‘ Indian Congress Scores present government was “responsible for the widespread corruption that prevails in the country, for the gToss mismanagement of the food and cloth problem and the supreme: tragedy of the Bengal famine” of 1943. Despite the government’s re- cord, the resolution of the work- ing committee added, “it is de- clared that, pending the elec- tions and for many months at least, this incompetent and cor- rupt administration shall con- tinue its wmisrule.” Asserting that the British proposals ad- vanced little that was new, the resolution added: “Neither the end of the war nor a change in government in Great Britain ap- pear to have resulted in any real change in British policy toward India, which seems to be based on delaying every advance and attempting to create new prob- lems and fresh complications. “Tt is significant that there is no mention of the independence Latest British Offer incompe- made last of India, and nothing short of independence can be acceptable to the Congress and the coun- try,” it continued. “The pro- posals of the British govern- ment become in context still more significant indications of their desire to hold on to power in India as long as they pos- sibly can and with all the means and methods at their disposal.” Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has charged Britain with “wanton suppression” of the independ- ence movement in 1942 when Congress leaders and members were arrested after the party had demanded that Britain quit India. Former Congress presi- dent Sadar Vallabhai Patel de- celared that the government had lost its right to govern when it permitted the Bengal famine, which he estimated cost 3,000,- 000 lives. Insisting~on a specific inde- pendence plan, Nehru stated con- cerning the British proposals for a Constituent Assembly for India after elections, that Con- gress favored an assembly only if it had final power to make ‘@ = Distributors for the Orient gateway through which many exotic products have passed into Canada. Se Linked with the Orient and the islands of the Pacific, British Columbia is the REID ROBINSON Pres., IMM & SW, CIO Delegate to World Labor Meet decisions and determine its own plan of action. He condemned the British veto and said he did not expect the British JLabor government to go much further en the India question than did the Churchill government, add- ing: “Attlee’s government will go as far as the people push them.” Patel asserted that “In- dia will secure freedom despite the Attlees and Churchills.” Nehru also strongly criticized the Muslim League, declaring: “Every time we have gone to the Muslim League we have re- ceived kicks. We never again shall go to the Muslim League with folded hands. We shall fight the Muslim League. We shall =o to the Muslim masses and hear their complaints and serve them. Nobody doubts where the Mus- lim masses are. Let those who doubt where they are follow me into, the villages. They will see that the poorest Muslim is with the Congress.” $35.00 Pension For $5.00 a Month —Pension Plans —Sickness and Accident Policies —And all other forms of Life Insurance ROY LOWTHER with PRUDENTIAL of LONDON MA. 7920 Eves. PA. 5518 Secarity for the Working Man WFTU_ low, the said: “We want sterling more“than slogans, dollars more than speeches.” He also suggested a tempor- ary headquarters somewhere other than Paris, which he said is necessary because the pound and dollar lose two-thirds of their value when changed into francs. HILLMAN, TOLEDANO HIT DELAY Sharp replies to Citrine were made by Hillman and Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the Confederation of Latin Am- erican Workers. “Failure to emerge from this conference with a permanent world -la- bor organization would in my judgment be disastrous,” Hill- man said. “Bear in mind that at San Francisco we were told we could not have representa- tion (in the United Nations Organization) because ‘you have not set up a permanent organ- ization.’ It is unthinkable that we again approach the govern- ments and have them say: ‘You still don’t have a permanent organization.” It is imperative that the voice of world labor be heard immediately.” Toledano also urged the im- mediate establishment of a per- manent organization, saying: “If we do not succeed in estab- lishing the WFTU, all the ex- perience of the war will be wast- ed.” He agreed that the WET political, but insi- is the best imme = its headquarters 4 criticized Citrin- about the headg |} if necessary bals | kept in London a 24 Citrine’s sugge; : visional organiza | demned by a long ers, including Ge_ vigorous young | 1,300,000 strong «4 bor Federation, “| that the busses charest are plas¢- tices saying: “Ig now.’’ Only Pat Conroy ian Congress of |] | national unions) | Lindberg of Swe. 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