| Pal Mval for + eurin Bevan. | their aim is to break the ciaperation of the Neani So- j “lists with the Communists, 0 1953 ‘+ NE their joint vote by about , 1500,000. : t SOCialists. ; Ttay af With iB | aff y tnd a \Disruption aim of )Gaitskell in Italy - ES 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 Withdrawn from West "any it would be necessary Continue to keep NATO Merican troops in West- Urope “as a safeguard.”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. MAY 3, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5 ra Mm TW mena) MN MMU