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No coal for Chiang

SYDNEY—The Australian Min-
ers Federation has announced it
will “take action” to halt ship-
ments of coal to the Chiang Kai-

shek regime in China. Miners
say the coal is needed in Aus-
tralia and should not be used
to help Gkiang’s civil war.

Plan ITU lockout

NEW YORK—A 26-page bDlue-
print of strikebreaking operations
was in circulation today among
major New York City newspaper
publishers who are laying the
groundwork for a lockout when
contracts of AFL printers expire
here March 31. Already in dress
rehearsal, the bluegrint, prepar-
ed by Daily News management,
is based on the experience of
Chicago publishers who have
been battling the International
Typographical Union since Nov-
ember 24. Virtually every major
newspaper plant in this city has
stocked up with varitype mach-
ines and in some cases entire
departments are already at work
on dry runs. Supervising the show
is the New York Publishers Asso-
ciation which bargains with the
ITU for all major dailies here.

Ask nationalization

MEXICO CITY — Miners here |:

are renewing their demand that
the Mexican government national-
ize the mines. Negotiations for
new contracts, affecting 80,000
workers, have apparently reach-
ed a stalemate and a_ strike
threat looms. Mining of all types
of minerals and metals is one
of Mexico’s major industries.
Ninety percent of all Mexican
mines are operated, through gov-
ernment franchise, by the U.S.-
owned American Smelting Com-
pany.

Marshall plan hit

PAKIS—The French General
Uonfederation of Labor (CGT)
has urged the World Federation
of Trade Unions to rule out de-
bate on the Marshall Plan at
the forthcoming meeting of the
WrTU’s executive bureau, Dis-
cussion of the Marshall plan,
the CGT said, would have the
objectives of “trying. to combat
their (workers) profound hos-
tility to this plan of domina-
tion” and injecting “elements
of discord into the WFTU and
serving the intrigues of its ad-
versaries.” The CGT is on re-
cord against the Marshall plan,

—_—e-

Get 7-hour day

WELLINGTON — All under-
ground workers in New Zealand’s
coal mines will be transferred
to a shorter (T7-hour) day for a
6-month trial period, government
and union leaders have agreed.

NEW YORK—Fifteen air force

Greek fliers take planes, desert to guerillas

Officers of the Greek royalist
army recently flew their planes
over to the side of the guerillas
and called upon their fellow offi-
cers to also take the “patriotic
road to the mountains.”

This appeal was read over the
radio station of Free Greece and
picked up by the London moni-
tor, who- in turn informed the
American Council for a Democra-
tic Greece in New York by cable
of this action.

The letter, written by the offi-
cers, pointed out that Greece had
lost even the vestige of inde-
pendence and had become a land

under occupation with Americans
in all important posts.

American officers headed all
Greek army groups, the letter
continued, and Greek officers
were obliged to carry out their

commands like soldiers during
battle. \
The letter charged, orhe

Anglo-American wish to transform
Greece into an international bat-
tlefield, while the old and new
traitors of the so-called old po-
litical circles are turning Greece
into a vast concentration camp.”

Concluding, the officers de-
clared, “We have taken fhe pa-
triotic road to the mountains and

have joined the ranks of the,

Democratic Army. The voice of
true Greece, the voice of the
democratic government calls upon
you too, Everyone to arms!
Everyone for victory.”

Signers of the letter include
Col. Penias, Lt.. Cols. Markins
and Gorgakopoulés and Majors
Karadimas and Panagiotopoulos.
Meanwhile,- at Washington, the
U.S. Army has named an out-
standing combat officer to head
its mission to Greece. High
quarters said the move marks a
new phase of U.S. military aid
to the Athens regime. as

The new chief is Major James

Alward Van Fleet whose divi-
sion led the counter-offensive that
broke the back of the German
drive during the Battle of the
Bulge. He will leave for Greese
soon to replace Major General
William G. Livesay.

Van Fleet’s appointment came
only two days after. U.S. Seare-
tary of State George C. Marshall
proposed additional large-scale
military assistance to the Greek
and Turkish governments. It ca-
incided with a disclosure that the

state department had recalled its
top economic expert in Greege
for consultations.

adian auto plants.

‘We're not living, just existing’

During the recent cold spell the Dodge auto plant in Detroit closed down to curtail use of industrial
gas, and here thousands of members of the United Auto Workers (CIO) stream homewards. Not in-
clement weather, but Finance Minister Douglas Abbbott’s equally harsh austerity program to subordin-
ate Canadian industrial welfare to American demands has been the

deciding factor in layoffs in Can-

A simple but pointed plea for action to control inflation was made by Cyrus J. Waud of the Food,
Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers (CIO) before the U.S. Senate’s banking Committee, While
his wife and two of his six children listemed beside him, he said: “We're not living, we’re only existing.”

suppressed in an obvious effort
to whip up a wave of hysteria.

As a guide to reading the in-
flammatory accounts in the daily
press these points are important:

1.—The so-called “legislative
committee” has been flatly brand-
ed as unconstitutional by Superior
Judge Roger Meakim. As _ this
is written the court is preparing
to issue an injunction to put
“teeth” into his ruling which is
being flagrantly violated. ~

2—As the result of court ac-
tion, Rep. A, F. Canwell, commit-
tee chairman, was forced to read
into the record a statement that
he and his colleagues were acting
as “individuals.” These “individu-

NEXT WEEK, Starts Sunday midnite, 15 February }

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1948

press on the unconstitutional and irresponsible
of six individual members of the Washington. state legislature—the so-called “‘little un-
American Activities Committee—important facts have been either distorte

By TERRY PETTUS

(Unconstitutional group heads —
smear campaign in Washington

SEATTLE—Although many thousands of words have been printed by the commercial
“hearing” now being conducted by a group

d or completely

als,’ however, continued to mas-
querade as a legitimate govern-
mental agency by continuing to
Spend state money; using the
state armory, highway patrolmen,
Seattle police and even military
police ‘and the “subpeonas which
at best, are crude and highly ill-
gal instruments of intimidation.
3.—With the expenditure of
some $50,000 in state tax money
already branded as “illegal’ by a
superior court, action has been
taken against State Auditor Cliff
Yelle to stop the: use of more
state funds and State Treasurer
Russell Fluent has announced that
he will honor no more vouchers
even if they are issued in de-
fiance of the court ruling.

4.—Because of the libelous and
irresponsible nature of the “‘testi-
mony” two news services, United
Press and the International News
Service have refused to send it
to subscribing newspapers. Asso-
ciated Press, however, has treat-
ed the “testimony” as “privileged
matter” and hence will be named
in the many libel actions now
being prepared.

5.—Even the daily press and
the AP has been forced to duck
out on some of the “testimony.”
This includes the charge of James
Sullivan that an elderly Pension
Union official took “thousands of
dollars” from the aged under
false pretenses (a criminal libel
warrant is being sought in this

case) and the smearing of the
moral character of a young
woman by Jess Fletcher (a crim-
inal libel action should be
brought in this instance.)
6.—Although the legislators go
through elabarate motions to give
a “court room” atmosphere of
fairness to their antics, they flat-

ly refuse to allow any of their.

“witnesses” to be cross-examined.
Thus a fundamental] protection
accorded by U.S. courts to the
meanest criminal is denied those
pilloried at the illegal “hearings,”
Those who-hae arisen to pro-
test this unfairness have been
summarily ejected by armed po-
lice,

McArthur described

as ‘American Samurai’

TOKYO—Japanese children in
elementary schools are learning
from their new American-edited
textbooks that General of the
Army Douglas MacArthur is “a
superhuman, fearless American
Samurai.” The Samurai is a se
cret society of army officers. The
textbooks also ask all children
of the “Japanese Empire” to sac-
rifice at least one lotus flower
to spray the carpet “whereon the
foot of Samurai MacArthur soft-
ly treads,”

Labor move
draws fire

LONDON—A proposal by La-
bor Party Secretary Morgan
Phillips that all Communists be
removed from union office has
brought a heated rejoinder from
@ prominent Comnrupist labor
leader here. :

The protest came from Genera}
Secretary Arthur Horner of the
National Union of Mineworkers,
leading member of the Commun-
ist Party, who was recently re-
elected to his union post hy
more votes than his two oppos-
ing candidates put together.

British unionism, Horner argues,
has been based on the following
principle: “Whatever a man
might think on matters of re-
ligion, whatever views he might
hold in politics, he was just em-
titled as the next man to join
his union—and, once joined, to
enjoy the same rights and re-
ceive the same benefits as every-
body else. This is democracy.”

Phillips had termed Commun-
ists unreliable unionists whose
first loyalty was not to _ their
union but to their ideology. He
urged all Labor Party members
to. vote against any Communist
who might run for union office.

“This type of attack on Com-
munist members of the labor
movement,” Horner ‘replied, “not
only poisons trade union prin-
ciples but always precedes am
attack on the working class. Se
S0on as Ramsay MacDonald,
Frank Hodges and te rest of |
that litter had in 1924 thrust
the Communists out of the La-
bor Party, the way was open for
Tory Baldwin in July 1925 te
proclaim that ‘the wages of ali
workers must come down.’”

General Secretary Arthur Dea-
kin of the Transport and Gen-
eral Workers, Britain’s largest
union, recently backed — Phillips
by urging his union to defeat
Communists running for its gen-
eral executive board. Despite his
plea, nine Communists won posts
on the 36-man board.

Endicott speaking
at second meeting

Those who were unable to hear
Dr. J.-G. Endicott, former United
Church missionary in China and
one-time adviser to Chiang Kai-
shek, describe conditions in pres-
ent-day China at a large meeting
this week in the Pender Auditor-
ium, will have another opportunity
next Monday, February 16, when
he will speak on “An Examination
of the United States Policy in
China,” together with Elmore Phil
pott, nationally-prominent Vancou-
ver columnist.

“Britain and the United States
have never supported any demo-
cratic regime in China,” Dr. Endi-
cott stated. “They have always
supported reaction, and if General
Marshail’s plan for Europe is not
on any sounder basis than the plan
for China, then it will be a com-
plete flop.”

Tickets for Monday’s meeting, to
be held in the Pender Auditorium,
are available at Kelly’s or at the
door.

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