measure. productivity. ency. Women Set Pace On New Moscow Subway HE newly completed four-mile stretch of the Moscow subway, connecting Red Square and the center of Moscow with the industrial suburbs, will increase produc- tion in Moscow arms factories, union leaders predicted at ceremonies opening the new line. All non-essential construction work in the Moscow area stopped abruptly at the start of the war. Work on the famous Palace of the Soviets, the world’s tallest build- ing, was abandoned and the towering steel framework, which had been almost completed, was torn down and used for scrap. But the extension of the Moscow subway continued because of its importance as a production Now more than 150,000 workers at the Stalin Auto Works (at present manufacturing tanks) and Dynamo and Electro-Zavod, the big Moscow electrical plants, ean get to work in four minutes flat instead of spending an hour or more on Moscow’s crowded trolleys. Even if they do not put in more time at the factories, with al- most two hours cut from their working day they can get more rest and recreation and thus increase their labor Building this section of the subway was complicated by the fact that the tunnel erossed beneath the Moscow River no less than four times. Many of the best workers were women. A team of women track layers who a year ago were Moscow housewives, regularly outdistanced teams of men and broke all records for speed and effici- KUIBYSHEV. Hungarians Form National Front BERNE. Immediate cessation of the war and severance of relations with the Axis powers is called for in a program adopted by the newly established Hungarian Front of N ational Independence. Attended by representatives of the National Democratic Party, Kosuta Party, Social Democratic Party, and Communist Party, by parliamentary deputies from the Party of Hungarian Life (the government party), the Christian Party and Independent Party, and by representation of Hungarian Union of Industrial- ists, the trade unions and Chris- tian Social trade unions, and the Peasants’ League, the program was adopted at a conference held in Budapest on Christmas Eve, Following is the joint declara- tion issued by the conference: “A group of Hungarian poli- tical and public figures of dif- ferent trends consider that the time has come for Hungarian pa- triots to rally in a fighting front to win the independence of their native land. With this purpose in view they have drawn up a common program. “The program of the Hungarian Front of National Independence contains the following points: “J. Immediate cessation of the War. Severance of relations with the Axis powers. Withdrawal of Hungarian troops from the Soviet Union. The persons responsible for Hungary’s involvement in the Hitlerite war to be brought to ac- count. “2. An independent active for- eign policy. Co-operation and consolidation with neighboring nations on the principle of the protection of Hungar’an national interests against the aggressive aspirations of the Germans. “3. So long as the country is not supplied, to prohibit all food ex- ports. “A Realization of the democratic rights and liberties of the people: universal suffrage by secret bal- lot; freedom of speech, press and essembly. Democratization of the administrative apparatus. Aboli- tion of all anti-Semitic laws. The prohibition of fascist parties and cial policy; and improved stand- ard of living for the workers. “5 Par-reaching agrarian re- organizations. A democratic so- forms. Land grants to the peas- ants. Distribution of the big landed estates and prohibiting of the possession of more than 300 morgens. "6 Effective development of Hungarian industry. To force out German capital from Hungarian economic life. “7 A&A democratic national policy. A broad national self-government. Abolition of privileges enjoyed by the German minority. Disband- ment of the ‘Volksbund’. “8. A Wungarian ygational cul- tural policy. Removal of fascist contamination from the press, schools, literature and from Hun- gary’s cultural life. “9 Formation of a government of national independence that will convene a National Legislative As- sembly to introduce the necessary constitutional and material guar- antees of the freedom, independ- ence and prosperity of Hungary. “10. The Hungarian Front of National Independence calls upon all those who are in accord with its strivings to fight with all the means at their disposal for the realization of this program, Pa- triots must form organizations of the Hungarian Front of National Independence everywhere — in the towns and villages, in leagues and parties, in workers trade union organizations and in the army. Do not wait for special instruction. Let everyone at his place immediately set about or- fanizing the work. “We call upon Hungarians liv- Ing abroad to act in the spirit of the Hungarian Front of Nation- al Independence, and to unite their forces. The time has come for us to consolidate and lead all true Hungarians in the strug- gle for a strong, independent and democratic Hungary.” French Airmen Fight For France) In Skies Of Distant Russia | I WAS startled when I heard men dressed in sheepskin coats and felt boots talking Frenc’ ; By ILYA EHRENBURG MOSCOW. They were mechanics of the “Normandy” air formation of Fighting France. They hi jes come to fight in the Russian skies for the soil of France. Who would have thought tha ClO) Delegation f To Tour Great Britairt By GARRY ALLIGHAN Allied Labor News Writer distant Russia? The “Normandy” is a piece of France with men from different provinces and different classes— a worker, a student, a sailor of the mercantile marine, a young Physician, a merchant’s son— only recently fortune's favorite, and a poor man’s son, They are united by one thing, their love for France. It is not so easy to get out of France. One of the airmen was in Normandy under the Germans. At night he made his way into the still unoccupied zone and thence. .. . “In Spain I was ar- rested and thrown into prison. But I made my escape... .” There are three pals who have been nicknamed “The Three Mus- keteers.” They were in Algiers with the Vichy air force. They had decided to join De Gaulle, to fly to Gibraltar on fighter planes. But how to get away all three to- gether? If one took off alone it would mean that the remaining two would have a slim chance of getting away since they would be closely watched. They prepared long in advance. Finally the happy day came and they were lucky. But what about the airman who landed in the smal] Spanish town of La Linea, some two miles from Gibraltar, instead? He fell into enemy hands. However, he ran away from La Linea. ... The doctor had escaped from France to Spain. He was ar rested and after many trying ex- periences was sent to Portugal. There he was arrested for the second time andethreatened with deportation back to Spain. He tried to get to London. Instead he had to leave for Cuba, thence to the United States and then to England. ° e e HE story of the airman from Marseilles is pathetic and yet amusing. In the summer of 1941, Generel! Denz, in command of the Vichy troops in Syria, capitulated, reserving the right for those of ficers and soldiers who did not wish to join General de Gaulle to return to France. Ships were sent from Marseilles to pick up the Petain supporters. In Marseilles, on the other hand, people were racking their brains, trying to find a way to get on the steamer heading for Syria, which to them was the door from prison to freedom. A _ student became a stoker, a painter swore that he was en old salt and a lithographer pretended to be a ship’s cook. When the ships dropped anchor in Beirut the crews were forbid- den to go ashore. The men dived into the water and swam to shore. A major walked from Dahomey to Liberis—500 and more miles through virgin forests. A _ ser- geant crossed over from Brittany to England on a small fisher- man’s boat. Their families have remained behind under the Ger- man yoke. e © © HAT is why the Parisian un- derstands the Ukrainian lieu- tenant without words. They have a common language — hatred. There are Frenchmen who knew nothing about our country. The pro-fascist papers had written daily that Russia was one stretch of huts -without chimneys and with nationalized women. See after representatives of the British Trades Uni. ft. Congress and the American Federation of Labor hold #1} inaugural meeting of the Anglo-American Trade Union Cor f mittee in Miami, Florida, late this month, a delegation of lea ers of the Congress of Industrial Organizations will viz Bs Britain, Allied Labor News learns from TUC headquartel The CIO delegation, headed by James B. Carey, national secr §. tary, is expected here in February. Special plans are being made by the TUC and the ministry of labor to permit the CIO repre- sentatives to make a complete sur- vey of Britain’s industrial war effort. The government will give them a roving permit to go any- where they may wish. They will sit in on meetings of labor-ban- agement committees in the fac- tories, and they will get the chance to observe Britain’s shop steward system at close quarters. Ernest Bevin, minister of labor and national service, and Sir Stafford Cripps, minister of air- eraft production, have expressed a special desire to meet with the CIO delegates to discuss ques- tions of industrial mobilization. Trade union leaders and shop stewards expect to learn valuable lessons about up-to-date mass- production techniques from the CIO visitors, who in turn will be able to observe at first hand how British labor, through representa- tion on government boards and joint factory committees, is play- Ing a major part in developing War production. TUC delegates to the first meet- ing of the Anglo-American labor committee, to take place during the two-week session of the APL executive council starting Jan- uary 18, are Sir Walter Citrine, TUG general secretary, Frank Wolstencroft, 1942 president of the t the road from Dover to Calais would run via the fields LONDON. TUC and secretary of the Ame gamated Society of Woodworke: @ J. Marchbank, outgoing secreta —& of the National Union of Railwa men, Arthur Conley, secretary {§ the National Union of Tailors ai Garment Workers, and H. N. Ha & rison, secretary of the Nation Union of General and Municip) § Workers and president of 6 Confederation of Shipbuilding az Engineering Trade Unions. When Citrine visited the US la July, he invited the AFL to