OSCOW — Soviet trade un-
have a “sizeable” bill to pre-
to the Germans for “colossal
“wanton destruction” of trade
nm property, Roman Grankin,
yman of the Heavy Machine
ding Workers’ Union, stated
His union alon: he said,!
jmates that damages sustain-
ito its clubs, theatres and
ips exceed 23,000,000 rubles
$00,000). However, -he added,
|. suffered far less damages
3 many others because the
ority of the heavy machine
\ding plants were Hot on terri-
A> overrun by German. troops.
losses. incurred. by miners
: iron and steel workers in the
th run into hundreds of mil-
is of rubles.”

110N PROPERTY

Stating that he would not dis-
is “what our trade union work-
felt when they saw all that
4:y had built with such energy
Wj enthusiasm lying in_ ashes
$1 ruins,” he cited the following
ses of his union’s property:
-ee palaces of culture, eighteen
bs, seven radio stations, forty-
ee cinema installations, “seven
Tdren’s ‘lubs, four summer

satres, eight ~ stadiums; four
¢° homes “and” Tmiore =ghan 500,-

ie destruction. ~

Delegate

exchange
Jought . .

NEW YORK — CIO president
shilip Murray this week recom-
mended the exchange of labor
lelegations so that world labor
‘an develop: “a common program
For the solution of our mutual
problems.”’

ei

ih

British, French and Soviet Trade
union movements,
ed: “If we are to-enjoy a peace-
ful and prosperous postwar, the
‘contribution of organized labor
jtoward the solution of these new
‘problems must equal that. which
ljorganized labor,made during the
war. .. : eae

“In this connection I believe it
would be of invaluable assistance
to the leaders and members -of
‘the CIO to have ‘the opportunity
| of meeting with the representa-
tives of your organization for the
‘purpose of exchanging views and
} information.”
j Murray also praised the work
of the world labor conference
administrative committee meet-
, ings In Oakland last month and
1 expressed confidence “in ~ “‘an
© equally suceessful’convention of
| the world trade union ‘conférence
in Paris in September??°=) >

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Attributes Strike
To Sabotage

PARIS—“in order for a vast
program of recovery to be car-

vied out with enthusiasm, our

democratic liberties must be re-
stored,’ Benoit Frachon, secre-
tary of the French General Con-
federation of - Labor (CGT), de-

Burmese Guerrillas Hailed
At Calcutta Partisan Meeting

By SHARAF AHAR ALI

-RBOMBAY—Burmese refugees,
played by guerilla patriots in assisting the
Speakers at the meeting, includin-¢

Japanese-
Buddhist monks, workers, Com-
munists, students and women,
told stories of Burmese heroism
during the occupation. A unan-
imous resolution stated.

“We are proud of the part
played by our countrymen, guer-
rilla patriots, who have been
wholeheartedly assisting the Al-
lies by fighting the Japanese in
Burma, thus facilitating the
phenomenal speed of the Allied
advance. “We are proud of the
part played by Burmese refugees
and soldiers in the Allied camps
who have loyally worked and
fought for the United Nations.
We greet and salute the Burma
Patriotic Front,‘ which has org-
anized the anti-Japanese move-
ment in Burma.”

One of the speakers at the
meeting, Ko Gyi, a guerilla from
Mandalay, dramatically pointed
to a certain Kan Iyunt in the
audience. and said: “Look at him
_-he’s a non-commissioned of-

elared here at an Assembly of
Information for trade union lead-
ers. Frachon attributed the un-
rest reflected in the recent wave
of sporadic strikes to organized
sabotage of production by the

‘| trusts and to the lack of a thor-

administrative
bodies.

-Referring to General de

Gaulle’s announcement that coal,

electricity and credit enterprises
will be nationalized by the end
Frachon said: “We

be carried out ‘without spoila-
tion’? does not mean that traitors
will be indemnified. It is not
enough for these enterprises to
pass into the hands of the state:
the state must be one that really
represents the nation. At the re-
eent elections French men and
women voted fof the program of
the National Council of Resist-
ance and if the democracy for
which we fought is to be re-
spected, then this program
should be applied by a govern-
ment that reflects the wishes of
the country.”

LOW WAGE LEVEL
Criticizing the maintenance> of

contrary to the interests of the
nation,” he attacked the repres-

Murray stat-—

entatives of the trusts who “fear
more than anything else a gov-
ernment of the people, by the
people and for the people and
accuse the workers and their or-
ganizations. of sabotaging efforts
for reform. The only efforts for
reform that get results are those
that are advocated by the people
and that rely on the people for
their. achievement.”

The GGT, he added, seeks .to
“ynite with all democratic. men
and women and organizations
and with the peasants and their
General Confederation of Agri-
culture in bringing about the re-
birth of France, increasing our
production, modernizing our ec-
cnomic system and institutions
and making France a free coun-
try which, instead of living on

\its glorious past, can point to its

new achievements.”

a low wage level as “a policy

ficer in the Burma Defence Army
and’ was once sitting in a Bur-
mese girl’s tea shop when a Jap-
anese lieutenant came up and

asked the girl her price. Kan
Nyunt asked him not to insult
the girl, whereupon the Japan-
ese o....cer slapped him. Kan
Nyunt chopped off the. Japanese’s
head. His commander hid Kan
from the Japanese and sent him
ot India asa courier. In Decem-
ber 1944 -Kan went back to
Burma and fought alongside the
Mandalay guerillas.”
LABOR HEROISM

An incident of labor heroism
coneerned the Yenangyaung oil
field area. Japanese police sur-
rounded a building where a se-
cret meeting of resistance move-
ments had been organized.

Maung Pyone asked those at-
tending the meeting to escape
through the back door while he
went down to meet the police
and keep them engaged. They
arrested him and _ seized anti-
Japanese literature in the house.
He was tortured and questioned
for three days and finally execut-
ed. But no word came from his
lips.

Mya Thwin, Communist leader,

BES
meetin g-in, Calcutta, paid tribute recently to the part
Allies, in liberating their country from the
Col...Min Sein Clouthein, Burmese official,

traced the growth of the. resist-
ance movement and said that the
Burma Patriotic Front’s..mem-
bership was 50,000 and that. it
has many thousand .armed guer-
jllas. It won.over to the anti-
fascist cause 10,000 soldiers of
the Burma National Army.
ACUTE FAMINE

Ma Mya Yi, a woman teacher
who came.out of Burma only in
January, 1944, and who was also
a youth organizer in the anti-
Japanese movement, told of the
acute clothing famine in Burma.
“In a village in the Sittaung dis-
trict,” she said, “there was an
old farmer with three daughters.
They couldn’t go out because

ther: sold his cart, receiving 60
rupees ($20) to buy eloth, but
returned with a small bundle con-

taining three gunny sacks of

thin variety.

“He apologized because ‘my 60
rupees could only get you that.’
When their father went out all
three girls hanged themselves. In
Pyapon district, stark naked pea-
sants plough the fields and fall
fiat behind the bushes when they
hear footsteps of approaching
strangers, a Yi said that

the problem of rehabilitation was

a big one and that it could be
tackled best by Burmese refu-
gees hurrying back to help their

people.

they had no clothes. Their fa-

Attlee Criticizes Tory Cry
Of “Individual Freedom”

LONDON—Chastizing Prime Minister. Churchill for

“painting “lurid pictures”
party victory-in the general
Clement. ‘R: “Attlee stated: “The
Prime Minister made much play
with the.zights of. the individual
and danger ofspeoples being or-
dered. about by officials. I entire-

ly agree-that people: should. have |

the greatest freedom compatible
-with the freedom of others.”

The issue of={freedom ‘for the
individual” has been utilized for
years to block all efforts to rem-
edy the “erying evils” of poverty,
unemployment and bad living
conditions, he declared. “It was,
in fact, freedom for the rich and
slavery for the poor.” The Labor
yarty program for nationaliza-
tion of key industries and the
retention of essential anti-infla-
tionary controls is based on the
theory that “if you want certain
results you must plan to secure
them,” Attlee said, adding that
full employment, housing, the
proper utilization. of natural re-

sources and other postwar aims

WASHINGTON—Internation-
al cartels, with their Axis con-
nections, are a danger source of
new wars,-CIO president Philip
Murray told the Foreign Trade
sub-committee of the Senate
Small Business Committee re-
cently. Murray said that Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s program for
60,000,000 jobs, which the cio
supports, was dependent on ex-
panded production, world trade
and lasting peace. Cartels, how-
ever, restrict production, cause
unemployment and wage cuts,
the CIO leader said.

Declaring that the war has not
completed the destruction of ‘‘the
type of international cartels
which created and nourished
Nazi imperialism, restricted pro-
duction and placed profits above
the imterests of the common
people,” Murray stated: “The

Murray Urges Big 3 Action
Curb International Cartels

best cure lies in a policy among
and within the nations to. foster
full employment and expanding
levels of income for the average
man. In pursuing such objectives
we shall automatically work for
competition and against monop-
oly.”

Murray told the committee that
“today the authorities respon-
sible for arriving: at a settlement
with Germany, Italy, and Japan
have an enormous opportunity to
strike a mortal. blow at world
monopolies. The .United Nations
and especially the Big Three
ave for the first time the means
for dealing with such networks
and if possible destroying them
yoot and branch. Only by a head-
on approach shall we be able to
insure postwar economic peace,
and with it the sources of future
wars.”

‘of the consequences of a Labor

election, Labor. party leader

can only be secured “by giving
power. to the government.”

Answering” Churchill’s .charge
that “Gestapo-like Controls” and
insecurity would result from a
Labor victory, Attlee said: “Has
he forgotten that Australia, New
Zealand: and the Scandinavian
countries have*had Socialist gov-
ernments for years, to the great
benefit of their peoples, with
tone of these dreadful conse-
quences?” Britain was run for
years on the basis of unrestrict-
ed private enterprise, he contin-
ued, and the results were large
numbers of unemployed, badly
housed, poorly fed and clothed
aiongside inefficiently and waste-
fully mismanaged vital . indus-
tries.

Attlee centered his talk, which
was broadcast by the BBC, on
domestic issues, expressing the
hope that all British parties are
“in agreement on the main lines
of foreign policy.”” However, he
pointed out that the Labor party
is seeking “to advance the stan-
dards of life of the less devel-
oped peoples of the world, hold-
ing that economic progress, edu-
eation and increasing. self-gov-
ernment must move forward to-
| gether. It is in the light of these
world problems that we must
eensider our domestic policy, for
cur prosperity depends on the
prosperity of other nations.”

While Attlee was delivering
the first major campaign speech
for the Labor party, Jack Tan-
ner, president of the Amalga-
mated Engineering Union, de-
clared that Churchill, who was
an “admirable” war leader, has
“already demonstrated how the
leader of the Conservatives
speaks when his immediate pur-
pose is fulfilled.” Speaking before
the annual conference of the
AEU national committee, Tanner
pointed out that during the war
“certain progressive notes” were
sounded by the Tories, but that
“there is no hope of extending or
improving these’ under contin-
ued Tory domination.

SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1945.

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