3%C. — Members of the
g@ Nations who are not in
jrnational Labor Organiz-
fill be invited to send ob-
Bto the ILO conference in
October, the ILO govern-
day decided at the conclu-
diits 95th session here this
3'he move was regarded as
ire to encourage the So-
Fiion to rejoin the ILO,
. left in 1939 when it was
from the League of Na-

iince of a desire for rerorm
@;tructure and composition
ILO was given by some
sng body members during
*jeeting here. Henri Fuss,
E government delegate,
$ out that an extension of
jor socialist enterprise is
to take place in many
Fan countries and -recom-
; that ILO employer dele-
,aclude representatives of
43; enterprises as well as of
74 business. Vicente Lom-
=e oledano, president of the
ration of Latin American
Ss, urged greater repre-
n for workers in the ILO
+ international organiza-
workers and employers
be represented.

tly-contested debate de-
over the date of the ILO
conference. Henri Hauck,
¢alf of the French govern-
extended an invitation to
E) to hold its conference in
- in October, immediately
@s.g the conference of the
t- Federation of Trade Un-
heduled to. open on Sept.
Hallsworth and Myrrdin
British labor and govern-
7 elegates respectively, urg-
t the ILO conference be
Bied till November. |
jsply to the argument by
(fo that the ILO should
jirectly after the WFTU
j; delegates would not have
.-e two trips, R. J. Watt of
-*L declared that the ILO
/ not adapt itself to any
organization. The AFL is
“presented in the WEFTU,
e CIO, which will partici-
the WFTU conference, is
poresented in the ILO. The
jaas refused to work with
\FTU because of the rep-
ation of the CIO and the
trade unions.
a five members who repre-
; the ILO at the San Fran-
(United Nations conference
lelegated to continue nego-
swith the new United Na-
rganization regarding the
status and functions of the
;Carter Goodrich, chairman
governing body and of the
aFrancisco delegation, ex-
‘d confidence that the
work of the United Nations
Eilzation was one in which
©'LO could work satisfac-
A proposal by J. Gambs,
= Sovernment delegate, that
2 Overning body recommend
dis admission to the October
airence was adopted by the

ag.

Ex!

COMMANDER OF FAMED TASK FORCE 58, Adm. Marc A. Mitscher is
transferred from his battered flagship, the carrier Bunker Hill, to an-
other ship off Okinawa. His face tense, Mitscher looks back at his gal-
lant flat-top as he swings through the air in a bos’n’s chair. The charred
vessel, with 392 of her crew killed or missing and 296 wounded, managed
to get to a west eoast port for repairs. U.S. Navy photo. (International)

manded, however, that prisoners
be employed only in those indus-
tries where the available French
labor force has been completely
absorbed, and outlined measures
to prevent the lowering of French

workers’ living standards
through competition.
Employers, should pay the

same costs for German Iabor as
are paid to French workers, the
CGT said, and the difference be-
tween the sum actually paid to
German war prisoners and the
normal wage should be paid into
a special fund to aid French pris-
oners of war. It further advo-
cated that the prisoners should
be put to work in groups where-
ever possible and that in each
area their utilization should be
subject to the approval of a local
commission including trade union
representatives.

Discussing this problem in the
CGT organ La Vie Ouvriere, R.
Arrachard of the CGT national
committee declared: “German
prisoners of war should be em-

ployed in the first place on heavy

| 9 — PACIFIC ADVOCATE

CGT States Conditions
For Use Of POWs |

PARIS—tThe French General Confederation of Labor
(CGT) recently gave official approval to the use of German
prisoners of war. for French reconstruction.

The CGT de-

or dangerous work such as mine=
clearing. It is scandalous that
French workers should lose their
lives daily in clearing mines
while POW’s, including S.S. men
and officers, take it easy in the
camps. The trade unions should
be allowed. to take part in the
supervision of prisoner of war
employment. This. would be a
minimum guarantee to ensure
employment of prisoners in nor-
mal conditions and to, avoid
abuses such as

those already
arising out of the use of German
labor.”

MEXICO CITY.— Diego Mar-
tinez Barrio, last president of the
Spanish Cortes (Parliament), re-
vealed that he is ready to resign
his post if it will aid Spanish Re-
publican unity. “If leaders of the
emigration must be sacrificed for
unity,,I will support such a step,”
he stated. He warned that
“Spain’s freedom must be won;
it will not be handed to us on a
platter.”’

Exiles Charge Collusion Between
Argentina And German Interests

FERRIED FROM STRICKEN BUNKER HILL

Dictatorship Continues
To Abet Germans

MONTEVIDEO — Argentine Foreign Minister Cesar
Ameghino has finally announced that a complete list of Axis
economic spearheads to be eliminated by the government will

be published — although he did
not say when — and that an ad-
ditional 17 Axis firms have been
intervented. This belated state-
ment came after last week’s rev-
elation by U.S. Assistant Secre-
tary of State Will Clayton that

104 Axis spearheads still. con-
tinue to operate in Argentine.
Ameghino’s statement is seen to
reflect delaying tactics and an
unwillingness to proceed with re-
quired energy.

As a further step to indicate
compliance with demands that
Argentina live up to her promises
to act against Axis interests, Fi-
nance Minister Ceferino Alonso
Irigoyen has decreed the liquida-
tion of the German Overseas
Bank and the German South
American Bank. He announced

Unionists Go
Back--Will
Resume Work

MONTEVIDEO.—A group of
exiled Argentine labor leaders
told Allied Labor -News_ that
they are returning to their coun-
try “to resume our democratic
and trade union. activities” in
view of “the reiterated pledges of
the government concerning civil
liberties.” They expressed grate-
fulness for the hospitality ren-
dered them by Uruguay, particu-
larly President Juan Jose Ame-
zaga and the General: Workers
Union. They also expressed
“deep appreciation” for the in-
terest taken by the CIO Commit-
tee on Latin American Affairs
“in the problems of Argentine
democracy and labor.”

The Argentine Supreme Gourt
has ruled that Jose Peter, general
secretary of the Packinghouse
Workers’ Union, Muzio Girardi,
general secretary of the: Metal
Workers’ Union, and anti-fascist
leader Juan Jose Real can leave
Argentina, but so far they have
been unable to do so. Meanwhile,
democratic newspapérs have been
forced to publish page-long mani-
festos of the trade union body
dominated by Argentine-strong-
man'!Juan D. Peron in support of
him and calling him the benefac-
tor of labor.

A new pro-Peron weekly,
Defrente, hails the  anti-
Socialist statements made during
the British election campaign by
Prime Minister Winston Church-
ill, declaring: “England and Ar-
gentina are facing the same situ-
ation. Both are compelled to de-
fend themselves against intro-
mission, and fraud of totalita-

vians disguised as defenders of
democracy.” .

that their balances, which he said
amount to approximately 15,000,-
000 pesos ($8,750,000), will be
taken over by the treasury.

However, a book entitled “Nazi
Capital in Argentina,” published
here in May, has revealed that
capital, deposits and diverse as-
sets of these banks amounted to
154,000,000. pesos ($88,500,000)
by September 1940.
gentine exiles here therefore
suggest the possibility that a
previous arrangement was made
with the Germans’ in order to
safeguard their capital and in-
vestments. The book on “Nazi
Capital in Argentina” was writ-
ten by labor leader Luis Victor
Sommi after his release from
prison.

The Montevideo, Uruguay, of-
fices of the German Overseas
Bank~ were raided~ after it was
disclosed that documents ‘were
being burned there. The bank’s

archives were confiscated and are
now being examined while stud-
ies are being conducted to enact
special legislation allowing con-
fiscation of enemy property in
Uruguay. It has been announced
that the Paraguay branch of the
German Overseas’ Bank is being
liquidated and that Nazi agita-
tors will be deported in the early
part of this month.

However, Dr. Carlos Pastore,
exiled member of Paraguay’s
Liberal party and adviser to
the permanent American Coun-
cil of Commerce and Trade}:
with headquarters here, told
Allied Labor News: that the
National Bank of Paraguay is
not confiscating the assets of
-the Nazi bank as enemy prop-
erty, “but is becoming the con-
scientious administrator of
German interests.’ He added
that such “notorious Nazi lead-
ers as Karl H. Thomas, gen-
eral manager of the German
Overseas Bank, are not being
deported.”

A public statement by the
democratic underground body
Patria Libre recently charged
that the Argentine regime has
broken the pledges it assumed in
signing the Chapultepac accords
of the Inter-American Confer-
ence and that it is dishonest and
is staining the good name of Ar-

gentina. Julio Noble, leader of
the Progressive Democratic
party, declared: “The dictator-

ship continues to abet German
interests. This is most manifest
in the construction industry
where blacklisted German firms
are encouraged to participate in
public bidding and are assigned
big contracts. The yearly turn-
over of Nazi construction firms
is many millions of pesos.”

SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1945.

Some Ar-,