| scow—There is no reason
she Polish trade union move-

sheuld be “discriminated
st” when the world labor
rence reconvenes in Paris
aptember, Vasili Kuznetzov,
man of the All-Union Cen-
Council of Trade Unions,
d here this week. “The true
Pssentatives of the Polish
Jers are not Jan Stanezyk
sh Socialist who was admit-
o the London labor confer-

but the leaders of Polish
- unions built on democratic
ijiples,”? he said. Kuznetzov
just returned from San
cisco where he was a mem-
(of the official Soviet delega-
{to UNCIO and participated
'.rld labor conference admin-
ive committee meetings.

eussing the UNCIO steer-
sommittee’s rejection of an
ation to the new World Fed-
on of Trade Unions, he said:

Soviet government, in re-
se to the wishes of the world

motion to invite its repre-

wtives to the San Francisco
srence. The Soviet govern-
also included in its delega-
' 2 representative of the So-
trade unions. I can only ex-
|; my regret that other gov-
sents did not see fit to adopt
nilar course.”

- POSITION

“2 most important achieve-
“ of the administrative com-
te, Kuznetzov said, is that
WETU “will be of a demo-
j¢ character and that its
3; will be open to all trade
as concerned with the vital
, ests of the working class.
ever is sincerely interested
iproving the lot of the work-
class and in prolonged and
je peace cannot stand aloof.”

sked what he thought about
position of the AFL, Kuznet-
replied: “I think what tens
{millions of other organized
kers are thinking, not only
ae Soviet Union but in Great
ain, the U.S. and other free-
loving countries. The obstin-
of AFL leaders in their re-
il to have anything to do with
rnational trade union cooper-
a, their rabid hostility to the
SR and toward Soviet trade
Ms in particular, are deserv-
of the strictest condemna-

7

OME, May 31 (ALN) — Ital-
Socialist leader Pietro Nenni,
* returned from a visit to
h Italy today, has proposed
the Socialist, Communist
: Christian Democratic parties
te to form a single workers’
ty, the three parties have al-
dy joined forces to form a
ted trade union movement.
h the Socialists and Commun-
i have alrgady indicated their
ire for an eventual union.

: union conference, support-

\After the strain and fatigue of many Okinawa battles,
the shock of his friend’s death in action was too much for this
marine. He broke down and cried while a tired buddy tried
to comfort him.

of the Labor-Progressive Party,
drew an ovation from ,an en-
thusiastic audience of over three
hundred at a rally in support of
Leading Seaman James Thomp-
esn, held in the Hastings Audi-
terium on Sunday last.

“The working class did not
fight this war at the expense of
some thirty to forty million lives
to make the world safe for big
business,” McKean continued,
“Labor rightfully demands a
voice in the shaping of the fu-
ture world.”

Pointing to the composition of
the reconstituted governments
of Europe, where labor shared
power. equally with other anti-
fascist groups, the LPP leader
stated that Canada was the.only
major power where labor had no
voice in government. Turning to
the dangers of reaction taking
power in the coming election,
McKean exposed the character
cf the Tory setup in Canada with
its direct link with the pro-fas-
cist Nationalist elements in Que-
bec, and tacit support of the

anti-semitic, anti-labor Social
Credit Party of Alberta.
McKean pointed out the di-

visive and confusing role of the
CCF leadership in the face of
the Tory threat. Scoring their
isolationist and ‘Socialism Now”
program as absolutely opposed
to the best interests of the com-

mon people of Canada, he asked:

GE 9 — PACIFIC ADVOCATE

McKean Warns Of
Tory Election Threat

Stating that the main issue in the coming election was
full employment which in turn was dependent on continued
international cooperation, Fergus McKean, Provincial Leader

“How can a party which fails to
recognize the only socialist coun-
try.in the world call itself a
socialist ‘party?”

“HONEST JOHN”

James Thompson, LPP candi-
date for Vancouver Centre scor-
ed the record of ‘Honest John”
Bracken and pointed to the dan-
ger of a return to the policies of
Iron Heel Bennett. “Every ves-
tige of the old appeasement
policy that remains must be wip-
ed out,” Thompson stated. “It
took. over 30,000 young Canad-
ian lives to undo the  conse-
quences of that policy. The unit-
ed will of the Canadian people
must ensure representation for
honest labor elements in the next

federal house to ensure the sac-
rifice was not in vain.

Lieut. Austin Delany, LPP
candidate for North Vancouver,
speaking in support of Thomp-
son’s election, deplored the red-
baiting tactics of Sinclair in
Vancouver North.

Pointing to the Peoples’ Chart-
er of the Tories as a hypocritical
steal of labor’s program to hide
their real anti-labor intentions,
“Examine the records of the
parties, do not be misled by elec-
tion propaganda,” said Delany.
“Vote for a genuine labor man,
the LPP candidate for Vancou-
ver Centre.”

lazis Develop Nest Egg Resources
By Investing In Argentine Projects

German Tie-Up With
Spanish Interests
Revealed By Writer

By ANDREW GORDON
MONTE VIDEO—German trusts ‘‘directly control some

200 incorporated companies” in Argentina, Luis Victor
Sommi, author of ‘‘German Capital in Argentina,” told me.

“J estimate,” Sommi _ said,
“that direct and indirect“ invest-
ments and minority shares. in
non-German undertakings am-
ount to 1,800,000 pesos ($37,500,-
000). The German electric trust
AEG—Siemens Schukert—alone
controls an estimated 1,000,000,-
000 pesos ($250,000,000).” The
German trusts, he added, have
been operating with a “Spanish
disguise” and through Swiss
firms.

Sommi, whose book, published
this week, discloses new data
concerning the amazing depth of
German penetration in Argen-
tina, is a member of the W ood-
workers Union and was impris-
oned in the Neuquen penitentiary
from November 1943 to April
1945 for belonging to the under-
ground labor opposition to the
Argentina regime. Upon his re-
lease he was sent to this city.
Here are his exclusive revela-
tions to 'Allied Labor News:

SPANISH-GERMAN
COOPERATION

“The most intimate cooper-
ation between German and Span-
ish interests exists. This is most
outstanding in the case of CADE
(Argentine Electric Company),
the biggest single electrical en-
terprise in-the Latin world. Its
assets exceed 1,100,000,000 pesos
($275,000,000). CADE was form-

Jouhaux Hails
World Group

PARIS — ‘Great satisfaction”
with the steps taken toward the
formation of the new World
Federatoin of Trade Unions was
expressed here this week by Leon
Jouhaux, general secretary of the
French General Confederation of
Labor (CGT). “I have always
been in favor of such an organiz-
ation and it gives me greaht sat-
isfaction to see the unity that
has been achieved,” he told Al-
lied Labor News.

The CGT leader seemed phys-
ically fit and full of energy des-
pite his long captivity. In Sep-
tember 1940 the Vichy govern-
ment first. attempted to arrest
Jouhaux, but for a.year he suc-
cessfully eluded pursuit and
worked to reconstitute the trade
union movement. In,1941 he was
placed under temporary arrest
at Vals les Bain and when on his
release he openly attacked the
Labor Charter intitutsed by
Vichy, he was rearrested. Dur-
ing his captivity, he said, a
clandestine radio enabled him
end other prisoners to keep in
constant touch with international

| events.

erly known as CHADE (Hispano-
American Electric oCmpany). It
was founded in 1920 to insure the
operation of German eapital in a
Spanish disguise. Francisco Assis
de Cambo (one of Catalonia’s
leading financiers) is the living

symbol linking German and
Spanish fascist high finance.
“Cade guaranteed Spanish

purchases in Argentina in 1942,
thus making it possible to supply
the Nazis with Argentine prod-
ucts. CADE is a member of the
international electrical trust “So-
fina,” through which the His-
pano-German group owns the
minority interests in Argentine
enterprises such as the Anglo-
Argentine Tramways Company,
and even in the Corporacion de
Transportes.

_ Another example is CHAD-
OPYF
Public Works and Financing
Company), which runs several
subway lines in Buenos Aires.
These were built by German
enterprises with material im-
ported mainly from Germany.
Franco’s survival would secure
for the Germans the opportun-
ity to operate in Argentina
and throughout the world
under a Spanish disguise. It
would repeat what happened
after the last war.

“T. G. Farben is also most
powerful in Argentina, primarily
in pharmaceutical industries. It
frequently operates through sat-
ellites, such as the Swiss firms
Roche Products and Ciba. The
Germans also created an elabor-
ate system of stooges for pro-
curing indispensable raw. mater-
jals from United Nations coun-
tries.

“Intervention into German
firms by. the GOU (Argentine
Colonels’ Lodge regime) is a
farce. The Germans were warned
in time, and they put in safe
places huge sums of capital.
They successfully entered new
fields, such as construction, sugar
mills, mining, real estate and
rural industries. Big trusts, such
ag I1.G. Farben and Thysen, con-
trol directly and indirectly num-
erous companies which were
never blacklisted and rural in-
dustries and large latafundia.

“Considerable German inter-
ests are disguised in the hands of
non-Germans, inconspicuous Ar-
gentines and Argentine-born
children of German parentage.
The only way to prevent trans-
formation of Argentina into a
huge German economic base is to
confiscate German interests.
-Only a democratic government

can carry this out.”

SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1945.

(Hispano - American ~