Developin So rapid has been the Allied adv keep up with the action. treyers like commuters on ance tthat troops hop rides wherever possible to Above, U.S. 9th Army troops are jammed aboard tank de- a rush hour train. - ICriticism Of Lab-Man. Charter jReceives Scant Support In U.S. NEW YORK—The Wall Street Journal, Pie objections to the new /aper expressed the hope that je NAM would add its signature '> the agreement to ensure full -nployment and production Pirough mutual cooperation i -hich was Signed last week by { IQ president Philip Murray, (FIL president William Green Fad Eric Johnston, president of fie U.S: Chamber of Commerce. yAt the same time, President »Roosevelt hailed the charter as 2 great step toward securing | the full employment of labor jand capita] under our system xf free competitive enterprise . “when hostilities cease.’ The (President termed the charter “an unprecedented step to pro- ) 'note the maximum degree of > Udustrial peace and prosperity in postwar America,” adding hat “the very act of the draft- "ing of this charter is posi- ve proof that free Americans, icting on their own initiative, -an unite for peace as well as’ Var.” Pag The code pledges its sponsors |) wecognize the rights of ‘pri- “ite competitive capitalism” and : labor “to organize and to. en- age in collective bargaining.” sttine- the goal of ‘the highest @ -&ree of production and employ- /cnt at wages assuring a stead- )y advanced standard of living, | further supports increased fo- )4gn trade, aid to devastated and sideveloped countries and .a m orld security system ‘capable - preventing aggression and as- Weiting. lasting peace.” Faget gs = a | The code is ‘an attempt to be- lm the reconciliation of manage- leading financial publication here, criticized labor-management code of principles for postwar cooperation voiced by President Ira Mosher of the National Associatio&§ of Manufacturers. The news- ment and labor objectives”. which will be “sorely needed in the transition period to come,’’ the Wall Street Journal stated edit- orially. “Mr. Mosher says their statement of principles is ‘pre- mature.’ We do not agree. Lead- ership in any field at first looks premature to some observers. He adds that ‘such a statement should be the result of delibera- tions by a larger and more repre- sentative group.’ The answer to that is that a larger group, or Several groups, have now been given something to deliberate up- on and have been summoned to stand forth and deliberate.” Answering Mosher’s assertion that the code’s principles are “generalities on which there is already wide agreement,’ the Journal points out that “men seekine an agreement of wide scope can only begin with the ideas in respect to which they are in accord, or near it, and then endeavor to enlarge the area of their common thought.” In order for the principles to be fully ap- plied, it adds, “the NAM or in- fluential members of it should take an important part. This newspaper hopes and believes that the NAM will be welcomed imto the commiittee’s ranks.” CIO NEWS PRAISES Commenting on the charter, the ClO News, official organ of the CIO, praises it as “encourag- ing; progress toward some of the main goals” that the CIO set it- self at its Jast convention. How- ever, the editorial stresses that all of industry did not yet sign the charter and warns that “if important interests stand aloof or adept a hostile position, they may wreck the whole program.” The first concrete reaction to the charter came from Memphis, Tennessee, where the local Cham- ber of Commerce called together Continued on Page 10 See CHARTER. Volume 1, No. 24, April 14, 1945 Austrian Resistance Movement Against Germans Freedom Front Fights With Yugoslav Army LONDON—The Austrian resistance movement “‘is de- veloping from a movement of mass desertion and hiding from the Germans inte one of armed resistance,” according to Tone Fajfar, prominent Yugo- slay Partisan fighter and former general secretary of the Chris- tian Trade Union Federation of Slovenia. Since the Austrian re- sistanee is “in a stage of transi- tion,” he added, “this change has not yet been generally achieved.” A member of the Yugoslav trade union delegation to the re- cent world labor conference, Faj- far represents Catholic Slovenia in the united Yugoslavia Trade Union Federation and is one of its six secretaries. He is a mem- ber of the presidium of the Su- preme Anti-Flascist Council of the Yugoslay Freedom Front (AVNOJ) and has been awarded the Yugoslay Partisan. Medal 1941, given only to men and wo- men who fought the Germans with arms in 1941. He will very shortly visit the United States. FREEDOM FRONT In Yugoslavia, he said, “our Papers often bring news about the Austrian resistance move- ment. The formation of the Aus- trian Freedom Front one and a half years ago was fully report- ed in our press and details of its composition were given. It was reported that it comprises repre- sentatives of Catholics, Commun- ists and Social Democrats. Later reports were published of the-ac- tivities of the Freedom Front. This information is important for us because we consider the Austrian Freedom Front as our ally.” The formation of the Austrian Battalion last autumn was men- tioned in an Order of the Day Will Seek Consideration Of Franco Question At ’Frisco MEXICO CITY—Spanish refu- gee organizations in this country are exerting influence to assure presentation of the Franco ques- tion at the San Francisco United Nations conference and spokes- men are optimistic. that it will receive consideration. The Junta Liberacion, the Committee to Aid the Spanish Supreme Junta of National Union and the Federa- tion of Organizations to Aid the European Refugees (FOARE) are circularizing diplomats in Mexico City urging them to send [the viewpoints of Spanish Repub- licans to their governments. Mexican Senator Joaquin Cha- varria this week took up cudgels in behalf of the Spanish Republi- cans in the Mexican Congress and Said that a senatorial group will suggest to the Mexican sovern- ment that it lead the anti-Franco move at San Francisco. ‘The fact that Mexico never had re- lations with Franco and the fact that Mexico sheltered Republican refugees give her the moral right te act as the spokesman in this matter,” the Senator told Allied Labor News. “Sooner or later,” he added, “the whole world will break with the Franco regime, despite the dictator's frantic search for ways te disguise his fascism. Presen- tation to the San Francisco con- ference of the proposal to isolate Franco will be in line with Mexi- co’s traditional international pol- icy.” He pointed out that the sug- gestion that the Franco question is extra-territorial, which pre- vented action at last month’s Inter-American Conference, will not arise at San Francisco. of the Yugoslav Liberation Army, Fajfar said, and Partisan newspapers wrote that the Bat- talion “is a safeguard for the future friendship of a free Yugo- slavia with a free Austria.” Faj- far, who was present at the for- mation of the Battalion, said that it was composed “mainly of de- serters from the German army or Austrian prisoners of war who asked to fight against Hit- ler. MOSTLY WORKRS “They were mostly workers, men between 30 and 40, and com- paratively few youth. They wear, like many other units of the. Yugoslay Liberation Army, Brit- ish uniforms with a red-white- red cockade.” Many Austrians are operating with German units in Yugoslavia, Fajfar continued, and “the German Army still on Balkan soil consists mainly of Austrians. I know for example of two Austrian divisions — Al- Pine troops—who were annihil- ated in the battles in and for Belgrade.” Austrians captured by the Yugoslay Iiberation Army, he said, “are asked whether they are willing to fight against the Germans. In this event they get the possibility to fight in the ranks of the Liberation Army— now in the Austrian Battalion. If they refuse they are consider- ed and treated as Germans. The Austrian resistance in the Te- gions bordering on Slovenia usually ‘cooordinated with the Slovene Liberation struggle led to a strengthening of Austrian resistance as well.” Austrian workers in Klagen- furt or Villach, Fajfar stated, “belong to the Slovene organiza- tion “Workers Unity? which is a part of the Yugoslay Liberation Front. jAmonge the Austrians fighting. against the Germans the working class element is highly 7 predominant. However, the peas- ants from these regions, placed there under Hitler to ‘German- ize’ the Slovene regions feel themselves as colonizers and are afraid of losing their privileged Position when German domina- tion ends. “For this reason most of them support the Germans. An excep- tion is the majority of Catholic clergy who were transferred there by the Germans to substi_ tute the Slovene Catholic clergy from the border regions, whom the Germans had expelled. These clergy were in the majority loyal to the Slovene Liberation Front and quite often supported it di- rectly.” Continued on Page 10 See RESISTANCE.