12 Guerrillas Deseribes How Red Army Conta Prepared New Offensive Philippines Struggle WASHINGTON. Ue es a year after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and seven months after the fall of Corregidor, Japanese radio admits the failure of Japan to conquer the Philippines. Despite Tokyo appeals for “cooperation,” the civilian popu- lation, large native guerrilla bands and some American troops are still offering fierce resistance. Armed with machine guns, au- tomatic rifles and native swords, guerrilla forces are still holding out in the Visayan Islands, “‘tak- ing advantage of the steep moun- tains of Panay, Cebu, Leyte and Wesros Islands,” according to Jap- anese propaganda sources. Canoes and small sailing boats patrol the coasts. At the approach of the Jap- anese the warning is passed to the guerrillas, who take cover in ~the dense jungles. : The civilian population passive- ly opposes the army of occupa- tion, at the same time keeping Suerrilla forces supplied, Recent- ly the Japanese reported that “al- though the enemy is entrenched behind sandbag barricades pro- tected by threefold wire entangle- ments, crushing blows have heen dealt’ by Japanese army and naval strength. A few days later the Japanese-controlled Manila radio announced that fourteen Filipinos had been executed for anti-Japanese activity. The actiy- ity consisted of taking of muni- “paign, tions from Japanese arsenals. Ever since taking Corregidor, the Japanese have issued conflict- ing reports on the situation. In- tensive propaganda campaigns have at times been carried on in an effort to convince the rest of the world that the situation in the Philippines is under cono- trol. However, in the same cam- appeals have been made to the Filipinos to end their re- sistance. On Novy. 3 Tokyo radio announc- ed that expeditionary forces had bean sent to clean out “the last strongholds of resistance,” and boasted that remnants of Ameri- can troops, hiding in the interior of Luzon Island waiting for ths arrival of reinforcements from home, were surrendering in large numbers. It was also claimed that “large numbers” of native troops had been killed or taken prisoner. Yet as late as Nov. 17 the Domei Agency was complaining of the activities of “bandit soldiers” in the Islands. : Continued from Page 9 By WAR CORRESPONDENT B. POLEVOL WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE CENTRAL FROD Ae front line at this point is uneven, winding its way between hills, descending i) Time and again, in the spring, summer and autuz the Germans tried to press back the Soviet units, losing hundreds of soldiers and many g ‘in the process. But the Red Army men held their positions, awaiting an opportune mon shallow ditches, crossing ravines. to strike a blow. & Small Soviet | own Rebuilds Industry HE small Soviet town was an indissoluble part of the plant. Then came the* war, and the plant was evacuated to the Urals. Nothing but empty departments were left to remind the old workers who had remained behind of their former plant. Then, two months after the evacuation of the plant a commu- nique of the Soviet Information Bureau reported that rout of the Germans at Moscow. The front needed increasing assistance from the rear. It was then that the old workers of the small town thought of the idea of restoring the town’s industry. The old hands decided to smelt metal and produce tubes for the tank and aircrafts industry. The foreman, Moisseyev, and the smelters, Shablin and Polikarpov, Shock Brigades In British Plants eering Union, Electrical Trades Union, National Union of General Municipal Workers and the Trans- port and General Workers’ Union, a resolution was unanimously en- dorsed calling for the manage- ment’s removal. UCH tactics by employers was strongly condemned by the London Daily Worker in a recent editorial. “Workers wishing to work hard- er and employers reluctant to let them; a strange but true state of affairs in certain factories,’ The Daily Worker declared. “On the other hand, where the joint production committees real- ly get down to the job they are able to straighten out differences and create a feeling of mutual confidence. This view was strong- ly expressed at a conference of shop stewards at which over fifty war factories were represented. “We commend these examples to the shop stewards in those fac- tories where the management is not eager to cooperate,” the edi- torial continued. “Managerial coldness must not be allowed to lead to working- class indifference. The bigger the obstacle to increased production the greater the fight that must be put up. “The Tyneside strike, into which an inquiry must be held, shows what a harmful state of affairs develops when workers turn sour on backward employers and allow themselves to be provoked. “Who gains if production is not kept up at its full level? Only Hitler. “Maybe there are even more em- ployers who do not mind helping Hitler in this*' way. The workers must beware of playing the game of these pro-fascists. Every hour lost in the factory is an hour gain- ed by Hitler.” ‘Cause of Democracy in Hands of Labor’-Toledano MOSCOW. and a score of other workers set to work to restore the smelting furnaces, The difficulties were manifold. Out of the snow around the plant the workers dug the necessary parts and adjusted them to the machines. In the course of a month the old workers had built up a tube department. Naturally it did- not resemble the former department with its splendid modern machines, but it was nev- ertheless a department turning out copper tubes, so greatly needed in aireraft construction. e e e HE restored department im- mediately received govern- ment orders. Soon the problem of workers arose, since there was a shortage of them to fulfill the pro- duction program on time. Practi- cally everybody had left the town —some for the front, others to the Urals. Then it was that the women and children came to the workers’ assistance and were pa- tiently trained to take the places of those who had gone, in some cases, never to return. The small town again throbs with life and work and its re- fense plants with copper castings al new smelting furnaces in the foundry, now supplies other de- rense plants with copper castings and radiator tubes. In the very near future this town will boast a plant bigger than it formerly had. Continental Labor Congress Proposed LA PAZ. ee ese only the united efforts of labor can mobilize Latin America against the Axis, it is imperative that a Continental Labor Congress, including representatives from the labor movements of the United States and Canada, be called at the earliest opportunity. This is the firm conviction of Lombardo Toledano, president of the Confederation of Latin Am- erican Workers (CTAL), who has just completed a tour of Latin America. “The cause of democracy in Latin America and the whole world rests in the hands of labor,” he said. Toledano first proposed a Con- tinental Labor Congress to Wil- liam Green and Philip Murray last March in Washington. “The workers of the 20 sister nations of Latin America and their elected leaders,’ he told Al- lied Labor News, “are the only enes who can speak of united action between the Unfted States and the rest of the Americas with- out raising suspicions of “Yanqui imperialism. The CTAL is now the most powerful single force in Latin America, and because of its growing strength and influence, I sincerely believe that real contin- ental unity is possible for the first time in history.” Toledano’s four-months’ tour of the Americas has had two out standing results, according to re- ports reaching La Paz from other South American capitals. It has both strengthened organized labor and contributed immeasurably to unity between the peoples of Latin America and the United Nations. As a result of his efforts, internal labor unity was achieved for the first time in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Toledano described the wide- spread suspicion among Latin American peoples, fostered by agents of the Axis, concerning the post-war aims of the United Na- tions. : “This feeling must not be un- derrated,’ he said. “The fifth column must certainly be sup- pressed in every Latin American country, but it is essential also that the United States, following the principles of the Atlantic Charter, begin now to study the basis of an over-all continental economy to raise the living stan- dards of the common people Latin Americans must be assured that the good neighbor policy is per- manent, not merely an expedient of wartime. If this is done, the popular response in Latin America will force every government to break relations with the Axis and enter the war with the United Wations. “Tt is vitally necessary also,” he added, “to set free all political prisoners in the Americas. While such leaders as Luis Carlos Pres- tes of Brazil and Jose Arvizu Campos of Puerto Rico are in prison, Latin American workers, though participating enthusiasti- cally overwhelmed at times with dis- couragement. This sentiment, I can report, is shared by all sec- tions of Latin American workers.” Toledano, who conferred at length with President Penaranda and other Bolivian officials, said that it is the combined duty of “the trade unions and the Latin American governments to remove all obstacles blocking increased output of Latin America’s strate- gic raw materials. “These opstacles are partly eco- nomic and partly political,” he said. “The increased prices paid by the US for raw materials have not been used to the benefit of Latin American workers. It out- put is to be inereased and the fifth column is to be*deprived of one of its chief arguments against hemispheric unity, wages must be raised immediately to provide a decent standard of living. A demo- eratic educational program also must be undertaken to explain to the workers the nature of the war.” in the war effort, will be. ¥. | 9 Every day the Soviet sco | probed the German defenses. ¢ | units accumulated strength. Sc half a mile away from the G@ man positions, under cover blizzards, feverish work was progress. Hundreds of people; seen to the enemy, worked s¢ 200 and even some 150 yards ay jf from him, digging communj | tion trenches in the direction the enemy’s positions and sett up machine gun nests right un | the noses of the Germans, iW There was nothing to show Germans that for three nig i hundreds of people worked rij” near them and that artillery <: machine alrez man sentries. A® sooh as night descend units set out from many rections, moving in small grov They marched quietly, but raz ly, covering up to 10 miles hour through the dark fields. 1 snow crunched under sled carrying heavy guns. Men already at their posts he 3 ed the horses at the steep asce ™ by pushing up the guns silen pulling them up the slippery hi- Machine gunners pulled mach fj guns on skis. Mortar men ¢~ tied their disassembled guns their backs. Soon the units w concentrated on the main line fhdi And when the long awaited der was given to attack, quie moving through the communi —-— tion trenches. The infantry c verged on the starting line b dering on the German fortifi tions. It was still day and a he & snow was falling ... Seven a found all the units charged the break-through at their « . pointed places. The hand of © by clock slowly approached ei % when a red flare soared over | forest, and before it had time ~ draw an are in the sky and toi the ground, a heavy blow desce © ed on the German positions, w | hurricane of fire from every & of artillery. OR a moment the Germe stunned, did not reply. T their guns broke into a disorde ly chorus, accompanied by ai } tle of machine guns, but tt noise was drowned in the roar Soviet artillery preparations. The few moments of quiet w { broken by a hurrah which y § echoed by the fields and for as the infantry jumped from | shelters, deployed, and sweep | through a hollow, dived into German trenches. After brief hz to hand fighting in the trenck the men reappeared, pursuing ~ scattered, fleeing Germans. The blow was so unexpec that the Germans in the first I trenches barely offered resistar © Only the cannons and mach ff guns concealed in the dugo § tried to block the path to attackers. The Soviet artill § again came into action and lenced them. One after another dispatch o cers ran into the dugout of colonel, crying ‘the enemy’s m line is broken. Fighting is in EF gress in the depth.”