| jo DEMANDS NEW GOVERNMENT Percent over 1948, The increase came in the face of & combined opposition in which the four major right-wing parties Pooled their votes in their effort to win seats. The vote for the Christian Democrats, the party of remier De Gasperi, dropped from 46 to 36 percent, putting it lower than the vote for the Communist and Socialist parties. On June 10 gave the Left over 2,530,000 votes out of 6,500,000 cast. (Joseph Starobin, correspondent f the New York Daily Worker, Teporting from Italy last week, Said several European diplomats With whom he had talked, had de- Clared the Italian developments the Sreatest single factor for peace this year.) _ mm an address to 200,000 people i Turin on May 27,' even before the final voting took place, Pal- Miro Togliatti declared: “We turn to all citizens who 8re at a distance from us, and. We turn toward the leaders of Parties which are our political adversaries, inviting them to ink over the present situation 7S it in the interests of Italy that this guif shall continue among us, this absurd and crim- attempt to label 42 percent f the Italian pepple as a “fifth ©olumn’; this obstinate refusal to follow the path of a serene dis- CUssion and of cooperation of all °rces with respect to the basic Problems of Italy’s future?” ian tdressing himself “to all Ital- ab Togliatti said the election *sults had shown that the coun- Elections show Italy must change course, declares Togliatti Communist and left Socialist. parties continued their big ‘Sains in. the last round of the three weekend elections for Italian provincial and municipal offices. The June 10 voting _ 8ave these parties, who fought a major campaign on the issue of peace, close to.39 percent of the vote, an increase of three The voting, ROME. try must change its course. declare that it is not only possible for Italy to change its course, but absolutely essential. We declare that the election returns already | show the elements of ‘a new situa- | tion; if the leaders of all political parties and if all Italians will take account of these elements, it will’ make possible opening up a new and better way, a path of peaceful progress for our nation; if not, the situation can only become worse and aggravated.” He repeated the demand for a policy of peace and said no coun- try where the working class was in power threatened Italy, whereas the Atlantic Pact clearly proposed to. make war on the East. “In case of a war against those countries which are ruled’ by workingmen — a war of agegres- sion contrary to the interests and desires of the Italian people — not only will we not fight such a war, but we will never permit any Italian government to fight it.” Togliatti then warned Wall Street that if it tries to counteract the Left ,trend by aggravating ‘the crisis and attempting to bolster in- ternal reaction—‘in no sense will such a struggle wind up with a defeat for the working class.” He ended by declaring that all this need not happen if a new gov- ernment is formed, based on peace, a plan of work as proposed by the Confederation of Labor, and respect for the Italian consti- “We tution. PALMIRO TOGLIATTI Italian Communist leader PIETRO NENNI Italian Socialist leader The Communist-Socialist People’s Bloc increased its vote from 957,- 817 in 1948 to 1,026,944 — a gain of 7 percent — in the Italian elections this month. The vote of the Chris- tian Democrats and allied parties dropped 16 percent, from 683,407 in 1948 to 1,396,795, while the vote of the neo-fascist Italian Social Move- ment rose from 82,801 to’ 183,625. Communist - Socialist | bloc gains in Sicily an —_ ROME Sicii elections for the 90-member tan regional parliament on x. 3, the Communist and Social- by .c0Ple’s Bloc increased its vote Vot Percent over 1948, while the +_8iven to the Christian Demo- ¢ tet Premier De Gasperi’s na- aes fovernment party, declined , Percent. al tee years ago, in the nation- cigie’ctions, the Communist-So- in ie bloc received 464,088 votes tiy, lly, less than half the vote n to the Christian Democrats. E:, fbis month’s election, the vote Der, 644,752, an increase of 38 “enti and only 20,000 less than Whi Christian “Democrat vote, three, Gropped from 1,063,454 p Years ago to 666,128. Christian Democrats, who Vote el 50 percent of the Sicilian 812 , ee years ago, received only Mong, ent of the totgl vote this the 88 against 30.2 percent for Mmunist-Socialist bloc. Move Italian , Social Sigg Went (MSI) emerged from the election as the third strong- Peregnr: Its 273,000 votes, 12.8 taineg of the total vote, were ob- Unduise Oo the now defunct Qual- Ef the Party /and at the expense The Social Democrats. Republican party of For- Sg Dee, Minister Carlo Sforza and Cara Minister Randolfo Pac- Vote, ,-OUld not even get enough 35, elect one deputy, polling °Civeg Votes to the 65,000 it re- Tv 1948, h : Shoy,. Monarchist patty’s vote also ; he decline, from 197,000 to Nore Ut the Liberal party’s vote a slightly, j system which enabled the Christian By GINO BARDI Distribution of the 90 seats *in the new Sicilian parliament will be: Communist - Socialist People’s Bloc, 30; Christian Democrats, 30; Italian Social Movement, 9; Monarchists, 9; Liberals, 6; Social, Democrats, 3; Independents, 3. Formation of a gevernment re- quires a majority of 48 seats, and political observers doubt whether the Christian Democrats will be able to muster enough seats to head a new government unless they make a deal with the neo-fascist MSI and the Monarchists. Other- wise a new election may be neces- sary. Unlike electoral the “related” Democrats to gain control of many local governments although it lost more than. 1,500,000 votes in elec- tions held in 28 provinces of north- ern Italy on May 27, the Sicilian election was conducted under pro- portional. representation, Adher~ ence to this system by the autono- mous island prevented the Chris- tian Democrats from using an elec- toral fraud to obtain additional seats despite a heavy loss of votes. The De Gasperi government has been making hysterical announce- ments about the number of local governments wrested from the Communists and Socialists. These announcements have been played up by the press in all Western countries without revealing that the “victories” of the Christion Democrats and their allies—Social Democrats, Republicans and Liber- als—were obtained only through use of a fraudulent electoral sys- tem which gave them a majority of , ° seats in face of a declining vote. For instance, Venice and Genoa were lost by the Communists, who increased their vote over 1948, and won by the alliance headed by the Christian Democrats, al- though the Christian Democrats lost 25,000 votes in Venice and 40,000 in Genoa. _The salient feature of the Sicit lian election, borne out by the voting in the northern provinces’ and elsewhere, is that the Chris- tion Democrats, although they continue to hold a majority in the national parliament, in fact do not have this majority among the Ital- ian people. * EAST END TAXI “UNION DRIVERS HAstings 0334 FULLY 24-HOUR INSURED ‘SERVICE 811 K. HASTINGS ST. ‘ Pb eeneneie _ PENDER AUDITORIUM (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender LARGE & SMALL HALLS FOR RENTALS Phone PA. 9481 rout red Defeating a proposal to end the association’s affiliation to the World Federation of Scientific Workers, delegates. called on scien- tists of all countries to work active- ly for prevention of a third world war. “In the present state of tension in the world, it is of vital import- ance to maintain our connection with scientists in the USSR and Eastern Europe,” said association vice-president Dr. D. McLean, head of the Lister Institute. A motion urging the govern-. ment to work for agreement among the Great Powers on pro- - gressive reduction of armaments won unanimous endorsation. Dele- gates also urged banning of the atom bomb and weapons of mass destruction. Referring to red-baiting, attacks on the association appearing in Lord Beaverbrook’s London Even- ing Standard, W. B. Bland drew loud applause when, opposing a mo- tion to condemn the Communist party, he asked, “Do the movers believe that if this resolution is passed the Even- ing Standard is going to support our claim for 20 percent salary in- creases? “If the Communist party calls for peace are we to call for war? If it calls for higher wages, are we to the Evening Standard that we are not Communists?” call for lower wages to convince | PLM U/L YUP VA VMOU YUN) TA RR TTL a ly British scientists baiters, take peace stand LONDON Delegates to the recent annual council of the Association of Scientific Workers here roundly rejected motions that would have placed them in opposition to Communist views and opinions and severed their connections with scientists in the Soviet Union and the New Democracies. 2 te ae at de a et a a a Half population of China signs petition for world peace pact PEKING More than half the population of China has already signed the the petition for a five- power peace pact and voted against the rearming. of Japan, the Chinese Peace Committee has announced. Signers of the peace pact peti- tion now total 246,070,0000 or 51.2 percent of the population. 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