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WEXIGO CIDY —— By

he steering committee of UNCIO this week
>revious decision of the economic and social committee to

povite the WTUC to send an observer to attend its closed
-)i=ssions_

The steering: commit-
B2e’s decision was sharply de-
‘ounced by CIO President Philip
‘lurray, who charged that the
/merican members of the com-
uittee were mainly to blame for
Paving “reversed this wholesale
tion.” The French delegation
‘so attacked the decision, de-

SSS

‘ Vincente Lombardo Toledano

: baring that “it is impossible to
= uld security without the co-

s,eration of organized labor.”
| Blaming “hidden motives” for
e refusal to give labor a hear-
' g, Poledamo declared: “I do not
Siow what will result from the
‘ritish stand against peoples’ or-
Fanizations which made possible
hie victory against fascism, but
ber is now forced to await a
© sitter occasion when the spirit
'; justice and the desire for last-
'£& peace are developed to a
reater degree than at San Fran-
sco?

: The  CTAL leader assured,
wever, that “even if the Unit-—

' At a constituency campaign
ommittee meeting held in Na-
‘aimo recently, Adolph Bogattin
vas elected sub-campaign man-
‘ser to conduct the campaign of

f/m ecorge Greenwell, LPP candi-
fate for the federal riding of
| lanaime, in the Nanaimo dis-
cict.
) Extensive plans haye ‘been

ompleted for the canvassing of
fhe Nanaimo district and the
bistribution of election material
‘nd the committee is carrying on

) 2 active campaign for the elec-

ion of this candidate.

a vote of thirty-two to ten,
reversed the

ed Nations program does not co-
incide with labor’s, we in. all
events will continue to work to
avoid new crises which ean over-
shadow the present war in their
fearful effect on mankind.” Gom-
menting ironically on the atti-
tude of the American Federa-
Gon of Labor at San Francisco,
he added: ‘‘The self congratula-
tion of AHL Jeaders when the
conterence refused to hear world
labor is in keeping with the
AFL’s magnificent past and
splendid present.”

While he avoided comment on
the conference itself because “at
present it has not reached def-
inite conelusions and is merely
examining problems and testing
the strength of various tenden-
cies,” Toledano again blasted the
conference’s invitation to Ar-
gentina as “a defeat for democ-
racy.’ He said that the attempt
of “reaction to present the Ar-
gentine invitation as a defeat for
the Soviet Union and a victory
for the United States and Great
Britain” was “absurd.”

Not the Soviet Union, but Pan-
American democracy and world
labor “lost at San Francisco,” he
said. “It was a curious coinci-
dence that the very day on which
fascism collapsed in Europe, it
won a great yictory at San Fran-
cisco.”

T
Italian Govt. To
Be Revised

ROME. May 17 Premier
Ivanhoe Bonomi and two repre-
sentatives of each of the six
parties of the Committee of Na-
tional Liberation of Southern
Italy left this week for Milan, in
a visit that is expected to result
in the revision of the present
Italian government to make it
more representative of the en-

tire country now that the north
has been completely liberated.

The trip followed a visit of
CNL delegates from the north to
Rome, during which Rodolfo
Morandi, resident of the north
Italy CNL, stated: “We all want
a new government which trans-
fers to its composition and pro-
gram the energy which animated
the people in the struggle. There
is but one formula for this gov-
ernment: it must give Italy a
program for liberation and a
Constituent Assembly.”

Volume 1,

No. 30, May 26, 1945

Argentina Reported A Refuge
For Fleeing Nazi War Criminals

Gestapo Chiefs And Ley Aide Are
Latest Arrivals In South America

MONTE VIDEO—Despite the pledges of the Argentine Colonels’ Lodge (GOU) regime
to cooperate with the United Nations, Argentina is teeming with unmolested Nazi war
criminals, Argentine anti-Nazi sources asserted here this w

criminals were Count Karl von Luxbure,

close associate of Germany’s

new self.styled Feuhrer Admiral
Karl Doenitz, and Richard
Schroeder, one of the chief as-
Sistants of German Labor Front
leader Robert Ley. Schroeder
is said to have arrived in Argen-
tina within the last month.

Count von Luxburg was Ger-
many’s ambassador to Argentina
during the First World War, and
was expelled from-the country in
1916 for organizing the sinking
of Allied ships, Silvano Santand-
er, former Radical party deputy
and former member of the Gon-
gressional Committee Investi-
gating Anti-Argentine Activities
told Allied Labor News. Brand-
ing Von Luxburge “an ace war
eriminal,” Santander related how

eek. Named as important war
chief of Nazi intelligence in Argentina and a

the Count returned to Argentina
to become chief of German intel-
ligence, adding that he “has
maintained a secret broadcasting
station on his ‘Quinta de Marti-
nez’estate” and that from a
building near the Retiro railway.
station “he organized a system
of signalling to submarines with
flags and lights.”

Pointing out that Von lLux-
burge’s activities resulted in the
loss of Allied lives and the sink-
ing of innumerable Allied ships,
Santander said: “He is the key
Nazi in Argentina and Allied
claims for his delivery would be
fully justified and might cas*
light on the Nazi network in this
continent.” Von Luxburg is also
Said to have co-operated with

Resistance Groups Sweep
French Municipal Elections

PARIS, France —— The

recent municipal

elections in

France resulted in an overwhelming victory for resistance
candidates. Practically every large town and many smaller
towns elected resistance leaders. with Socialists and Com-

munists predominating. The
run-off elections followed the
trend shown in Paris earlier this
month, the only city where the
vote was on the basis of pro-
portional representatzon. In
Paris, Communist candidates
won 27 out of 90 seats, with 12
going to the Socialists, 13 the
Catholic resistance group and 8
te other resistance groups.

The final results of run-off
elections gave 60 out of 80 mu-
nicipalities in the Seine depart-
ment, near Paris, to resistance
lists with a Communist majority.
Resistance lists dominatted by
Socialists won an additional 16.
Right-wing parties won only
three municipalities in the de-
partment, whereas in the last
election in 1985 they held 44
The coal districts in northern
France swept into office resist-
ance -lists headed by Commun-
ists, while joint Socialist-Com-
munist lists were victorious in
the large textile centers of Lille
and Roubaix.

Nearly 25 per cent of the
total vote, estimated at 18,000,-
000, went to Communist candi-
dates. Throughout the country,
voting was extremely heavy, a
great proportion of the voters be-
ine’ women, who were given the

vote this year for the first time.

In Marseilles, 226,000 votes were
recorded out of less than 300,000
eligible voters, and two-thirds of
the voters backed the joint So-
cialist - Communist - Resistance
ticket.

Unions Demand
Electoral Unity

LONDON, May 17 — A floor
fight against the labor party
executive committee’s refusal to
consider electoral unity with
other progressive parties for the
coming general election is antici-
pated at the annual Labor party
conference opening in Blackpool
next week. The executive com-
mittee has so far refused to re-
eonsider its barring of the ques-
tion from the conference agenda,
despite numerous protests from
leading: trade unions. The con-
servative Sunday Observer com-
mented this week that with an
agreement among the progres-
Sive parties “the outlook would
be radically altered,” while A. J.
Cummings asserted in the Lib-
eral News Chronicle that in the
face of such an agreement “a
Conservative defeat would be
almost a foregone conclusion.”’

Fritz Mandl,.former Austrian
munitions magnate, and to have
connected him with the Argentine
generals. .He is also reported to
diave helped finance the GOU
coup d'etat in June 1943 and to
have personally advised Victor
Paz Hstenssoro, leader of the

coup in Bolivia in December,
1943.
Schroeder was chief of the

German Labor Front in Argen-
tina in 1937 and 1938 before he
returned to Germany to work
with Ley. QOn his reported re-
tum here, he is said to have

stayed for three days at the
building which houses the Ger-
man language newspaper Die

Zeitung, formerly known as the
Deutsche La Plata Zeitung. My
informant states that Schroeder
then left for the interior of the
country and is now believed to
be in Calamuichita in Gordoba
province. This town and La Fal-
da are considered important cen-_
ters of clandestine Nazi cells.

According to the same
source, Admiral Karl Doenitz,
his so-called Foreign Minister
Count Lutz Schwerin von
Krosigk and Ley have deposited -
considerable sums of money in
Argentina oyer a period of
time through the “Banco
Aleman WTransalantico” (CGer-
man Transatlantic Bank). The
money was said to have been
deposited under false names.
Two other Nazis who have also
come to Argentina recently
are the leading Gestapo men,
Walter Wilkening and Willy
‘Scheckenbach.

PREPARE HIDING PLACES

Schroeder is reported to have
arrived in Argentina with full
instructions to prepare hiding
places for other Nazis in that
country. The vast territories of
the provinces of Entre Rios,
Chaco and Misiones are said to be
ideal for charboringe sought-for
Nazis and to be actually the
headquarters of clandestine Nazi
erganizations. The Nazis in
Misiones are reported to be
mainbaining contacts in Brazil
and Paraguay and to-control a
svstem of roadways known only
to them. It is learned that Gen-
eral Calderon, who discovered the
extent of Nazi control im
Misiones, has been arrested anid
is held incommunieado. All con-
sistently democratic high rank
ine Argentine army officers were
also purged after the series of

arrests last month.

IT. 1S YOUR DUTY TO VOTE ON JUNE 11

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