British shop stewards score ‘speedup’ plans —LONDON A boycott of the Anglo-American Advisory Council set up under the Marshall plan to speed production in British factories has been demanded by the national council of shop stewards of the engineering industry. In a resolution sent to plants throughout the nation, the stew- ards warned that the council would introduce U.S. supervision in industry to “increase the exploi- tation of workers.” “We. are. well. aware,”. the statement said, “that Americans are experts in speedup systems for mass production industries. Calling in American efficiency experts, whose dislike of social- ism is notorious, is hardly like- ly to mean an increase in the degree of socialist planning in industry.” The statement attacked Sir Staf- ford Cripps, British Minister of Economic Affairs, for using his influence to force the program down the throats of British workers. Despite the British Trades Un- ion Congress decision to be rep- resented on the advisory council, a number of labor leaders have attacked the program. Sec. Jo- seph Hall of the Yorkshire area National Union of Mineworkers termed it “absolute rubbish” while President “William Fearson of the Scottish mine union called it “an awful nerve.” South Africans fight for racial equality —CAPETOWN South Africans are fighting back against the pro-fascist government of Premier Daniel F. Malan, which office in June on a program of Jimcrow. rode into More than 10,000 people turned out at a rally here to protest the “apartheid” — 33 Sa hae y 3 They block science In his keynote address at the Centennial meeting of the Am- erican Association for the Ad- vancement-of Science, Dr. Har- low Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, declared that U.S. government “loyalty purges” and congressional witch- hunts are crippling scientific de- velopment and hampering inter- national scientific relations, racial segregation—policies of Ma- lan. When the meeting ended hundreds of native workers railway oc- cupied carriages set aside for Europeans only. Many churchmen are following the lead- of the Rev. Michael Scott, recently returned from the U.S. in opposing discriminating practices. The ministers are deliv- ering regular sermons denounc- ing “white supremacy” theories. One churchman told his par- ishiomers: “Christian _ civiliza- tion, we are asked to believe, is the same thing as whkite civil- ization. The truth is there is no such thing as white civiliza- tion and there never was ... If it is white civilization, it is not Christian; and if it is Chris- tian, it is not white.” Along with its Jimcrow program, the Malan government is conduct- ing an all-out drive on the labor movement which it seeks to keep divided under its segregation pro- gram. All-Negro unions are prac- tically banned in South Africa and the government has just passed a law barring formation of unions composed of whites and Negroes. PACIFIC 9588 Jack Cooney, Mer. FERRY MEAT MARKET 119 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. ‘ FREE DELIVERY Supplying Fishing Boats Our Specialty Nite Calls GL. 1740L dj The adventures ACh Sse during the struggle for Ukrainian freedom. . J aS FULL ENGLISH TITLES State Theatre RUSSIAN EPICS STARTS SUNDAY MIDNITE, OCT. 3. Double Action Program They need her kind Ilse Koch, who made ~ lampshades of the tatooed skins of murdered prisoners at tie Buchenwald concentration camp in World War II, will be freed next year. sentence to four years was okayed by Reduction of her life U.S. military governor , General Lucius D, Clay. The new European ‘reconstructionists’ of Wall Street need her kind Marshall plans. for the implementation of their Dennis sees union attacks after trials —NEW YORK Conviction of 12 Communist leaders who face trial October 15 for seeking the “violent overthrow of the government” will mean the eventual banning of all unions and progressive or- ganizations, General Secretary Engene Dennis of the American Communist party warned here September 23. : Addressing a rally at the city’s largest indoor auditorium, Madison ‘Square Garden, Dennis compared the coming trial of party leaders with the Reichstag fire trial in 1933. While warning that “the pro- cess of fascist development is far advanced” in the U.S. today, he pointed out it is mot yet in power as it was in Germany in 1935. e“Our trial in New York,” said the Communist leader, who is one of the 12 involved in the indict- ment, “will be held under condi- tions that still make it possible for our party, for labor and for all democratic Americans to fight against and check the architects of American fascism, a new world slaughter, an ‘American Century’.” Dennis called for an _ all-out mobilization to protest the trial and to fight for a progressive out- come in the November national elections. He described the attempted murder of Communist leader Robert Thompson September 22 as the counterpart of the pardons granted German big business lead- ers and “the sub-human creature Ilse Koch.” Koch release spotlights real aim of Marshall Plan for new Reich General Lucius D. Clay, By ISRAEL EPSTEIN U.S. commander in Germany, has signed an order commuting Ise Koch's sentence of life imprisonment to four years—of which she has already served three. So Ilse may go free next year. (Remember Ilse Koch? This fiend, masquerading as a woman, was the commandant’s wife at Buchenwald concentration camp. When Allied troops liberated the camp, where the Nazis kept and killed political prisoners and Jews, they found that Ilse had had tattooed prisoners slaughtered so she could make lampshades out of their skins. If a man confifed in Buch- enwald had a fine, healthy skin with no tattoo, in- the opinion of lise who stripped and examined them all, she had him printed with a design she fancied and then mur- ‘dered. The human - skin lampshades were right there in Ilse’s apart- ment. The world press carried the story, presenting all readers with an object lesson in the meaning of fascism, An Allied court decreed life imprisonment for the Nazi ogress, instead of hanging, only to save the unborn child she managed to conceive in jail. Now Ilse is to be released. This leads to another question. Who is General Clay, this man of fine moral sensibilities who found sympathy in his heart for Llse Koch? Olay is the man respon- sible for the “get tough” policy in Berlin today. He often ex- plains that policy by reference to his conscience, to the necessity of protecting “anti Communist Germans” from a former ally. The “anti-Communist Germans” for whom Clay is so concerned are mainly former and present Nazis. What has this to do with you? Whoever you are, Gen, Clay can decide whether you'll be exposed to war’s destruction, and in what cause. The mind that could free Ilse Koch, according to such for- eign affairs experts as Walter Lippman and former Under-secre- tary of State Sumner Welles, now guides the U.S, course on Germany, And the question of Germany, as everyone knows, is the crossroads of peace and war in our time. in Nazi If you are a veteran and heard about Ilse Koch while still in uni- form, remember what GI's said as Hitlerite atrocity after Hitlerite atrocity was uncovered. They said, and perhaps you yourself did: “Hope the Russians take over Ger- many. They’re the only ones who know how to deal with those Nazi bastards.” Remember? * If you are a Jew, do you remem- ber the six million of your people destroyed ‘iin Nazi gas chambers, buried alive, LTT boiled down for soap, burned like cordwood fur- naces by the Ilse Kochs? You have a right to speak because your casualties at Nazi hands were- 5: agin greater than Israel Epstein those of any nation except Russia, greater 40 times than the total U.S, battle deaths against Japan and Germany combined. Now, while many Jews still rot in DP camps, Ilse may be freed and have a homeland to go to. Remember? If you are just a newspaper reader, do you recall worrying whether “the Germans would un- derstand their guilt,” how you felt that German understanding of fascism’s responsibility was the only guarantee of peace? Does Gen. Clay’s verdict on Ilse Koch show that Nazi crime against humanity doesn’t pay? Remember? Whoever you may be, remember that the name of the majority of the world’s people in our genera- tion is one—Victims of Fascism. All the world was thrown into war by it., It devastated most of Europe, Asia and part of Africa. The people of the ex-enemy nations themselves were misled and de- bauched by it, led to slaughter others and condemned to defeat themselves. Even in comparatively untouched America, young men were sacrificed, careers were broken, families were destroyed by war. It was the fascist Axis, otherwise known as the Anti- Comintern Pact, that the people’s fought, and thought they licked in World War II. Today Hirohito rules in Japan, under the benevolent protection of General MacArthur, while a still unconvicted Tojo spouts endlessly in court about how he was right, in an “anti-Commun- ist” way, even about Pearl Har- bor.. In Germany, under Clay, “denazification” courts acquit Hjalmar Schacht, who financed Hitler. They acquit the indus- trialists who made his weapons. Even top generals of Hitler’s armies are being cleared, while U.S. and Britis: brass-hats ‘ sol- emniy applaud because legal re- sponsibility might make planning aggressive war dangerous any- where. And now Ise Koch. How many radioed weasel words, how many barrels of headline ink have been spilt to confuse the issue. How many phony issues are raised, and with what despar- ate energy, to obscure the fact that Ilse Koch highlights once more in men’s hearts and minds— that the fascist enemy is not only loose but being deliberately nour- ished. How shameful that highly placed Americans present the Unit- ed States to the world’s fascist- mauled millions in a new and un- becoming role, the role of defen- der of the beast. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 1, 1948—PAGE 3