» cemetery overlooking t on on the wreath ‘says: * erican: 3en. Fred C. Wallace, commanding general on Okin- eads the words on the memorial tablet erected in a he Pacific Island’s beach. In- ‘Died for God -and=tountry—— tin-American Labor Japan’s Destruction Was Assured Neutral USSR Immobilized Nippon Aimy Says U.S. Corresspondent NEW YORK—By entering the Pacific Wa of smashing the largest single concentration of —-the million-strong Kwantung Army, Army has long immobilized this force,. which exceeds, the total number of Japanese soldiers en- gaged in China proper. Now it is cut to crush it. Japan at the time of Pearl Harbor was both a major sea power and a major land power. Her sea and air strength has been all but destroyed by U-S. operations, lately with British help, but her land strength was virtually untouched. While the USSR- rémained neutral the Kwantung Army remained the greatest aggregation of military power possessed by any bellig- erent country on the Asiatic con- tinent. The Kwantung Army is based on its own industry, and the: sur- yender of Japan herself would pot necessarily have meant that hit would not continue fighting, since it would have taken a year at least to deploy enough Chi- nese and American forces in the rest of China even to begin challenging it. The ensuing op- erations would not be ‘mopping up” but costly, large-scale war. Such continued resistance would have been based on hopes of American reluctance to ‘sac rifice hundreds of thousands of By ISRAEL EPSTEIN r, the Soviet Union has taken on the job : land forces-and arms that Japan possesses stationed in Manchuria The Far Eastern Red was is not only a direct military blow at the main. Japanese forces on the continent but aiso a shat- tering blow to their will to re sist, since none of the*develop- ments for which the Japanese militarists hoped can now save them. Further results of the Soviet entry into the war will probably be: (1) revival of the Manchur- ian partisan movement and the equipment of the Eighth Route Army in North China with arms enough to enable it to realize its full potential strength against Japanese garrisons there; (2) support at the peace table. for the claims of the colonial people ef Asia for independence. The first Red Army operation is a two-front drive against the North Manchurian railway and industrial center of Harbin. One may expect that tank forces frem—Outer Mongolia. will very shortly advance across the Gobi Desert toward: Mukden, Peiping and Tientsin. Soviet aircraft have already attacked Manchur- ian industrial centers which are still outside the range of effec- tive American bombing. These Manchurian industries, sources is produced at Fushun, Chientai and Ifan (Jehol-. There are great power -plants on the Yalu and Sungari rivers, both now directly threatened. Light metal production has been highly developed and under Manchuria’s “second five-year plan’ which began in 1942, locomotives, air- craft and trucks are produced in considerable numbers. An indica- tion of the importance Japan at- tached to Manchuria is given by the fact that, despite all the other calls on her industry, she built more than 4,000 miles of railways there since 1931. COMMENT ON THE’ NEW ATOMIC BOMB LONDON—The newly discov-- ered atomic energy that has been turned against Japan in the form of atomic bombs can ‘‘make the whole world rich” provided it is brought under public own- ership and control, J. B. 8S. Hal- dane, one of | Britain’s_ leading scientists, wrote in the London Daily Worker this week. The Daily Herald, organ of the Brit- jsh Labor party, ‘stated editori- ally: “We must bring atomic force, this fantastic new power for good or evil, under the most vigorous international control.” eets New Attack lives, and possible differences which Japan has built up at great bed : with the Soviet Union that would foie over ten years, were suf-| ARMY PRAISES LABOR FOR é 4 . give some circl in the United cient to maintain er entire| ATOMIC CONTRIBUTION COOGOTA, (CTAL).— Resignation of Colombian | States a chante. to oppbse the | continental war effort. There Leaders of the AFL and CIO received high praise. from the U.S. Army this week for their contribution to the atomic pro- lent Alfonso Lopez and Vice-President Dario Echandia | ciimination of what they con-|#™@ huge coal mines at Fushun, onfronted labor in this country with one of the gravest|sider a “buffer against Soviet | eax Mukden, Fuhsin in East Je- lions in recent months-and the Colombian Labor Fed- | influence.” hol province, Heikang in East (CTC) was hurriedly mob- ; Heilungkiang, Chalainor in west this week to meet the point ‘in their plan to seize pow- These Japanese hopes were en-| Heilungkiang and Mishan in ect. ne eet MOD ce oe er the eliminaiton of organized | couraged: (1) by the fact that,| Bast Kirin. There are iron mines | ;; Pp P : : labor despite urgings to the contrary |and steel plant t h times seemed impossible pro- resignations of Lopez and : “ svee’ Plants a useun, vision of manpower,” the Army r . 4 by h S i 11 idia were-the results of a The strength of ‘the Falange y such men as General Stilwell, Oil from shale and natural! stated. : . e.g America’ continued to withhold is split within the adminis- |8TOUP 3 indicated by the fact a " S Eniberal Party which | that its ideological leader, Laur- help from the Communist-led 5 2 = eano Gomez, while arrested Eighth Route Army, the only ef- 7 . , a at a time when rightwing, briefly af estec | fective Chinese fighting force on alangist organizations, led riefly after an armed revolt last M huria’s th border: | aureano Gomez, an admitted fall, was not even touched after Manchuria s sounhern ores? rer of Spanish dictator | Tece™t disturbances, despite na- and (2) by Kuomintang attempts cisco Franco, are openly |tion-wide protests by labor. Go- Te Oe ae ae ereapOns. AFL W he tent z '|mez’? newspaper, “El Sigilo,” |< . =o. or nion an tening armed revolt. Falan pap & Russia’s entry into the Pacific provocateurs, meawhile, which is openly pro-fascist and _engineered several minor subversive, likewise continues to|fascism; (9) Rupture of eco- CHICAGO—The AFL will not attend the conference ons “in the CTC: eperate. nomic and diplomatic relations | of the International Federation of Trade, Unions in Paris oice of Gabriel Turbay, Col- | FIGHT FASCISTS with Franco Spain; (10) Dis-| yext month, AFL president William Green announced this an envoy in Washington, as To meet the fascist threat, Co- | ™'8sal of antilabor and pro-| eek. At the same time, the AFL sresidential candidate of the |lombian labor recently adopted fascist officials, and numerous ? ad - : dditi : executive council, now in session also can’t agree to share repre ral party did not lessen la-|a program of action. Outsanding additional measures to guaran- here, received a demand for a sentation with a dual union fears as Turbay, while a ral, has followéd closely the ral Party wing whose spokes- is the newspaper “E] Tiem- which has hinted a plan to 1p down on labor as “a means ippeasing”’? the Falangists. or leaders, however, were points of this program include: (1) Democratic and labor uity for defense of Colombian democ- racy; (2) Stern measures against the Falangist conspiracy; (3) A National Unity Cabinet, ing labor representatives; Restriction of the fascist press; tee labor’s rights and reform the country’s economy and agricul- ture. In line with the falangist at- tack on trade uions, pro-fascist agents recently attempted to or- ganize a_ so-called Anti-Com- munist Labor Front in Medellin, hearing from the Committee for AFL affiliation with the World Federation of Trade Unions, formed at a recent meeting of AFL leaders in Cleveland. Explaining the council’s stand on the IFTU, Green stated that it was “obvious” that the organ- movement,” he added, referring to the CIO. In its message to the executive council, the Committee for AFL Affiliation with the WFETU, of which Courtney Ward is chair- man, stated that 40 AFL officers representing a number of inter- Seo an understand- | (5) Deportation of foreign fa-| where rightwing groups are ization would be dissolved. Thej| national unions “feel the cry of wi urbay. langists, including Spanish fa-| strong. The plan fell thru after | AFL will not participate in the | labor throughout the world is for he Falangist organization in |langists who have penetrated the | the CTC Executive, led by Pres- | new organization that is expec- unity. We appear before the AFL country three time attemp- | ciergy; armed revolt in *recent itths. The attempts were put nm by the government with aid of CTC, which has led Falangists to make the first IFIC ADVOCATE — PAGE 9 (7) Labor -representation on defense councils; union members to be on the alert against ‘divisional maneuvers by enemies of the working-class” and urged that democratic unity against penetration of Argentine be strengthened. (6) Training of union |ident Juan C. Lara, warned all|ted to be forraed in Pars, he members to meet the civil war said, because “principles require that any movement the AFL joined should be composed en- tirely of free trade unions, which the Soviet unions are not. We executive council to urge the re- examination of our position so that we can take our rightful place of leadership in the organ- ization and establishment of world trade union unity.” SATURDAY, AUGUST 1p, 1945.