By GLADYS CARTER

—NEW YORK.

The Wallace party is a new par-
ty in the most important sense: it
is a new approach to American
politics. This fact stood out in a
survey of the third party conducted
by Allied Labor News.

A major break with old-party tra-
dition is the understanding—deep-
rooted among some third party
leaders and growing among others
—that its strength depends, not on
hero worship but on convincing
people of its program.

While this might seem axiomatic,
traditional U.S. political teehnique
closely resembles big business ad-
vertising. The idea is to “sell” a
candidate by slick propaganda, re-
gardless of his merits or the issues
involved: American progressives,
surrounded by this approach, have
sometimes used it themselves, It
marks .a major step forward that
leaders of the third party are con-
sciously abandoning it.

‘Most organizers of the new
movement radiate the vitality that
results from rejecting outworn

ideas and methods and searching
for better ones with frank knowl-
edge that all the answers have not

Breathing spell

been found and there
more to learn.

is always

While stemming from an organ-
ization of middle class intellec-
tuals—the Progressive Citizens of
America — the Wallace party
seeks its main base in labor. lis
aim is to insure 50 percent labor
representation at the national
third party founding convention
in July.

This is not an easy aim. The new
party is bucking almost the entire
national labor leadership. Its labor
supporters are just starting to or-
ganize rank - and - file workers
through plant Wallace committees.
Their problem is not only to reach
the workers with a positive pro-
gram, but te break down long years
of negative education by union
leaders whose idea of politics is
personal deals with the old parties.
More subtle right-wing labor offi-
cials have had success in red-bait-
ing Wallace and in arguing that a
vote for him is a wasted vote.

Third party organizers recognize
these obstacles. They feel sure,
however, that the average worker,
given the fact that the third party
alone stands for price control, high-
er wages and repeal of the Taft-
Hartley law, will take his stand for

Senator Glen H. Taylor (Dem, Idaho), third att vice presi-
dential candidate, douses his face with cold water while .Senator

William Langer (Rep.

N.D.) relieves him during his 84-hour

filibuster against the U.S. draft bill. The bill was nevertheless
passed by both houses before Congress adjourned.

—BERLIN.

Charge that currency reform “is

being carried gut separately in the
interests of American, British and
French monopolies, which are ex-
€cuting a division of Germany in-
tended to weaken Germany by sub-
jugating its economy,” is made by
Marsfal Vassily D. Sokolovsky, So-
Viet commander in Germany, in
a recent statement to the German
people,

Partial statement

text of his
read: 4

A separate currency reform has
been announced in the Western oc-
Cupation zones of Germany. By
order of the American, British ‘and
French occupying authorities, the
German Reichsmark is being taken
Cut of circulation and a separate
currency reform being introduced.

Now there will be no more uni-
form official currency and no uni-
orm money circulation. This is be-
ing done against the will and inter-
sts of the German people.

.

The currency reform is being car-
ried out separately in the interests
of American, British and French
monopolies, which are exécuting a
division of Germany intended to
weaken Germany by subjugating
its economy.

The constitutiénal unity of Ger-
many has received another severe
blow. Agreeménts on the control
mechanism of Germany and the
Potsdam decisions—which provided

that Germany be treated as an in-
dividual whole and acknowledged
the necessity for keeping up a
uniform currency circulation—have
been violated. The currency reform

earried out in the three Western

occupation zones completes the di-
vision of Germany.

The organizers of .the separate
currency reform, fearing to take
responsibility and face the resent-
ment of the German people, are at-
tempting to justify their action by
the fiction of the alleged impossi-

a

; Wallace.

Third party has chance to become
permanent -force in U.S. politics

By seeking organization
at the plant level, the Wallace com-
mittee is striving to reach millions
of these average workers with its
wider program as well.

The new character of the moye-
ment is also shown in its ap-
proach to the Negro people. More
and more Negro sympathy is at-
tracted by the honesty of purpose
among party leaders and their
willingness to learn.

White progressives have often
failed in efforts to mobilize Negro
support because they understood
the problems of America’s 13 mil-
lion colored people only superficial-
ly and relied on their own concep-
tions of how to approach them. This
teridency exists in the third party
too, but much has been done to
draw in real representatives of the
Negro people—those chosen by the
people themselves rather than
leaders supported by the whites.

The Wallace party also ap-
proaches women and national
groups with a real desire to learn
their problems and help solve
them. It avoids imposing ready-
made formulas. Party leaders. esti-
mate that 35 million Americans are
bilingual and that people of Slav
and Italian origin constitute ‘about
85 percent of the workers in heavy
industry. It offers these groups
democratic representation.

The Wallace movement aims
as quickly as possible to ‘set up
new parties in all 48 states, New
parties already exist in 24 states.
In eight of these, the parties are
on the ballot. In four others, the
parties have complied with for-
malities and await certification.
Eavh state has a separate dead-
line by which new parties must
file sufficient voters’ signatures to
appear on the ballot. Of the 18
where deadlines have passed, the
party failed to meet requirements
only in Florida.

Aside from tremendous external
obstacles, the new movement has
been slow in building machinery
necessary to coordinate the spon-
taneous pro- Wallace sentiment
throughout the country. While it
appears generally to be rejecting
bankrupt methods, some of its div-
isions still seem trapped by a mech-
anical approach.

Most serious of all is the lack of
a party organ. Outside of the lim-
ited Communist press, the papers
supporting Wallace can almost be
counted on one hand. There has
been endless talk of the need for
at least one national publication to
project the party’s full program but
nothing has come of it.

The third party has the chance
to become a powerful permanent
force in American politics if the
campaign to elect Wallace in 1948
is pursued with the goal of build-
ing a solid organization rather

than a vote-getting machine.

bility of carrying out a uniform
Germany-wide currency reform.

The aim of this fiction is to de-
ceive public opinion. A uniform
Germany-wide currency reform
on the basis of a four-power ag-
reement would be possible and
necessary. it is widely known

that the Soviet Military Adminis-
tration in Germany. acting on
instruction of the Soviet govern-
ment, always insisted upon main-
taining the politica] and econ-
omic unity of Germany. It always
resisted all separate actions that
tended to divide Germany.

ra

In the Allied Control Council the
Soviet representatives seized all
opportunities to reach an agree-
ment on carrying out a uniform
eurrency reform for the whole of
Germany. In doing so .the Soviet
representatives insisted upon estab-
lishment of an all-German financial
administration and a central Ger-
man bank of issue in order to en-
able Germans to take part in im-

‘ Se

.

- CHILDREN OF GREECE

By ISRAEL EPSTEIN

One charge made against
Greek guerrillas by the Athens,
royalist regime which has tried
for three years to exterminate
them with British and U.S. aid,
says they have torn thousands
of Greek children from their
parents to be sent abroad. There,
the story goes, the kids are re-
educated into little Bulgarians,
Yugoslavs, Czechs and Poles,
which somehow benefits inter-
national communism.

This charge’ is rather shaky
even on its face. Guerrillas who
don’t own any large cities or
sources of supply cannot sur-
vive in a land of scattered vil-
lages without the sympathy of
the people. Guerrillas who have
fought successfully against ad-
mittedly superior military forces,
first Germans, then Western-
equipped Greeks, must certainly
have a.good deal of sympathy—
which is not gained by kidnap-
ping youngsters. Nonetheless,
children touch the hearts of all
kind people, and the press has
taken up the tale to make it
easier to sell the Truntan doc-
trine.

Explanations by the Greek
guerrillas have been uniformly
ignored. For the record, the
Greek guerrills said they sent
children for shelter to neighbor-
ing countries with their parents’
approval, to avoid child casual
ties in the civil war. Moreover,
they declared, all groups of chil-
dren were accompanied by a few
chosen mothers, and wherever
they went they were educated as
Greeks.

On June 12, Homer Bigart,
New York Herald Tribune cor-
-respondent in Greece, went to
Yugoslavia to examine Greek
children’s camps there. He saw
300 in schools and dormitories
maintained by the Yugoslav Red
Cross, and 100 others. in a spe-
cial sanatorium.

“In both places,’ Bigart
wrote his paper, the kids “look-

“ed well-fed and healthy.” The
charge that they had been kid-
napped “was indignantly denied
by Red Cross Officials and
Greek adults who had shepherd-
ed the children across the fron-
tier.” Care of the children was
“in the hands of older Greek
girls and women,” many of
whom were their mothers.

As for education, Bigart said

‘Kidnap’ lie conceals
plight under tascists

“children’s readers in the Greek
language are being printed.”
Greek teachers with experience
at home were starting classes.
Yugoslays working in the camp
laughed heartily when told of
Athens charges that the children
were being taught to be “Com-
munists and savages.” They -
said: “That's silly, None of us
knows the Greek language and
these children are a little too
young for lectures on Marxism.”

Bigart satisfied “himself that
the children were as Greek as
ever, only fatter. “I remembered
seeing children in northern
Greece walk with bare, spindly
legs through snow,” he wrote,
emphasizing the contrast.

* * *

If this were all, one could only
rejoice that a particularly un-
pleasant bit of “cold war” propa-
ganda was now exposed. Unfor-
tunately it is not all. On June
21, nine days after Bigart’s eye-
witness reports, the New York
Times featured a display headed
“Abductions by Greek Rebels,” +
which repeated all the old tales
and was spread over nine col-
umns of the paper. The source
quoted by Times correspondent ©
Cc. L. Sulzberger, who wrote
from Athens, was Queen Freder-
ika of Greece, a German of
known Nazi. sympathies. a

The Queen recited, and Sulz-
berger accepted without ques-
tion, all the previous charges
that children were being seized
forcibly, that they were being
robbed of their language. Queen
Frederika “because of the kid-
nappings and general disloca-
tions in the country last year
made herself head of all aid to
Greek children,” Sulzberger ex-_
plained. She was also asking for
money, and nine columns of pub-
licity in the Times is a lot of
publicity—which child victims of
fascism seldom get in that great —
U.S, newspaper.

Speaking of kidnapping, Sulz-
berger said that some children.
in the Queen’s camp had par-
ents in the guerrilla armies
from which they have been
“saved.”

The cold war for “democracy”
isn’t exactly cold ifi some places
where shooting is being done,
‘and Greece is one of those
places. But as fought in the col- |
umns of some daily papers, it’s

dirty all over.

plementation of the reform and in-
sure a stable currency for the
economic reconstruction of their
country...

It is evident, however, that the
American, British and French rep-
resentatives in the Control Council
carried on a discussion on all-Ger-
many currency reform only in a
formal way while at the same time
using this discussion to cloak sec-
ret preparations for a separate cur-
rency reform.

Moreover they now are attempt-
ing to justify their currency re-
form by claiming the necessity of
regulating the monetary system in
the Western occupation zones
which was wrecked by national so-
cialism. But for three years the
occupation authorities in the West-
ern zones of Germany have dis-
avowed the carrying out of* meas-
ures for the regulation of currency
circulation.

Disorganized currency circula-
tion was protected by American,

Monopoly hold strengthened by German currency re

British and French monopolies in
order to subjugate the German
economy.

In the Western zones huge _

ed and many of them have been —
converted practically into subsi-
diaries of Wall Street — that
pie aade: Sacer ag ite anes
dustry monopolies .'

Currency reform in the Western |
zones of Germany is bringing about
a rupture in economic relations be-
tween single parts of Germany
which have developed in the course

of many centuries, It will affect the _

course of the economic position of —
all parts of Germany, including the ©
Western zones, the economy of
‘which was undividedly connected
with the Eastern districts of Ger- |
many. It means the completion of
the division of Germany. § =.

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