longer than

Split, raid and wreck

Newspaper headlines screamed the delight of big business as
Presider Philip Murray, shown here addressing the llth CIO.
convention at Cleveland, announced his intention to “clease com-
munism” from the CIO. In practice, Murray’s policy means whole-
sale union splitting, raiding and wrecking, from which only the
National Association of Manufacturers and other enemies of

organized labor can benefit.

Indonesian Communist
leaders were murdered

—PEKING

“The peoples of Indonesia and Asia will never forgive or forget
the murder of Indonesian Communist party leaders Muso, Amir

Sjarifuddin,. Maroeto Daroesman

and ’Harient,’’ states the New

China News agency in confirming ‘that the four Communist leaders

named were “secretly murdered by
the traitorous Hatta government
Clique under the direction of Am-
erican and Dutch imperialism.”

(Under an agreement concluded
at The Hague in the Netherlands
last week between the Dutch gov-
ernment. and the Indonesian gov-
ernment of Premier Mohammed
Hatta, the United States of Indo-
Nesia will be created aS a sSover-
eign federated republic not later
than December 30 this year. How-
ever, the agreement, which re-
tains the new republic under the
Dutch crown, falls far short of the
complete independence demanded
by the Indonesian liberation move-
ment and leaves the way open for
Dutch military forces to remain
e year allowed: for
their withdrawal “if the govern-
ments agree otherwise.”’) :

“The murder of these leaders
has meant a big loss to the cause
of Indonesian liberation, but this
certainly cannot crush the whole
revolutionary struggle,” says the
New China News agency.

“Seventy million Indonesian peo-
Ple cannot all be murdered.

“The guerrilla warfare of the
Indonesian people ,
Dutch imperialists has continued
to grow since the reactionary In-

donesian government carried, out,

its bloody suppression at Madioen.
and since the rapid collapse and

_ Capitulation of the Hatta govern-

ment after the second all-out at-
tack of the Dutch aggressors last
December.

“Under the direction of Amer-
ican imperialism, the Hatta clique
has signed a so-called “true ag-
reement’ with the Dutch aggres-
sors and proclaimed that so-called
‘cease-fire order’. But history has
already demonstrated — this this
will not in the least satisfy the
demands: of the Indonesian peo-
ple.

“The Indonesian people will,
from the murder of their leaders,
further realize the heinousness and
brutality of the reactionaries and
imperialists who are working to-
gether hand in glove.

against the}

110,000 Argentine’

American press
forgery exposed
by Czech papers

—PRAGUE

A faked photograph distributed |

by Hearst’s*news agency to all
dollar dominated countries has
been exposed by Czechoslovak
papers here.

Originally printed in the Paris
Match weekly, the. photograph
showed weeping women described
as “relatives of men sentenced to
death n Prague, photographed
listening to yerdicts from  loud-
speakers in the streets.” ;

The Prague papers pointed out
that the picttre was cut from a
photograph taken at the funeral
of President Benes in September,
1948, and ‘published the original
beneath the forgery.

French writer Louis Aragon has
demanded punishment of those re-
sponsible. :

.
workers on strike
—BIUVENOS AIRES
Over 110,000 Argentine workers
are now on strike. They include
90,000 sugar workers who are ask-
ing a 100 percent wage increase
to meet higher prjces, 11,000 flour
mill workers who have also pre-
sented) wage demands and 10,000
shemical workers. %
Walkouts continue despite gov-
ernment outlawing of the sugar
and mill-workers’ unions, shooting
of sugar strikers at Jujuy and
use of teargas against demonstra-
tots, including workers’ wives and
children, in the Tucuman sugar
producing area. Workers in meat
packing, Argentina's biggest single
industry, have won a long strike
by gaining nationwide wage hikes.

UE EXPULSION SIGNAL FOR RAIDING, CONTRACT PIRACY

ganization that leads directly into

and Machine Workers, third larg-
est union in the CIO and biggest
of the left-led affiliates; changed
the CIO constitution to permit the
executive board to expel the nine
remaining left-wing unions when-
ever they please; and in the mean-
time barred the nine unions from
having representation on the
board.

Murray, aided by CIO Secretary-
Treasurer James B. Carey and
Walter P. Reuther, social-demo-
cratic leader of the, United Auto
Workers, also pushed through a
series of resolutions endorsing al-
most every phase of President
Truman’s cold war foreign policy.

long-threatened “‘purge’’ of the left-wing minority.

By MARY DOBBS

the employers’ canp.

Right-wingers head ClO

into camp of employers

. —NEW YORK

Right-wing leaders of the CIO convention in Cleveland last week set a course for their or-
In an atmos

sphere that even neutral’ observers

noted was marked by complete autocracy and hysteria, CIO President Philip Murray carried out his
The convention expelled the United Electrical Radio

helped build the CIO and refused
to be provoked into quitting the
organization voluntarily.

Leaders of the UE, regarding
their expulsion as foredoomed,
walked out of the convention on
the second day and their formal
ouster quickly followed. Events
that rapidly followed this action
gave ample evidence that the
right-wing CIO course gives com-
fort only to the employers. —

The expulsion was the signal for
UE right wingers to raid the
treasuries. of their home locals,
hand them over to the national
CIO and Philip Murray’s United

Secretary of State Dean Acheson
and General Omar Bradley were
brought in to make the anti-
Communist fires burn brighter. |

The positions taken by the CIO |
convention placed the organization
on record against the forward
march of the peoples who have
liberated themselves or are in the
process of freeing themselves from
oppression in widely - scattered
points of the globe. The victory
of the Chinese people, for .ex-
ample, was viewed as a catas-
trophe by the right wingers, who
ealled for a Marshall plan in Asia.
A capsule version of the conflict
between the left and right was
given in a brief debate between
President Harry Bridges of the
International Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s. Union, militant
left-wing leader on the west coast,
and President Joseph Curran of
the National Maritime Union,
whose once-progressive union is
disintegrating under his dictator-
ial leadership.

“Bridges called for resumption
of trade with the new China and
asked for pelrmission to keep his
longshoremen in the World Fed-~
eration’ of Trade Unions, which
has in the past mobilized world:
wide support for the longshore-
men’s struggles against the em-
ployers. Curran’s only reply was
that Bridges sounded like, An-

Steelworkers, or otherwise take
them and try to capture the en-
tire UE machinery.

This piracy was capped by 2
statement of unmatched auda-
city from Carrey, who was ap-
pointed by Murray to head the
new “union” chartered to re-
place UE. Carey wired employ-
ers with whom UE holds con-
tracts and informed them that
his ClIO-chartered unior now
held the contracts. He took this
acticn despite the fact that just
a.few weeks earlier he was re-
pudiated by the majority of UE
members at their own conven-

New Hungary has
no unemployment

Hungarian unions have an-
nounced discontinuance of an
employment servjce. they pre-
viously operated on grounds that.
unemployment in Hungary has
disappeared.

Hungarian unemployment be-
fore the war sometjmes reached
as high as 1,000,000 in a country
of 14 million people. Now, with
a planned economy, there is a
shortage instead of an excess of
labor. The shortage is being filled
by, mechanized agricultural pro-
cesses, thus freeing workers prer
viously needed on the farms for
industrial . work.

Average wages jn Humgariam
industry are now 387 percent
above prewar in terms of actual
purchasing power, accordjng te
government figures.

Ask more trade

tion. |
— x
Carey’s action also sabotages the |
present collective bargaining nego- |
tiations the 'UE is holding with |
major electrical firms. If he is
successful, the electrical workers
cannot look forward. to wage in-
creases and other gains, but only
to a year of internecine strife
from which the employers alone

.| will gain,

The left, of course, is not the
only group in the labor movement
that will suffer from the present
purge, UE leaders have charged
that as a result of the membership
raids and anti-Communist policies
appraved by Murray, the actual
membership of the whole CIO has
dwindled from its claimed six mil-
lion to three million. Whether or

drei Vishinsky.

All the issues raised at the con-} there is no doubt that the CIO has

vention by the left, touching onj| failed to organize in the last few |
the economic interests of» their| years and has been losing mem- |
members, were inundated under ajbers. Such a downward

flood of similar redbaiting. Ex-
cept for the UE, the left stood
firmly on its position that it had

course
| leaves the CIO. ill-equipped for
economic struggles with the em-
ployers.

not this last figure is accurate,”

between Britain,
New Democracies

—LONDON

Britjsh engineering workers are
pressjng the Labor government to
establish better relations with the
Soviet Union and the New Democ-
racies of Eastern Europe.

Britain’s need for food and raw
materials in exchange for engineer-

|ing products is the motive behind

the demand.

Unanimously making this de-
mand, the national committee of
the Amalgamated Engineering
Union’ instructed its executive
council to “do everything in its
power to give effect.to the decision.

Protesting over American inter-
'ference in British political and eco-
nomic affairs, several delegates ob-
‘jected to restrictive trading prac-
‘tices imposed by the U.S.

Coal miners return to work

: Decision of the United Mine Workers’ polity ‘committee to send 380,000 striking soft coal
miners back to work wumntil November 30 under terms of the old contract will be welcomed by Peter
Merigo, shown above with three of his 15 children looking down at the Westlatd m‘me in Canons-

burg, Pa.

It will be equally good news to Paul Debolt (right),

seen reading a notice that the

store, to which Merigo owes $300, will be open only four hours a day. But’ as in the past, personal

hardship will not lessen miners’ determination to fight for their rights.
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