? « | CONFECTIONERY nye ee | AA. 2034 | YEDpiIngs . || GREETINGS THIS. | May Day 1949 | ANCHOR | HOTEL Brazil labor accuses gov't ‘ —RIO DE JANEIRO When Louis Saillant, general sec- _ retary of the World Federation of *tades Unions accused the Brazil- fan government of using fascist methods to violate labor’s rights before the United Nations Econ- emic and Social Council, Brazilian diplomat Joao Carlos Muniz de- clared Solemnly that “trade union liberties exist in Brazil and the oa to strike is safeguarded by _ Now the Brazilian Federation of Labor (CTB) has issued a declara- tion repudiating the spokesman of _ Ss Own government and asserting that the WETU charges were based onfact.” . ‘ The CTB states that “in Brazil Oday no single trade union com- mittee is legal. More than five years have passed since union elec- ions were held. A sytem of state and fascist syndicalism has reign- ®d in our country since 1937. ANIA Au FRASER FURNITURE v. STORE e 5973. 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What the British vessels were ‘doing on a disputed Chinese inland waterway, many miles from the treaty “rights” of foreign warships to navigate the Yangtze, one of the century-long humiliations imposed on China when she was a semi- colony, was abrogated by new ag- |reements between China and other | Second World War allies in 1942. | The British press itself was sur-, prised. The labor-supponrting Star wrote: “British lives have been lost in a war which is not our con- cern, We are entitled to know how it happened.” Even the conserva- tive, empire-minded Daily Express questioned “the wisdom of sending warships up the Yangtze when it was known that the Chinese Com- munist offensive was about to start.” Only the reactionary Daily Mail screamed for “retribution” against “naked aggression.” It did not bother to explain how Chinese troops could commit “aggression” inside China. Chinese who know their) own history were not surprised. Whén- ever, in recent times, the Chinese people tried to sweep away reac- tion and rebuild their own lives, foreign ships have “accidentally” appeared to block their way. In 1864, when the democratic Tai- ping revolt threatened to over- throw the imperial dynasty, Ad- miral Hope’s British fleet ' an- nounced its pious intention to “maintain neutrality between the two contending parties,” but pour- ed shot and shell on the popular forces along the same Yangtze. During the 1925-27 revolution against the decaying northern war- lords, British ships bombarded the Yangize port of Wahnsien and British, American and Japanese ships shelled Nanking as the revo- lutionary armies entered. In 1930, American and other gun- boats shelled the Chinese Red Ar- my out of Changsha, the first maj- or city it ever occupied. The difference between the old “zunboat diplomacy” and the pres- ent is that it doesn’t work any more—because the Chinese people are stronger. The British apparent- ly thought it was worth trying just anything else to try. Judging from the constant con- ferences between British officers and Commander Oscar C. Badger of the U.S. fleet in Shanghai, there were Americans who thought so too. But the Chinese Communist batteries proved otherwise, with U.S.-made guns and shells which they had easily captured from Chi- ang Kai-shek, who got them as a The morals of imperialism were illustrated by subsequent comments in the American big business press. The New York Herald’ Tribune, British people ask what war vessels doing up Yangtse By ISRAEL EPSTEIN HEN the Communist-led Chinese people’s armies began to cross the broad Yangtze river in the final stage of their campaign against the corrupt Chiang Kai-shek government, their shells hit British warships which turned up in the midst of Chiang’s naval flotillas. In the British ships were hit not only by coast, might seem puzzling. The |° they should realize, to Wall Street’s Ai peace congress A former president of Mexico, Lazaro Cardenas, as a vice-presi- dent of the World Peace Congress being held at Paris this week. wrote wishfully April 21 that “if effective foreign intervention were possible in China, the Communist rebels might be dealt with in the same manner that the Boxer rebel- lion was put down almost 50 years. ago and the Taiping rebellion was put down in 1856.” Then it lamented that “this cannot be done today” and that “a few western guns, or even many hundreds of them, are no longer effective instruments to cow and control millions of Asiatics.” : The Wall Street Journal, which operates with balance sheets rather than moralities, came to the same conclusion. It said April 22 that “the Truman doctrine was applied to China” but “apparently the mon- ey, Or much of it, was wasted.” In Greece, too, the paper said, popular revolt continued despite U.S. dol- lars to stem it. By balance sheet analysis, the Wall Street Journal has discovered that “you do not contain communism by military force.” “The. Truman doctrine,” the Wall Street Journal concluded, “is dead in one place and dying in another, but is being (reborn in the form of the projected re- arming of western Europe at Am_. erican expense. The people ought: to scrutinize the new model more carefully than the last before they buy it.” ; The people certainly ought. Also detriment, that people everywhere, where they know their way can be stronger than guns or dollars. That this happens so often nowadays is good news. By discouraging foreign which has so often talked of re- spect for Chinese sovereignty, involvement, it prevents local con- flicts from engulfing the world. “a May Day - from LOVE'S CAFE 779 GRANVILLE STREET —\ Greetings \ & < BECOMES SOVIET CITIZEN work for peace. decision,” said Johnston, bloc of imperialist states, Britain.” of my ability, prosperity.’”) ing. cause of peace.” British diplomat quits A high-ranking British diplomatic official, Archibald R. Johnston, 52, this week quit his job, renounced his citizenship and announced his intention to remain in the Soviet Union and - “The Atlantic pact gave me the final impetus to make my adding that the pact was “a military headed by the United States and (Recently a key employee of the American Embassy in Moscow, Annabelle Bucar, resigned her post and declared her decision to remain in the Soviet Union, ‘‘where I can, to the best participate in the struggle for peace and world Pravda published an open letter from Johnston exposing the Atlantic pact and denouncing British and American warmonger- For the past two years Johnston has been editor of the British newspaper Britanski Soyuznih in Moscow. He is the highest Anglo-American official to break with his Embassy since the end of the war, although several other British and American citizens have renounced their citizenship to remain in the TJSSR: Johnston will take out Soviet citizenship papers in order, as he explained, “to devote all my energies and abilities to the —MOSCOW The new China plans to build up its modern industries to the point where they account for 30 to 40 percent of greatly increased total national production, accord- ing to Jen Pi-shih, a Communist party leader, who predicted that “10. or 15 years of striving are re- quired” to reach this goal. The overall capacity of existing Chinese industry, if put to full use, could turn out only 10 percent of national» production today, the rest being accounted for by agri- culture and handicrafts. Actual industrial output, however, is much lower because of damage sustained in the war with Japan and the subsequent civil war. 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