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SOVIET SCIENTIST INVENTOR OF ‘SYNCHROTON’

MOSCOW

A new type of atom-smasher,
known as the “synchrotron”, has
been developed by Soviet Pro-
fessor Vekhsler. Another device,
the
professor's drawing board.

These new machines will
, make it possible to ‘achieve any

“‘phasotron’’, is also on the

New elements will be fisstonable

nuclear changes and to change
an element into other ones at
will’, an announcement says.
They will also make possible
“the production of «radioactive
‘twins’ of elements which norm-
ally exist only in a stable state,”

which means that many elements
other than uranium will be avail-
able for atomic energy through
fission.

Another scientist, K. M.
Krzhizhnovsky, member of the
Soviet Academy of Sciences; has
announced that the USSR will
use its first atomic power plant
to generate electricity.

Krzhizhnovsky stated recently
that the USSR intends to cie-

ate ‘‘a single high-voltage sys-
tem” to electrify the whole
country.

A new people's state is born

These pictures from Peking were taken on the Historic occasion of the declaration of the People’s

Republic of China by Mao Tse-tung.

The Chinese Communist leader is shown (top right) as he pro-

..claimed the birth of the new democratic state. The occasion ma'lrked the climax of a 22-year struggle
_ against. Chiang Kai-shek’s feudal-fascist regime for the liberation of 450,000,000" people, a struggle
always led by the Chinese Communist party.. Other pictures show leading delegates as they

* registered.

(Top left) Li Li-san. (Lower left) Soo0ag Ching-ling (Mme, Sun Yat-sen).

(Center), Chu

“Teh, commander-in-chief- of the Chinese People’s. armies; and Mao Tse-tung.

Hong Kong workers strike
against transfer of air line

HONG KONG

. Two hundred workers of the Cw Air Transport, a CORDA run by General Claire ‘Chennault (OSs
Air Force, retired), have gone on strike here to protest the transfer of CAT planes to Chiang Kai-shek’s last

base on Formosa.

The strike follows action by the personnel of the Sino-American Chinese National Av-

iation Corporation and the Chiang Kai-shek regime’s China Air Transport Corporation which resulted in
the transfer of many civilian planes to the new Chinese People’ s government at Peking.

CAT strikers, in Hong Kong
claimed Chennault is shifting op-
erations to Formosa without pay-
ing them severance or customary
year-end bonus, Chennault him-
self was surrounded by workers
at the airport, just before he left,
and presented with these demands.

The history of Chennault’s
in interesting. It
was originally publicized as a
“mercy fleet” to handle UNRRA
relief cargoes to China after the
war, but soon emerged as a pure-
ly commercial proposition.

The China Weekly Review, an

American paper in Shanghai,
- wrote as far back as 1946: ‘‘Chen-
nault brought up. his Mercy

Squadron scheme to rush aid to
Honan’s starving. Today, however,
the same squadron will have as
much humanitarianism behind it
as ‘the facade of a Shanghai bank-
ing institution... What is Chen-
nault going to do, Go into’ regular

business on .;the profits -he, made,

-Cheanault...1)\.,

hauling ‘mercy’ supplies?”

Subsequently ‘Chennault's planes,
protected by the U.S. flag, hauled
supplies for Kuomintang troops in
China's civil war and were ac-
cused of participating in bomb-
ings. Chennault himself was ac-

tive as a lobbyist for the dis-’

patch of actual U.S. troops to help
Chiang Kai-shek in. China and
worked hard to organize a new
“Flying Tiger” squadron of US.
mercenaries to fight on Chiang’s
side. This scheme fell through.

Now Chennault is spending
much time around General Doug-
las MacArthur's headquarters in
Tokyo, in an effort to get Korea-
Formosa and Japan-Korea fran-
chises for his planes. His China
undertaking was organized in the
name of “mercy shipments.” His
present efforts are based on the
importance of air’ transport ‘to
“antic<Cominunism” in Asia ~gener-
ally; but the ‘profits still‘ go to

‘

Unrest sweeps
colonial Africa

.GRAND BASSAM, Ivory Coast

Leaders of the African Demo-
cratic Assembly, liberation move-
ment in French West frica, have
gone on a hunger strike to pro-
test 10 months’ imprisonment
without trial by French colonial
authorities,

Over 700 members of the organ-
ization, which has 800,000 members
in the Ivory Coast are now in
French prisons. Total population
of the colony is 2,300,000. National
movements are sweeping all col-
onial Africa, particularly the ter-
ritories administered by Britain
and France. The rise of the
French West African movement,

for example, was directly influ-
enced by militant strikes and dem-
onstrations in the British “colonies
of Nigeria and the Gold Coast.

om

labelled ‘“‘News-Herald Copyright”

Victor Reuther.”

scribed as ‘‘a Communist fanatic’,
Kassay as “a one-man cloak and
dagger unit on top priority Rus-
sian: assignments” and “an ideal
tool for Reds to use to eliminate
Walter Reuther, one of American
organized labor’s bitterest foes of
Stalinists.”

Yes, Turcott pulled all the stops

and the NewsHerald gave the
_| story front page billing. There was }|-

only one thing wrong with it—
it wasn’t true... Investigation ex-
posed the sensational “expose” as
a complete hoax, a pack of lies,
a crime-comic opera filled with
sound and fury but signifying
nothing.

‘In a telephone conversation with
Wiliam Allan of the New York
Daily Worker, Michigan State Po-
lice Commissioner Donald Leonard
declared:

“Kassay is not a number one
suspect How could he be,
when nobody has seen or heard
of him for 18 years? The Tur-
cott report that Michigan state
police sent out a 48-state alarm
for the arrest of Kassay so Weng
solutely untrue.”

stool-pigeon turned in a tip on
Kassay because he “might be the
type of man who ought to be
checked.” Said Leonard: “We re-
ceive hundreds of such ‘tips in the
course of a case like this.”

FBI headquarters in Detroit
said they had no comment to
make. on whether Kassay was a
suspect or not. The special investi-
gation bureau of the. Detroit police
department, when queried if Kas-
say was their number one sus-
pect, said they knew nothing of
him and had nothing on him.

“This redbaiting smog is a cov-
er-up of those who really shot at
the Reuther brothers, threatened
UAW-Ford director Ken Bannon
and planted dynamite next to the

union headquarters,* writes Wil-

liam Allan in the Daily Worker.
“Jt all serves to cover up the trail
of the murderous crew _ respon-
sible. :

“This makes is easy to leave
alone the big-time numbers rack-
ets heads in Detroit, Toledo and
Cleveland. Also the open activ-
ities of the Ku Klux Klan in
Flint, Michigan, with state head-

_ quarters at 733 South Saginaw,
has never been given a glance
by law enforcement agencies.

“Why don’t the FBI, Michigan
state police and city police of
Flint quiz KKK leaders? Here are
their names and addresses:

“John Dill, state grand cyclops,
of 733 South Saginaw Street, Flint.
He works for the Genesee County
Welfare Board™and is also on the
Michigan state payroll.

“Also George Treadwell, vice-
president, 230. Mary Street; J. R.
Howerton, organization director,
2619 Avenue A; Egbert Amy, treas-
urer, 1916 Orin Avenue, all of
Flint, ‘Michigan. The state presi-
dent ‘is Harold Doster, of Doster,

Michigan.”

What did happen was that one |

News-Herald lie
of ‘Red saboteur’
exploded by cops

“Red Killer Sought: Mad Sabotage Scheme Bared,”
Vancouver News-Herald. on its front page of December 28,
The lurid yarn, written by Jack Turcott under a Detroit dateline and

shrieked the
1949.

began thus: ““A Moscow-schooled

saboteur and confessed hired killer of the Kremlin today became the
nation’s chief suspect in attempts to murder labor leaders Walter, and

The lead was in fairly mild language compared to the rest of the
story. The alleged suspect, one Paul F. Kassay, was variously. de-

“ta Communist party hatchet man”

and ‘a Red saboteur.” Turcott’s story bristled with descriptions ‘of

Indonesian
freedom
‘only sham’

PEKING

The real situation in Indonesia
was described in a report by Ali
Mardjono of the Indonesian Trade _
Union Federation (SOBSI), sub-
mitted to the recent Trade Union
Conference of Asian and Austral-

‘asian countries here.

In 300 years of Dutch rule,
Mardjono said, “Indonesia became
a source of raw materials and
cheap labor, a field for foreign
investment and a market for for-
eign produced commodities.” This
condition has not changed: with
Indonesian “independence” which
leaves the colonial economy un-
touched. As before, Dutch, !U.S.
and British monopolies. dominate
the land and its wealth. |

Despite sham “independence”,
resident Dutch, Americans and
pidge! who form only 0.4 per-
cent of the population of Indo-
nesia, receive 65 percent of the
national income, Mardjono said.
“Other foreigners, a little over
‘two percent of the people, get
20 percent. The Indonesians
themselves, who are 97 percent
of the population, are left with
only 15 percent of the national
income of their own country.

Soékarno and Hatta prefaced
their sellout compromise with the
Dutch by smashing workers’ and
peasants’ organizations by mili-
tary force at Madioen and other
places on September 18, 1948.
Mardjono said. :

Mardjono further charged that
this. suppression was carried out
in consultation. with Merle. Coch-
ran, U.S. representative on the
United Nations conciliation group
whose appointment as first US.
envoy to “free’ Indonesia is now
predicted. Cochran told them that
they would get no U.S backing in
negotiating terms with the Neth-_
erlands if they did not destroy
left-wing forces which endangered
foreign profits and supplied money
for the purpose, Mardjono aver-
red.

More than 30,000 town and rural
workers were killed in the subse-
quent fighting. SOBSI President
Harjono, Oei Ghee Hwat, who rep-
resented SOBSI in the WFTU, and
other leaders were jailed and shot.

Mardjono appealed to world la-
bor not to believe that Indonesia

is now really free. As an example

of what kind of independence has
now been established, he men-
tioned Soekarno and Hatta’s sur-
render of Indonesia's right to run
her own foreign affairs, and their
pledge to pay the military costs
of aoe Dutch forces. :
uerrilla warfare for full in-
Shouse! ee continues in Indo-.
nesig, and is supported by the
workers, Mardjono said. He ask-
ed for assistance for the SOBSI —
by.. workers everywhere and wel-
comed the World Federation of
Trade Unions’ decision to send
a commission to Indonesia
see the situation for itself.

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