Labor gov't deports

unionists

L Secretary-treasurer Louis Goldblatt (right) of the International
°ngshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union (CIO) and John Malet-

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another American unionist, are shown at a Paris press confer-
Ce following their deportation from Britain. The two were
to leave the country after they had expressed their support

°f locked-out London dock workers. Also deported was Johan
®rik Blankenzee, Dutch maritime union leader.

Assail Truman for
Clark nomination

By MARY DOBBS

. —NEW YORK.

c Uh appointing Attorney General Tom C. Clark to a Supreme
Surt vacancy, President Truman has installed the symbol of hysteria
“nd witch-hunts on the highest court in the United States.
the The small number of progressive spokesmen in the U.S. greeted
ap

conservative New York
po} Tribune described the ap-
intment as irresponsible. It re-
attorney general’s
Casa we. Of the. Gerhart Eisler
th Which placed the U.S. in
‘ Umiliating position of receiv-
Ey, Bolite lessons in law from an
st Slish judge” as “only the most
"king of Mr, Clark’s errors.”
ee New York Times was also
cee to summons any enthusiasm
Bee the choice of a bigoted Dem:
Te at machine politician from
Sota to fill a lifetime post re-
Ting wisdom, humaneness and
ed approach to the legal
ts of the people.
ag vevertheless, there is little
mig that Clark's appointment
fro receive the necessary approval
conn, the U.S. Senate, which is
lon erolled by southern Tories and
yal Truman machine men.
Re of the most seathing at-
ea. Ks on the Clark appointment
™e from Henry A. Wallace, Pro-
ve ssive party leader and former
“president. Accusing Truman
completely betraying “the
© of civil rights to which he
28 paid so much lip service,”
allace said:
. Tom Clark has taken upon
Aetelt the despotic power to
clare without hearing which
Rone and organizations are to
Considered legal, according to
den’, Mysterious test of his own
®vising, His agents have swoop-
th down on innocent people and
‘kal them into jails prepara-
Ty to deporting them. He has
Persecuted labor leaders.
ai He has connived at the whole
itty business of wire-tapping,
Spies in labor unions, and
turned every man against his
si ehbor to build malicious gos-
PB into so-called evidence. In
“ntrast with his vigor in. over-
‘ding the rights of citizens who
Rakes had their day in court
ti Tom Clark’s record of inac-
oe against those who have
or pled upon the civil rights
rt Negro citizens in the south.
Sag Tom Clark, the depart-
ott of justice has grown into
Re of the most despotic and
}.\8erous institutions in the
lang» d

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th blisher Ted O. Thackrey of
© Daily Compass, New York pro-

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gressive newspaper, chargéd that
the Clark appointment was “noth-
ing short of a calamity,” and
added:

“It is difficult, almost impos-
sible, to imagine a single act
of the President which could be
a greater threat to our hard-
won liberties than the appoint-
ment of the Texas bigot who has
so often suspended our consti-
tutional guarantees of freedom
of though and of political ac-
tion. If his appointment is con-
firmed, he will be in a position
to cast the deciding vote on ap-
peals from the very persecutions
he has instituted as attorney
general.”

The Supreme Court vacancy was
created by the death of Frank
Murphy, an appointee of the late
President Roosevelt. Murphy was
the outstanding Liberal on the
court, notable for his defense of
civil rights and unions and for
his opposition to the powerful
trusts that control the economic
life of this nation.

The appointment of Clark may
also deal a fatal blow to Tru-
man’s professed Fair Deal pro-
gram of liberal legislation. Under
the Truman administration, the
high court has moved increasingly
away from the liberal reputation
which distinguished it during the
latter Roosevelt days. Murphy was
one of the four justices who could
be counted on to uphold the pro-
gressive viewpoint. The presence
of Clark will undoubtedly shift the
balance of power to the conserva-
tives.

Arab delegates at

Israel union meet

TEL AVIV

More than 3800 delegates atten-
ded the convention of the Agri-
cultural Workers Union here heard
speakers report that since esta-
bishment of the Jewish state, more
that 200 agricultural villages have
been set up.

Highlight of the meeting was the
appearance of a 7-man delegation
from the Union of Working Fel-
laheen, an Arab workers’ group
which anounced its desire to co-
operate with the Jewish settlers.

Dock strike
end seen as

‘gov't defeat

—LONDON.
More than 15,000 British dock-
ers started returning to work here
last week after President Harry
Davis of the Canadian Seamen’s

fF Union urged them to end their
} sympathy strike in support of the

CSU.

Thousands of dockers at a mass
meeting on July 22 voted over-
whelmingly to end their walkout
following an announcement by
Davis that the union was calling
off its strike against two Cana-
dian ships, the Beaverbrae and
the Argomont, tied up at Thames
river piers. Refusal of the dock-
ers to work these vessels sparked
the four-week strike.

“Canadian seamen were fully
conscious of the serious effect a
continuation of the dispute in the
London docks might have on
Great Britain’s ability to recover,”
Davis said. “We have therefore
decided that we will terminate
our dispute only in Great Britain.
We will accept the promise made
by the Canadian deputy minister
of labor, that if our union would
call off the strike (in England)
he would utilize the machinery of
the department of labor to bring
the two parties together.”

Davis made it clear that “our
struggle throughout Canada and
the rest of the world is going
to continue.”

At the meeting where they voted
to end their walkout, the dockers
unanimously demanded the ouster
of Lord Ammon, chairman of the
Dock Board, for advocating even
more severe measures against the
strikers than provided in the gov-
ernment’s state of emergency
proclamation which brought troops
to the piers. (Ammon has since
been dismissed by the Attlee gov-
ernment.)

Ammon’s order would have re-
sulted in the permanent firing of
strikers unless they returned to
work.

The government's failure to
end the strike on its terms was
viewed as a major defeat here.
On July 12 the state of emer-
gency proclamation was issued.
The next day 2,500 more men
quit their jobs. From then on,
despite repeated appeals and
threats by the government, the
dockers remained firm. Efforts
to label the sympathy strike as
“Communist-inspired” also failed
to force the dockers back to
work,

Communists propose
anti-crisis program

—LONDON.

The Communist party of Brit-
ain has advanced a four-point
program for overcoming the
present crisis and achieving
greater and more stable pros-
perity for the people.

The four proposals are:

@ More trade with the Soviet
Union, China and eastern Eur-
ope through large-scale agree-
ments,

@ No dismissals without al-
ternate work.

@ Higher wages, better living
standards, more work.

@ Extension of nationalization
of a new type.

In support of its proposals, the
Communist party urges the un-
ions to end wage-freezing by a
fight for increases, calls for a
cut in the armed services and
advocates placing workers in-
stead of businessmen in key po-
sitions 0n the boards of nation-
alized industries.

Industry built
by Viet Nam

—SAIGON.

The Viet Nam Labor Federa-
tion has celebrated its third an-
niversary by calling on all work-
ers in the independent Viet Nam
republic to continue their “stub-

born fight against French ag-
gression.”
In a message addressed to

friends of the Viet Nam (Indo-
Chinese) republic at home and
abroad, the federation pointed to
the remarkable achievements of
organized workers in the cam-
paign to oust the French from
this nation.

. National defense industries
have been built, heavy machin-
ery has been moved to safe
areas and production has boom-
ed as workers “have contrib-
uted tens of millions of hours
in addition to the official work
days,” the federation . reported.
At the same time, it added,
living standards have been im-
proved.

The federation pledged to
strengthen itself “to conquer the
enemy and build up a new and

China plans
to organize
all workers

—PEIPING.
Organization of all Chinese
workers in about a year’s time
Was the goal announced by Vice-
Chairman Li Li-san of the All-
China Federation of Labor at a
conference here.
Called by the federation, the
meeting was attended by 237 dele-

gates who discussed immediate
tasks facing the Chinese labor
movement.

Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh of
the Communist-led Liberation Ar-
mies told delegates that the “work-
ing class in new democratic
China has been liberated politi-
cally and has become the leading
class in the country.”

In the state-owned enterprises,
he said, workers must unite to
overcome burocracy and fulfil pro-
duction quotas. The workers, he
added, should now learn how to
manage production.

With development of production,
the people’s wealth would increase,
he pointed out, and living stan-
dards would go up.

* + *
—MUKDEN.

Seventeen publicly owned mech-
anized farms which were organ-
ized for production last spring
are expected to turn out more
than 30,000 tons of wheat, rice,
soy beans, corn and other prod-
ucts this year, it was announced
here.

More than 200 tractors have been
used on the 55,000 acres under
cultivation. The experience gained
on these mechanized farms will
be used to teach peasants in other
sections of Manchuria. Two trac-
tor teams are now assisting farm-
ers in the Mukden area to raise
their agricultural output.

Pope excommunicating
‘all Czech workers’

\ PRAGUE

Czech Premier Zapotocky told a
meeting of 15,000 trade unionists
that “if the Pope today excommu-
nicates all Communists and all be-
lieving Christians who co-oper-
ate with them, then he should be
aware that he is excommunicating
all Czechoslovak working people.”

This was followed by a state-
ment from Dr. Polansky, vice-
chairman of the Catholic Action
Committee, that the “Czech Ca-
tholic Action” would establish in-
ternational relations with progres-
sive Catholics throughout the

democratic economy.”

world.

RACIAL LAWS MEET WIDE RESISTANCE

—CAPE TOWN.

Stern warning that the Nation-
alist government of Prime Min-
ister Malan “is a Nazi govern-
ment” bent on destroying all civil
liberties in South Africa was
given by Sam Kahn, MP. when
he addressed a conference called
‘by the Actjon Committee for Free-
dom of Speech, Assembly and
Movement . in Johannesburg re-
cently. rf

The conference, attended by
delegates representing nearly 150,-
000 people, was held in private
because Justice Minister C. R.
Swart, invoking the Riotous As-
semblies act, recently prohibited
Kahn from addressing any public
meetings on the Rand for one
year.

Kahn, the Union’s first Com-
-munist MP and a member of Cape
Town city council, is one of three
white members elected directly by
Africans to represent them in the
House of Assembly, and Swart’s
order was designed to prevent him
from organizing non-European op-
position to the Nationalists’ fas-
cist apartheid (segregation) and
similar discriminatory laws.

Kahn told the Johannesburg

conference that the
government “has terrific powers
under such measurés as the Riot-
ous Assemblies act. Power must
be challenged by power. That
challenging power is in the work-
ing people of South Africa, united
among all races. Our task is to
use that power to smash the gov-
ernment and its fascist legisla-
tion.”

Protesting Swart’s order in the
House of Assembly earlier, Kahn
stated:

“The exercise of powers such as
the minister already has under the
Riotous Assemblies act prevents
citizens from discussing the prob-
lems of the day and expressing
opinions on‘them. That is why I
fee] it necessary to protest against
the suppression of liberty in South
Africa.

“The minister is deceiving no
one but himself when he comes
before the House and says the
expression of these points of view
is likely to lead to racial friction
in South Africa. The irrespons-
ible exercise of power by ministers
of state represents a grave dan-
ger to our concepts of democracy
in South Africa.

Nationalist ’

South African gov't termed ‘Nazi’

“The exercise of power must be
subject to check, otherwise it be-
comes unbridled.”

Kahn added that Swart would
“find among his own supporters

the inciting racialists who are
doing incalculable harm to the
good relations which should
exist between the peoples of
various races and colors in
South Africa,” and he pointed to
Labor Minister Ben Schoeman
who had contemptuously refer-
réd to Colored, African and In-
‘dian citizens as “Hottentots,
Kaffirs and Coolies.”

Dr. A. B. Xuma, president-gen-
eral of the African National Con-
gress, has also warned the gov-
ernment that “the insults, humilia-
tions and restrictions which are
being piled upon the non-Euro-
peans will have far-reaching re-
sults.

“ They cannot reasonably be ex-
pected to cause the non-Europeans
to have any respect for Euro-
peans who resort to such doubt-
ful methods to retain their ques-

tionable superiority,” he declared.

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