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Phillipine terror

MANILA—The wholesale cam-
paign of terror, intimidation and
suspension of civil liberties. which
has marked the Philippine gov-
ernment’s drive against the peas-
ant movement is now being ex-
tended to the city of Manila.

People have been arrested
without. warrant and without
charge and are held without bail
on the merest suspicion of sym-
pathy with the Hukbalahap, the
peasants’ resistance movement
which fought the fascists auring
the war and is now seeking land
reform and a fair, distribution of
crops.

In some cases, people who were
members of the Huk’s wartime
guerrillas but who have been
peacefully seeking a livelihood in
the city since the war's end have
been kidmapped, taken to the
jails of Central Luzon and there
beaten to death.

Labor leaders expect to be the
next to feel the weight of sup-
pression. During the recent visit
of -world-touring American news-
paper publishers, Roxas took time
out to denounce the Congress of
Labor Organization as a “Com-
munist” group.

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Greek ‘democracy’

ATHENS—Many of the 6,000
persons rounded up in Greek gov-
ernment raids have been sent to
island concentration camps with
no more clothing than the py-
jamas they wore when arrested.
Those transported te the island of
Jearia had to travel for 48 hours
without food or water. On Iearia,
prisoners must sleep in the open
because there isn’t enough shelter
for the thousands the Greek
regime has exiled.

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Smuts ignores UN

CAPETOWN, South Africa —
Though many months have
elapsed since the United Nations
General Assembly called on’ South
Africa to conform to the UN Char-
ter by ending its slave-like treat-
ment of Indian and native com-
munities, practically no step has
been taken to extend civil rights
beyond the white population.

In African labor camps there
are still hundreds of thousands of
migrant workers, driven from the
land by crop failures or govern-
ment taxes they cannot meet.
Others are thereafter being arrést-
ed for violation of the Pass Laws,
which prohibit natives from leav-
ing their quarters without special
passes signed by employers.

During a recent visit to the
Bethal district, an ALN corres-
pondent asked an African farm
laborer to describe the conditions
under which he worked. He si-
lently took off his shirt to reveal
large welts and scars received in
a whipping administered for no
reason that he knew.

US occupation policy
to aid war potential

BERLIN.—American occupation poliey in Germany will

wars to emerge once again as

be directed toward-encouraging the maihspring of two world

a major European power, un-

der a new directive compiled jointly by the U.S. State, War

and Navy Departments.
Publication of the directive ap-
parently confirmed the fears ex-
pressed by the eight nations that
refused to take part in the re-
cent Paris conference on Secre-
tary of State George C. Mar-
shall’s proposal that European
countries jointly work out their
reconstruction needs in anticipa-
tion of possible U.S. assistance.
The countries that abstained
from’ the conference—Czechoslo-
vakia, Finland, Poland, Romania,
Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria
and the Soviet Union—all voiced
the fear that the U.S. intended
to encourage revival of a pow-
erful Germany as part of the
Marshall plan. These countries,
all of which were devastated by
the Germans during the war, op-
pose the rebuilding of Germany
until the victims of Nazi aggres-
sion are back on their feet.

The new U.S. directive orders
a complete turnabout on the
question of German de-industrial-
ization. Whereas it had been
agreed by the three major war-
time allies that Germany’s indus-
trial capacity, and her resulting
war-making potential, should be
kept within definite limits by the
occupying powers, the new U.S.
directive limits industrial produc-
tion only where it involves di-
rect manufacture of arms, am-
munition and other war imple-
ments.

Big Three agreements had spec-
ified that part of Germany’s pro-
duction should go to those coun-
tries whose industries were de-
stroyed by German invasion, put
the new directive says the new
German reconstruction program
must have priority over repara-
tions and that the U.S. will not
agree “to finance the payment of
reparations by Germany to other
United Nations by increasimg its
financial outlay in Germany or
by postponing the achievement
of a_ self-sustaining Germany
economy.” ©

Carefully protecting the inter-
ests of those American big busi-
nessmen who owned substantial

shares in the German trusts,
the directive orders occupation .
authorities to see “to the great-
est extent practicable, that no
plant in which there is foreign
ownership or control is remoy-
ed for reparation as long as
German-owned plants are avail-
able for that purpose. It also
orders that no plant in which
there is foreign control be na-
tionalized.

On union organization; tme di-
rective tells U.S. occupation au-
thorities to “permit the organiz-
ation, operation and free devel-
opmént of trade unions, provid-
ed that their leaders are respon-
sible to the membership and their
aims and practices accord with
democratic principles.” The term
“democratic principles” is not
defined in the order and union-
sists here wonder whether the
Taft-Hartley law is included in
the concept of “democratic prin-
ciples” in the minds of U.S. au-
thorities.

A lead for the Gervins

At a conference of 200 top AFL leaders in Washington, Prest
dent Green (left) said that labor “will never stop fighting until

the Taft-Hartley act is repealed
defeated.” AFL leaders in

British Columbia could
suit to sweep out Bill 8% and its Coalition backers. With Greet
are AFL Counsel Joseph Padway and President William Ll.
Hutcheson of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.

and those who voted for it are
well follow

Tory -dominated policies bring

hardship,

disillusion to Brit
By KONNI ZILLIACUS, MP. :
LONDON.—Onur foreign policy chickens are coming home to roost.

Mr. Morrison's

(Lord President of the Council) very grave warning that the clock would strike 12 in Novem
ber ought to make’ people realize that Britain is faced with drastic cuts in food, clothes a”
standards of living, largely because there are four times as many men under arms today 4°

there were two years after the
end of World War 1 and one
million more men than we had
in 1939 on the eve of World War
2.

This is the price Britain pays
for failing to base its defense
policy on loyalty to the United
Nations and to its fundamental
principle that the permanent Se-
curity Council members must
trust each other.

Southern interior [WA
vote for strike action

Possibility of a shutdown

in B.C. southern Interior log-

ging camps and sawmills, through insufficient concessions of
lumber operators, loomed on the provincial labor horizon
this week. Over 3,000 workers are involved in the contract

dispute, and those in the Kam-
loops and Cranbrook areas have
voted 94 to 96 percent respectively
for strike action. Kelowna IWA

members are expected to follow

suit in balloting this week.
Harold ‘Pritchett, IWA  presi-

dent, returning from southern In-

Scene from ‘Hello Moscow,’ new Soviet musical which
opens at the State Theatre for one week, starting with a
midnite show, Sunday, August 3.

FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947

terior negotiations at Kelowna,
last week told the Tribune that op-
erators have offered the IWA only.
half a cent more than the ini-
tial 10 cent offer, which the union
rejected. No other offer on the
union’s other demands for aboli-
tion of discriminatory ‘range
rates’ and a shorter work week
were made.

Pritchett stated the IWA would
agree to the Prince George north-
ern Interior settlement, but ‘“noth-
ing less than that.” Northern In-
terior woodworkers received a 121%
cent increase. They also got wage
increases, some as high as 27 cents
an hour, for some 23 separate cate-
gories, maintenance of the exist-
ing 44-hour week, and abolition of
‘range rates’—the latter being a
major “bone of contention” in the
southern Interior talks.

Strike action by the southern
Interior IWA woodworkers, would
constitute a complete shunning of
the objectionable government-su-
pervised strike vote, and other fea-
tures of Bill 39. Union spokesmen,
in explaining this course, point out
that Labor Minister George Pear-
son himself stated on the floor of
the legislature that the govern-
ment
practical in the woodworking in-

dustry.

supervised vote was not,

Britain’s difficulties are intrin-
sically greater than those of eith-
er the U.S. or the USSR. Our
world position has changed more
drastically than theirs and in a
much more unpleasant direction.
Whereas they have become world
powers who by the sheer weight
of their population, resources and
territories must remain in the
front rank whatever they do, Bri-
tain can remain the political and
economic center of gravity of a
rapidly evolving worldwide com-
munity of dominions and- colonies
and can retain a first class in-
fluence in world affairs only by
displaying a greater degree of
statesmanship and moral cour-
age than we have ever done be-
fore.

Hitherto British foreign policy
has, been conducted by the prop-
ertied classes and for the proper-
tied classes. A democratic foreign
policy, representing and defend-
ing the interests of the Brrttish
people, would be a _ revolutionary
innovation.

In Asia it would mean substi-
tuting internationalism for im-
perialism as the object of our pol-
icy; in Europe, an advance to
Socialism and not a return to
capitalism as the foundation for
uniting and pacifying Europe and
promoting the spread of democ-
racy and political freedom.

In. world. affairs it means
abandoning the tradition of the
balance of power and basing our
policy on the UN Charter, striv-
ing to convert UN into a sys-
tem of world government effec-
tive enough to banish the fear of

war. This is the policy in ac-
cord with the Labor party’s elec-

tion pledges and Socialist prin-
ciples,
The government, paying  ful-

some lip-service to the UN, has
in fact based its policy on ‘a
special association with the U.S.,
including an arms tieup. and joint
preparations to use Anglo-Ameri-
can diplomatic, economic and mil-
itary power to uphold its views
of its rights and interests in
world affairs against the USSR.
This was the foreign policy orig-
inally proclaimed by Mr. Win-

ston Churchill at Fulton, Mo.,

and since taken up by Pres
dent Truman. It means building
up a new balance of power and
using war aS an instrument of
national, or rather bi-national
Anglo-American policy.

In the Middle East we have
never attempted to bring the So-
viet Union into partnership }”
the control of oil resources,
international development schemes
in settling the fate of Palestine
in international policing arrange’
ments and in international contre,
not only of the Dardanelles bu
also of the Suez Canal, unde?
the auspices of the UN.

In Europe, the Labor gover®
ment has’ associated itself
and approved of the Truman doc-
trine, proclaimed without cop:
sulting Britain, openly directed
imposing private enterprise oF
talist economics, which Preside?
Truman identified wtih the 9@
fense of democracy, on Burop® -

The rejection by the pritish

government of the Soviet propey
al to use the European Econom}
Commission of the UN, which naé
been designed for that purPpor’
in order to organize Europe's i
sponse to th Marshall offer
largely responsible for the fai
to secure the cooperation of
Soviet Union and Eastern
ope.

By thrusting the European
nomic Commission roughly
Britain has laid itself open ing
the suspicion that it is act to
not as a free agent tryiné de
unite Europe, but as the er
pendent and client of the POW),
that-be in the U.S. who wart ail
make the world safe for it

Street in the name of savi0k
from Communism.

jure

yer
aside

the Labor 5
that Mr. (Ernest) Bevin’s spel
binding triumph crushed the a8
called rebels, But if ane
imagines that those whe
been elected on a Socialist ey
eign policy will remain Lisi
while we lose the peace by °
stinate attempts to aPPly
unworkable and dishonest - ue
foreign policy, they are in

a rude disillusion.

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