12,000 Greek anti-fascists
facing death on barren isle

—BUCHAREST

Twelve thousand Greek anti-fascists, held under

conditions of indescribable misery

‘concentration camp, are facing death from starvation,
Journa i is a bare island
lacking both adequate water supply and vegetation.
It has never been inhabited by human beings before.

it is reported from Athens.

Many of the imprisoned demo-
crats suffer from tuberculosis, and.
others, owing to the complete lack |
of sanitary facilities and malnutri- |
tion, suffer from various diseases.
No doctor has ever been brought
to the island, and there are no
medicaments.

An indication of the conditions
Prevailing on Joura prison island
is the fact that the Monarcho-
Fascist authorities were unable
to find prison guards willing to
Serve there. Guards had to be
picked from soldiers of the Mon-
archo-Fascist Army who had
committed criminal offenses while
in the army.

' Prisoners ‘are being worked
Systematically to death, and even
those physically unfit are put
to work in stone quarries.

Lawyers hit
trial of ‘12’

—DETROIT
The National. Lawyers Guild in
convention here has unanimously
denounced the trial of the 12 Com-
munist leaders as “persecution,”
and demanded that the depaftment
of justice drop the case.
. The convention, counting among
its 300 delegates some of the lead-
ing legal lights in the U.S. wound |
up a four-day gathering with out-|
Spoken condemnation of Truman’s
administration’s abandoning our
Constitutional framework.”

Other proposals adopted by the)

convention were:

That the House Committee on
Vh-American ‘Activities be abol-
ished.

Revocation of all loyalty oaths.

Fight for the basic rights of the
Negro people.

Repeal all
against aliens.

The Guild called for a vigorous
campaign among congressmen and
senators against wire-tapping bills.

Another Guild resolution declar-
€d that “jurors should be selected
by lot ana only from voting lists

- to be truly representative of
the community.”

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Paparigas’ death

Finds proper niche

Former Rep. Fred A. Hartley,
co-author of the Taft - Hartley
Act, who considered it the better
part of politics not to run for re-
election, has a new job. He’s been
appointed president of the Tool
Owners’ Union, an anti-labor or-
ganization termed “fascistic” by
the New York State Board of
Standards and Appeals.

Kuhn freed by
U.S. zone court

—MUNICH
A German appeals court in the
U.S. zone has freed Fritz Kuhn,

leader of the pre-war German-
American Bund.

Kuhn, who was deported from
the U.S. in 1945, was sentenced to
ten years’ imprisonment by a de-
nazification court after landing in
Germany. The appeal court deci-
sion reduced his sentence to two
years, which he is already deemed
to have served.

Kuhn was very cocky after his
release. At a press conference here,
he assailed one of the attending
newsmen, John Roy Carlson, au-
thor of the anti-Nazi book Under
Cover, who testified against him
at his trial. “Get that Communist
out of here, I don’t want to talk to
a Russian,’ Kuhn shouted, though
Carlson is known as an anti- Com-
munist. Kuhn also said he planned
to publish an autobiography, which
he might call Mein Kampf, after
Hitler’s book, because ats good
propaganda.”

Asked about further plans, Nazi
Kuhn said he will try to regain
his forfeited U.S. citizenship and

come back to live in America, —

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—NEW YORK

Demetrios Paparigas, general secretary of the
Greek Confederation of Labor, was murdered by
the Greek fascist government, the American Council
for a Democratic Greece charged last week, although

in an Athens prison was announced
“‘suicide.”” -

In identical telegrams to Presi-
dent Truman and State Secretary
Dean Acheson, the council declar-
ed it had been warned last July
that the Royalists were planning
a fake suicide for Paparigas.

It charged that the labor lead-
er’s murder was “tragic proof
that fruit 6f American approval”
of the “fascist regime is death.”
The council called on Acheson
and Truman to obtain the release
of Greek fascism’s “next sched-
uled victims,” A. Ambatielos and
V. Bekkakos, maritime union
leaders, as well as nine others
under sentence of death.

The Paparigas murder was de-
nounced also in statements by. the
council to the United Nations Eco-
nomic and Social Council, to Dr.
Herbert Evatt, UN president, whose
intervention last November tempor-
arily halted the execution of 10
Greek unionists, to Trygvie Lie and
to the International Labor Organ-
ization.

“The allegation of the royalist
police that he ‘committed suicide,”
the ,council said of Paparigas’
death, ‘is on a par with the Roy-
alists’ charge of ‘treason’ against
him.”

Paparigas was arrested in July,
1946, for resisting the illegal disso-
lution of Greek unions and police
confiscation of union records. He
was sentenced to four months in
jail. In February, 1947, he testified
before a UN investigating team
that Royalist terror was destroy-
ing the Greek trade union move-
ment.

In May, he was denied a visa
to attend a WEFTU meeting in
Prague. Arrested in July and exiled
to Icaria without formal charges
being levied against him, he es-
caped in December.

He was rearrested in Athens in
July, 1948, the same month the
council was informed that a fake

-suicide was going to be arranged.

‘Fair Deal’
now ditched

—NEW YORK};

The rapidity with which the Tru-
man administration is throwing its
Fair Deal program to the winds
is astonishing even the most hard-
ened Washington. observers.

Even so uncritical a Truman ad-
vocate as CIO President Philip

| Murray has been forced to write to

the Senate labor committee: “The
Congress has been in session some
50 days, but not a single one of
the sorely-needed measures consti-
tuting the Fair Deal program has
been enacted or even reached the
floor.”

An early indication of Democrat-
ic welching was the 352 to 29 vote
in the House of Representatives
giving the House unAmerican ac-
tivities committee a $200,000 appro-
priation for the coming year. A
fight against the committee was
waged by Representative Vito Mar-
ecantonio of New York, sole repre-
sentative of the American Labor

party in Congress, but only 27 de-|

mocrats and one Republican joined
him in opposing the notorious com-
mittee although Truman had re-
peatedly singled it out for attack
during his campaign.

Marcantonio and a small number
of labor Democrats have also been
virtually alone in their fight to get
straight repeal of the Taft-Hartley
act and restoration of the Wagner
Act (labor’s Magna Carta) without
any amendments. The Senate labor
committee has just concluded 3%
weeks of public hearings on the
administration’s Thomas bill, which
would restore the Wagner act with
a. number of amendments.

UNEMPLOYMENT UP 2,000,000

—NEW YORK
American domestic and for-
eign policies are bringing retri-
bution in the form of a growing
economic crisis, reflected in the
%,000,000 people added to un-
employment lines in the last two
months alone.

The home market that has
always absorbed the greater part
of U.S. production has been cur-
tailed. High taxes and high
prices, induced by government
expenditures for armaments and
the “cold war,” have cut heavily
into the people’s purchasing
power, and now even these huge
expenditures can no longer keep
all the wheels of industry turn-
ing in face of falling domestic
and export markets alike.

American trade with China is

Gathering crisis dire
result of U.S. policies

Here, U.S. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin tells a
joint House-Senate economics committee that a close watch
on unemployment is necessary if adequate measures are to
be taken against the threatening depression.

an instance of how American
foreign policies are bringing dis-
aster at home, The lumber in-
dustry of the Pacific Northwest
formerly shipped huge quantities
of lumber to China for railway,
mining and building construc-
tion. This trade has now col-
lapsed and the block-long lines
of jobless men in Oregon towns
are evidence of what effect it
has had at home. Yet had the
billions of dollars the U.S. govy-
ernment has devoted to futile
efforts to bolster the corrupt
Chiang Kui-shek regime been
spent in strengthening a demo-
cratic China and developing the
almost unlimited possibilities for
trade, thousands of now unem-
ployed Americans in the Pacific
Northwest would now be work-
ing. :

Peace vital

to fulfil

extended Soviet plans

By RALPH PARKER

—MOSCOW

With one of their objectives—the attainment of pre-war industrial
and agricultural output—already reached, Soviet planners are now
looking ahead beyond the present five-year planning period.

Some enterprises expect to reach their targets by the middle of this

year, 18 months before the time
originally planned. Many more are
aiming to complete the Five Year
Plan in four years,

As a result of the growing con-
fidence in the nation’s power to
raise living standards at a consider-
ably greater pace than envisaged
immedately after the war, atten-
tion is shifting to the long-range
objectives outlined by Stalin in a
speech in a Moscow factory three
years ago.

Already a good deal of the na-
tion’s energy is going into schemes
the completion of which will span
one or two decades.

The great afforestation and soil
improvement plan is scheduled to
take 15 years to complete, while
Moscow architects, commissioned -
to work out a 25-year development
plan for the capital and other
cities, are mapping out growth
in detail over a score or so of
years.

Moscow coal Pasig have an-
nounced their second post-war Five
Year Plan; other branches of in-
dustry are working on theirs.

The average aitizen reads in
this activity a sign of the govern-
ment’s confidence in the durability
of peace. He recalls that during the
five or six years before the late
war—since the time when Stalin
at the 17th party congress in 1934
said that things were quite clearly
heading for a new war—planning

had to take into agora. the possi-
bility of war.

That is far from being the case
today. Alert to the danger, and
more keenly interested in foreign
affairs than ever before, the people
give foreign observers the impres-
sion of being supremely confident
in peace.

This confidence is being rein-
forced by the lengthening of objec-
tives only attainable if peace lasts.

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