UN-AMERICANS CITED TO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

UN asked to probe U.S. persecution

LAKE SUCCESS

A group of prominent Americans
last week asked the United Nations
to investigate contempt citations by
the House un-American Committee
against 25 U.S. citizens, including
Eugene Dennis and the Hollywood

A nine-man delegation presented
an 18-page petition to Dr. Egon
Schwelb, assistant secretary of the
UN Commission on Human Rights.

The petition declared that the
most urgent aspect of the terror-
ism in the U.S. was the fact that
it was directed at those who “seek
world peace and conciliation,” who
would “still use the UN as a means

of preventing a new world war.”

The delegation which conferred |

with Dr. Schwelb was headed by |
Professor. Henry Pratt Fairchild. |
Members included Dr. John Kongs- |
bury, John Howard Lawson, Adrian
Scott, Dr. Edwaird Barsky, Helen
Bryan, Leon Josephson, Howard
Fast and Martin Popper, attorney
for several of those facing jail as a
result of the contempt citations.
Dr. Schwelb told the delegation
that the Human Rights Commis-
sion had no power to deal with

specific violations of human rights, |

held California’s alien land law to

especially when brought by private | be unconstitutional because it con-

citizens.
to discuss the question of whether |

The commission was due | flicts with the charter.)

At a large press conference after

its power should be extended. He | the meeting with Dr. Schwelb, Dr.

said the petition would be circulated

Kingsbury and Popper declared

among all members of the Human | that the UN Human Rights charter
Rights Commission, and a copy sent 'is now part.of American law. Since

to the U.S. state depairtment. /

(The state district court in Cali-|
fornia has ruled that the UN Char-|
ter has legal status in the U.S., and |

the Supreme Court has refused te
review the convicions, the victims
had no recouse except to the UN
itself,

14. THE KUZNETSOVS

SAY GOODBYE

Having worked at the factory 20 years,
In this fourteenth and conclu

cow family, Ralph Parker tells how this event w
spondent of the London Dail

in basic pay.

Parker is the Moscow corre

And |now the time has come. for the introducer to W

thing about the way

This is what took place at what
I shall call the farewell affair’ as I
shall remember it for 2 long time
to come.

When I arrive I find the Kuznet-
sovs busy preparing for guests, for
Vladimir is celebrating. the comple-
tion of 20 years at the factory—now
he will receive a 20 percent length
of service increase in his basic
wage.

Natasha is covering the table
with so many plates of cold meats,
fish and salads that the cloth is
almost hidden. There is a decanter
of Vodka and bottles of Riga beer.

In the corner stands a silvered
basket of chrysanthemums with rib-
bons dangling from it, @ gift to
Kuznetsov from his fellow work-
ers, presented with that solemn for-
mality that Russians employ on
such occasions.

The first to arrive is the local
visiting doctor, a Latvian woman.

But as usual, she ean’t stay for
more than a moment, has left her
service car wating below and “Oh,
so Many interesting cases.” ;

Just -time to give Viadimir &
nicely bound COpy of one of his
favorite books, Azhayev’s Far from
Moscow.

On might think the next two
guests, Kuznetsov’s work mates, are
engaged in a violent quarrel in the
passage.

But they are merely replaying the
Dynamo-Spartak match that after-
noon which ended 5-4 in Dynamo’s
favor.

The literal translation of the word
describing a supporter of a foot-
ball club is “suffer.” Kuznetsov’s
two friends “suffered” for different
sides.

They are followed by Agripina
Grigorievna from the Gorky Collec-
tive Farm who has come into Mos-
cow by steamer and bus, bringing
a knapsack packed with butter,
onions and long strings of fried
mushrooms,

‘We want to li
fervent desire

Vladimir Kuznetsov

I myself completed

There is a local councillor, in-
troduced as “our deputy,” a fami-
liar figure in this apartment build-
ing which he visits every fortnight
to answer questions and hear
complaints.

And there is the secretary of the
factory committee of the Commun-
ist party, an old friend of Vladi-
mir’s.

Neither of the Kuznetsovs’ are
party members but this raises no
barrier between them and those of
their friends whose political en-
thusiasm, high standards of work
and exemplary behavior as citizens
have drawn them into the party.

With the secretary comes a tech-
nologist, one of a team of scientists
working in the factory on @ metal-
hardening process.

It is interesting to notice with
what respect this scientist is regard-
ed.

Conversation turns on the absorb-
ing topic. of progress of the current
Five Year Plan, whose targets
many hundreds of Moscow factories
suaranteed to reach in four years,
that is, by the end of 1949,

Someone raises the question:
what has been the biggest single
factor in the success that is now
assured ?

“The application of science to
industry,” the party secretary re-
plies emphatically.

The roast mutton and buckwheat
have been served and enjoyed.
Boxes of sweets lie on the table,
bottles of sweetish nutty wine from
Central Asia are opened.

The radio plays quietly; the Mos-
cow Third Program relaying Glin-
ka’s Ivan Sussanin from the Grand
Opera House. >

Conversation falls into that fam-
iliar pattern when each in turn
makes his contribution, summoning
up all those aids of expressive ges-
ture, vivid phrase and illuminating

'

ve in peace’

in USSR

ding arlicle of his sertes on the Kuznetsovs, a typical Mos-
as celebrated and what
v Worker.

ithdraw

know the Kuznetsovs bettef by. himself. the introduction by telling them some-

British workers live.
believegshe people of England or America realize how

was entitled to a 20 percent raise
was discussed at the party.

MOSCOW

and leave’ the reader to get to

Afterwards Vladimir said with great seriousness: “I, don’t
dear they are to us Russians,’

anecdote which the ordinary Soviet
citizen, nurtured on fine literature,
has at his command,

What Gogol described as “our
vivid and accurate language, not
describing objects, but reflecting
them, as in a mirror.”

Suddenly Sasha, the Kuzuetsovs’
13 year-old son, Says, ‘Dad, do you
know that tomorrow’s just eight
years since I was evacuated?”

It is as though -the shadow of
war had passed across the room.
We are silenced.

The Natasha Kuznetsov -asks:

“How can they doubt our peace-
ful intentions? When will they un-
derstand that we are not a danger?
Can they point to a single word, a
single act that threatens them?

“Would we be rebuilding our cities
and carrying out plans to feed the
unborn of the next generation and
the one after that if we expected
war?

“Would tens of thousands of our
people be investing their money in
building’ themselves their own
homes, would the believers be rais-
ing collections in the churches to
gild their towers and restore their
monuments if they feared war?”

“Happily,” Agripina Grigériev-
na, the farmer front? the Gorky
Collective Farm, adds, “there are}
two Europes, and the Europe that
helped us beat the fascists is on
our side, and as for the other—
well, I’ve never known a field
without weeds.”’*

And Sasha is packed off to bed
and the guests embrace Vladimir
and Natasha heartily and go off
arm in arm down the middle of the
street, and little Galya is brought
back from the neighbors.

Then for a while the Kuznetsovs
talk quietly together, looking ahead
irito the future—not complacently,
not without measuring the obstacles
on the way, but hopefully and cheer-
fully.

“

the factory, which also meant a

Friends gathered with Vlad

imir Ku

attr at his home t4 celebrate his completion of 20 vears at

20 percent increase in his basic pay.

Lattimore denounces McCarthy

in the U.S. Lattimore said that

of immunity.”

Owen Lattimore (right) is shown appearing before 2 US. Senate
committee to deny irresponsible charges made by Senator Joseph
R. McCarthy (Rep., Wis.) that he is the top Soviet espionage agent
McCarthy criminally libelled him
by hurling “false, reckless, malicious accusations from a foxhole

Australian

anti-Communist bill—in reality a

Union.

Although the Communist party
was fighting to preserve its rightful
legal status, Thornton said, denial
of that status would not wipe out
Communist ideas. Because the
Menzies government realized this,
Thornton added, it was desperately
trying to destroy the party’s influ-
ence among industrial workers.

“Most of the major unions have
Communists among their national
officials,” said Thornton, a mem-
ber of the Australian Communist
central committee. “For instance,
the miners, seamen, dockers, build-
ers, engineers, rail and iron work-
ers.”

ist officials held key posts in these
unions not by accident, but because

the workers.

‘«when it is realized that all offi-
cials are elected by the rank-and-
file in secret ballots yearly or
every three years, and that I have
held my position since 1936—and
others for almost as long—it can
be seen that the union.members
have had ample opportunity to
judge us. . . . They could have
dismissed us if we had not been
carring out their wishes.”

Under Communist leadership,
Australian labor had made great
advances, Thornton said. It was
natural, he remarked, for employers
to hate the big unions and the
Communists responsible for their
vigorous policies.

He accused the Menzies regime
of carrying out the wishes of big
business interests. “Menzies and

Gompany will never forgive the

they were chosen to occupy them by |

World protest against

ban urged

LONDON

Workers in other countries should join in denouncing the so-called

measure aimed at the trade union

rights and civil hberties of the Australian people—introduced into the
Australian parliament by Prime Minister Menzies, in the view of
Emest Thornton, general secretary of' the Australian Iron Workers

waterfront workers for their ban
on shipment of pig and scrap iron
to Japan before the war, nor for-
give the seamen, waterfront work-
ers and shipyard unions for the ban
placed on Dutch ships in order to
assist the Indonesian people in their
struggle for independence from
the Dutch.”

According to Thornton, “the
Australian government is toying
with the idea of sending Austra-
lian troops to Malaya and plead-
ing for,an Australian place in the
war plans in the Pacific.”

Thornton observed that Commun- |

‘Peace rally attacked,

t
t

fascists protected
LONDON

A British workers’ rally for peace
in London’s Trafalgar Square Was
broken up by mounted police on
May '7, with 12 casualties and 69
arrests. More than 10,000 demon-
strators at the rally, which was
sponsored by the London Trades
Council, shouted “We want peace,”
“We don’t want war” and “Halt the
American warmongers” as speakers
asked higher wages and demanded
that the British army stop suppress-
ing the independence movement in
Malaya. While police attacked the
peace demonstration, they protected
a simultaneous street meeting ad-
dressed by British fascist ‘leader,

Sir Oswald Mosley.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 19, 1950 — PAGE 3