R@jrak Republic, now U$Sin a speech to the fi§e3t Union is bound im, demands for the tile second front, called on ss people to intensify Se against the enemy, S Gee mander, with Stalin, lefplovak battalions now Siiiside the Red Army. Hact that has been poy. the Nazi-inspired Dee olish-Soviet relations ‘Eonly has the USSR {7 Polish imperialist taie western Bylo-Russia i=i rm Ukraine, but the oles » government-in-exile -'mmon border with } same border estab- ‘(@} the Htungarian re- sj marched into the #) ine. It is also a fact #4 Embassy in Wash- =} @ m subsidizing Milan e@ the name of Slovak jtryinge to undermine -@ratic and pro-Soviet the Benes govern- »vakia, however, the js @)ve known the heel of m@ethan any other peo- ie ~4the people of Lidice ds @re united against i@ fot only is sabotage ing in the important S38 Pps and munitions (©en and other cities, fF: in the forests of i Carpatho-Ukraine Eon a systematic bat- m= : Hitlerites and their ieee tellites. ty (e. @® disproved the tra- .@ or India (the oid P. never unite) by 'd the workers wheat arded in the Punjab ®mment does not want ‘@ the vested interests ©s distribution. If the #2 ument fails to check waai nd hoarding, we must s2s. A national govern- * represenative of the \, would be able to end 3is in nq time.” mt adopted by the rally ' ‘he suffering under- | city’s womenfolk in dJeues for hours is be- tion. If this situation > continue the entire no be faced with total ):d complete disruption cial and economic life. € management to sup- rough mill shops has 70 a number of strikes. = calls upon all citi- He on this common is- fas shown last week of the Cooperative 00 members of co- ® restoration of demo- €s and the establish- entral government re- sponsible to the Indian people.” “We regret the continued exelu- Sion of India and the colonial peoples from the principles of the Atlantic Charter,’ the resolution stated. ‘““‘We urge the government to give a fuller statement of its peace aims, and ask that the charter be widened to include all the United NationS on an equal basis with the United States and Britain.” Yugoslavia Who’s Behind Mikhailovich? For the first time, and partly as a result of a campaign to expose General Draza Mikhailovitch started by the London Daily Worker, the real picture of the Jugoslav government-in- exile is becoming clear. It is a great mistake to try to explain the Yugoslav situation by looking on the Yugoslay govern- ment-in-exile as creatures of Bri- tain, with the liberation army and the Yugoslav ‘“Veche” (Constitu- tional Assembly) as, so to speak, entrants of the Soviet Union in the Yugoslav stakes. The government-in-exile in Lon- don is made up of aged political parties from the dim past of old Wugoslay parties before the dicta- torship banned them. They are eut of touch with the people, and prefer to rely on the ready-made apparatus of Prince Paul's diplo— matic representation, riddled with pro-Axis fascism. A second group — a younger group — exists which tries to ‘orientate itself on Yugoslav unifi- cation and on the people, but whose members are nervous, distrustful of each other and incapable of initiative. Main influence is exerted by a military clique consisting of the three majors who were connected With the coup of March, 1939, which was a positive, pro- Allied act. These majors, however, are types who take anti-popular rule and Serb supremacy for granted. They backed Mikhailovitch and secured his approval as war min- ister. They think up elaborate Manoeuyers to restore his credit from time to time, such as ex- changes of telegrams or decora- tions with the British War Office and Allied leaders. Their strength lies in the fact that they have the ear of the young king, ard in the very weakness of the old men of the cabinet. Until the end of 1942, the majors kept Mikhailovitech in the public eye by the simple act of attributing all resistance of the Yugoslav partisans to him, and getting away with it in the British press through the latter’s fundamental ignor- ance of Balkan affairs. The Bri- tish government also had been supplying Mikhailovitch with arms and money at that time. The Yugoslav government ignor- ed the partisans until] the Daiy Workers’ campaign made such an attitude impossible. Even then, while grudgingly admitting that the partisans were carrying on an anti-Nazi fight, the government-in- exile was careful to refer to refer to them as Communists who want- ed to “Sovietize’ large areas of Yugoslavia. When the Yugoslay Liberation Army’s radio station challenged this, the government bulletin re- lapsed for a while into terrified Silence. Now, however, they have begun publishing positive refer- ences to the partisans, praising in- dividual fighters. Does this mean a change of heart? Observers do not think so. They feel, rather, that the govern- ment-in-exile, seeing their tin-god Mikhailovitech tottering, want to use the partisans to regain a little prestige. Also, they are running into financial difficulties, having exhausted all their assets in Eng- land. As to the future, it is more than likely that the crisis will go on in- definitely, and that unity will not be achieved for some time. The majors are anti-Yugoslayv and will probably never change their attitude. The King, everyone believes, is well-meaning but not independent. The premier is a weakling and a compromsier. The younger elements are timorous and tied by their salaries. The British government, though it undoubt- edly desires to encourage resistance and though its disillusionment with Mikhailovitch is growing, is unlikely to take overt steps be- cause the whole foreign office tradition is opposed to such forth- right action. US Labor Lewis Moves Against All-Out War The application of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America (unaffiliated), to bring the 600,000 members of his organization back into the AFL brought into sharp focus basie issues of US labor policy this week. Lewis’ ap- plication, regarded as certain to be approved in time to permit the Mine Workers to take part in the AFL's October convention, was sub- mited to the AFL executive coun- cil by William WHutcheson, presi- dent of the Brotherhood of Car- penters. Like Lewis, Hutcheson is an outspoken opponent of President Roosevelt. Before Pearl Harbor, both labor leaders were closely associated in the isolationist America First movement. Other ABIL leaders to back Lewis’ application® are Matthew Woll, president of the Photo-En- gravers’ Union, and David Dubin- sky, president of the International Iuadies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Woll and Dubinsky were the or- ganizers of the meeting held re- cently in New York to protest the Soviet government’s execution of the Poles Alter and Ehrlich. “T am delighted to hear that the United Mine Workers have ap- plied for reaffiliation with the AFL.’ Dubinsky stated in an inter- view. Guarded by two British officers, Colonel-General Jurgen von Arnim (foreground), former commander of Nazi forces in Tunisia, is shown entering a war prison camp near London. Von Arnim was flown to England following his surrender to the Allies in Tunisia. The presence of Lewis in the executive councils of the AFL would strengthen the anti-Roose- velt group among AFL leaders. The resulting alliance, in the opinion of observers here, would be prim- arily directed toward retarding the all-out war program of the Allies, and in particular the invasion of Europe; in the long run the al- liance would seek to line up labor support behind an anti-New Deal Republican candidate in the 1944 presidential election. The candi- daecy of Wendell Willkie, it is be- lieved, will not be favored by Lewis and Hutcheson. The success of Lewis’ strategy, observers believe, will depend .on whether or not he can win to his side certain groups within the CIO who are pursuing policies closely parallel to his own. Under the leadership of Walter Reuther, vice- president of the C1O’s United Auto- mobile Workers, a regional con- vention of Michigan UAW -~work- ers recently voted to support Lewis and the coal strike. Similar sup- port has been voiced by small but vocal groups within the Tex- tile Workers, Rubber Workers, Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, and other CIO affiliates. Lewis’ chances of splitting the CIO and undermining the leader- ship of CIO president Philip Mur- ray, however, received a setback this week when the CIO executive board, at an enlarged session in 2 Cleveland, unanimously voted that “John L. Lewis has jeopardized the just demands of the United Mine Workers in furtherance of his personal and political vendetta against the President of the United States,” and condemned his activi- ties as “endangering the very ex- istence of our nation and the lives of millions of Americans at the front.’ Without a dissenting vote, the CIO renewed its pledge that “for the duration of the war there shall be no strikes.” In other un- animous resolutions, the CIO de- clared that “it shall be the primary task of all our affiliated unions and our membership to mobilize the support of the entire nation be- hind President Roosevelt,” and ex- pressed a special vote of confi- dence in ClO President Philip Mur- ray “for his wise guidance and courageous leadership.” In a cable of congratulations to General Dwight Eisenhower in North Afri- ca, the CIO “hailed the clearance of Nazi and fascist forces from Wroth Africa as paving the way for the invasion of Europe.” The AFL executive council, at its meeting in Washington, also renewed its no-strike pledge. How- ever, replying to a question at a press conference as to how Lewis- re-entry would affect this pledge, AFL president William Gren sta- ted that “each AHL affiliate is autonomous so far as its own pol- icies are concerned.”