Wallace on warmongers

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Henry
Wallace, speaking here last night,

singled out Defense Secretary
James Forrestal, under-Secretary
of State Robert Lovett and Assis-
tant Secretary of the Army Gen-
eral William Draper for reversing
“our German policy from obliter-
ating Nazism to the brink of
resurrecting it.”

“James Forrestal ... did a good
job as Secretary of the Navy dur-
ing the war,” Wallace said, “but
as we value the peace of the world
we should not have a Dillon, Reed,
Morgan fellow-traveller as defense
secretary.

“To many big companies de-
pend for their profits on big gov-
ernment contracts and the direc-
tion of American foreign policy.
Mr. Forrestal had too intimate a
connection with I. G. Farben to
satisfy those of us who want that
industrial monster laid to rest
premanently.”

Cholera Takes Toll

NEW DELHI, _§ India—Flood-
waters and a mounting epidemic
of cholera are taking a ‘heavy toll
of life in northwestern India, offi-
cial reports indicate.

Vast areas of the eastern (Hin-
du) and northern (Moslem) Pun-
jab and northern Delhi province
were inundated by the raging
waters of the Holy Jumna, Sutleg,
Beas. and Ravi rivers, swollen by
the monsoon rains. Hordes of
Moslem and Hindu refugees were
reported marooned by the floods,
their cattle drowned and all their
food supplies destroyed.

Great tracts of food-bearing
land were reported flooded to
depths of two to 10 feet. Railways
have been cut and thousands of
dwellings in isolated villages have
been washed away.

Cholera struck down many of
those who escaped to high ground.
Safe drinking water was as scarce
as food in the inundated areas.
The disease spread as_ thirst-
crazed refugees drank polluted
river water.

Refugees seeking safety among
people of their own religion con-
tinued to move wherever travel
was possible. An estimated 1,500,-
000 Moslems have already moved
to Pakistan from India, and an
equal number of Hindus were re-
ported to have left» Pakistan for
India.

Won’t be consulted

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.—Canada
threatened today to hail the So-
viet Union before the United Na-
tions as a “violator of fundamen-
tal human rights” because of
Russia’s “refusal” to let Soviet citi-
zens marry aliens.

The threat-was made by Cana
dian Delegate L. Rene Beaudoin
in the United Nations Social Com-
mittee in denying Soviet Ukraine
charges that European displaced
women who have emigrated to
Canada were denied the right to
marry.

Soviet Delegate V. A. Zorin re-
plied sharply that Canada was
trying to “meddle” in Russia’s
internal affairs and served no-
tice that the Soviet Union would
continue to enact laws without
consulting Canada in advance.

What is ao man worth?

HONG KONG—The Kuomintang
government is having a tough
time conscripting enough soldiers
to make up for the loss of 1%
million men in 14 months of civil
“war. In Kweichow province, pris-
oners are being paroled for mili-
tary service.

“Buying out” of the army has
become so common that there are
now fixed market rates. The most
common method among soldiers
who can afford it is to buy some-
one to take their place in the
army. The cost of such a volun-
teer in Nanking is about $50 in
U.S. currency. In Shanghai it is
over $100.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1947

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It’s in the corner grocery
Top officers of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers (CIO) chat with Henry A.

Wallace after he told the

on’s convention in Boston that “the great crisis of the moment is not

on the Greek border but in American grocery stores.’ Left to right; President Albert J. Fitzgerald,
Wallace, Director of Organization James J. Matles and Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak. All
three officers were re-elected by overwhelming majorities. ;

European C.P.’s set up bureau to
unite anti - imperialist oppesition

MOSCOW—The Communist parties of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hun-
gary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and Italy have formed an “information bureau” to
coordinate the work of the nine parties, the absence of which has been a “serious shortcom-

ing,’ a resolution published in the newspaper Pravda announced today.

formed at a meeting in Poland
during the latter half of Septem-
ber, will have its headquarters in
Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia.

The resolution said that in
view of “the conditions of the
complicated post-war international
situation and when the disunity
of the Communist parties may
lead to damage for the working-
class,’ the new bureau was found
to be necessary. It will “exchange
experiences and in case of ne-
cessity coordinate the activity of
the Communist. parties.”

(The Communist International,
formed in 1919 at a conference of
Communists throughout the world,
was dissolved by agreement of its
leading members on May 15, 1943.)

The new bureau will be com-
posed to two members from eacn
of the nine Communist Party cen-
tral committees of the Soviet
Union, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Ro-
mania, Hungary, Poland, Czecho-

slovakia, France and Italy.
Three’ separate communiques
published in Pravda announced

formation of the new bureau.

A declaration of policy adopted
at the meeting announced that the
new bureau was designed to com-
bat “American imperialism”
throughout the world. The first
step, the declaration said, was to
prepare a coordinated plan of ac-
tion against right-wing Socialists
in England and France.

The declaration charged that
America and Britain did not fight
the war for democracy but only
to rid themselves of competitors
for the markets of Germany and
Japan. :

Formation of the new bureau
was necessary because of this and
because of the regrouping of
states into two camps since the
end of the war, the declaration
said.

“Kssential changes have taken
place in the international situation
as a result of the second world
war and in the postwar period,”
the declaration said as published
by Pravda.

“These changes are character-
ized by the new disposition of the
main political forces operating on
the world stage, by the changing
relations between the victor states
in the second world war and by
their regrouping ...

“The Truman-Marshall plan is
only a constituent part, the Eu-
ropean section, of the general
plan of world expansionist policy
carried on by the U.S. in all parts
of the world.

“The plan of economic and
political enslavement of Europe
by American imperialism is sup-
plemented by plans for the eco-
nomic and political enslavement
of China, Indonesia and South
America.

The new bureau,

“The aggressors of yesterday—
the capitalist magnates of Ger-
many and Japan—are being pre-
pared by the U.S. for a new role
—to become the instrument of
the imperialist. policy of the U.S.
in Europe and Asia,

“The arsenal of tactical meas-
ures utilized. by the imperialist
camp has very many forms. Here
are combined the direct threat by
force, blackmail and extortion, all
measures of political and econo-
mic pressure, of bribery, of utiliza-
tion of internal contradictions and

controversy for reinforcement of
their positions and all this
covered by a liberal-pacifist mask
designed for deceit and the fool-
ing of people who are .not ex-
perienced in politics ...

“In these conditions the anti-
imperialistic democratic camp
must rally together to work out a
coordinated platform of actions
and to work out its tactics against
the main forces of the imperial-
ist camp, against American im-
perialism and its English and
French allies and against right
wing socialists— first of all those
in England and France.”

The declaration encouraged Eu-
ropean Communists not to under-
estimate their own combined
strength nor to overestimate the
strength of the Anglo-American
bloc arraigned against them.

A firm stand against the West-
ern nations will cause their plans
to collapse, the declaration said,
and because of this absolutely no
new cohcessions must be made by
the new Communist bureau.

“The forces which stand for
peace are so considerable and
great that if they are firm amd
solid in the cause and defense
of peace, if they will display
firmness and solidity, then the
plans of the aggressors will suf-
fer complete collapse,” the de-
claration said.

“It must not be forgotten that
the noise of the imperialist agents
over the war danger is designed
to frighten the weak-nerved and.
unstable ones and to obtain, by
means of blackmail, concessions
to the aggressor.

“The main danger to the work-
ing class at present consists in
underestimation of its forces and
in overestimation of the forces
of the imperialist czjnp. ;

“As the Munich policy ,in the
past unbound the hands of Hitler-
ite aggression, so concessions to
the new course of the U.S. and the
imperialist camp may make its
inspirers still more insolent and
aggressive.’ : i

In another document published
by Pravda, a resolution adopted
by the meeting in Poland, the
Communist ledders said that the
effectiveness of the various Com-

munist parties in Europe has suf-
fered since the International was
abolished more than four years
ago.

The absence of coordination am-
ong the nine Communist parties
has been a “serious shortcoming,”
the resolution said.

The bureau will publish a news-
paper every two weeks in French
and Russian “and if possible in
other languages.” Later the pub-
lication will be issued weekly, the
resolution said. _

The following attended the con-
ference:

Soviet Union: Andrei A. Zhda-
nov and Georgi M. Malenkov.

Yugoslavia: :Vice-Premier Ed-
ouard Kardelj and Minister with-
out Portfolio Milovan Dijilas.

Bulgaria: Communist party se-
cretary Vulko Chervyenkov and V.
Poptomov.

Romania: Deputy Minister Ghe-
orghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Mrs,
Anna Pauker.

Hungary: M. Ferkash and Jo-
zsef Revai, editor of the Commun-
ist newspaper Szabad Nep.

_ Poland: Vice-Premies’ Wladyslaw
Gomulka and G. Minz.

France: Jacques Duclos and Et-
ienne Fajon.

Czechoslovakia: R. Slansky and
S. Bashtovansky.

Italy: Luigi Longo and Eugenio
Reale,

Among those who signed the
resolution were Palmiro Togliatti,
Italian Communist party leader
and Maurice Thorez, French Com-
munist leader.

‘| ment

Union is strong
despite terror

By HUGH DEANE

SEOUL, Korea—Unions in
U.S.-occupied south Korea,
driven underground by police
and terrorists, carry on am
agony-filled struggle to survive.
Union leaders and organizers wh?
are not in prison rarely sleeP
more than a few nights in the
same. place. Jailing, beating and
torture of workers has been going
on so long that it is accepted a8
a bitter part of life.

Till mid-August the labor move
was sort of semi-under
ground. Few individual unions
could operate openly but the Ko
rean Federation of .Trade. Unions
(Chun Pyung) was allowed t
maintain offices in Seoul, the
capital, and several other places
In mid-August the offices wer
closed down’ and police round

up all Chun Pyung leaders they
could lay their hands on. :

At one time, Chung Pyung te
presented the majority of work
ers in industry and had a to
employed membership of nearly
half a million. Now only one °
its affiliates, the seamen’s unioD,
has a contract. Recently the U.S.
advisors to the Korean labor de
partment, declared this contract
was illegally drawn up.

Chun Pyung chairman Ha¥
Sawng-taik and two vice chairme?
were arrested last March, co?
victed of attending an “unauthot
izéd” meeting. Union meetings af°
banned. Up to June 1, 15,000 Chu?
Pyung members had been jailed
at one time or another and 30-
had been killed outright,

Operating legally now is an 0
ganization called the Great pat
rea Federation of Labor (D
Han), a combination network °
company unions and goon squi
which is part of the political m4
chine of extreme rightist leade?
Dr. Syngman Rhee. Rhee, @
year old cross between Herbert
Hoover and Gerald L. K. smith,
likewise is the power in e
Chamber of Commerce and 1”
dustry (NAM counterpart). ;

Besides maintaining offices
company buildings, Dai Han
torture rooms and private pris? 1
in such key plants as the Seov.
Electric Co. This spring presided”
Lee Tai-hwan of the Seoul Blee
tric Co. a rightist himself, PF
tested the torture of his worke™
to the police saying it was intel
fering with plant operations. j

Though Dai, Han collects a
in dues from workers it does Be
lack money. It pays well for si
monstrators” and even better f
“special jobs.” Dai Han thu
double as company guards.

Despite the long nightmare
oppression, Chun Pyung } on
state that the unions are far #07
broken. They claim that aD a
rage of 60 percent of workers bs
key industries still pay their dU
to Chun Pyung and that employe
members still number 300,000. tne
best proof of the endurance se j
unions, they say, is that the aay
Han terrorism still goes 0”;

of

after day.

AFL’s ‘great objective’
is to repeal slave law

By ALLAN L. FLETCHER

SAN FRANCISCO—To the tune of rounds of applaus®
AFL President William Green pledged here October §
the AFL will set “as a great objective which we must Tr

that
ch

at any cost” the earliest possible repeal of the Taft-Ha

law and defeat of those

voted for it.

Keynoting the 66th annual AFL
convention, Green told the 669
delegates and several hundred visi-
tors who filled the civic auditor-
ium that, to accomplish this, he
expected the convention to estab-
lish ‘election day 1948 as a holiday
“so that the workers can march
to the polls and vote against their
enemies.”

Hitting the charge by sup-
porters of the slave labor law
that only the leaders of labor
oppose the measure, Green de-
clared that no officer of the

who

ess i
arene ee

f
_AFL, high or low, could ore

his position if he a urge
fore workers’ meetings t0
approval of the law. nak
The AFL chief also sharply ja
lenged the charge that orgé?
tion of workers into unions ot
lowered their productivity: on,
only labor’s wartime product).
but facts and figures for the Fred:
war period refute this, he dees ye
Between 1939 and 1947, the V° 4
of production per worker 108

percent and is still rising:
said. ose
Meanwhile corporate profits 3

55 percent to over $17 pate
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