,
No promise of independence for
these peoples will suffice unless ac-
companied by the withdrawal of
German forces and police.”

Insistence of the executive com-
mittee on this point was seen as a
reflection of considerable senti-
ment within Britain for opening of
immediate peace negotiations with
the Reich.

It is understood that the senti-
ment for peace is strong among
the majority of the trade union-
ists, who already feel the effects
of the war on wages, hours,
working conditions and prices.

For an entirely different reason,
however, another section of the
British governing circles hope to
conclude peace with Hitler in order
to turn the full force of British
military might against the Soviet
Union.

Support Government

In view of the strong sentiment
against the war among the trade
unions, the labor leadership’s state-
Ment takes on the form of a bid
for inclusion in the goyernment.
Such a step was taken by the war
cabinet during 1914, when Hender-
SOn was included as a means for
winning the support of the trade
unions for the wage cuts and
speed-up which the government
deemed necessary for winning the
war. If the present government is
moved by the labor executive’s
statement, little doubt is expressed
that it will be for the same pur-
poses.

Amplifying the so-called ‘peace
aims’ of the labor executive, the
document demanded that a peace
settlement “establish a new asso-
ciation or commonwealth of states,
the collective authority of which
must transcend over the proper
sphere the sovereign rights of the
separate states.”

This proposal for a federated
Europe is not new. It was the
proposal out of which the
League of Nations sprang in
1919. In the present hostilities,
it has been presented by both
Viscount Halifax and Prime Min-
ister Daladier. The French prime -
minister even outlined the plan
by which the sovereign power of
the collective commonwealth
would be enforced. He suggested
that a combined British and
French army under General

Gamelin be in charge of ‘police
duties.’

The labor executive's statement
agrees with Daladier that such a
federation should “control such
military and economic power as
will enable it to enforce peaceful
behavior as between its members
and thus secure all-round reduc-
tion of national armaments to the
level required for preservation of
internal order.’

Thus, Britain’s labor party lead-
ers would disarm all smaller pow-
ers and other countries not within
the federation, and place all armed
power_in the ‘police force.’ It leaves
no doubt that the Allies wil exer-
cise this power.

“The present close cooperation
between the British commonwealth,
France and their allies in political
and economic spheres should be
the nucleus of this wider associa-
tion.”

That this armed power, wield-
ed by Britain and France, who
also would have control of the
mmandated colonies of the world,
would be directed against the
Soviet Union, the decument also
leaves no doubt. Using the Fin-
nish issue 4s a base for its anti-
Soviet declaration, the document
declared: “We should regard ex-
tinction of the free Einnish de-
mocracy as an intolerable disas-
ter for civilization.”

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