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LONDON
: Plotting to disrupt working-

bs oe Unity in Italy has become
 Self-imposed pastime for

British Labor leaders.
Hugh Gaitsell, Labor Oppo-

4 Sition leader, took parliament’s

(@ster recess as an opportuni-
Y to visit that attractive but

fj POVerty-stricken tountry.

€ was preceded a few

# Weeks earlier by his “shadow

“abinet” foreign secretary and
party leadership,

£0peration which has streng-

al weed the Italian working
ass against its many power-

enemies.

he two parties between
them got 9,500,000 votes in the
8eneral election, increas-

The Communists again em-

“i '8ed as the main working

Class Party in Italy with 6,122,-

he 638 votes; the Nenni Socialists
y St 3,440,200.

, Right-wing (Saragat) Social-

48's got 1,223,000 and they are

wi the coalition government
u a the Christian Democrats.
» 0th Gaitskell and Bevan

aN So trying hard to get Nenni

SCialists to join the Saragat

So far they have
*£N unsuccessful.

ast week Gaitskell gave
Jan Social Democratic lead-
1S approval of their re-
to merge with the So-
until the Socialists
~*Ve broken more definitely

fusal

t the Communists.
thovitskell also agreed that
oH Social Democrats should
the quit the government until

© Socialists, led by Pietro
nni, have broken. their alli-

Nee with the Communists in
cit municipal and provin-
: Councils.

i bent addition “to this witch-

Nting intervention in Italian

Tae Gaitskell made a strong

mn War speech at a public
€eting in Rome.

ih r said 100 million people

! in astern Europe were liv-
all Sh, Under an alien dictator-
Bee

free and, “while we cannot
A them by force, we must
by What we can to help them
” diplomatic means.”

Bs Ut even if foreign forces
t

ic. Withdrawn from West

"any it would be necessary
Continue to keep NATO
Merican troops in West-
Urope “as a safeguard.”
hal alliances, such as
Under’ were fully justified
«et the UN Charter.

Baga question whether the
Cay re Pact and SEATO are
ie ly desirable seems to me
Benga. a practical one, de-
to. 28 On whether any mili-
ty », 2dvantages are sufficient
digg ence certain political
~yYantages,” said Gaitskell.
Bt hile Gaitskell and Bevan
Thajog nocuvring to split the
ae Working class parties,
to Munist strength appears

Neo

-- © increasing again.

ist yy Increase in the Commun-
Way ote in the recent munici-
flection in Rimini, on the

HUGH GAITSKELL

PIETRO NENNI

Adriatic coast, prompts the
New York Times correspon-
dent in Rome to comment that
instead of declining, the in-
fluence of the Communist
party is growing.

The Communist vote in Rim-
ini rose to 36.1 percent from
34.5 percent in May last year.
The Communists increased
their representation by two;
the Christian Democrats by
one,

The New York Times cor-
respondent writes:

“Strategists of all parties
had attached considerable im-
portance to the Rimini test.
Its result shattered any illu-

sions that the Communist dan-

ger in Italy is over. ;

“The Rimini election, in fact,
confirmed the trend that be-
came apparent in the local
elections in the towns of Lec-
co and Cremona in northern
Italy during the last few
weeks.”

Chinese workers

J
covered by benefits
PEKING

Workers covered by full
state social insurance rose by
30 per cent to 7,500,000 -last
year, according to the All-
China Federation of Trade
Unions.

This does not include office
workers who are dealt with
separately.

Insurance covers medical
treatment, disability relief of
up to 75 percent of the wage,
paid sick leave, ‘old age pen-
sions up to 70 per cent of the
wage, funeral expenses, and
assistance to dependants.

Soviets cut prices
"of consumer goods

MOSCOW

Reduction in the prices of a number of items of consumer ‘goods were an-
nounced by the Soviet Ministry of Trade here last week.
These include alarm clocks — reduced by 20 percent, ladies’ gold watches
— 10 to 15 percent, canned fish — 10 percent, various items of household electrical

equipment — up to 30 percent, and cosmet ics —

The price reductions are not
so extensive as in previous
years, but this will come as
no surprise to the Soviet pub-
lic.

For at the 20th congress cf
the Soviet Communist party

it was decided to give priority
to raising old age, sickness and
disability pensions and the
wages of lower-paid unskilled
workers.

Soviet Communist party sec-

up to 20 percent.

retary Nikita Krushchev point-
ed out at the time that it
would not be possible to ef-
fect price reductions on the
same scale as in earlier years,
while increasing pensions and
wages.

Carey's resignation places issue

of racism before AFL-CIO body.

WASHINGTON

Racism, as well as racketeering, will be among the thorny problem before the AFL-CIO
Executive Council when it meets here on May 20.
The racist issue is posed by the reported resignation of James B. Carey as chairman of
the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Committee.

The New York Times, reporting Carey’s resignation, said:

“Authoritative sources said
his action was based on a be-
lief that the committee had
not been given enough power
or freedom to do an effective
job of stamping out racial bias
in unions.”

Carey is president of the In-
ternational Union of Electri-
cal Workers, and AFL - CIO
vice-president, secretary-trea-
surer of the AFL-CIO Indus-
trial Union Department and
a member of the eight-man
AFL-CIO Executive Council.
. The New York Times said
his resignation meant “a new
top-level feud’? in the AFL-
CIO.

The paper also disclosed
that Carey had shown his dis-
satisfaction with another
phase of the top level. AFL-
CIO operation by quietly drop-
ping out of its International
Affairs Committee a few weeks
ago,

His was the second defection
from that committee. Last Oc-
tober Jacob S. Potofsky, presi-
dent of. the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, resigned as
co-chairman of the committee.

Carey had previously ex-
pressed resentment over being
hamstrung on his civil rights
assignment. Last November
AFL-CIO President George
Meany tried to pacify Carey
by naming him as head of a
subcommittee to look into
charges of racial discrimina-
tion against unions.

The last straw for Carey
was the refusal of Cleveland
Local 38 International Broth-
erhood of Electrical Workers
to admit Negro members.

The AFL-CIO Executive
Council meeting might have
to act on Carey’s resignation.
The council has already scnhe-
duled consideration of racket-
eering charges against Presi-
dent Dave Back of the Teara-
sters Union.

“Thus, two of what Michael
Quill calls the three R’s —
racketeering and racism —

will be here to plague the
council. The third R — raid-
ing — is an ever-present
thorn:

Carey has had niore than
his share of trouble in the

raiding department. His IUE
is being sued for libel by two
old line AFL unions — the
Machinists and Sheet Metal
Workers — as an aftermath
of a jurisdictional squabble.

Lidice anniversary to be
held when roses in bloom

‘PRAGUE

Almost 15 years have passed since the Nazis razed the min-
ing town of Lidice to the ground in an attempt to quell by
terror the growing Czech resistance movement. People all over
the world determined to keep the village’s name alive as a
symbol of the will to conquer fascism; many towns took Lidice’s

name,,and monuments to its

murdered inhabitants were
erected.
Welsh miners initiated a

“Lidice Shall Live’ campaign
in Britain which grew
throughout the postwar years,
and two years ago resulted in
the planting of a Rose Garden
of Friendship and Peace on
the slope joining the site of
the old Lidice and the new
town built by government
funds, where the surviving

Sukarno states aims

of emergency cabinet

JAKARTA

President Sukarno, of Indo-
nesia has outlined the three-
point foreign policy of his
new emergency: cabinet, creat-
ed after the country’s recent
crisis. It: continues the inde-
pendent neutralist policy of
the last government.

He enumerated the points as
the struggle against colonial-
ism, return of West Irian
(Dutch New Guinea), and
maintenance of a strictly in-
dependent line in the world
ideological struggle, were the
points the President said.

He would insist “on, restora-
tion of,strict discipline within
all ranks of the army.”

Lidice women live with their
families.

The 15th anniversary of
Lidice will be commemorated
on June 16 by ceremonies at
the mass grave where 183
Lidice men and boys are
buried, and a vis to the rose
garden, whose 24,000 rose
bushes presented by 34 coun-
tries should by then be in
full bloom.

While it will be primarily a
Czechoslovak occasion, foreign
visitors are expected and for
them various other activities
will also be organised.

The Czecholovak Committee
for the Rose,Garden of Friend-
ship and Peace has produced
a 16 mm. still film combining
views of the actual destruction
of Lidice taken from the docu-
mentary made on the spot with
typical Nazi thoroughness, of
Oradour in France which suf-

‘fered the same fate, activities
.in other countries in support

of Lidice, and finally color
shots of the garden and of life
in the new Lidice.

It has also produced a series
of postcard views and a com-
memorative postcard designed
by the painter Zdenek Choten-
ovsky, which will be mailed to
those abroad who participated
in tha memorial campaigns.

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