Bombs devastate Korea

Throughout the length and breadth of Korea today, wherever
American bombers have dumped their lethal loads, the villages are in
ruins in which survivors search hopelessly for a few belongings. All this
death and destruction could have been avoided had the U.S. been willing

to enter into peaceful negotiations.

Plot to imprison
French unionists
charged to Green

PARIS

. A charge that the American Federation of Labor is in-
Volved in a conspiracy aimed at jailing the militant leaders

Of the French General Confederation of Workers

(CGT)

through a series of police provocations has been made by

the CGT bureau here.

By imprisoning the most mili-
tant CGT officers and rank-and-file
leaders, who are regarded as a ma-
Jor obstacle to plans for a war
8gainst the Soviet Union, the Am-
fricans and their French collabo-
Tators hope to frighten workers
“Aere into passive aeceptance of a
War, the CGT charged. “

_ Named specifically as leaders
M the plan were AFL president
William Green and AFL Euro-
Pean representative Irving Brown
Who, the CGT said, “has been}

Passing out dollars in France
Since 1946 with ‘a free hand to
all adventurist splitters who want
to act as agents for the U.S. gov-
ernment.”

Asserting that Green boasts of

ving spent “tens of millions of
Qollars to fight the European work-
Mg class and to smash their un-
‘ons,” the CGT pointed out that the
AFT, president “is constantly urg-
Mz a preventive war of aggression
S8ainst the USSR (with the blood
°f the French people, of course).”

Although extreme right-wing

Merican labor officials have been
 8ctively intervening in the affairs
°f the European labor movement
or years, recent developments and
nformation gathered from private
Sources by the CGT indicate a
‘eightened drive to march the wor-
€rs of Europe into war,

Im an interview with Allied
Labor News, CGT international
Affairs secretary Michel Quatre-
Point cited as evidence the sche-

Uled invasion of France, Italy
8nd other western European na-

ions by two groups of U.S. union
°fficials who, according to claims
mM a recent announcement in
Washington, . will bring “Ameri-
Can labor know-how” to their

uropean colleagues. One group
of 100 officials will be financed by
the Us. government itself, and
the Second group, consisting of
20 Officials, will be sent over di-

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rectly by the leadership of some_
U.S. unions,

Both groups plan to operate in
western Europe for a year, by far
the longest period abroad announ-
ced for any of the U.S. labor mis-
sions that have been touring Eu-
rope under the Marshall plan. This
wholesale invasion, and the plan to
resort to police provocations, is a
tacit admission of the failure of
the three-year-old, dollar-launched
Force Ouvriere, under the leader-
ship of Leon Jouhaux, to achieve
its objective of drawing French
workers away from the CGT.

Estimating that the CGT repre-
sents about 70 percent of the French
workers, Quatrepoint said the trend
of shop and other union elections
over the last two years has shown
the steadily mounting influence and
popularity of the CGT, which is in
the fore of the fight for peace and
improved living conditions. ~

As to the proposal that police
provecations be organized, the
CGT said: “Green and Brown are
of the opinion: that in this way
the principal affiliates of the CGT
can be quickly decapitated and
that after the arrest of the mili-
tant leadership, it will be possible
to organize, among the CGT mem-
bers, new elections run by public
agencies in which all candidates ©
will have to take anti-Communist
oaths.”

The CGT has issued a warning
to its members to be on guard
against all provocations and “to
be ready at a moment’s notice to
defend themselves in full strength
against any aggressive attempts by
the enemies of the people and their
liberty.”

Answering a reported denial by
Green of its charges, the CGT is-
sued another statement declaring
that Green’s statement “simply
shows his fear of being unmasked
before his Own organization.”

Letters bare
Rhee's plans
for aggression

“PEKING

Documents found among the re-
cords abandoned by the South

Korean puppet regime have been

widely commented upon in the
Chinese capital since their publica_
tion in the Korean paper, Dodong
Sinum, and reproduction by Tass
News Agency. The Peking People’s
Daily observes that they provide
damning evidence of the long and
secret preparations for aggression
against the Korean People’s Demo-
cratic Republic made by Syngman.
Rhee and his American backers.

The first of three letters al-
ready published, written by Pen
Ku Yen, Rhee counsellor on
foreign affairs, outlines a series
of proposals for future opera-
tions by the armies of America,
Japan, “China” and “Korea,” in-
cluding attacks on Vladisvostock
and Manchuria. It speaks gran-
diosely of Korean and American
armies having to occupy Man-
churig and regards an attack on
North Korea a's the.first stage in
such operations.

The second letter, from Syngman
Rhee to Cho Bion Ok, his special
representative in the U.S., is dated
April 10, 1949. In it Rhee instructs
Ok not to clamor too openly for
military aid, stating that he has
already received confidential un-
dertakings from John Muccio, U.S.
ambassador to South Korea, that
“military assistance has been as-
signed and the president has signed
a corresponding document.”

Rhee states plainly, “We must
have sufficient armed forces ‘to
advance northward.” ‘Then he de-
tails the help he will need from
the. U.S. after reaching the Yalu
River (forming the border between
Korea ang Manchuria), asking for
two warships, patrol vessels, planes
and anti-aircraft guns.

Rhee also boasts in this letter
that some of Japan’s best pilots
are now working for him ‘and says
that the majority of his officers are
Japanese trained.

A letter written by Cho Bion Ok to
Syngman Rhee on October 12, 1949,
refers to a communication sent by
Rhee to a Dr. Robert Oliver, an
American professor who performed
secret missions for Rhee in the
U.S. Ok’s letter states: “Your let-
ter to Dr. Oliver concerning the
abolition, or rather liquidation, of
the puppet regime in North Korea,
Was read by me with great atten-
tion and interest.”

Ok reports that he has discussed
this question with Chang Myun,
South ‘Korean ‘ambassador to the
U.S., “and we unanimously drew
the conclusion that this has to be
regarded as the basic plan of our
governments; a plan which must
be realized when we are ready and
the opportune moment -has come.”

A further letter from Rhee to
Dr. Oliver, dated September 30,
1949, also published by the Pyong-
yang press, observes:

“J think now is the most op-
portune moment for us to take
action ang attack and liquidate
the clique in Pyongyang. We will
drive the minority of the follow-
ers of Kim Il Sung (premier of
the Korean People’s Democratic
Republic) to the mountains and
let them starve there. Then we
will push our line of defense to
the banks of the Tumen and Yalu
rivers.”

Rhee asks Dr. Oliver to convey
his opinions to President Truman
and other influential persons in the
US,

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One in

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every

four Chinese

sign for

One in every four persons
peace petition.

peace

PEKING
in China has signed the world

The total number of signatures—124,788,000 collected up
to September 23 represents 25.7 percent of the country’s
population, according to a statement issued by the Chinese
committee of the World Peace Congress.

This figure marks an increase of 25,000,000 signatures
in a two-week period, and judging by reports received in
the capital from peace committees now engaged in a tre-
mendous campaign for signatures throughout the country-

side, China will reach: if not

exceed, its aim of 150,000,000

signatures by the opening of the Second World Peace Con-
gress in Sheffield, England; on November 13.
- More than a fifth of the signatures—27,000,000—have

come. from North China, and

in the autonomous region of

Inner Mongolia where 650,000 out of a total population of
1,100,000 have signed the peace appeal.
The millions of names on the petition are representative

of all the national minorities

Kansu, Chinghai and. other provinces,

in Inner Mongolia, Ninghsia,
Moslems, Uighurs,

Mongols and Tibetans, all have signed the petition, and of
the 1,484,000 signatures collected. in Sinkiang 70 percent are
those of the Uighurs._ At one rally in Kweisui, capital of
Suiyuan province, some 200 lamas signed the appeal in Mon-
golian, Tibetan and Han languages, and in Ninghsia and
Kansu provinces Moslem priests appealed for signatures.

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VIET-NAM VICTORY
Laotians form
league fo war
against French

SAIGON

Viet Minh troops, now fully train-
ed and armed with modern wea-
pons, including artillery, this week

-wiped out some 3,000 French troops

(including many former German
Nazis) in a general counter-offen-
sive which is registering new suc-
cesses day by day.

Following on their occupation of
the border town of. Donghkee, the
People’s Army launched an attack
against the frontier post at Cao-
bang, drove out the French mer-
cenary troops, and completely
smashed them in a fierce five-day
battle. :

According to the Viet-Nam™
News Agency, a resistance league .
has been established at Laos, for
developing the struggle of the
Laotian people against the French
imperialists and their American
advisers. (Laos, with an area of
more than 89,000 square miles
and a population of 1,000,000 is
situated in West Central Indo-
china bordering on Siam.)

The Laotian people have already
established their own armed forces
and state power and for the past
five years have been struggling for
national liberation against the
French colonial forces.

The newly formed league has de-
cided to call on the Laotian people
to till twice as much land as last
year, to carry through a campaign
against illiteracy and to help the
People’s Army in opposing the
enemy. :

PACIFIC TRIBUNE

Blacklist bars
persons named
from public life

CAPE TOWN

LeVilliers Louw, the liquidator
appointed by Justice Minister Swart
to wind up the affairs of the for-
mer Communist Party of South
Africa, is sending hundreds of let-
ters to individuals throughout the
country ‘naming’ them as former
Officials, members or supporters of
that party.

If the recipients fail to reply
within three weeks and to convince
the liquidator why their names
should not be on the state “black-
list,” they will then become subject
to the various penalties, including
imprisonment,“ which the justice
ministers can impose under the
terms of the act which outlawed the
Communist party.

Persons on the “blacklist” can be
ordered to resign from public bod-
ies including parliament and pro-
vincial councils, as well as from
their posts and even their ordinary
membership in the trade unions,
cultural and sports organizations.
They can be forbidden to speak at
or attend meetings.

Among those who have already
received letters from the liquida-
tor are Sam Kahn and Fred Carne-
son, members of parliament. Should
their names be placed on the list,
Justice Minister Swart has the
power to order them to resign their
parliamentary seats at once. Fail-
ure to comply with such an order
would render them liable to three
years imprisonment without option
of a fine. A number of trade union
officials have also received letters.

Liquidator Luow was a member
of the secret investigation com-
mission on Communism which went
into action shortly after Malan’s
Nationalists came to power. He
has access to the secret files of the
“Criminal Investigation Depart-
ment” whose activities are confined
to spying on and repressing even
mildly liberal South Africans.

— OCTOBER 13, 1950 — PAGE 3

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