at

large groups of °

—Hitlerite gets key ~

'‘Bizonia’ job from US.

—BERLIN

The top man in the I.G. Far-
ben dispersal panel, set up by
Angio - American officials to
handle property of the giant
chemical combine, once was 2@
director of the Deutsche Bank.

He is Herman Abs, who it
1944 was naméd high on a U.S.
Justice Dept. list of bankers and
industrialists who had most de-
cisively contributed to Hitler’s
war effort.

_ Found by U.S. authorities in
1945, Abs was termed “indispens-
able” by British officials who re-
fused to turn him over for pro-
Secution. Later he became finan-
cial adviser to the British Mili-
tary Government.

Wallace on Wall St.

—CHICAGO.

The stands at Wrigley field —
jammed with 25,000 Wallace
supportens here roared a pro-
test against the ruling of the
Progressive party off the. state
ballot.

The biggest paid-admission po-
litical rally in Chicago’s history
heard Henry A. Wallace, Pro-
gressive Presidential candidate,
rap the disenfranchisement of
thousands of Illinois workers.

“When the people must
choose between the two old
parties,’ he declared, “they
choose which group of Wall
Street bankers shall take their
savings, wreck their unions,

lead them down the path to
war.”

.

On ‘the ofl beat

Richmond, Calif., police hurl teargas bombs at striking members
of the Oil Workers International Union (CIO) picketing the Stand-
ard Oil refinery, injuring 12 and felling hundreds. Police attempted
to blast a path for scabs after’ several thousand pickets turned
out in defiance of an injunction limiting picketing to four men.
Largest AFL unions in California are backing the CIO oil workers.

While both the Republic
menace” for campaign purposes, real events in the US:
political structure here has been undermined behind the scr

Most evident on the surface is the effect of

Republican spokesmen, for in-
stance, have suggested impeach-
ment of both President Truman
and Attorney General Tom Clark
for “shielding reds and atom spies.”
Truman, in his turn, has tortured
logic to conclude that “the Com-
munists really want Dewey to be
President”—so they would have a
simon-pure living specimen of Wall
Street reaction to point to for pro-
Paganda purposes. Therefore, says
Truman, it is Dewey who helps the
“reds.” Such degradation of the
idea of political debate, practised
by both major parties, increasingly
obscures every real issue in the
coming crucial vote,

More serious,
however, is the
activity being
carried on to de-
Prive not only
dividuals but.

the population
of their right
to organize and
be represented
by men of their
Own choosing.
One State,
Georgia, is al- . :
ready considering legislation to re-
quire an anti-Communist oath of
all elected officials before they

take their posts.

Israel Epstein

“On Sept. 28 two CIO unions were |

banned altogether from both gov-
ernment and private plants serving
the atomic energy program in any
Way, not under any labor law pro-

Visions, but by direct fiat outlaw- ;

ing them on suspicion of Commun=
ist influence. The unions were the

750,000 - strong United Hlectrical|

Radio and Machine Workers and |
The |

the United Public Workers. :
latter organization, as a matter of

fact, has never organized or at-|

By ISRAEL EPSTEIN

aiting, purges

Fascism is real danger behind
-smokesreen of r

—NEW YORK

an and Democratic parties compete in crying “Communist
show how much the democratic
een of redbaiting.

redbaiting on campaign oratory

itself.

tempted to organize atomic em-
ployees. The ofder was issued, by
Atomic Energy Commission head
David Lilienthal, who has not only
been advertised as a liberal but
has himself been the target of sav-
-age anti-Semitic red-baiting in
Congress.

Lilienthal acted on behalf of the
Truman administration, which ver-
bally condemns the Taft-Hartley
law. But even the Taft-Hartley law
does not sanction proceedings as
arbitrary as the UE and UPW ban.
Joyfully smelling blood, the Gen-
eral Electric Co., one of the mon-
opolies whose plants are affected,
has cried that even such measures
are insufficient and conjured the
risk of fearful atomic explosions
if “stricter measures” are not tak-
en against “saboteurs.

The union-smashing implica-
tions of these events, at a time
when practically every industry
can be categorized as essential to
defence, is clear from one circum-
stance. Atomic security could not
be the real reason for the exclu-
sion of the electrical workers
union because every-employee on
such projects is checked individ-
ually by federal investigators jin
any case—a procedure to which
the union has not objected.

While {ne UE is regarded as a
left-wing union (most of its offi-
cers support Henry A. Wallace),
the Republican - dominated House

of Representatives’ labor commit-

tee is now badgering even unions
which have proclaimed their ‘“anti-
communism” long and loudly. The
International Ladies’ Garment
Workers’ Union (AFL) has long
cooperated with industrialists, con-
ducted “red hunts” and openly fin-
anced anti-Soviet undergrounds in
Europe. This has not saved it from
investigation, just begun, to deter-
mine whether it has violated the
open shop provision of the Taft-
Hartley law.

The ILGTU case is of special in-
terest because the open shop ques-
tion was raised in relation to it by
New York gangsters who recent-
ly began to attack its organizers
—on a_ pattern extinct since the
violent 1920’s. It was the union’s
loud protests against terror by em-
ployer-hired goons that drew con-
gressional fire, not against the
gangsters but against the union.

Under the circumstances it be-
comes ever clearer that both the
national AFL and CIO, by joining
in the anti-Communist hue and cry
as they have done, are helping set
the stage for the extinction of all
unions, however conservative,
fascist hands.

Only realization of the coming
danger by rank-and-file workers, it
now: appears, can prevent the ruin
of the great American labor move-
ment built up in the days of the
New Deal,

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readied.

The greatest increase in victims
is likely to be among civilians, in-
cluding factory workers. Chiang
has been trying to make up for
land warfare losses by bombing
the rear bases of the Communist-
led People’s Armies, which have
no planes of their own. The U. S.
supplies to Chiang, which will be
provided under a new procedure
secretly devised in Washington,
consist largely of planes (P-47D,
P-51D and other types) and high
octane gas.

Due to arrive in October is
enough air fuel to keep Chiang’s

planes in the air for almost a year

at the consumption rate of 5 to 6
million gallons monthly. Chiang’s
government previously had to buy
-and ship its own gas. Now pur-

chases will be made by U.S. Defense

to Chiang

| may involveUStroops _

—SHANGHAI

Deaths are expected to mount sharply in China’s civil
war, which is being fought mainly with American arms, as
a result of drastically increased U.S. military shipments to
Chiang Kai-shek for which Chinese ports are now being

Department procurement officers
and carried t6 China in U.S. army
and navy transports.

Since requisitions by Chiang’s
government will have to be counter-
signed by his U.S. military advis-
ers, supplies to the Chinese civil
war will thus be handled in prac-
tically the same way as those for
outposts of the U.S. armed forces
themselves.

Another batch of supplies being
shipped to Chiang contains 300,000
rifles, Most of these are brand new,
but they are being “sold” to China
at a price only ten percent of what
U.S. taxpayers spent to buy them.
Over $21 million worth of military
items will be carried by U.S. ves-
sels direct to Chinese government
combat troops on the North China
front by way of the port of Tient-
sin.

Senator Chan Gurney (R.,

The senator expressed his friend-
ship for the fascist government just
one day after Franco’s film censor-
ship board banned the American
Academy award movie, Gentle-
man’s Agreement, on grounds that
“love among individuals, societies,
nations and peoples... should not

extend to Jews.”

Gurn : a by... USe,
charge ‘fai T. Culbert-
son and by American military and
naval officers, had an hour-long

interview with the dictator. The
senator’s comment after the meet-
ing was: %

“The Spaniards have the moral
courage which both the General-
issimo and myself would be de-
lighted to see reinstated through-
out Europe, In my opinion the
economic recovery of Spain must

: : =n.

Rome workers strike
: ; —ROME.

More than 10,000 city employees
staged a staggered strike here,
promising a full. scale walkout
within five days unless the city
granted immediate wage increases.

Members of the Rome Chamber |
of. Labor, an affiliate of the Italian |
General Confederation of Labor
(CGIL), the workers seek a 5,000
lire ($8.77) monthly wage hike. The
government refuses to consider the
demand, ; *

Italy's 1,100,000 government,
workers are also demanding wage
boosts to cope with ever-rising liv-

ing costs. It is believed that a gen
eral strike may be called if Te
government of Premier Alcide de
Gasperi fails to grant pay, rises. /

Would include Franco
in Marshall Plan family

—MADRID
S.D.), chairman of. the Senate

armed services committee, assured Francisco Franco Septem-
ber 30 that he favors “complete reestablishment of all re-
lations” between Spain and the U.S.

go hand- in hand with that of
other countries in Europe.”
Gurney declined to state whether
he would recommend direct U.S.
military assistance to Spain but ex-
pressed himself strongly in favor
of aiding Spain economically.
Spanish newspapers Sept. 30
prominently featured a statement
by another American visitor, James _
A. Farley, in which the former
Democratic party national chair-
man urged that Spain be included ©
in the Marshall Plan.

| ‘Justice’ in Bizonia

—BERLIN.

The German press reported
the following court decisions on
the same day in the Anglo-Am-
erican zone: ‘

Heinz Winkler, who was in

charge of all Nazi parties out-
side Germany, was freed because
the court held he did not know
of the criminal character of the
party. Winkler happens to have
been a member of Himmler’s
secret police organization which
“liquidated” Hitler’s enemies.

Hugo Paul, former minister of
Reconstruction for Westphalia
and a member of the Commun-
ist party, has been deprived of
the right to vote by a German
court, with American blessing.
When filtier ruled the roost,
Paul was in a _ concentration
camp as “an enemy of the state.”

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