Tory leader gives

$100 to von Manstein defence

burg next month.

and Britain itself.

LONDON

Winston Churchill this week
in effect repudiated his war-
time denunciations of Naziism,
As he has already retracted his
wartime tributes to the Soviet
Union, by contributing $100 to

.®& legal defense fund for Fritz
Erich von Mannstein, erstwhile
Nazi field marshal, whose trial
for war crimes opens in Ham-

-.The man who once remarked
(in 1938), “I have always said
that if Great Britain were de-
feated in war we should find a
Hitler to lead us back to our
rightful position among the na-
ticns,” has now accepted the
U.S. policy of creating a Ger-
man. puppet. state. under. the
very men who served Hitler, re-
Sardless of the threat to Europe

/.To justify this he has repudi-

ated the statements with which
in February, 1945, he bueyed up
hepes for enduring world peace:

“The impression I brought
back from the Crimea and from
all my other contacts-is that
Marshal Stalin and the other
Soviet leaders wish to live in
honorable friendship and equal-
ity’ with the western democ-
racies. I also feel that their
word is their bond. I knolw of
no government which | stands
on its obligations more solidly
than the Russian Soviet gov-
ernment. . Somber indeed
would be the fortunes of man-
kind if some awful schism
arose between the western de-
mocracies and the Russian peo-
ple— if all future organization
were rent asunder... .”

For that, in March 1949, still
professing friendship for the
Russian people but now placing

the blame for “the fundamen-
tal’ schism” upon the Soviet
leaders rather than the Truman
doctrine he himself had an-
nounced to the world, Churchill
substituted the regret that the
western democracies had failed
to strangle at birth the very
force which saved the western
democracies from being over-
run by the Nazis.

A West German court at Teu-
bingen has just provided the
commentary on the Western
policy favored by Churchill by
acquitting five Nazi doctors
charged with murdering their
patients and giving four others
light sentences. The court held
that the patients were murdered
“for their own good as very
grave cases.” One of the doc-
tors was Otto Mauther, who

alone was responsible for the
killing of 10,000 mental patients.

Churchill donates, courts free Nazis

WINSTON CHURCHILL

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Bolivia labor
plans unity

—LA PAZ

Success of united labor action
Se the recent Bolivian tin
foe when unions in industry
Nd transport helped underpaid tin
minens win’ a good settlement de-
eee the government’s use of
a against the strikers, may
‘s nm lead to organizational unity
f all Bolivian workers.
hee Bolivian Federation of La-
TH (CSTB), an affiliate of the
Sip American Federation of La-
Ba (CTAL), has called all other
calivian labor groups to a joint
Snference which may create one
8 union organization for the
Whole country.
re reliminany talks have already
. Sulted in the creation of a unity
“mmittee with two representa-
wee €ach of the CSTB, the Fed-
meen of Banking and Allied
: aie the Mineworkers’ -Feder-
poe the Confederation of Trans-
cat Workers, the Union of (white
yal Employees in Commerce
ne Industry and several smaller
Sanizations. :

West wont’ give
€xport licenses

—PRAGUE.
.. Western imperialist powers have
Consistently refused to grant ex-
‘ay licences for machinery and
Materials” which eastern Eur-
Les countries have been anxi-
ale to buy, M. Gregor, Czechoslo-
ih tradé minister, declared here
an interview,
ih fason for this refusal to trade,
a regor’s view, is that the West-
eek, Powers believe they can bring
ut collapse of the governments
the new People’s Democracies
- refusing to ship machinery and
ahd Materials needed for recon-
Tuction of the war-ravaged lands.
€ minister said that in the
velopment of economic. relations
A h States which have planned
the mies, foreign trade between
© latter could not be influenced
Y €conomic disturbances and cri-

Sis in the rest of the world.

Runs ‘errand’ for U.S.

NEW YORK
apes Curran, right-wing president
ay eas National Maritime Union,
Son Sed last week the real rea-
Ag for his. recent visit to Israel.

Mitting that he was acting as
dep. 22nd boy for the U.S. state
Partment, Curran revealed that
x Was sent to Israel to convince
© labor movement of that coun-

to quit the WFTU.

Saillant, unanimously reelected
WFTU general secretary; Soviet
trade union delegate Vassili Kuz-
netsov; and Vicente Lombardo To-
ledano of the Latin American Fed-
eration of Labor.

At the final plenary session, del-
egates unaniniously approved a
manifesto addressed to the work-
ers of the world and calling for
defense of peace, workers’ demo-
cratic rights and economic inter-
ests and strengthening of working
class unity.

Delegates voted to set up 12
internatianal trade union de-
partments which will be func-
tioning by the end of 1949. Three
flepartments— metallurgical, tex-
tile and fur and leather—have
already been established. Confer-
ences to set up mining, construc-
tion and chemical, transport and
maritime departments are sched-
uled for the near future.

Creation of these departments is
considered the most practical way
of promoting worldwide improve-
ment of working conditions in
each category and unions from all
countries to join a department
even though their national bodies
may not be affiliated with the

WFTU.
Greater attention to unions in

colonial and semi-colonial countries
was foreshadowed by the decision

By GINO BARDI

Twelve international union
departments set by WFTU

MILAN

Tens of thousands of workers and peasants from every region of Italy tumed out at a mass demon-
stration in Milan Park to greet delegates to the second World Federation of Trade Unions Congress, which
ended its sessions here after two weeks of intense activity. The huge throng was addressed by newly

elected WEFTU President Giuseppe DiVittorio, head of the Italian General Federation of Labor; Louis

to hold the November WFTU ex-
ecutive bureau meeting in Peking,
capital of the new China. A large
Chinese delegation got as far as

Czechoslovakia but was unable to
attend the congress because the
Italian government refused them
visas, General MacArthur's refusal
to permit a Japanese delegation
to attend also deprived the con-
gress of representatives from the
fast-growing labor movement of
that nation.

The fight for peace and the role
of labor in this struggle was one
of the main points of discussion.
Important speeches on this sub-
ject were made by Kuznetsov and
Italian Socialist labor leader Fer-
nando Santi, who declared that the
mass nature of the unions puts
them in the vanguard of the peo-
ples’ fight for peace.

They proposed that the WEFTU
cooperate fully in the actions
planned by the Wolrld Congress
for peace held in Paris. They
also proposed the calling of an
International Day in Defense of
Peace featured by mass demon-
sttations throughout the world.

The congress voted to increase
the WFTU executive committee
from 25 to 36 members to allow
representation for new affiliates
and trade union departments. The
door was left open for reestablish-
ment of worldwide labor unity by
keeping six places vacant for Am-
erican and British unions. Two
vice presidential vacancies were

WARSAW

Over half a million Polish work-
ers, of whom 8&0 percent are in in-
dustry and the rest in white collar
employment, will enjoy specially
subsidized vacations this year in
resorts formerly reserved, for the
country’s upper class. Miners, met-
al and textile workers will be
among the main groups to benefit.
Virtually all expenses of such

holidays, for both the workers and

Workers get free vacations |
at once exclusive resorts

their families, will be paid by the
government and unions. The va-
cationers will eat free in restau-
rant canteens or receive special
allotments for cooking in their
cottages.

The workers’ own expenses in
the once-expensive Tatra mount-
ains, Masurian lake and ‘Upper Si-
lesian resorts will amount to no
more than the cost of a pack of
cigarettes daily.

!

‘of last January”

also left on the 12-man executive
bureau for American and British
representatives.

In addition to DiVittorio and

Saillant, the new bureau consists
of the following vice presidents:
Kuznetsov, USSR; Alain de Leap,
France; Toledano, Latin America;
Liu Ning-yi, China; M. Brokzyl, Po-
land; Zupka, Czechoslovakia; Dialo
Abdulaj, West Africa, and S.
Dange of India, who was elected
although he has been in jail for
the past year and is still there.

The credentials committee re-
ported that 240 delegates were pre-
sent from 42 countries, plus 23 ob-
servers. Total WFTU membership
Was announced as being 71,580,000.
“This figure,” Saillant declared,
“demonstrates that the WFTU has
marched ahead despite the split
when the CIO
and British Trades Union Con-
gress withdrew. “Its unceasing ac-
tivity for a just and lasting peace
constitutes the WFTU’s_ reason
for existence,” he said, predicting
that the world labor body would
continue to live and expand.

Negro journal
raps Robinson

BALTIMORE

The Afro-American, leading Neg-
ro newspaper, applauds Paul
Robeson’s fight for Negro rights
and instructs Jackie Robinson to
stick to the game he knows best

In a sharply worded editorial,
Afro-American asserts that Paul
Robeson, “a good American”, is
thinking about “millions of color-
ed people in the South who can-
not vote, who are terrorized by
mobs at the least provocation, and
cannot get a decent job or a de-
cent education.”

Jackie Robinson was “invited”
to appear before the House Un-
American Committee last week to
“refute” Robeson’s statement at
the Paris Peace Congress that Am-
erican Negroes would not partici-

pate in an imperialist war.

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WallStreet _
instigates
‘red scare’

NEW YORK

From both ends of the earth —
London and Tokyo—the cables last
week flashed evidence that the
moneyed rulers of America plot to
impose a chain of Foley Squares
(where 12 leaders of the U.S. Com-
munist party are now on trial for

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‘their ideas) across the world.

It is Wall Styeet’s latest, and

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greatest, item for export as capi-
talist economy everywhere heads
into its periodic tailspin.

In Japan, General Douglas
(Shoot-the-Bonus-Marchers) Mac-
Arthur proposed, in his July 4
speech, to outlaw the Communist
party there.

In Britain, Prime Minister Cle-
ment R. Attlee, truckling to Mar-
shall Plan pressure, likewise re-
peated the Hitler’s “big lie” that
Communists are “instruments of
an alien dictatorship.”

In the United States, at Foley
Square, you hear that refrain day
after day.

.In both Japanese and British
capitals, as in the U.S., the govern-
ments are blueprinting further
“austerity” measures, which, for
their peoples, mean still lower liv-
ing standards. These are always
preceded by a hopped-up “Red
scare.?

The New York Times unwitting-
ly revealed the truth. Under the
headline “Attlee Says Reds Are
Trying to Ruin Britain’s Econ-
omy,” it carried this sub-head:
“Prime .Minister’s talk viewed as
sign that nation faces more auster-
ity measures.”

In the body of a Times story
headlined, “MacArthur Backed in
Hint of Red Ban,” was the reveal-
ing paragraph:

“The Diet’s Special Examination
Committee, the Japanese Counter-
part of the United States Congress
Un-American Activities Committee,
already is looking into Communist
tacties with special reference to
the party's activities in inspiring
actions to frustrate parliament’s
inactions under the occupation
austerity program.”

In both cases the key word is
“austerity”—the current double-
talk for starvation and main-
taining big business profits.. In
Britain profits are at a record
high level.

Civil servants
given rights

LONDON

British civil servants, who have
hitherto been forbidden to run for
political office or publicly advo-
cate the poliices of any party, are
to be granted limited rights of in-
dividual political action. :

The government has accepted
the recommendations of a special
investigating committee that all
such restrictions be removed. The
enfranchisement of civil servants
will not be complete, however, be-
cause it applies only to activity on
behalf of the government party or
the tories.

Support of the Communist party,
the third most important party in
Britain, recently became grounds

|for firing civil servants from their

jobs through rulings hitherto un-
precedented in this country and
widely believed to be the result of
U.S. pressure.

Partial nights of political action
now granted to civil servants ap-
ply to more than 500,000 persons
employed in various government

offices.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 22, 1949—PAGE 3

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