At signing of Sino-Soviet treaty in Moscow A new Soviet-Chinese pact was recently signed in Moscow, and this photo shows Premier Chou-En-Lai affixing his signature to the historic document. Watching him, from left to right, are Chinese deputy chief of staff Su-Yui; Chinese ambassador Chang Wen-Tien; Soviet legal department head G. L. Tunkin; Chinese economic ex- pert Li-Fu-Chung; Soviet premier Joseph Stalin; Soviet vice-premier G. M. Malenkov; L. B. Beria, A. L: Mikoyan, L. M.. Kaganovich and N. A. Bulganin. Unions lay charges before UN UNITED NATION, N.Y. Pending before the United Na- tions Economic and Social Counci} are a series of complaints by the World Federation of Trade Unions and its affiliates on violations of trade union rights in South Africa, Japan, Spain and otker parts of the world. : Ore WFTU complaint draws the UN body’s attention “to the recent and continuing attacks on trade union rights taking place in South Africa on the pretense of ‘suppress- ing communism.’ “On May 20 last,” it says, “three non-European and three European trade union leaders received notice from the minister of justice for- Official U.S. figures reveal 486 POW’s shot in Korea prison camps during October By WILFRED BURCHETT KAESONG According to American figures, a total of 486 prisoners have been killed and wounded in POW camps on Koje Island ‘and the mainland of South Korea in October. This is the bloodiest month so far recorded. Total killed and wounded announced by the Americans themselves is thus brought to over 1,600 Korean and Chinese prisoners since February. This is far below the real total. Facts supplied by escaped prisoners and by others who were forced to take part in burial squads | Show that thousands more casualties have not been announced. ‘Every day the Geneva Conven- tion and standards of human decen- cy aré violated by the Americans ‘on Koje Island. Machine - guns, flame - throwing’ . tanks, gas bombs and ferocious dogs are used against unarmed prison- rs—only for singing their national for demanding their rights under the Convention. Words have lost their meaning: when this can be spoken of at the United Nations as “the highest ex- pression of humanitarianism.” Official protests from the Koréan and Chinese delegates at Panmun- jom have gone unanswered. One can only imagine what ern world if the story were reversed —if American, British and French prisoners were being killed at an an- nounced rate of about 100 a month. On thing is certain, and that is that the Koreans and Chinese will never give up their demands for the return of prisoners of war to their homes. bidding them as ‘named’ Commun- would be the reaction of the West-. Tito wants to carve up Poland ists from taking any part in public ‘life and ipso facto, from carrying on their trade union work. These trade unionists, if they are Com- munists—we are not aware of their political opinions except in the case of E. Sachs who is not a Communist —are known not for this fact, but for their trade union activity and this attack is clearly a bid to silence the militant sections of the Southi PARIS. Emerging as ‘the unabashed puppet of the U.S., Marshall Tito last week came forward in sup- port of U.S. demands for the forcible alteration of Poland’s frontier with Germany. Speaking in Zagreb, he told del- egates to his congress of what will henceforth be known officially as the League of Yugoslav Commun- ists, that what he called “the par- titioning of Polish and German territories” as agreed at Potsdam “should be revised.” Tito announced that he was go- ing to try to influence left wing and progressive movements in other countries in an attempt to whip up support for his dictator- ship in Yugoslavia. African trade union movement. “One of these trade unionists is the prominent African, J. J. Marks, president of the African Mine Workers Union and of the. Trans- vaal African Congress. Another is the Indian, Gensen Poonen, secre- tary of the Tobacco Workers Union. The three European workers are I. Wolfsen, for the last 20 years sec- retary of the Tailoring Workers Industrial Union, R. Fleet, 15 years secretary of the Hairdressers Em- ployees Industrial Union and J.-D. Du Plessis, vice president of the Union of Laundering Cleaning and Dyeing Workers.” The WFTU said the South Af- rican trade union movement had appealed to it and other organiza- tions to join in a world protest against the actions of the South Songs, dancing their national dances, U.S. grabs uranium in Australia - BRISBANE The Kennecott Copper Company of the United States is demanding! the Menzies government’s permis- Sion to bring some thousands of Japanese miners into the northern territory to mine uranium, copper, and other metals, the Queensland Guardian charged ‘here. “In flagrant defiance of federal and northern territory legislation, but with the Menzies government's Sanction, Electrolytic Zinco’ Com- Pany has begun mining preparations n the Arnhem land aboriginal re- Serve,” the newspaper said. ‘These are among developments in the Scrambhe by U.S. and Collins Housé Monopoly interests to loot northern Australia’s resources of uranium nd other minerals.” _ It said Mount Isa Mines, which 'S controlled by Kennecott through he American Smelting and Refining Company, has been asked by the S0vernment to work the Rum Jungle Uanium field. It quoted a Kenne- Sott spokesman as having told the Srisbane Telegraph that “America 'S ready to move in” on Australian Mineral resources. The Guardian said the Manzies 80vernment was hedging on Kenne- “ott’s demand ‘that it be allowed to tng in Japanese miners because ‘t feared Australians’ reactions to Such g proposal. Jewish leader sees danger in re-emergence of Nazi SS LONDON “The public re-emergénce of Hitler’s infamous $S and the brazén effrontery of Nazi ex-General Ramcke point a clear warning,” A. L. Easterman, of the World Jewish Gongress, declared here follow- ing the march of former SS Black Guards through the streets of Verden, in the British zone of West = Germany, The SS Black Guards formed “the greatest murder organisation in history,” he said. “The hands of its members, the hoodlums of Nazi Germany, are stained with the blood of many millions of innocent civilians—men, women and children.” The British High Commissioner in Germany has called for a report on the speech made at the SS rally by General Ramcke, the former paratrooper, who declared that the list of Nazi war criminals was in fact, a “roll of honor.” But a British Foreign Office of- ficial made clear that the British) government had no plans so far for action against the revived organiza- tion of the SS. “The legal position,” the foreign office claimed, “is obscure and the high commissioner has been advised that grounds for intervention on present information are not very stable.” He tried to excuse the failure of the government to act by claiming that the SS were now calling them- selves a “welfare organization.” Apart from members of General Gille’s own Viking Division of the Waffen SS, members of Hitler’s own SS regiment, the ‘“Leibstand- arte,” and the other crack SS regi- ments, Deutschland and Germania, are members of the organization, which has been working quietly in the British Zone for nearly two years, British Foreign Office efficials also said they had, “no:comment” on the call to war against the Soviet Union made by war criminal Field- Marshal Kesselring after his release by British authorities. ‘Fuller versions of the Kesselring speech which have now arrived in London, show that it was an even more blatant appeal for war than at first appeared. “I am convinced,” Kesselring said, “that a future German force based on a nucleus of experienced East-Front soldiers will show the same fighting spirit against Bol- shevism as the Wehrmacht.” It was announced that Kesselring has accepted the presidency of the ‘Stahlhelm, the nationalist soldiers’ organization. formed in 1918 to overthrow the young German re- public. ALBERT KESSELRING A new call for war. . African government. “We there- fore unreservedly condemn these -actions of the Malan government,” it said, “and seek your help in persuading the South African government to renounce its anti- democratic policy and to cease persecuting the trade union move- ment in general and individual trade unionists in particular.” Another WFTU complaint, sub- mitted before passage this summer of Japan’s so-called anti-subversive activities law, charged that Japan- ese workers are being denied the right to organize and to bargain and to act collectively, in violation of a constitutional guarantee. Among the violations it cited was “the staging of such incidents as the Matsukawa case, now referred to as the Northeast District Train Derailment Case and the passing of terrorist sentences on the victims with the obvious aim of discourag- ing trade unionists from militant activity. Some 13,000 trade union- ists have been dismossed for trade union activities.” A complaint charging that legiti- mate unions have been dissolved in Spain was submitted the council by the Trade Unions International of Workers in the Food, Tobacco and Beverages Industries and Hotel, Cafe and Restaurant Workers (WFTU). It charged that “Fran- co’s fascist regime subjects broad working masses to inhuman exploit- ‘ation,” and said the “last vestiges of workers’ rights and liberties have been abolished.” A lengthy complaint from the Dutch Unified Trade Union, a WFTU affiliate, protested a decree authorizing the dismissal of civil service workers who belong to the union or other progressive organiz- | ations. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 14, 1952 — PAGE 3