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By MAX GORDON
—NEW YORK

A partial survey of last week’s
election results reveals that efforts
of reaction to develop an anti-
Communist hysteria, particularly
in connection with the Foley
Square frame-up trial, have not

- borne fruit.

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This was to be seen in the vote
for Communist candidates wher-
ever they ran.

Election returns also demonstrat-
ed that efforts to stampede the
People toward acceptance of arch-
Teaction through red-baiting were
not successful. Voters rejected
Outspoken reactionaries. Generally
they went for Truman Democrats
Who donned liberal wraps and
€xploited the Roosevelt New Deal
tradition.

More striking was the result in
New York’s second senatorial dis-
trict where perhaps the most per-
Secuted officeholder in U.S. politi-
Cal history, Communist Council-
Man Benjamin J. Davis, ran for
reelection.

Just three weeks before election
Councilman Davis was adjudged
“Suilty” of conspiring to overthrow
the government by force and viol-
‘ence, ‘

He spent three weks in jail,
winning release on bail only the
weekend before the election. Yet,
running against a gang-up by
the two major and two minor
Parties all united behind a single
opponent, Councilman Davis won
26 percent of the 85,000 votes
Cast for council in his district.

In the solidly Negro section of
his district, the 11th assembly dis-
trict, Davis received 42 percent
°f 20,500 ballots cast. In that dis-
trict, the party supporting him,
the American Labor party, emerg-
€ed first in the council vote.

Vis’ ‘opponent beat him there
©nly because he had the combined
Candidacy of all other parties ex-
cept the Communist party.

Communist candidates in ~ other
areas also ran strongly. In Cleve-
lana, Anthony Krchmarek, Com-
Munist Ohio legislative director
8nd a witness at the Foley Square
trial, polled 57,000° votes for the
Schoo] board.

In Boston, Otis A. Hood, also
Tunning for a school board post,
received 15,000 votes, a record for
Oston,

In New York; voters rejected
John Foster Dulles who campaign-
€d for the U.S. Senate on an anti-:
Ommunist and anti-Soviet plat-
form; They elected former Gov-
®rnor Herbert H. Lehman, a Tru-
Man supporter who established his’
bolitical reputation as a Roosevelt
Man and a liberal, by a more than

000-vote margin.

The American Labor party
Whose city slate was headed by
One of the most red-baited men
in U.S. political life, Rep. Vito
Marcantonio, held its own. It
rolled up some 14 percent of the
total vote cast. Normal ALP
Percentage of the city vote has
been about 13. percent.

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., The peoples of the world today
‘have the means to impose peace,”
®elared the concluding resolution
°f the World Committee of Parti-
Sans ‘of Peace issued following its
Meetings here. y
The resolution calls on Partisans
Peace everywhere to rally the
broadest support for these im-
Mediate proposals which the gov-
*tnments should be invited to con-
Sider:
© Negotiations to stop current
Wars, particularly in Greece, Viet-
Ram, Indonesia and Malaya.
® Reduction of armaments and

°utlawing of destructive atomic
Weapons,
® Signing of a peace pact by

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UE leaders

J. Fitzgerald, president; James

was ousted from UE leadership

and disrupting the established

Officers of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
are shown in top picture as they met to discuss means of ie
ing forward their union’s fighting policy immediately following
their announcement that the UE would withhold payment of per .
capita-taxes to the CIO “until such time as the CIO Teburns to
the principles of free, democratic, industrial unionism. : hve
right to left, they are: Julius Emspak, secretary-treasurer; \Al

Matles, director of organization.

In bottom picture, James Carey, CIO secretary treasurer who

in 1941 and whose policies have

i been rejected by delegates at UE conventions held
Rag mee from CIO president Philip Murray a erie £08
the new International Union of Electrical, Radio and Mac Pe
Workers, chartelzed by the CIO following expulsion of the UE ai
the recent Cleveland convention for the express purpose of raiding

union. While the overwhelming

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‘ jori f—- members in both the U.S. and Canada have a

ES tanked Carey’s paper union, there is no doubt that em-
ple oe will seize upon it in an attempt to slash the high wages
ah. good working conditions written into contracts won by the_UE.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

regardless ‘of the final outcome of
Be refused to disqualify him-
self, when the U.S. Supreme ate
began consideration of the appea
of Dennis against a lower court
conviction . for contempt - of the
House un-American committee. He
did this, despite boasts by the jus-
tice department that he had se-
cured the indictment of Dennis.

This creates the strong pos-
sibility Clark will repeat’ this
performance when the appeal of
the 11 Communist leaders comes
before the court, Clark launched
the indictment against them.

Dennis was sentenced to one
year in prison on the contempt
charge in March, 1947.

Clark’s efforts to present his

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Clark flouts tradition,
sits on Dennis appeal

—WASHINGTON
Tom Clark has revealed: a deter-

mination to flout time-honored legal precedents to procure the jailing
of Engene Dennis, general secretary of the

.S. Communist: party,

the Foley Square appeal.

participation in the prosecution
of Dennis as merely indirect and
incidental were considered trans-
parent. It was recalled here that
on June 30, the ‘justice depart-
ment issued a statement. setting
forth Clark’s “achievements” dur-

ing his four years as attorney
-| general, Among the “achieve-
ments” listed was indictment of

Eugene Dennis.

In numerous other statements,
including an article in Look Mag-
azine of August 30, Clark took per-
sonal credit for convicting 34
persons for contempt of Congress.
One of these was Dennis.

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British workers
angered by gov’t

stand on

Challenging union contentions

wages

—LONDON
that wages should rise with the

cost of living, which has shot upward as a result of the pound devalua-
tion, a British government spokesman has declared they should be tied

to production figures instead- The

statement was made on November

6 by a Labor cabinet minister, Herbert S. Morrison, who advocated
incentive payments for more and faster output by individual workers.
British unions are becoming more and more dissatisfied with the

economic policies of the govern-
ment their members elected. They
are particularly, upset because the
government has now abandoned
its previous policy of consulting
with the labor movement on wages,
hours and prices.

Devaluation, for instance, was
announced immediately after the
Trades Union Congress had held
its annual session. The majority
of delegates to that convention be-
lieved that Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer Sir Stafford Cripps meant
to stand by his pledge to hold up
the currency. New proposals are
now being sprung.on the unions
in the same way. :

Rank-and-file workers are angry
not only at the government; but
at the right-wing leaders of the
TUC, who have not rallied organ-
ized labor in opposition to such
policies. :

British union members are not
averse to working harder and mak-
ing’ sacrifices to put the country
back on its feet. They don’t want
to do this, however, until profits
are also held down and measures
which ‘he government promised
are put into effect. As it is, the
present drive to make them work

Engineering union
pushes wage demand

—LONDON

Engineering and shipbuilding
unions with a membership of
2,500,000, almost one-third of Brit-
ain’s total of eight million organ-
ized workers, voted last week to

, Press for a $3.07 weekly wage

raise.
Their action was taken in de-
fiance of government policy,

which refuses to sanction pay
hikes to make up for higher liy-
ing costs resulting from the de-
valuation of the pound. It will
also put pressure on the right-
wing leadership of the . British
Trades Union Congress, which is
still trying to make up its mind
whether it will play along with
the government or stand up for
its own rank-and-file.

more follows price increases and
cuts in social services by a gov-
ernment which has allowed profits
to reach unprecedented heights.

Peasants, workers
win out in Italy

' Rent-racked. and
whom Premier Alcide

—ROME

poverty-stricken peasants in southern Italy, to
e Gasperi’s government has been promising

relief for a long time without doing anything, have finally won many
concessions through their own action and the support of Italy’s organ-

ized workers in the face of police

fire.

Two peasants, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed and 13,
including two women, were wounded and the Italian General Federation

of Labor (CGIL) called a nation-'
wide general strike before the gov-
ernment finally gave way.

Now De Gasperi has conceded
the following points: ;

@ All eviction suits against peas-
ants will be stopped.

@ Tenants will not be required
to pay rent arrears until after
the harvest, ,

@ Farm cooperatives ousted from
uncultivated land ‘which they had
occupied will be allowed to come
back,

@ Allotments of land will be
given to many landless peasants,

The sequence of events that led
to this result began on October
30 when police shot up an assem-
bly of peasants who had occupied
unused land in the estate of Baron
Berlingieri in the Calabria region.
The peasant occupation was in ac-
cordance with two laws passed by
the government some. time ago but
never carried into effect. The
poverty of the peasants can be
seen from the fact that most of

them do not even possess houses, |

but have been living in mountain
caves,

The CGIL acted to support the
peasants within 24 hours. On the
afternoon of October 31, work
stopped in all facteries and urban
transportation. Sailings of ships
from Italian ports, including that
of the giant liner Vuleania from
the port of Genoa, were delayed.
Newspaper workers went on a
token one-hour strike.

The walkout had practically uni-
versal support despite refusal to
endorse the strike by leaders of
Christian Democratic and right-
wing Social Democratic unions,
which are outside the CGI, de-

monstrating the leadership which

Carey's paper union
falling flat in U.S.

—NEW YORK

Locals representing 27,000 UE
workers in the metropolitan area
here have voted to repudiate the
James Carey bloc of right-wing
CIO. splitters. In Chicago over
7,000 local officers and shop stew-
ards representing 50,000 UE
members have yoted unanimously
to defend the UE and its con-
tracts against raiders,

Similar blows against the raid-
ers have-been delivered by UE
membership meetings in New
Jersey, East Pittsburgh, Schenec-
tady, Fort Wayne and other
cities.

UE president Albert J. Fitz-
gerald has termed press reports
that 107,000 members of the union
are deserting to the right-wing
as “wishful thinking” and empha-
sizes that “the claims of the
Carey forces are a. part of the
hysterical campaign of confusion,”

the CGIL exer
workers, :

The government gave in dur-
ing the following week. To Ital-
ian peasants, this proved that
only an alliance with organized
labor can save them from oppres-
sion, secure their rights and jead
to improvement in their lives.
The same alliance will now press
for other demands, including bet-
ter standards for both industrial
and agricultural workers, pun-
ishment of those responsible for
the October 30 shooting and guar-
antees that such’ measures of
oppression will not occur again.

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