May 8, 1940

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New Extension Of War To

: Menzies? Speech Booed

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a SYDNEY, Australia —In a
| tralia’s 30,000 striking miners

‘meeting boycotted and, when

to find that miners had boycot

. declared he would

) Minister to come to the grounds
i Concluding his address,

Striking Miners
Boycott Prime
‘Minister’s Meet

_ cession of their demands Prime Minister Menzies found his

| dressing 2000 of the men, received a rough reception.

recent attempt to persuade Aus-
to return to work without con-

he eventually succeeded in ad-

4 Visiting the coalfields, the prime

minister was disconcerted
ted a meeting he was scheduled

_to address in Kurri Kurri hall in favor of a meeting of their own
|? in the sports field. Telling the handful of listeners in the hall
| that he regarded the boyeott as a personal challenge, Menzies
go to the sports field 4nd speak to the Strikers.
| The men at the same time were persuaded to invite the Prime

the prime minister went immedi-

/ ately to the sports field where 2,000 miners were assembled.

| The reception he received was
| Stantly heckled him.
The prime minister

"country was at war.
at stake, he declared, but his c

ation to carry on the strike

a rowdy one. The strikers con-

" insisted the strike was over a trivial
) matter as compared with the dislocation of industry while the
The existence of the Commonwealth was

losing words were drowned in a

‘chorus of catealls and booes. He left the ground immediately.
Miners later adopted a resolution expressing their determin-
to a successful conclusion.

| Soviet
Refutes
Rumors

Alleged Pact At
Any Price With
Japan Said False

| MOSCOW, USSR.—Rumors
that the USSR was seéking an
agreement with Japan ‘at any
cost’ in order to gain a free
( hand in Europe were last week
N spiked by Tass, official Soviet
| news agency, when it issued a
statement declaring:

“In connection with the recent
reception of the Japanese ambas-
Sador, Shigenori Togo, by the
people’s commissar for foreign
trade, Anastas Mikoyan, the Jap-
anese press is circulating rumors
alleging that the USSE is seek-

) ing an agreement with Japan at

any cost in order to gain a free
hand in the southeast, and gen-
erally in Europe.

“Fass is authorized to state
that these rumors are entirely
fales and _ ridiculous, since the
Japanese cannot help realizing
that in view of well-known con-
ditions in the Far East, it is
they themselves who in the first
place need an agreement with
the USSE and not the opposite.”

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Third Term Gets

French Approval

PARIS, France — Marshal Phil-
ppe Petain in an address to the
Yrepceh Chamber of Industry in

Wadrid, widely quoted in the
french press expressed the
biope that President Roosevelt

would be elected for a third term
ind bring the Allies the prestige
ind power of American support.

In Kwangsi province other Chin-
ese forces were stated to be threat.
ening the treaty port of Wuhu,
20 miles above Wanking on the
Yanegtse river, Recapture of Nan-
king, 27 miles south of Wuhu, by
a Chinese force which entered the
town by scaling its walls was an-
meunced jast week-end. This week
Chinese said their troops had
fought their way to points south-
Cast and southwest of Wuhu. Sey-
eral Japanese supply columns were
intercepted, quantities of arms
and munitions captured.

Elsewhere in China this week,
Several truckloads of Japanese
soldiers sent to reinforce troops
against guerillas south of the Yel-
low river in Honan province were
destroyed by Chinese land mines,
while in northwestern Chekiang a
Japanese column, one thousand
Strong, driving on Szen was re-
ported routed with 400 killea,

On the Yangtse river near An-
King last week a Japanese muni-
tions transport was blown up with
heavy loss of life after it struck
a floating mine, according to de-
layed reports. And this week the
Chinese air force carried out a
bombing raid on the Peiping-Han-
kow railway between Sinyang and
Wushengkwan dropping 100 bombs
and causing considerable damage.

Chiang Sees
China Stronger

CHUNGEING, China. — Assur-
ing members that the government
would adopt and put into opera-
tion all resolutions endorsed, Gen-

Peace Demonstration

UNDERGRADUATES of New York city at Lewisohn stadium
during a nationwide peace demonstration on April 19 spon-
sored by United Student Peace committee.

Chinese Defeat
20,000 Japanese
In South Shansi

CHUNGKIN G, China.—Chinese armies operating in south-
east Shansi province, this week were reported to have inflicted
5000 casualties on a force of 20,000 Japanese troops and to have
captured a quantity of munitions from the retreating Japanese.

eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek, in his
closing address to the recent fifth
Session of the People’s Political
Council, declared that decisions
made “will serve as a stimulus for
the entire nation in its Struggle
against the enemy.”

Chiang Kai-shek pointed in par-
ticular to the three most import-
ant services of the Council during
the period of its existence: the
proclamation of national solidarity,
support for the policy of resistance,
and elaboration of democratic fun-
damentals.

Dealing with the economic ques-
tions which are of primary con-
cern in China’s present policy, he
Said:

“Qur economy differs from the
economy of other countries. We
are faced with the very difficult
task of withstanding the economic
conditions of war. However, it will
Soon be three years since we have
been able to withstand the great
tension, having actually started
from zero. I am optimistic regard-
ing the future of our economy,
There is much we have not yet
done. I would like to remind you
that perhaps we will have to over-
come difficulties twenty times
greater than we face now.

“We must work intensely and
resolutely so that the blood of our
people at the fronts may not flow
in vain. Corruption must be elim-
inated and luxury and idleness
avoided. This will bring us vic-
tory.”

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. —

workers’ fight in defense of
to the Oslo correspondent of

German authorities, but all

manifesto issued by the fascist puppet government
as Quisling. Other papers published the mani-

| festo, but not Arbeideren, Communist newspaper, which
held back its issue until April 11 rather than comply.
Arbeideren’s first issue following the Nazi occupation
created a sensation in Qslo and special editions were
required to meet the public demand. Because their
staffs were absent, Social Democratic papers failed to

publish.

On Communist initiative, trade union leaders who had

gone into refuge returned to

organizations resumed their work. : :
The Communist party of Norway issued a manifesto

condemning spread of the Huropean war to Scandinavia,

calling upon workers to maintain their organizations in

defense of living standards

ment of independence and freedom

—The Advocate, May 3, 1940.

You Get The

Truth in

While Social Democratic

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Typical of the way in which the

leaders fled Norway following the swift Nazi occupation,
Communists, basing their decision on the fact that 95
percent of the workers remgin in the country, have re-
fused to leaye, are braving the Nazi terror to lead the

Norwegian newspapers have not yet been banned by

friendship is the post-invasion en-

couragement Germany is quietly |

giving to Norwegian Communists.

When the Germans marched in,

all leftwing parties except the Com- |

munists were suppressed and their |
|
|

Nazis are capitalizing on Soviet |

their interests, according
Ny Dag.

Were required to publish

leaders arrested or driven into
hiding. The Reds were given every
assistance and urged to propa-
gandize for the invader within the
working classes. This is already
well under way, with emphasis on
the theme that “Britain is respon-
sible for spreading the war to the
north.” Under Nazi urging, the |
Communists are also working to |
‘reconstruct’ the disrupted labor i
and cooperative movements sO as
to provide the Germans with a
basis for statements that life is
ormal’ in Norway.

—Newsweek, April 29, 1940.

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East Indies

Source Of.
Big Profits

Standard Oil Has
$70,000,000 Stake
In Dutch Colonies

NEW YORK, NY.—A chain
of imperialist control thrown
half way around the world is
pulling the Dutch East Indies
to the brink of involvement in
War because its ‘homeland,’
Holland, is being considered by
the belligerent powers in

Europe as a prospective battle-

field. Both Japan and the
United States, through Foreign
Minister Hachiro Arita and US
Secretary of State Cordell Hull,
have declared their intentions of
taking this area into ‘protective
custody’ should Holland be brought
into the European -war.

Why this Surge of interest for
this tropical area on the northeast
edge of the Indian ocean between
Asia and Australia? The answer is
that Netherlands India is a land
of strategic raw materials and
Population of 60,000,000, almost en-
tirely toiling people, have notorious
low wage and living standards
even in the poverty-infested Hast.

The imperialists are also eyeing
its important production of raw
rubber, one-fifth of the tin, one-
nineteenth the oil and a virtual

Monopoly over quinine,

American trusts, particularly
the two big Standard Oil giants
Standard Gil of New Jersey and
Socony-Vacuum — have holdings
of about $70,000,000 invested in
the islands. Other foreign pow-
ers have investments running the
total up to about $1,000,000.
Three-quarters of the petroleum
holdings are held by Royal
Dutch Shell, the Dutch-British
oil trust and chief competitor of
Standard Oil

The United States, though still
in a lesser position to Britain in
capital holdings, is already ahead
of Britain in trade (both imports
and exports), ranking only be-
hind the Netherlands, and it is
still forging ahead.

In 1938 the US exported goods to
the value of $31,909,000, importing
to the value of $47,325,000. Dutch
exports were to the tune of $56,-
268,000, imports $71,078,000. British
exports. were $21,676,000, imports
$26,619,000. Japanese exports were
$38,141,000, imports only $11,115,000.

This is the bonanza of profiteer-
ing — which keeps a great people
in subjection and starvation — for
which the imperialists are avidly
eyeing.

Soviets Produce
Finn War Film

MOSCOW, USSR.—A document-
ary film entitled “The Mannerheim
Line” has just been finished and
will soon be presented to the pub-
blic, it is revealed here.

The film shows episodes of the
Red army in the campaign against
the Finnish White Guard army,
during the destruction of the Man-
nerheim line across the Karelian
isthmus.

Scenes shown include landing of
the Red army on Hoegland island,
the storming and capture of the
cities of Trangsund and Viipuri,
and negotiations between the Red
army command and representa-
tives of the Finnish army after
conelusion of peace.

Balkans,

Far East Feare

Labor Leaders To
Assist Gov’t In
Propaganda Drive

LONDON, England.—All indications are that the Stage is
being set for a new and drastic extension of the war in the near
future. The governmental managers and their Stage hands in
the press have been remarkably busy both here and in F rance.
The tone of cabinet ministers’ speeches, the press handouts, the
inspired articles have been curiously similar to those before
the British minelaying in the Scandinavian waters. But this
time it is the Netherlands and the Balkans, with the Pacific

ocean looming in the background.

Throughout the past two weeks
the press has been-full of rumors
that Belgium, Holland and the
Balkan countries fear a Nazi inva-
Sion. With this has gone a much
Sharper tone toward Italy, appar-
ently intended to warn her off of
fishing in troubled waters and
making use of the situation which
Might well strengthen her hand in
the Adriatic and eastern Mediter-
ranean,

Prime Minister Neville Chamber-
lain has taken the trouble to em-
phasize WBritain’s interest in the
“preservation of peace and promo-
tion of security” in the Balkans.
Ronald Cross, minister of econom-
ic warfare, told Italy she must
act as a neutral if she wants to
be treated as a neutral,

Together with this, every effort
is being made to work up a cam-
paign about the activities of the
Nazi ‘Fifth Column’ in the Bal-
Kans and Netherlands. The whole
thing is obviously designed to
show that Britain must act quickly
to prevent assertedly threatened
moves by other powers.

The French press continues to
harp on the necessity of cutting
the Soviet oil trade route across
the Black Sea.

There is no doubt that the public
is being prepared for a drastic
extension of the war in the not dis-
tant future. Another sign is the
attempts to produce a ‘hate cam-
paign against the German people.
NEW LINE,

The early propaganda that the
war is not against the German
people, but only the Nazis, is now
being dropped as the war sharpens
and spreads. That story was all
right in the early months of hestil-
ities when the first impact of the
War situation had to be softened.
It is outdated now in the govern-
ment’s eyes.

Propaganda Minister Sir John
Reith said last week:

“Our war is with Germany and
the German people. The Germans

have been taught from their earli-
est years to hate England. They
will be ruthless and merciless to-
ward England.”

Anthony Eden expresses the
Same idea and adds: “Hitler is not
something distinct from the Ger-
Man nation, but the direct expres-
sion of part of it. His plans have
been inherited from Bismarck,
Wietsche, and other exponents of
German faith in brute force.”

The press toes fhe line. The
Evening News, for instance, says:
“In the beginning of the war, the
government indulged themselves
in the amiable fiction that we were
fighting only Hitler and the wicked
men around him. Our quarrel, said
Chamberlain, was not with the
German people. That illusion was
never convincing and now it has
gone the way of all sentimental
self-deceptions.”’

The paper talks about the ‘inher-
ent lust for pillage and bloody.
conquest’ of the German people.

LABOR LEADERS ATD

This new propaganda line, rem-
iniscent of the last war, has now
become a necessary part of this.

Labor leaders are obviously go-
ing to take an active part in fur-
thering it. It has been officially
announced by the ministry of in-
formation that the Labor party is
joining the government in a na-
tional campaign for a bigger war
effort. To be precise, the minis-
trys statement said:

“In order to ensure that the var-
lous aspects of the Allied war ef-
fort is fully appreciated by the
public and to encourage the will
to victory, campaign meetings
throughout the country will short-
ly be opened. The chief speakers
will be front bench members both
of the government and the opposi-
tion.”

Then follows a list of prominent
Tory and ‘abor leaders, including
Major Attlee, Arthur Greenwood
and Herbert Morrison.

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