. tyeanesill Roundup of world news * * * Uncover spy-ring STOCKHOLM — The afternoon newspaper Expressen has linked the reported activities of the so- called Estonian government-in- exile with the uncovering recent- ly by Swedish state police of a suspected international spy ring, backed by U.S. groups. Mosleyites stage riots LONDON—A mob of 700 per- sons rioted in a Manchester sub- urb last week, the fourth day of anti-Semitic demonstrations, and Manchester Jews, cooperat- ing with the authorities, imposed a voluntary 10 p.m. curfew on themselves to avert new out- breaks. A committee representing 20,- 000 employees at the big Vick- ers factory in Manchester issued a statement condemning anti- Semitism and appealed to all workers not to participate in anti- Jewish rioting. ‘ It is believed that much if not all of these anti-Jewish dem- onstrations have been inspired by Mosley fascist gangs, who are again operating quite freely in Britain. ; Franco relies on allies LONDON — “Without outside aid there is no doubt that Fran- ¢o- would be overthrown’ very quickly,” General Lister, com- mander of the 5th army corps of the Spanish republicam army, de- clared in an interview here. “There are a whole circle of people inside Spain—big financi- ers, church and army people, who are on the side of Franco solely because he can count on help from the U.S. and Britain,” Lis- ter said. ‘If this support were withdrawn all those circles would similarly withdraw their support and Franco would be left with only the nucleus of Falangist criminals who follow him be- cause their fate is bound up with his fate.” ‘Down-under’ formula SYDNEY, Australia—A combin- ed effort by Sydney newspaper publishers to produce a_ strike- breaking daily were easily defeat- ed by a Solid front of white -col- lar and industrial unions. “When a dispute arose at the Sun, Sydney evening daily, be- cause printers were contracting 2 skin disease from a machine- cleaning solvent, the Sun publish- ers sent copy to the office of the morning Daily Telegraph to be set and printed. The Telegraph staff unanimously decided not to touch the copy and were all dis- missed. The Sun copy was then sent to the Daily Mirror, rival evening paper. Sub-editors were called in one by one and told they had to handle Sun copy. Each of the sub-editors, members of the Aus- tralian Journalists Association, re- fused to act as a strikebreaker. They were all fired, along with the printing and mechanical staffs. The Mirror went off the streets along with the Sun. When Sydney Morning Herald printers announced they would not produce a composite paper and no seabs could be found to produce a_ strikebreaking sheet, the proprietors had to give in. At a conference forced on it by the other pulishers, the Sun management agreed to. grant awards to the injured printers. — AUCKLAND — New Zealand dockers have joined their Aus- tralian colleagues in an absolute boycott of Dutch ships. In a eable to the World Federation of Trade Unions, the New Zealand Federation of Labor asks that the world labor body take immediate steps to support the right of all colonial peoples to self-govern- ment. FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1947 Gromyko urges end of US aid to Greece LAKE SUCCESS—Soviet sources said here this week that Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was ready to make a fight for his plan to clamp UN controls on U.S. aid to Greece, and to force the withdrawal of all foreign military aid to Greece. The state- ment on the Soviet plan was like- ly to be the first order of busi- ness when the council convenes to resume the bitter east-west diplomatic battle over the Bal- kans. All parts of the Russian rrorosal, including fixing of re- sponsibility on the Greek mon- archy for the current strife in scuthcastern Europe, have been veted down in earlier stages of the Balkans debate. There was certain to be more debate on the Indonesian situa- tion in the Security Council this week, with Russia and India pressing for UN _ condemnation of the Netherlands for its use of force against the Indonesian Republic. U.S. officials said «they would insist on resuming the Make them work LONDON—By the end of 1947 Britain will be at least five million tons below her coal target, General Secretary Ar-. thur Horner of the National Union of Mineworkers warned here. This will mean 1% mil- lion people unemployed and millions more on _ part-time schedules, the miners’ leader declared. Pointing out that the miners had raised output by four mil- lion tons during the first six months of nationalization, Hor- ner asserted that it would be “unjust” to blame the men in the pits if coal is short. The solution, he said, is government action to reinforce mine staffs. “¥ have to tell those Tories in Parliament,” Horner said, “who talk about the miners giving up this hard-won reform of the 5-day week that it would not be necessary to suggest such a measure if the sons of the Tories would come to the pits.” J Balkans debate. it was exp2cted that the Balkans and Indonesian debates would delay the start of debate in the Angio-Eyvptian Gispute, which was scheduled to begin last Tuesday. The U.S. is expected to revive its vetoed plan for a Balkan border watch. A new _ proposal for a Balkans Commission will be laid before the Council’ by acting American Delegate Hers- chel V. Johnson, an _ official source said. Russia killed the original plan with the great- power veto only five days ago. The U.S. resolution will be in- troduced this time under the pun- itive chapters of the UN charter in support of the formal request by Greece for UN ‘enforcement action” against Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. No materail during ‘truce’ Russia’s U.N. delegate Andrei Gromyko (left) dis- cusses the steps which brought a truce to the war im Indonesia with Dr. Eelco van Kleffens (right) Nether- lands ambassador to. the U.S., and Mahmoud Bey Riaz | of Egypt. Regardless of the ‘truce’ trade unions in many countries are ‘alerted’ on the boycott of Dutch cargo ships. _ Palestine terrorists serve as finks, scabs, By W. LAQUER for big business \ JERUSALEM—Recent events in Palestine—the hanging of three Jewish terrorist and retaliation by the terrorists in hanging two British soldiers—brought this country once more into the international England and the U.S. concerning the outbreak of ter All British papers sharply con- demn terrorism, some American papers defend it. But none of them explain the true nature of ‘terror- ism in Palestine. It is not true that the major- ity of Jews in Palestine sym- pathize with the terrorists. At least 80 percent of the Jewish ivhabitants of this country dis- sociated themselves from the Strike wave spreading in Middle East lands CAIRO, Egypt—The biggest strike wave since the war’s end is spreading in the Middle East, affecting countries where unions were scarcely known prior to the war. One of the most significant is the walkout of 7,000 railway workers in the Sudan, strategic area over which Britain and Egypt have been quarreling. The strike ac- tually marks the birth of the Sudanese labor movement. Chief aim of the strike—which is back- ed by all Sudanese political par- ties—is union recognition, with wage and work condition de- mands included. Workers have been out since July 17 and have successfully cut off all communi- eations within the country. New militancy is also being shown in a strike of 1,500 sta- tionmasters and _ assistants in Egypt. Shakeel Pasha, director of the Egyptian State Railways, or- dered the arrest of -union leader Hafez Effendi Muhammed, threat- ened to arrest other strikers and to dismiss everybody who failed to return to work. The strike, however, is still 100 percent ef- fective. In Lebanon, all employees of Socony Vacuum and Mantacheff oil companies have been on strike since July 14. limelight. The reports published in the commercial press in rorism are, however, far from accuraté ere terrorist gangs. The chief oppo- nent of these gangs is the or ganized labor movement, the heart of the popular movement for an’ independent Palestine where Jews and Arabs would solve their problems free from British interference and control. Why do Jewish workers oppose the so-called “struggle for the freedom of Israel?” Are not the terorists fighting for a progres- sive cause: against British imper- ialism, for the independence of Palestine? These questions are undoubtedly being asked by peo- ple who have been misinformed about events here. : Jewish workers in Palestine are opposed to the terrorists because their fight against British imper- falism is a sham: fight. Only a few people outside Palestine know that the terrorists have murdered more Jews and Arabs than, Brit- ish. Their chief aim is domina- tion of the Jewish community, notwithstanding the fact that they are a small minority. The pattern is well known: Hitler fought against the “slave” treaty of Versailles in order to enslave the German people. The terrorist groups are protected and provided for by big busi- ness both inside and outside Palestine. One terrorist group is known to function as factory police against workers: they beat up workers, burn unions clubs, act as scabs, etc. : It is perhaps premature to apes about fascism in Palestine PU there are strong influences tendencies in this direction which might eventually prevail uP? hag checked in time by organized # bor. The terrorist leaders’ plueprint for Palestine is utterly reaction ary with regard to the Arabé: they wish to establish at once all-Jewish government in ee: Palestine and Trans-Jordan wit ‘ out any representation for ral Most of the rank and file a the terrorist groups are misgu ed idealists, practically all i them in their ’teens or early 2 . Most of them are sincerely © vinced that they fight f0F “(¢ freedom and _ independence Palestine against foreign OP sion. iE But these youngsters do not termine ‘the policy and strateé? oi the gangs. They simply at their orders and carry them © 4 frequently with great courage 16 self-sacrifice. The leaders, °F other hand, are much less sine ist They are neither anti-imper! ‘ate nor do they care about the 95 of the people, Jewish oF sab for They are actually ~ working for domination of the Jews, aP4 j4 big business domination of whole country. eae pref ‘Truman Doctrine’ aids Kuomingtang civil war against Chinese people NEW YORK—“We want the U.S. to help China in peaceful reconstruction. We don’t want U.S. policy to sup- port the Kuomintang government in prolonging the civil war. The government could not continue its war without U.S. backing.” In these words, President Chu Hsueh-fan of the Chinese Association of Labor, in an interview here, summed up the attitude of CAL members in both Kuomintang and Com- munist-led China toward Ameri- ca’s one-sided intervention in their country’s internal strife. The im- pact of Chu’s words was doubled by the fact that he himself is known as a conservative labor leader who at one time was a staunch Kuomintang supporter. Chu is in the U.S. en route to Hong Kong after attending the recent Wor'd Federation of Trade Unions meeting in »Czecho- slovakia. After outlawing strikes and in- troducing other repressive meas- ures, the government last Aug- ust started a tull-scale mop-up operation against the 2,100.000- strong CAL, Chu said. Without notice, police raided and forcib- ly cccupied all union offices, la- bor hospitals and welfare cen- ters, arresting. CAL leaders. © If the Kuomintang leaders knew they could get no more support from the U.S., Chu de- clared, they would have no alter- native but to seek a compromise peace. The CAL, he said advo- cates peaceful negotiations to end the civil war; an interim coali- tion government, including Com- munists, Democratic League, lib- erals and all other representa- tive democratic groups; free elec- tions for a national assembly. ‘Cliveden’ odor wancy Astor sailed last Friday Mies Britain aboard the Queen #7, Questioned by newsha’ the the Palestine situation ot’ noble lady shrilled, “I 4 ied care how many Jews aré inte in Palestine and my OPIY {igo est is in the number of sug cent British who are ered.” Queried on her opinion U.S. politics the former {bis ish M.P. gave pres f- America depends on the “ime vote in New York, I OE condition stinks.” porters opined that rth tor’s anti-Semetic outb® prer™ smelled like the late ‘ Goebbels. , gp? PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAG