Taft-Hartleyizing oil workers

i i i i i il W ? Union (CIO) against Standard Oil in

A typical scene in the current strike of tiie Oil Workers in: r

Rickamond, California. Police attack picket lines in an attempt to; herd scabs into the oil plants.
Numerous pickets have been arrested and charged with “inciting to riot.

‘vation foreign policy as impairing’
LS; prestige, Henry Wallace is

daily appealing to the people’s de-
Site for peace. These broadcasts,
for which the Progressive party
tveasury has strained itself to buy
times, are likely to be an important
‘factor of the final phase of elec-
tioneering, ee

Speaking from Milwaukee in the
Middle West on October 14, Wal-

er” popular demand for direct U.S.-
Soviet negotiations. ‘In the next
few weeks I hope to make it clear
to my fellow Americans that peace
iS within our grasp if we stand up
8nd fight for it,’ Wallace said.
Evaluating Truman’s abortive in
itiative as a gesture in the direc-
“on of mass sentiment for new
face-to-face talks with Moscow
Wallace said that “again, just as on
ss -

In Britain, too

Beryl
Amateur
fireg from her daytime job as
2 clerk in the supply ministry.
€ government says that Beryl
has been “associating with Com-
Munists in such a way as to raise
fou about her reliability.”
be Beryl thinks she cans OS

ecause she appeare
theater skit for workers which

“Atured a ridiculous “snooper

nga, he British
cabinet in purging the

Lund, popular British

While Democratic spokesmen are)
®mbarrassed and Republicans de-| ; f ;
Nounce the confusion of adminis- | ters of our

making nationwide radio broadcasts |

lace called for a “louder and loud-|

Peace issue surges to forefront
in US presidential campaig

President Truman’s statement that he had planned to send Chief Justice Fred M.
Vinson to Moscow to map a new approach to U.S.-Soviet relations, and the startling :e-
versal of the plan after Secretary of State Marshall’s dash home from Paris, have brovght
the peace issue to the forefront of the U.S. presidential campaign.

—NEW: YORK

| every other occasion, the real mas-
policy clamped down
'and, stopped Mr. Truman’s move.
| But the American people are nei-
| ther prisoners nor puppéts.”
| Wallace’s assertion that steps to-
| ward the settlement of U.S.-Soviet
differences have sbeen frustrated on
many occasions is ‘being strikingly
documented in a series-of articles
by veteran liberal columnist I. F.
Stone in the New York Star (form-
erly PM). The Star has now swung
to election support of Truman but
Stone backs the Progressive Party.
Stone says’ Secretary of State
Marshall has vetoed plans for di-
rect contract between Truman and
Stalin on at least three occasions.
Last spring, he reports, a Russian
of ambassadorial rank approached

| U.S, diplomat Robert Murphy in

Berlin and proposed such a con-
tact in a 6-hour conversation that
ranged over all controversial issues.
Marshall prevented the matter
from going further.

The second time listed by Stone
was the famous U.S.-Soviet note
exchange in May when US. Am- |
bassador Walter B. Smith told
Moscow: “The door is always open
for full discussion and the com-
posing of our differences. Then,
Stone says, “the Russians tried
that open door and we shut it in

in face,
Toei the same ‘period, Stone
reports further, Truman was wor-
ried by the rising Wallace move-
ment and wanted to undercut it by
making a direct approach to Stal-
in. One possibility being canvassed

vaudeville star, has been

was sending General Dwight Hisen-
hower to Moscow aur the PURPA. |
in Marshall said no. |
ach ie State and War depart-|
ments,” Stone comments, “there
are influential people who decided
long ago that there was no hope
of negotiating a peace with the
Russians, and that. it was best
therefore to begin warming up Buns
lic opinion in preparation for war.
Jt takes a great deal of heat Bod
hysteria to put over a draft, lar-
ger military appropriations and
similar measures?in time of peace.
There is fear in the State and War
departments that a new ai
ence on a high level... would
‘elieve tension and interfere with
pi onal mobilization of the
i i or war.”
Sue Eis Be oe of the war-
5, Stone continues, is a
ot iy settlement. “The argu-
ment is that an agreement ne
tween the Soviets and the Wes

the emoti

would mean a united Germany

r-power con-
under restored four-power

\

Prober probed |

Persistent charges that Rep.
J. Parnell Thomas, chairman of
the House committee on Un-
American Activities, has been
pocketting kickbacks from his
staff employees’ pay envelopes,
havé moved the U.S. justice
department to order a prelimin-
ary investigation. - “Another
Communist plot” howls Ameri-
ca’s ace witch hunter!

trol. But under four-power con-
trol of Germany the western mi!-
itary. planners could not utilize
the arsenal of the Ruhr in their
preparation ior war with the.
Soviet Union.

“Four. -. power conirol of Ger-
many would also make it more dif-
ficult to revive private investment
in the Reich, to recover Anglo-
American. capital frozen there, to
reestablish cartel ties with the big
German concerns. .\. There is more
American money frozen in Ger-
many than any other country in
the world. A compilation made by
the U.S. Treasury last year showed
that American investment there
was larger than in any other coun-
try except Canada. The total is
more than a billion dollars. x
Much of this is represented by fro-
zen assets earned by American-
owned. concerns on the German

'side during the war.” .

ee sce ae

Malan gov’

cripple

Ld

Most South Africans probably didn’t notice it.

t moves to

Africa unions

By RUTH FIRST

—CAPE TOWN
But on

September 10, with the announcement in the Government

| Gazette of the draft proclamation for the “Financial Protec-

tion of Natives’ the Malan Government sneaked in, through

the back door, a measure which
can easily snuff out all African
trade unions, the African National
Congress and all political and na-
tional bodies, including the Com-
munst Party;° and which, in the
hands of an unscrupulous govern-
ment, can pave the way for open
Fascism in the Union.

The Secretary for Native Affairs,
through his chief clerk, in a con-

versation with The Guardian ad-

mitted as much.

This draft proclamation, prom-
ulgated under the 1927 Native Ad-
ministration Act, and now await-
ing only the signature of the Gov-
ernor-General, makes the collection
of moneys from Africans by all
except Government-authorized bod-
jes, illegal. :

The proclamation, number 1890,
has been interpreted in the Press as
being introduced ostensibly to stop
the Native banks which have
sprung up over the past months,
mainly in Natal. But there is no
mention of Native banks in the
proclamation which simply states
that no organization or individual
will be allowed to collect moneys
unless:

@ It is-a business, registered or

licensed under the law;

® It is a state aided school or
approved religious body;
@ Written permission has been

obtained from a Native Com-
missioner or magistrate.

An applicant refused such per-
mission may appeal to the Minister
of Native Affairs, but the Minis-
ter’s decision is final, and there is
no appeal in a court of law,

Fine, you ‘might think. There
must be a law against racketeering.

But the Secretary for Native
Affairs, asked whether the terms
of the proclamation will apply
aiso to African trade unions and
political and national] bodies, an-
Swered “yes.” :

“And to the Communist Par-
ty??? Ves”

“Was the proclamation prepared
knowing it would affect these or-
ganizations too?”’—“Yes.”

As a further explanation the sec-
retary’s clerk added that these
bodies would fall under the third
provision: they would have to ob-
tain permission from a Native Com-
missioner to collect moneys from
Africans.

“Has the proclamation been on
the books for long?” was the next
question. “Do you mean is it due

to the change in Government?”
the clerk asked. “Yes,” was our re-
ply.

The clerk hurried to ask the
Secretary for Native Affairs. On
his return: “I am not permitted to
reply to that question,’ he said
finally.

Perhaps for the moment the Ma-
lan Government will use the provi-
sions of this proclamation only for
the “financial protection of Na-
tives.”

But with this proclamation on
the books, this Government or
any other, without passing any
new law aimed at stopping the
work of any political group, can
completely cripple the develop-
ment of organization among the
African people. -

Can’t find cop
in ‘police state’

By ANNA LOUISE STRONG
—PRAGUE

“Be careful, you are now in
a police state,” a high official
of the British embassy here

warned British labor union
delegates now visiting Czechoslo-
vakia.

Next day the unionists drove out
of town to visit the Czech union
school at Jevany. Speeding back to
Prague fora dinner appointment,
they had just stopped for a red
light when a 16-year-old boy on a
motorcycle bumped into their bus.

No one was hurt\but the driver
refused to go on. He said he had
to get a policeman so that the facts
of the accident, and responsibility
for his slightly dented fender,
could be properly established.

No policeman was visible. The
British unionists ran up and down
neighboring streets trying to help
their driver locate one, so they
could make their date. After a
long time one was found. He
recorded both the dented fender
and the uninjured condition of
passengers, boy and motorbike.

Late to their dinner, the union-
ists met the embassy official again.
“You know why we are late,” they
kidded him, “we had a devil of 2
time finding a policeman in this
‘police state’.”

Communist. :
Dr. Q. Hooter prosecuted.

in Lemonzicht.

tained within itself the seeds
“seeds” was underlined.

Det.-Sgt, Knightmair:

been set aside to cool.
In the skullery was a tribal

rection),

- The case is proceeding . . .

A Criminal case of unusual interest was heard in Snoek
Town last week when Betty Lynx was charged with being a

Detective-Sergeant Knightmair said he raided Lynx’s house
When Lynx was leading him up the
path, ke noticed that most of the flowers were red. In the study
he found a note to the effect that

In the bedroom he discovered an iron curtain: It was made
in Moscow by the Export and Dye Company. Under the bed was
2a chamber of low-grade mines.

In the kitchen he found a Native cook.
Dr. Hooter: What was he doing?”

He was learning to rile the state.
A book was lying open near him. There was a quantity of as-
Sorted atoms in a bowl labelled Cafe Canada, which had just

Dr. Hooter: Was the book you mentioned written by J. B.
Marks, the chairman of an African trade union?—No.

Then was it by Louis Marks, the mineowner?—No.

Can’t you remember the author’s name?—His name was cer-
tainly Marx. I think his first name was Groucho.

The case is proceeding (but no one knows in which di-

(From the South African Guardian).

garden

“the capitalist system con-_
of its own decay.” The word

Native throwing cross-bones.

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