State troopers and police, caught by the cameraman in the act of attacking a man who attended Paul Robeson’s concert at Peekskill, N.¥., demonstrates what kind of “protection” was given to concert-goers against fascist-organized violence. WHITEWASH OF FASCISTS SEEN AS AIM Peekskill NEW YORK Governor Thomas E. Dewey has stirred up a, hornet’s nest of protest with his order to a special grand jury to investi- gate sponsors of the recent Paul Robeson concert rather than the fascist violence against the con- cert-goers. Negro leaders of varying poli- tical views joined with progres- sives and trade unionists in de- nouncing the Dewey probe. Roy Wilkins, acting secretary of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People, declared: probe denounced “Governor Dewey has issued a. strange statement on Peek- skill. He has ordered a gitand jury investigation to determine the facts. But at the same time, he has expressed the opinion that the followers of Paul Robe- son provoked the violence. By issuing this statement, he has prejudiced the case and made the projected investigation a meaningless formality.” As a result of world-wide pub- licity and insistent nation-wide demands for a thorough probe of the Peekskill violence, Dewey ordered a grand jury investiga- tion, but with the obvious aim of whitewashing fascist groups and making the probe another red-baiting circus, as indicated by his charge that “Communist groups obviously did provoke the violence.” In addition, he directed the grand jury to find out especially whether the Robeson concert was sponsored for the “purpose of deliberately inciting dis- order”, ‘whether it was part of the Communist strategy to fo- ment racial and religious hat- red” and whether trade union- ists defending the concert were “a. quasi-military force.” Wallace scouts rumors of Progressive split NEW YORK. Rumors that Henry A. Wallace has split with left-wing forces in New York’s American Labor party or has plans to pull out of the Progressive party, were thoroughly exploded last weekend. Wallace vigorously denied his decision not to run for senator on the ALP ticket meant that he was withdrawing from Progressive party activity. Repudiating a story to this effect in the New York Post, Wallace said: “The press has consistently tried to write us off, to divide us, to de- stroy us—all without success. This latest effort will fail like all others. I don’t think either my friends or my enemies will be misled by ru- mors of this kind. “They know that I never run away from a good fight. The Pro- gressive party stands for the prin- ciples to which I have devoted my life and is today more important to me than ever, I am staying in this one all the way.” \ Reforestation plan speeded by machine MOSCOW The Soviet Union’s nation-wide reforestation plan, which will com- bat dust bowl conditions by plant- ing 34'billion trees in hundreds of thousands of miles of wooded shel- ter belts, will be considerably ad- vanced by a new tree-planting ma- chine, The machine can work over one and one-half miles of ground and plant 2,000 saplings an hour, and a specially designed tractor can tow seven of the machines, moving) along parallel furrows, at the same time. With a crew of 15 men, each tractor’ and seven machine assem- bly can plant 150,000 trees in a working day. A New York Times story of a split between Wallace and the Communists was similarly describ- ed as “phony” by Max Gordon, pol- itical writer for the Daily Worker, which presents® the Communist viewpoint. “The reasons why Wallace de- clined to run for senate, and why the ALP did not name a candidate, were made perfectly clear by Rep- resentative Vito Marcantonio, as well as by Wallace,” Gordon wrote. “They represent the considered views of the entire coalition com- prising the ALP, including the Communists.” These reasons are the desire of the ALP to concentrate on the New York City elections. Marcantonio is running for mayor and City Councilman Benjamin Davis, Neg- ro Communist leader, for reelection with ALP support. Gordon said the Communists en- dorse Wallace’s statement that “the Progressive party is not the Communist party” but described as “unnecessary” Wallace’s further remark that any attempt to “use” the Progressive party for Com- munist purposes would be a “dis- tinet disservice” to the cause of peace. The Daily Worker article empha- sized that the main body of Wal- lace’s speech denouncing the cold war represented the views of “the entire anti-fascist, anti-war, anti- monopoly coalition represented by the Progressive party, including its Communist supporters.” Justice dead Wiley Justice B. Rutledge. eighth and last man appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by the late President. Roosevelt, died of cerebral hemorrhage on September 10. The 55-year-old judge was known for his humane and liberal decisions. May export jobless TOKYO The Japanese government may soon be exporting its unemployed with U.S. occupation approval. Chester W. Hepler, occupation la- bor chief, said last week that un- employed Japanese would be sent to take jobs in other countries if their governments agree. Hepler is attending the International Labor Organization’s conference on em- ployment and migration at Geneva, Switzerland, where his proposal may be put formally. reached) came from Washington. U.S. state department spokesman Michael McDermott said some months ago that “the final diSpo- sition of Formosa must await the peace treaty with Japan.” Secre- tary of State Dean Acheson him- self remarked that until such a treaty, Fdrmosa was still “techni-- cally Japanese territory.” In Peiping, chief city of the new China,, U.S. pretensions are countered with this unassailable argument: Formosa was Chinese from time immemorial until con- quered by Japan in her first war with China in 1894-95. The U.S. pledged itself, at the wartime Cairo declaration of December I, 1948, that “all territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa and the Pescadores, shal] be restored to the republic of China,” The Pots- dam declaration of July 26, 1945, which set surrender terms for Japan, state: “The Cairo declara- tion shall be carried out.” “By saying that Taiwan (For- mosa) is technically Japanese terri- tory until the signing of the ‘trea- ty,” Peiping charged, “Acheson and company are asserting that Chin- ese territory stolen by Japan is really’ Japanese ... (They are) transforming Japan’s unconditional surrender into conditional surren- der.” Furthermore, another Peiping statement signed by several Chi- U.S. eyes Taiwan, contends island “still Japanese’ By ISRAEL EPSTEIN NEW YORK. U.S. policy on China, after passing from alliance with that country against Japanese invasion to “‘protecting”’ it against the political choice of its own people, has now arrived at coveting the Chinese island-province of Taiwan (Formosa). First hint of U.S. ambitions in this flourishing territory of 3!/ million people, spacious naval bases and nich reserves of minerals (into which outfits hke Reynolds Aluminum have already from the Aleutians to the Philip- pines,” the correspondent reported it as arguing. “The idea that the U.S. should sieze Formosa while it can arises naturally in many quar- ters ... Difficulties ... have been glibly ignored in propaganda of the ‘let’s grab Formosa’ school.” This propaganda was described as com- ing through “inside stories in Am- erican news agency dispatches, of- ten from Tokyo and obviously in- spired by some brand of official opinion.” In the Far East, this shameless campaign stems from General Douglas MacArthur’s “love Hiro- hito” camp. In the U.S., it is push- ed by men like Genera] Albert C. Wedemeyer; who recommended “U.S. guardianship” over Formosa back in 1947. To back this up, Wed- emeyer reported secretly, while he appealed for U.S. aid to Chiang Kai-shek as China’s “savior” -pub- licly, that Chiang “contemplates bleeding (the) island to support the tottering and corrupt Nanking re- gime.” Today China is no longer Chiang’s. She no longer believes in Acheson, Wedemeyer or Mac- Arthur as the _ disinterested friends of any Chinese whatso- ever. And the “grab Formosa” school is ready to risk a U.S- Chinese war behind the screen of a “technical Japanese title’ that nese parties noted, the kind of peace treaty contemplated by the U.S. would exclude the real Chi- nese government from consulta- tion. This meant, an official] news- paper editorial explained caustical- ly, that an “undeclared peace” with Japan would be used to fur- ther an undeclared war against China. The Formosan People’s Self- Government League also denounc- ed the “U.S. imperialist plot to split Taiwan frioom China.” It de- clared “full support for. the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in free- ing Taiwan.” * * * In the meantime, some “Amer- ican military opinion” as reported from Formosa by the New York Herald Tribune September 11 was confirming Chinese forbodings in terms much less obscure than the state depariment’s. “The map shows that the island (Formosa) is an obvious link in the chain of off-Asia strongholds does not exist. Link Pope’s speech to anti-labor law —ROME- Pope Pius said last week that the Catholic church approves of laber unions but only when they’ are “elements of order.” Continuing, the Pope referred to “the tempta- tion to misuse. .. the power of organization.” He asserted that “a firm and solid situation cannot be built except on foundations pro— vided by nature—in reality by the Creator” and advocated “a statute of public law and economic life ac- cording to professional organiza- tion.” Timing of the Pope’s statement coincided with Italian government preparations to push through a law limiting union strike rights. DEFENDS ROBESON’S RIGHTS the mobs that attacked the Peekskill, N.Y., earlier this month, Louis displayed real anger. The retired champ, who weighs his words carefully, blasted without a moment's hesitation. “Everyone in the United States is guaranteed the right to speak his mind! That meams Paul Robeson, too. “¥ don’t know what songs Robeson sung or what he said. But right or wrong Robeson should be allowed to sing and speak for what he believes!” Louis spoke with deep feel- in this country! wrong!” Blasts hoodlums Joe Louis, retired undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion, has struck hatrd against: hoodlums. Asked in. San Francisco last week what he thought about ing—he clenched one powerful fist and pounded it into his other hand. “The people who throw rocks—they’re what's wrong They are the ones who are wrong! wrong! SAN FRANCISCO. Paul Robeson concert-goers at JOE LOUIS PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 23, 1949 — PAGE 3