Japanese
Communists
criticized

The People’s Daily, organ of the
Communist Party of China, recent-
ly published an editorial setting
forth its views on the tasks of the
Communist party of Japan and
calling upon that party to spee-
dily correct “serious mistakes of
principle.”

The Japanese Communist party,
following an enlarged central com-
mittee meeting, has stated that
it accepts as valid the criticism of
a recent article in the bulletin of
the Communist Information Bur-
eau in Europe, which charged in
particular that one of its political
bureau members, Sanzo- Nosaka,
was underestimating the reactio-
nary role of the U.S. in Japan and
for holding the view that socialism
could be achieved in Japan even
while the U.S. occupation is still
going on.

“The Japanese people’s struggle
for liberation,” said the editorial
of the People’s Daily, “is at present
earried on under complicated and
difficult conditions.”

“Like Western Germany Japan
is being turned by the imperia-
list American military occupa-
tion authorities into a reactio-
nary bastion, against democracy
and socialism and for the plan-
ning of a new war.

“Under such conditions,” the edi-
torial continued, “the Japanese

people have to conduct resolute,
revolutionary ~ struggles against
American imperialism and against
Japanese reactionary forces.

“Only by doing so can the Japa-
nése people put an early end to
the American occupation and the
rule of the reactionaries and build
up a democratic Japan.”

It said that in order to accom-
plish these objectives the “vanguard
of the Japanese revolutionary peo-
ple, the Communist Party of Ja-
Pan must educate the people in a

revolutionary spirit and unite
them.” :

MAO TSE-TUNG

The differences were wishful.
thinking.

Menzies gov't
‘menaces peace’ ,
dockers charge

SYDNEY

Australian waterfront unions,
famous for boycotts of war sup-
plies for the Dutch in Indonesia,
the Japanese in China and the
imperialists in Malaya, and of
trade with Franco Spain, are or-
ganizing to defend. the peace.

Delegates from dockers on near-
ly every ship in Sydney. Harbor,
recently attended a meeting which
set up a Waterside Workers’ Peace
Committee. Representatives at the
meeting came from the Waterside
Workers’ Federation (dockers),
Ships’ Painters and Dockers, Buil-
ding Workers and Seamen’s Union.
One of its first tasks will be to
broaden ‘out to embrace every
waterfront union in a_ powerful
Maritime Peace Committee.

The delegates’ meeting wunani-
mously carried a resolution bran-
ding the Menzies-Fadden govern-
ment in Australia as a “menace to
peace . .. prepared fully to sup-
port the war aims of U.S. imperia-
lism.” “Knowing the instigators
of war and their supporters, we
pledge ourselves, with all means at
our disposal, to prevent another
blood-bath,” added the resolution.

The Australian Peace Council
is now conducting a Peace Bal-
lot throughout Australia, with
the cooperation of many trade
unions, women’s, youth and
other bodies.

U.S. state department
pins hopes in China on
imaginary difference

» WhiléMao Tse-tung has been in Moscow negotiating an historic Chinese-Soviet alliance, a propaganda
campaign has been launched throughout the Western countries in an effort to strain the bonds between new

China and the Soviet Union.

U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson touched off the campaign with his statement enlarging on
imaginary Chinese resentment against the Soviet Union for refusing to participate in any United Nations bodies

as long as the Kuomintang clique
was represented in them.

According to Acheson, Manchur-
ia, Outer Mongolia, Inner Mon-
golia and Sinkiang have been or
are in the process of being taken
over by. the Soviet Union. The re-
futation came quickly and from a
surprising source, none other than
the U.S. state department’s own
“martyr” to its Far Eastern policy,
Angus Ward.

The former : comsul in’ Man-
churia told the press that “there
is no indication so far as I know
that the Russians are in the pro-
.cess of incorporating Manchuria
into the Soviet Union.”

How little heed the Chinese peo-
ple will pay to Acheson’s efforts
can be gauged by the ignorance
he displayed about the very prov-
inces he spoke about as being ‘‘de-
tached from China by the Soviet
Union.”

Since 1924, Outer Mongolia has
been an independent nation, the
Mongolian Peoples Republic. In
1945 a plebiscite. reaffirmed the
desire of the Mongolian people to
maintain that independence—and
the U.S.
pressing for just such a plebiscite
and recegnized its results.

Sinkiang is a province of China,

but until this very month it had
never been integrated into the Chi-
nese republic,

after its recent liberation the
Chinese government announced
on January 11 a detailed program
incorporating it into the Chinese

People’s Republic. For the first

government had _ been /j,

Far from losing this province, -

IWA strikers evicted

Members of the International Woodworkers of America (C10)

have been striking against Bond’s railroad tie plant at Louisville,

Kentucky, since May 1949. Failing to break the strike, the company
got a court order evicting families from their ramshackle company
owned houses. Here a mother.and her four children watch thetr

furniture being moved out.

time freedom and equality were
guaranteed to the various nation-
alities which had been oppressed
under the Kuomintang dictator-
ship.

The program announced in Pe-

king for Sinkiang also calls for

BRITISH TUC FINDS POLICY LINE BUCKLING

Engineers, miners

By PHYLLIS ROSNER
LONDON

Some of Britain’s largest unions
are pressing demands for pay in-
creases despite the wage freeze
Policy of the British Trades Union
Congress. :

In a poll of TUC affiliates the
wage freeze policy was upheld by
a Slim margin of 657,000. The total
Vote was 4,263,000 to 3,606,000. A
vote on the same issue in March,
1948, produced a majority of 3,389,-
000 for the wage freeze policy. Add-
ing to the significance of the vote
is the fact that it came on the}
eve of the national elections when
the unionists were under pressure
not to embarrass the Labor, gov-
ernment. eee

Nevertheless, the miners, eléc-
tricians, civil servants, builders,
boilermakers railwaymen, public
employees, foundrymen and others
voted against the wage freeze and
are pushing ahead their wage boost
campaign. :

Now under discussion is the en-
gineers’ demand for a $2.80 a week
cost-of-living increase, Engineer-
ing workers have pointed out more
and more insistently of late that
‘Profits in the industry are more
than enough to meet their moder-
ate demands. In 1948, for example,

hey say the employers made a
profit of about $840 per week per
worker,

Their argument has been vivid-
illustrated by tax-free pay-
ments of $300,000 each made to

‘

two directors of engineering
firms. These payments have
aroused a storm of criticism and
the attitude of most workers is:
“Tf they can afford these big
gifts, then they can surely af-
ford to meet our modest claim.”

The miners are also expected to
press their demand for pay boosts
for the lower paid men, those now
earning a basic wage of $14 a

fight wage freeze

underground workers.

The National Union of Miners
took an area by area vote of all
its branches on the wage freeze
issue. The result was an over-
whelming vote against the freeze.
In Scotland ‘every one of the
133 branches voted unanimously
against the freeze, while in other
branches the opposition was as
high as 85 percent. :

week on the surface and $14.42 for After the countrywide TUC
AFL COMPLICITY IN ARREST CHARGED —
Greeks face death
) | PARIS

Greek workers, has informed the
eration of Trade Unions here.

; ?

representative Irving Brown,’

Nations.

A group of 118 Greek labor leaders faces trial and execution
in Athens, Costas Feos, secretary of the General Federation of

The men have been held without trial in Makronisos concen-
tration camps since March 5, 1947. They were originally arrested,
Feos charges, “‘in accordance with the suggestion of AFL European
who thought this would give right-

_ wing leaders a chance to take over their unions. : ;
kers must learn of the dishonest
and repulsive activity of their representatives,’’ Feos said. in_ his
cable, a copy of which was also sent to Trygve Lie of the United ,

“British and American wor

headquarters of the World Fed-

‘ : .

vote was in, Sir William Lawther,
‘who is president of both the
TUC and the miners union,, said
the members of his union would
loyally abide by the wage freeze
decision. It is obvious, however,
that there. will be strong opposi-
tion to this position which is be-
lieved untenable im view of the
increasing hardships suffered by
the miners.

Meanwhile, the Electrical Work-
ers Union has submitted a plan to
the TUC for limiting and control-
ling profits and developing indus-
try on sound lines. The plan pro-
posed that a national tribunal with
statutory powers be set up by the
chancellor of the exchequer.

The tribunal would consist of
one member each from the TUC,
Federation of British Industries,
the Central Planning Board and
the. Treasury. By law every busi-
ness would be required to submit
to the tribunal an audited financial
account with a statement on its
proposed use of gross profits and
reserves. ‘

The tribunal would be author-
ized to order that a proportion
of the profits not necessary for
immediate capital development
or for reasonable depreciation be
transferred to the government.
Fines of 10 percent of gross pro-
fits for the preceding year would
be imposed on any business fail-
ing to comply with the tribunal’s
orders.

intensive economic rehabilitation.
Needless to say, the U.S. military
air base which had been maintain-
ed in Sinkiang under Chiang Kai-
shek no longer exists.

Inner Mongolia, including the
provinces of Suiyuan, Chahar and
Jehol had similarly been integrated
in the Chinese People’s Republic

following their liberation several
months ago. :

Tito’s contribution to the cam-
paign against the Soviet Union and
the New China was made on Jan-
uary 17 in a statement issued by
Tanyug, official news agency of the
Tito clique. Tanyug accused the
Soviet Union of “worsening rela-
tions between the West and New
China.” The “West” had voted in
the UN Security Council to mai*-
tain the defunct Kuomintang in its
UN séat.

The Soviet Union had brought
the message of Chinese Foreign
Minister Chou En-lai before the
Council which called for the oust-
,er of the Kuomintang from UN.
| When this demand of the new
|China was voted down, the Soviet
‘Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia
declined to participate in UN bod-
ies where Chiang’s paper regime
was still represented. All observers
noted that sooner or later a ma-
jority on the Council would not
only recognize the New China but
would seat it in UN. . ie.

What rankles in Washington is
that the U.S. has been unable to
find in China the traitors and ren-
egades to serve its imperialist de-
signs, as Tito is serving them in
Yugoslavia and, until the Rajk trial
in Hungary shattered the elaborate
conspirady labelled “Project. X,”
attempted to extend them through-
out the People’s Democracies. In-
stead, while the U.S. state depart-
ment vainly seeks differences to
exploit, the new Soviet-Chinese al-
liance proclaims the identity of
interests of the USSR and the

People’s Republic of China.

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