’ Peete MALAY LEADERS IN PEIPING The three. million-strong A\ll- China Federation of Labor has Protested recent killings and ar- rests of unionists and_ political Progressives by Premier Jawa- rlal_ Nehru’s government in India, where more than 25,000 Workers are now in jail. Citing anti-labor violence in ombay, Delhi, Jubbulpore, Hyderabad and other Indian industria] cities, the ACFL said that “the brutal acts of the lan reactionary government run directly counter to the in- terests of the people arid to true Independence and democracy in India.” “Such brutal treatment cannot © pardoned by friends of de- Mocracy and by the laboring People of the world,” the pro- test Went on. ‘We express pro- ound condolence to all massacr- and _ persecuted working-class brothers and democrats in India. € believe that, with the firm hoe of peace-loving people oughout the world, the In- : ant People will surely and Y win true freedom, Chinese unions score Nehru regime terror —PEJPING. Former Chairman Lu Cheng and executive board member Yeh Miao-siu of the Pan- Malayan Federation of Trade Unions, who were banished from Malaya after the British co- lonial government had outlawed their organizations, announced their arrival in Peiping with a public. protest against hanging of PMFTU President S. A. Ganapathy by Bnitish authori- ties on May 4. “Once again the. barbaric features of British imperialism stand revealed,” the protest said. ‘More than 15,000 in- nocent Malayans have been jailed, flogged, tortured, de- ported or killed since last June. The rope used to hang Ganap- athy will ring the death knell of British rule in Malaya. Lab- oring people throughout the world will never forgive * this crime.” The All-China Federation of Labor, in another protest against the hanging, noted that Gana- pathy had organized more than 60,000 Indian workers. rs Labor policies meeting Union rank-file revolt ~-LONDON. f Token strikes by, members of the 500,000-strong National Union their Tank. oa signs of growing strain Severa} | in the conventions of Hesse, €rge unions held during Ond half of May. The Electrical Trades Union, Samated Union of Operative a Railway Clerks Associa- Soeis at Civil Service Clerical As- condem,; all passed resolutions ae ning the government policy aba wages without corre- 28 Control of prices and pro- The wage-price resolutions Criticized government de- Betis to raise food taxes while ; § those on wines and beer. meting Associated Society of Loco- tackeg ‘ngineers and Firemen at- unduly generous” pay- Men ts made to former owners of Ration, Contra Bake tion SO Cision tags to government stub- : SS on the matter of better °ns for retired workers. The ‘eal Trades Union criticized eoetan of the national the ae its industry, pointing to labor Mber of notoriously anti- Unio Persons appointed to it. The N of Post Office Workers bit- denounceg government. re- 1 Work 2 Srant equal pay for equal © Women employees. ne May conventions also show- te: p mselves impatient of at- b a head off real grievances The post office *di-baiti Wor ng. Kers, bakers and bank clerks thre tions ¢ ss administration resolu- in oth ‘ar Communists from hold- ce in their unions. Which Electrical Trades Union, er Wes addressed by U.S. | Paul Robeson as guest Mtg ee for a return of st labor to membership orld Federation of Trade ar will only be pre- Me worldwide working darity,” Frank Foulkes cheers, : Elect alized railroads, which , it | allwaymen, who are indignant at government refusal to discuss wage claims, highlight the growing rift between British union and-filers and the country’s right-wing Labor government. Tin miners resist gov't LA PAZ A small-scale war has been rag- ing between strikers in the Patino and Hochschild tin mines, on which most of Bolivia's economy depends, and Bolivian troops sent to suppress the strike. The strike started May 28, after Patino Mines and Enterprises, a key company in»the international tin cartel which has made and un- made Bolivian governments and spread its control over the coun- try’s railroad, oil and tungsten in- dustries, failed to comply with a government order directing it to raise wages. The Bolivian govern- ment, instead of putting further pressure on the company, deported 26 mine union leaders to neigh- boring Chile. When soldiers tried to take over the mines by force, strikers resisted, fighting back with dynamite. Workers in many trades through- out Bolivia downed tools in sym- pathy with the miners. Bolivian railroads ceased to run and tele- graph communications with the mine areas were cut off. A number of U.S. engineers were among mine officials placed in custody by the strikers when they took over the tin mines region. Two of them were killed-in the course of the fighting, which took some 50 other lives. The struggle between the miners and the governmient has been de- veloping since February when the government arrested the popular mine union president, Jean Lech- in, labor-elected senator in the Bo-. livian Congress, and workers re- taliated by temporarily imprison- ing the minister of labor. Early in March, miners at Catavi and Llal- lagua locked out company officials and produced tin for several days under their own management. Chinese people's victory landmark in world history By ISRAEL EPSTEIN Everything else that happens this year may b: washed away by the river of time and leave no landmark in human history, but one thing will not be forgotten. The date 1949 and the word Chma will loom large in the memory of mankind as 1776 and the American revolution, as 1789 and the French revolution, as 1917 and the Soviet revolution in Russia. The American, French and Russian revolutions are called “great’’ because each changed not only the life of one major nation but the entire pace of world events. This will prove no less true of the victory of China’s revolution today. In terms of internal. size alone, the Chinese revolution is the larg- est by far. The U.S.. when it won independence, had some three mil- lion, the original Soviet state some 150 million. China not only has 450 million people but has made the greatest leap from the darkness of the past to a clear road toward the future. The Chinese revolution, .coming after, inherits the characteristics of all. Like the change in France, it has freed a huge peasantry from 2,000 years of landlord rule. Like the American revolution, it has won independence from foreign imperialism for a vast area of the earth. Like the Russian revolution, it enlists one of the world’s most numerous peoples in a construc- tive effort leading to socialism. In terms of effect on the history of mankind as a whole, the results of the Chinese revolution will also loom equally immense. The U.S. revolution brought the American continent into the world scene, not as a stage property to be moved around at others’ will, but as a leading actor. The Chinese revolu- tion will do the same for all Asia. The French revolution spelled the doom of feudalism and mon- archy in most of old Europe. The Chinese revolution is the broom that will sweep even more ancient abuses from _ billion- strong Asia, creating a new force of unprecedented proportions and turning it to the satisfaction of human needs. No less than the other great changes of history, the Chinese revolution is a fact that cannot be reversed. The British empire, strongest power of the 18th cen- tury world, failed to down the new America. The 19th century holy alliance of powers seeking to re-establish the divine right of kings could not stamp out the new political and economic forms set afoot by revolutionary France. Neither early intervention, nor 30 years of “free enterprise” intrigue, nor the marching legions of Adolf Hitler could destroy Soviet so- cialism, . The Chinese revolution like- wise cannot be turned back. U.S. arms and billions, and British naval forces have already tried and failed. Other efforts will be made and will fail in the same way. * * * Now that naked foreign violence has proved futile in holding up the Chinese peoples march, bribes will be tried. U.S. observers who previously said Chinese Commun- ist possession ‘of such cities as Shanghai would be “a great blow to freedom and democracy” now console themselves that it really might be good, because Shanghai is corrupt and may corrupt the revolutionaries. It is indeed a com- mentary upon the concept of “free- dom and democracy” held by Washington ‘that corruption has now become the main hope in China. Similarly, it is said that the Chi- nese, now they have cleared the ground for reconstruction, will be forced to come begging for U.S. dollars to do it, and may thus be persuaded to forego the aims for which they fought. All history has proved that victorious people’s rey- olutions do not sell their birthright for easy credit terms. Cajolery and deception will be tried too, as always when men as- sert their rights toe nationhood, self-rule, or even a living wage. A New York Herald Tribune dis- patch from Washington on May 28 said that the U.S., “to check Communism in Asia, has decided that the best expedient is to en- courage nationalist movements in countries immediately vulnerable.” Then it went on to lament: “This is a delicate and tricky business, particularly in colonial areas where the logical consequence of nation- alism would seem outright inde- pendence.” To fight real benefits with pre- mises there is no intention of keeping is indeed tricky. There is always a time when it be- comes impossible. That peint has come in Asia, As always in history, people who can no longer be fooled are over- coming a system so bankrupt that “pie in the sky” is the only answer to hungry men. The Chinese are still backward in material goods. But in a way vastly more im- portant, they are ahead of many richer peoples. Their eyes are open. They see the road ahead. They have cleared it of the chief ob- stacles and are on their way. clearly indicating the attitude of interests that backed Hitler, American puppet state Five minutes before the meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers opened in Paris the new Western German state created by the Western powers came officially into being—a fait accompli the Western powers towards the conference and the Soviet proposals for a democratic, peaceful, united Germany they were to discuss. The picture above of Dr. R. Pfeiffer signing the constitutional document at Bonn, capital of the new state, may prove as historic —and as tragic—as the pictures of Hindenberg and Hitler, for the foundation of the new state is the restoration to power of the 4 the revival of German armed might, this time subservient to American imperialism. : More than 60,000 Ford workers reluctantly went back into the Dearborn factories last week when their strike against the vicious speed-up system was betrayed by their top union leader. Walter Reuther, president of the CIO United Automobile Workers, engineered a “settlement” that left everything as it was before. He agreed that an. “impartial” Reuther settles Ford strike --leaves speedup unsettled DETROIT. arbiter rule upon disputes about speed of operations on the basis of the contract with the company. But the gimmick is that the con- tract reserves the right to set production standards solely to the officials of the Ford empire. It has been no secret around — Ford that Reuther opposed the strike from the outset and only jumped on the bandwagon when there was no mistaking the mili- tant temper of the men. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 10, 1949 — PAGE 3 A ES e eee seR tes eva rte Sa ee ae '