nt ‘Marshall plan’ HONG KONG—American com- mercial pilots and planes are be- ing used in violation of interna- tional air agreements to transport munitions for the Kuomintang government in China’s civil war. This disclosure was made by Maj. Chou Chi-tang, one of nine Chinese pilots employed by the Chinese National Aviation Corp., an air- line vperated jointly by U.S. and Kuomintang interests but under American control. The major himself was captured by Chinese Communist armies in October when he landed a muni- tions-laden CNAC plane on an airfield that he thought was still under Kuomintang control. The sixty-one American pilots employed by the airline are also used to ferry war equipment, the major stated. Would like to--but! BUFFALO, N. Y.—The promin- ent secretary of an important employers’ trade association has found himself squeezed by the anti-Communist campaign. Asked whether he was going to attend a Henry Wallace meeting, he complained: “You know, I'd like to, but it’s teo bad—things have got so if you go to hear an opposition thing like that, people see you and say, ‘Ha! There’s so- a” and-so. I always suspected him’. So he’s going to try and find Wallace’s speech in the next day’s morning papers—which may be difficult if the lords of the “free press” decide (which they often do) to ‘play-down’ the Wallace speeches. New boss--eld rules BERLIN—Former Gestapo men are being recruited for a new “industrial . police force” in the‘ western zones of Germany, ac- cording to the Berliner Zeitung. The paper ‘reproduces a_ secret service order which it reports is being circulated among the .new police force recruits at Augsburg. Acting against an “organized mob,” the order says, the industrial police are allowed to use “slight force”’—fire hoses, teargas, night sticks and overhead shooting. The erder also instructs them how to build barricades, encircle houses, and remove dead and wounded. Instructions on fighting “large armed organized mobs” tell police to act in conjunction with occupa- tion troops supported by tanks and planes. ‘Aloha to you’ HAWAII—Rep. James Van Zandt (R., Pa.) received quite a jolt during his recent visit to Hawaii. Someone set up a meeting for him at Oahu, but when the Con- gressman entered the auditorium he was surprised to find everyone in the place had been provided with a copy of his voting record by the Oahu CIO Council. Van Zandt spluttered and fumed when he got a copy himself, and threatened that if such leaflets were handed out in his own dis- trict, his constituents would run the distributors out of .town. The leaflet merely listed his votes on crucial issues such as GI loans, school lunches, rent con- trol, wages and hours, with a brief explanation of each. It pointed out his constituents un- doubtedly missed him, wished him Godspeed, and closed with a warm, firm “Aloha.” Where there’s smoke... TORONTO — Cigarettes jumped 2 cents per deck of 20 last week. Experts say this will cost Can- adian smokers about $8 million a@ year more. Last year Imperial Tobacco showed an _ operating profit of $834 million. The extra 2 cents will just about double that figure. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1947 Solons say loans must be political | NEW YORK—An apparently inspired report of Congressional cloak-room conversation on the Marshall plan is offered in the December 5 New York Times by James Reston, whose close contacts in the highest government circles have gained him a reputation for such “scoops.” The statement which he attributes to “influential officials and members of Congress” cast considerable light on the attitude of those spokesmen toward European loans. “Publicly,” Reston says, “the supporters of the interim aid and the European recovery program are timid ‘about suggesting that economic aid must be supple- mented by a more effective politi- cal program against the Commun- ists but privately they concede that the western European gov- ernments and the U.S. must find some wey of defeating the Com- ITU fights ‘T-H’ Chicago publishers refused to discuss increased wages with the International Typographical Union (AFL) unless the ITU agreed to a signed contract. National ITU policy is to keep from signing contracts under the shadow of the Taft-Hartley bill, so 1,600 printers went on strike. Picture shows ITU picketing the Herald-Examiner. munist tactics in the French and Italian labor unions.” Among the proposals being made, Reston continues, are the following: ‘In the first place, the ad- ministration is being urged to reassure the Schuman and de Gasperi governments in Paris and Rome that if the Commun ists try to seize power by un- constitutional means, the legiti- mate governments of France and Italy can count on the support of the United States. This can mean military as well as financial. : “Secondly it is proposed that the United States makes its peace with the French government over the future of industrial Germany by declaring its support for the internationalizing of the Ruhr and Rhineland valleys. “Thirdly it is being suggested that the United States depart from its” old non-intervention policies and render effective aid to non-Communist parties and organizations in France and Italy. “Bor example, it is suggested that the United Statesysees that the non-Communist parties in these countries get the necessary newsprint and finances to carry on effective internal political cam- paigns and that the Socialist ele- ments in the General Federation of Labor in France, under Leon Jouhaux, gain the support he needs in his fight against the Communists. “And fourthly it is proposed that the United States speed its aid to Europe and develop an effec- tive overseas information service to see that the facts and objec- tives of that aid are clearly and widely understood. While pointing out that there is mot general: agreement in Washingtow on which or how many of these methods to em- ploy, it is widely agreed, Res- _ ton states, that “if there is to be a European recovery program it must be political as well as economic.” Reston cites the current visit of John Foster Dulles to France as an indication that the Truman administration is equally concern- ed in this direction. Mosley launches new fascist party in Britain LONDON—A new political party frankly pro-fascist, anti-Semitic, anti-Communist and anti-Soviet will be formed early in 1948, Sir Oswald Mosley, former head of the British Union of Fascists, informed a press conference here. Under the name of the Union Movement, the new party will amalgamate the 50-odd existing proifascist groups in Britain. It will replace the “book clubs” formed by Mosley immediately after the war, when he was re- leased from wartime imprison- ment for his work on Hitler’s behalf. Mosley’s activities during the past year—which have included attacks on Jewish people and their synagogues and attacks on anti- fascist war veterans who protested his meetings—have drawn ‘sharp demands from the labor movement that. the government outlaw all fascist groups. A resolution to this effect was adopted at the September convention of the British Trades Union Congress and has been followed up by re- peated labor delegations to gov- ernment authorities. The paper program of Mosley’s new movement incorporates in slightly amended form most of the aims of the old British Union of Fascists. Spelling out the program for reporters, Mosley said the move- ment’s aim is a 1-party regime. The party, he added, would ex- clude all Jews from running for any office. If it gained power, Mosley said, the party would suppress the Communists and exile “all Jews who had not been a long time in Britain.” Those Jews who had been in England “for Several generations” might be allowed to remain, he stated, but their rights would be cur- tailed. His party is prepared, Mosley announced, to issue an ultimatum of war to Russia unless Soviet officials accept the American plan for control of atomic energy and unless the Russians “withdraw from those areas of Europe which have nothing to do with them.” He made clear that the European Union plan espoused by his party would exclude not only Russia but all of eastern Europe. The real America Smashing segregation barriers, Henry A. Wallace speaks to a white and Negro audience in an Atlanta, Ga., Baptist Church. More than 3,000 people heard him deliver a stinging denunciation of racial discrimmination. French gov't qualifies or ‘Marshall plan’ aid By MARCEL DUBOIS ~ PARIS—France’s new big business-dominated govern- ment had mobilized 80,000 troops to crack down on the two million workers who were striking for wage increases. Sweeping, dictatorial powers were granted to right-wing - Premier Robert’ Schuman, who openly admitted his aim was to break the strike movement. The premier flatly refused even to meet with leaders of the French General Confederation of Labor (CGT), who were pressing for a mini- mum wage of $90 a month. Schuman justified his stand by charging that the strike is “Com- munist-inspired.” While the great bulk of French unionists are Com- munists or Communist supporters and they have elected a majority of Communists to union leader- ship, the single jssue’of the pres- ent strike wave is for a living wage. Workers have been unable to afford even bread and potatoes in recent months. Most of them never see meat on their tables. While cracking down on the workers, Schuman has made no move to curb soaring prices or the black market, admittedly the source of the current strife. The sweeping law which Schuman, proposed to the Nation- al Assembly would provide im- prisonment for anyone inter- fering with the “freedom to work,” engaging in a demon, stration that affected industrial output or writing what. govern- ment censors might deem an “inflamatory” newspaper article. Schuman received his dictatorial powers from the National Assem- bly by a vote of 408 to 184. PARIS—French workers, who offered their “full understanding, sympathy and solidarity” to their American brothers when the Taft- Hartley act was passed, are now faced with a French version of that act. A law passed. December 4, ad- mittedly aimed at smashing labor’s drive for higher wages, provides prison terms up to 10 years and fines as high as $8,000 for acts of “sabotage,” a term used by gov- ernment: officials to describe the current strike wave. The use of “threats or violence” to start or spread strikes is punishable by five years in jail and $4,000 in fines. Communist deputies were the only ones to vote against the law. US army joins in Greek civil war _ ATHENS—American army officers are going to fight in the civil war in Greece. This news, significantly §news- worthy, was sent to the US from Athens November 19 and either ignored or buried in many news- papers. The Athens dispatch stated that US army officers will not only supervise American aid to Greece, “but will also share in the stra- tegic and tactical direction of the actual campaign.” Thomas F. Reynolds, Chicago: Sun and PM correspondent, wrote that “almost certainly there are going to be American lives lost in this new phase of the Greek action.” He quoted Major-Gen. William’ G. Livesay as saying that the officers will go into com- bat areas. Reynolds said this extension of US intervention is “the deepest penetration since US Marines were in Nicaragua.” Up to now, he reported, Ameri- can aid has consisted of picking up the $300,000,000 check and pro- viding the guns and bullets. The new program calls for “skilled US Army tacticians trained in mountain guerilla tactics’ to “advise” the Greeks, who will not be compelled to accept their advice, but will probably find themselves without guns and bullets if they don’t. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 2.