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School Once More In Stalingrad

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Soviet youngsters are shown emerging from their school in
Stalingrad—set up in the basement of a building destroyed
by the Nazis during the historic battle which drove the in-
waders back after months of seige. :

Soviet Loan ‘Over
The Top’ First Day

MOSCOW.

Subscriptions to the state loans have always been a mighty
demonstration of the consolidation of the peoples of the USSR.
This consolidation, this unity, is a great invincible force. It ‘s

the source of the Red Army’s might.

It is the guarantee of

coming victory over the enemy.

Evidence of this is shown in
the announcement that the 1943
war loan of i2 billion rubles was
oversubscribed the first day of
the drive by 20 percent.

Wews of the second state war
loan spread like lightning
through towns and villages and
subscriptions started pouring in
at once. A few hours after the
loan was announced reports came
from enterprises and institutions
in Moscow about subscriptions to
the loan exceeding a month’s
earnings by employees.

The All-Union Central Council
of Trade Unions called upon
workers to loan the state from
three to four weeks of their
earnings. The day after the radio
announcement of the govern-
ments decision to float the loan,
many thousands signed up for a
month or more.

As at the time of the People’s
Red Army Fund the Russian pa-
triot collective farmer Ferapont
Goloyati, contributed 100,000 ru-

Presentation

LONDON.

The workers at the Myagy
printing house in Kuibyshev,
printers of British Ally, publica-
tion of the British Embassy in
the USSR, have presented a spe-
cial gift album to the workers of
the Cooperative Printing Society,
printers of Soviet War News,
publication of the Soviet Em-
bassy in London. The presenta-
tion was made at a lunch-hour
meeting of the London workers
by A. M. Krainsky, of the Soviet
Embassy press department. The
British workers are members of
the National Society of Operative
Printers and Assistants and other
unions affiliated with the Na-
tional Printing and Kindred
Trades Federation.

bles for the construction of 2
combat plane and laid the basis
for big individual contributions.

According to a report from Bri-
ukhovets district in the Krasno-
dar area, collective farmers Ivan
Borenkov, Ivan Melnik and An-
drej Miroshnichenko each signed
up for 100,000 roubles, which they
paid cash down. In the Ozer dis-
trict of the Moscow region, Col-
lective Farm Chairman Nikoilai
Silayev signed up for a similar
amount, cash down.

“It will soon be two years,”
writes Pravda editorially, ‘‘that
the Soviet people are waging

struggle against the Hitlerite rob-
bers. In these two years the Red
Army, supported by the entire
people, inflicted serious defeats
on the German invaders. But the
enemy is not yet finished off—he
must be routed. He has not given
up his plans to vanquish the So-
viet country, plans to enslave the
whole of mankind. We know it
is not easy. The struggle to de-
stroy the German invaders will
eall for great sacrifices and dep-
rivations. But the Soviet people
are prepared for this, for the
sake of the bright future of their
country.

“The Soviet people send their
sons to the front, send them
arms, munitions, equipment and
provisions. The Soviet people sup-
port every siep of their state, of
their government, directed at
destroying the enemy. The Sovi-
et people are doing the work of
two or three, and at the same
time are contributing their sayv-
ings to the cause of the defence
of their country.

“The issuance of the second
war loan is in conformity with
the sincere desire of the Soviet
people. It is a loan of the people’s
war against the German invad-
ers, a loan of struggle and vic-
tory.”

Ukraine Desolate Und
Hand Of Nazi Invader

By CAPTAIN N. DOBRIN

KUIBYSHEV (By Radio)

Te smoke of smouldering towns and villages still darkens
the sky of the Ukraine. The German fascists have plund-
ered, desolated and laid waste this once flourishing land. The
factories of Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk, Stalino and Kiev are

growing more and more desert-
ed. The Germans continue to re-
move all metal, scrap, equipment
—everything of use or value.
Today there are barely a bun-
dred engineers or foremen at
Dniepropetrovsk, once a ble cen-
ter of the iron and steel industry.
The Nazis have shipped off all
available skilled workers for
forced labor in Germany.

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pee an advertisement

appeared in the local Ger-
man paper published by the Nazis
to the effect that the big cast
iron foundry had been re-opened.
It was an act of provocation.
The Germans simply started fires
in some furnaces so that the
smoke would belch from the
chimney stacks. The next day no
smoke was in evidence. But dur-
ing the night the partisans had
nailed a sheet of paper on the
factory gates with the message:
“Another German lie.”

At Kiev the Germans have op-
ened a small workshop with a
staff of 18 to repair primus stoves
and bicycles. The enterprise
stands where once there was a

big cable factory employing
thousands of workers.
Unemployment is rife at Kiev,
where there is widespread star-
vation. All able-bodied citizens
have been shipped to Germany.
A part of the population has
fled to outside villages. The few
people who remain in this once
flourishing city are in the main
feeble old men and women, the
maimed and the infirm.

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HE German invaders are en-
gaged in pumping labor power
out of the Ukraine for shipment
to Germany.

The inhabitants, hiding in the
forests, are simply dying of star-
yation, but they do their utmost
to avoid being sent to Germany.
The freedom-loving , Ukrainians
prefer death to slavery under the
fascists.

Those remaining in the city
who have escaped deportation to
Germany lead a miserable ex-
istence. The few employed by
the Germans at the various re-
pair shops and railway stations
receive 200 grammes of bread 2
day and insignificant wages with

Guerrillas Active In

FFICIALS of Lithuanian,

KUIBYSHEV (By Radio)
Latvian and Esthonian trade

unions are leading the powerful guerrilla movement in
the Baltic Republics, according to Berhard Tinnuri, head of
the Esthonian Central Council of Trade Unions, who recently

reached here from guerrilla-held

territory. In the early months of
the war, Tinnuri organized volun-
teer detachments of union work-
ers from the industrial city of
Rakver. He is now in charge of
the production drive of Esthonian
trade unionists working in fac-
tories in the Urals and Central
Asia.

Before the war, Tinnuri said,
the executive committee of the
trade union council had 34 mem-
bers. “Most of us immediately
took to arms. A number have
been killed and several are still
missing. Three of the 34, whose
names cannot be given until after
the war, direct the partisan
movement. Their close connec-
tions with the workers and the
authority they have always en-
joyed have helped them kindle
the fires of the war of. national
liberation. German admissions
testify to their success In organ-
izing sabotage in the few enter-
prises which the Nazis are still
trying to adapt to the needs of
their northern front.”

In the Soviet rear, Tinnuri re-
ported, Esthonians are working
beside other Soviet citizens “to
forge the weapons of victory.”
Esthonian union members contri-
huted more than three million
rubles for the construction of a
tank column to be called “For
Soviet Esthonia.” One of his prin-
cipal activities, Tinnuri said, is
aidng evacuated Hsthonian fam-
ilies, enabling workers to find
work at their various trades, and
seeing that they are provided
with living quarters. “In addition
to financial aid extended by the
-Soviet government,” he said, ‘our
Council spent 103,000 rubles from
its funds for aid to its member-
ship in 1942. This was used to
obtain clothing, shoes and other
necessities for union members

who had been deprived of all they
owned by the fascist invaders.”
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IBUTE was also paid this
this week to the role of un-
derground union leaders in Lith-
uania. “Active union members
aré behind the partisan move-
ment and the anti-Hitlerite sab-
otage,” said Justas Paleckis,
chairman of the presidium of the
Lithuanian Supreme Soviet. “In
January underground anti-fascist
conferences were held all over
Lithuania, and now anti-fascist
‘Fight for Independence’ commit-
tees, led by former trade union
officials, are active in every
every town. Urders of the Ger-
man High Command show that
the Nazis are becoming uneasy
at the growth of popular resis-
tance, the sabotage, the spread of
illegal leaflets and newspapers.”
The first act of the occupying
army in Lithuania, Paleckis said,
was to suppress the trade unions,
burn down all union halls and
exetute every union leader, wor-
kers’ deupty and Stakhanovite

which they can buy ni

Very. few shops ha
ened, and in these or
mans are served.

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WORKER who
Mariupol durin
Army’s advance tol
“The Germans haye @
or shipped away
value at the Azoystal
Steel works. Only 20
are engaged in repairing
motor vehicles in the
“When the Germans
stool pigeon to work a1
men, they hanged :
spot. They were immedis
shot by the Germans. —
“FKifty thousand peopl
ing many thousands of
have been shot during {'
eighteen months. For we
bodies of two brothers,
and Christopher Baranoi
from a scaffold erected —
Azovstal factory gates. 7
thers were executed for
said: 4
‘We will live till our
come back with better fi
The Ukrainians are fir
single thought: to Strike
the enemy and exact ye
They are confident that —
is not far off when the Ri
will deliver the last sh
blow at the enemy and }
their country from the \
cupationists. ; 1%

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worker they captured”
Brutas, chairman of th
City Soviet and old-tim
of the trade union m
perished among the fir |
Paleckis.

“Matzkevich, deputy to
preme Soviet and head,
Teachers Union, was al
dered. After wiping out t
leaders, the Germans f
so-called ‘Chamber of L %
branch of Dr. Robert L |
torious Labor Office. TE
of this body, which is bi
the scoundrel Dr. Pauks
an official in the Ministi’
nance under the Smetona
ment, are to organize t
ment of workers for sla |
in Germany.” ae

Trade unionisis are pl
in the ranks of Lithunan ”
of the Red Army, Paleo”
A number of officers of —
uanian Council of Trad -
including A. Kirstukas
Lukasevicus, are now
the Red Army. Mary 3
formerly secretary of tht
Workers Union and vic
man of the Lithuanial
Soviet, is now a volunte
with the Red Army ane
counted personally for m
150 fascists.

US last January to secure
committee.

British Labor Leaders Leave
For Anglo-Soviet Meetings

Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the £
Trades Union Congress, and the four other British
bers of the Anglo-Soviet trade union committee, will
immediately for Moscow to take part in the third m
of the committee, it was announced this week.

Main task of the committee will be to find wi
achieving better coordination between the labor
ments of the United Nations. :

Citrine will report on the failure of his missie

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American participation