Tito stages terror in Yugoslavia BUCHAREST A reign of terroi, comparable only to “the cruelty of Franco and the monarcho-fascists in Greece,” exists in Yugoslavia and hundreds of Communists are being thrown into prisons and special concentra-: tion camps as the Tito regime strives to crush the growing oppo- sition to its anti-popular policies, For a Lasting Peace, for a People’s Democracy, organ of the Commun- ist Information Bureau, reports in a special article, The report states: “Glaynjaca, the former royal prison, cannot cope with the in- creasing number of the hangman Randovie’ victims. Today even big villas in Belgrade hastily adapted as prisons, are being used to jail Yugoslav patriots. But even this has proved insufficient. To deal with the situation the Tito clique has set up a number. of concen- tration camps all over the country where the same brutal regime reigns as in the Glavnjaca.” Describing the Zabela camp as “the most horible of all,” the re- port continues: i “The camp differs in no way from the Nazi concentration camps. Here, after being beaten up the prisoners are thrown nude, into concrete cellars where the water is knee-high. They stay there for weeks and rarely get out alive. To terrorize prisoners in the Kostolats camp, where the people are working under the most difficult conditions under- ground, each day the execution- ers shoot some of those in front of the line, . In Glaynjaca and other jails the prisoners are starved, brutally beaten up, blinded by powerful electric lamps, and chained fon months in watgr-logged cells. “Sreten Djuioviec, member of the political bureau of the central com- mittee of the Yugoslav Communist party, Andria Hebrang, member of the central committee, Col. Mona ‘Djuric and many other heroes of the liberation struggle are subject- ed to these tortures. Djuiovic, who is kept in a windowless cell is for- bidden to move. “The families of the arrested and persecuted patriots are deprived of all means of existence and are also threatened with death from starvation.” Stating that “all these facts show that the blood-thirsty Tito-Ranko- vie clique has set itself the ter- rible aim of exterminating all hon- est people who condemn and com- bat its treacherous anti-popular policy,” the paper reports that Yugoslav revolutionary emigrants in’ the Soviet Union, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria are | ‘ealling upon world democratic | opinion “to raise its voice in pro- test against this fascist regime of the torture and extermination of the best fighters of the working class and the working people in Yugoslavia who are heroically struggling against the colonial en- slavement of Yugoslavia carried out by the Tito-Rankovic imperial- ist agency. .. .” -In the same issue, Enver Hodja, general s@cretary of the Workers’. party of Alhania, tells how Albania had to wage “a sharp struggle against gross interference in its home affairs by the Yugoslav gov- ernment and its leader, the trai- tor Tito. “For some years the Tito-ites have been employing all ways and means of colonising Albania. Tito tried to follow Mussolini’s policy toward Albania in 1939. “The Belgrade nationalists acted the same way, trying to bring to|- life the Greater Serbia dream of the Serbian bourgeoisie and the Serbian kings. According to Tito, Albania should have been annexed to Yugoslavia.” Ottawa to pass rent controls to Od Two studies in Canada’s children It’s considered “good politics” to be photographed with children, and Firime Minister Louis St. Laurent has acquired the art. It would be better statesmanship though, if St. Laurent were to visit some the country’s children in the slum lodgings and shacks like the one at right to which his government’s failure to act on a sudsidized low-rental housing plan condemns them. Fraser Mills workers placed on short time —NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. With the provincial Labor Relations Board preparing to take a strike vote among woodworkers next week, Canadian Western Lumber Company announced this week that some 350 employees in the veneer and plywood divisions of Fraser Mills would be placed on short time immediately. Officials claimed that the move was necessitated by “ad- verse market conditions.” Workers employed in these divi- sions will work a three-day week for the next month, at the end of which time IWA officers will meet with company officials and “if poor market conditions are found still to exist,’ there will be a general layoff. IWA officers stated that the three-day week had been arranged in meetings between themselves and the management in an effort to avert layoffs, and that by agree- ment the arrangement was not to exceed six weeks. U.S. buying up Japan industry —PEIPING In the process of “democratising”’ Japan, American capital is pour- ing into that country, says the New China News AEE in a | recent -article. The Ford Motor Company, for instance, invested $350 million in Japanese chemical and pottery in- dustries last year. The Ford Company and General Motors Corporation control the Jap- anese automobile industry, while the entire petroleum industry in Japan is under the control of Standard Oil Company. Woman ambassador The only woman ambassador in Moscow, Stella Blagoeva, has ar- rived to take up her appointment as Bulgarian ambassador, . Mrs, Blagoeva is replacing Pro- fessor Naigen Nikolov, who left Moscow a week as so before the death of’ Bulgarian Premier, Georgi Dimitrov. PROGRAM The Communist party’s electoral program proposes a lowering of profits and prices, higher wages and increased nationalization in which the unions will have a voice. | Profits of British corporations are at an alltime. high while wages remain frozen, The platform includes demands for the 40-hour week, equal pay for equal work for women, two weeks vacation with pay, the aboli- tion of the House of Lords and a ban on the fascist movement in England. Another demand is the lowering of compensation paid to former owners of nationalized industries. Such industries should be run by workers and technicians, the Com- munist party declares. buck on provinces _OTTAWA | Thousands of wage earners across — the country for whom purchase © a home of their own is an un- realizable dream as they struggle with high living costs, threatene pay cuts and layoffs, will need to keep more than watch the new tOP- heavy Liberal parliament when convenes next week. : The report is already widely spread that one of the St. Laurent government’s first actions will be — to remove rent controls, thus si ing landlords and reai estate inte! ests the opportunity to make the “killing” for which they have bee? clamoring — and lobbying — for months. An indication of the govern — ment’s intentions was given this week by Mayor Arthur J. Reaume of Windsor, who reported this — week that the government “will hand down control to the provinces — and they in turn will pass along the responsibility to the various municipalities where it should be: With government-subsidized 10W rental housing developments—thé only means of solving the housing problems of those most in need 0 new homes and least able to af fo:{1 them—still being no more than talked about as they have — been for four years, tenants will | become the victims of government buck-passing. The prospect is that the federal government will pass the buck 1? {tthe provincial governments and they in turn will pass it to munt cipal governments, while tenants are confronted with demands f0% higher rents.. Need for organized action waS stressed in Toronto last week bY Ald, Charles Sims, who suggest ed the organization of tenants’ leagues or similar organizations to fight for retention of controls and subsidized low-rental hous ing projects. Passport denied to Negro singer "_JOHANNESBURG James Phillips, the colored singe” known as: South Africa’s Paul Robe son, has been refused a passport’ to proceed overseas to enter thé Royal College of Music. ' Phillips had planned to study singing for several years in Lon jon. The government has give? 40 reason for this decision. Phillips complied with all th® requirement of the immigratio? authorities. After he had made his application police authorities ¢ “ed him in for questioning. Some time later he was told he would not receive a passport. UBCM parley slaps Muir, ar on leaflets — defeats —NANAIMO, B.C. What in effect was an attempt to vest political censorship in British Columbia municipalities . was de- feated at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention here this week. A resolution pre- sented to the convention by Nanai- mo proposed that municipalities should obtain. authority from the provincial government to regulate or prohibit the distribution and display of handbills, circulars, cards and similar materials. It was de- feated by a large majority after Garfield King, solicitor for Mission, denounced it as a violation of civil liberties. It was apparent that the resolu- tion, which was framed by Nan- aimo City Council after its un- successful efforts to interfere with distribution of political leaflets in the Island city, was directed against political and not commer- cial advertising materials. Garfield King termed the resolu- tion “deceitful.” “It is a fundamental violation of the right to express opinions, air PACIFIC TRIBUNE — saiovanad and call meetings fo? this purpose,’ he declared. Stating that the resolution aros® o out of Nanaimo prosecutions of — religious sects and trade unionist® he described it as “an example of the detestable power of the polic® state creeping into our lives.” Rejection of the resolution w2% ja personal defeat for’ Nanaimo’? labor-hating Mayor George Mui! whose speech in support of th® resolution failed to win the sUP” port of the majority of delegate SEPTEMBER 9, 1949 — PAGE 1?