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Made in Japan

TOKYO—A tip to the National
Association of Manufacturers
from Japan’s big businessmen is
offered in a manual on how to
break strikes: “It is recommended
that labor-management councils be
exploited to the greatest extent
Possible. In time of dispute, man-
agement can gain time through
the councils and thus dis-spirit the
workers,

If prolonged negotiation is hop-
ed for, bring a large quantity of
cigarets .. .” The manual, pub-
lished by the Gifu Mamagerial As-
sociation, is being used by the
Electrical Workers’ Union to edu-
cate its workers on management
tactics.

Free gas in Milan

ROME—A nationwide strike of
gas workers to force considera-
tion of their wage demands has
started here here. The strike is
being applied progressively, start-
ing in Rome and becoming effec-
tive gradually in other key cities.

While Rome was without gas as
@ result of the walkout, the work-
ers in Milan remained at the
gasworks and power stations,
supplying the city with free gas
and electricity. :

Company spokesmen, who usu-
ally decry strikes on the grounds
that they are against the public
interest, were even more incensed
about the situation in Milan,
where the public was not affect-
ed adversely, than about Rome.
The action of the Milan work-
ers, company spokesmen charged,
is “sabotage.” .

Jail the fascists

LONDON—A petition demanding
suppression of all fascist activity
in Britain has been presented to
Prime Minister Clement Attlee by
a delegation representing 12,000
London engineers.

The revival of fascist and anti-
Semitic meetings “with the fullest
protection of the police,” the pe-
tition said, is “a very grave af-
front to the principles of de
mocracy and socialism.” The peti-
tion demanded the government re-
lease all those arrested for pro-
testing fascist meetings and fill
their. jail cells instead with “trai-
tors.”

Dollars versus ballots

WASHINGTON — Secretary of
Commerce W. Averell Harriman
today proposed an embargo on
military exports to the Soviet
Union and that nation’s friendly
neighbors.

Leading Wall Street representa-
tive in the Truman administra-
tion, Harriman also proposed that
Marshall plan funds be held out
as a form of reward to those
countries who abandon friendly
relations with the Soviet Union
and adopt a hostile attitude.

Conversely, he said, all aid
should immediately be stopped to
any people “which falls under
Communist domination.”

If the Italians, for example,
should vote for the Communist-
Soctalist bloc despite contrary
advices from the U.S. State
Department they would be placed
on the economic blacklist.

Hooked either way

ATHENS — The Federation of
Workers for the Press and Paper
Industry, one of the unions which
the government thought it had
under control after it removed all
elected officers amd appointed
new stooge officials, has de-
nounced the government’s prohi-
bition of new papers.

The move, it says, forces print-
ers “to choose between unemploy-
ment and starvation on the one
hand and, or the other, appearing
before a court martial should they
dare to work for a newspaper like-
ly to come out in the future.”

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1947

Modern Paul Revere

people, Senator Glen Taylor (D,

Alarmed at the flood of war propaganda engulfing the American

Ida.) is riding horseback cross-

country to mobilize public opinion against those US voices clamor-
tng for another conflict for selfish interests. Here he rests in
the Arizona desert as his horse stands by—also relaxing.

Liu, along with CAL President
Hsueh-fan and other CAL leaders,
is in virtual exile from his home-
land. The CAL was declared ille-
gal when its members on both
sides of the lines joined together
to demand an end to the civil
war. Those CAL leaders who re-
main in Kuomintang China are in
jail or hiding.

The power company _ strike
started, Liu said, when Kuomin-
tang (government party) secret
police arrested six workers from
the U.S.-owned- plant. Rejecting
the strikers’ demand that their
fellow workers be released, the
government retaliated by ordering
dissolution of the union involved
and by arresting scores of other
workers jn the plant. :

Using the power strike as an
excuse, Liu said, the government
has started arresting workers in
other plants .as “agitators” and
has also jailed scores of students
for sympathizing with the work-
ers’ demands. :

@ Chiang Kai-shek has forced
the civil war upon the peo-
ple . . . Workers are driven
to the front to kill their o
countrymen. z

@ Chiang’s general economic
mobilization means that every-
thing is used for the waging
of civil war. The result is that
China is im the grip of a
terrible inflation. Chiang for-
bids any increases in wages
with the result that the work-
ers are starving.”

@ Having taken away the right
to strike, to demonstrate and
to organize, and having abol-
ished freedom of speech, as-
sembly and publication, he
(Chiang) has arrested and
murdered large mumbers of
workers.”

Liu also spoke sharply against
the role of the U.S. in China.
The U.S. government, he pointed
out, has given Chiang the weap-
ons with which he attacks Chi-
nese workers on the other side
in the civil war and has assum-
ed contro! of eight main military
bases on Chinese soil.

U.S. businessmen, he added, are
taking advantage of Chiang’s de-

pendence on American aid to

U.S. reaction launches
drive on China unions

LONDON—A new wave of terror has. broken out in
China as a result of a strike at the American-owned Shang-
hai Power Co., an offshoot of General Electric, Vice-President
Liu Ning-i of the Chinese Association of Labor revealed here.

force their way into ownership
of key Chinese industries, driving
Chinese -businessmen into bank-
ruptcy and throwing thousands of
workers on the unemployment
rolls,

Chinese workers on both sides
of the civil war are on record,
he said, demanding that the U.S.
cease its support of the Chiang
Kai-shek regime,

(Shortly after Liu’s statement
was made, U.S. Secretary of State
George C. Marshall urged Con-
gress approve another $300 mil-
lion grant to Chiang Kai-shek.)

“For the right to live and work,
for democracy and freedom, for
the independence of the Chinese
nation and for the peace of the

Minorities watch UN
on African

By PETER

race issue

MORTON

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. — Minority peoples in every
country are awaiting anxiously to see whether United Nations
general assembly will force the Union of South Africa to
abolish discrimination against the Union’s Indian population.

Last year the general assembly
ordered South Africa to halt its
treatment of Indians as second-
class. citizens. Flouting the UN
decision, South Africa’s govern-
ment instituted an economic boy-
cott to starve Indians into ac-
cepting their present status as
inferiors. The UN must now de-
cide how to enforce its order.

The major discrimination prob-
lem in South Africa concerns the
country’s eight million natives,
who are treated as slaves by two
million whites. But the UN ean
deal only with the problem of
the 250,000 Indian population,
which is an  inter-government
fight between South Africa and
India. If the Indian population
wins its battle for equality, it is
generally felt that this will pro-
vide tremendous impetus to
South Africa’s natives and to the
struggle of minority people every-
where for fair treatment.

To plead the cause of the In-
dian minority, General Secretary
A. I. Meer of the National In-
dian Congress has come to the

“Equality in South Africa is
utterly non-existent,” Meer told
Allied Labor News in an inter-
view. Since 1885, more than 60
anti-Indian laws have beem pass-
ed. Today, though more than
80 percent of the Union’s Indians
were born there, they are de-
prived of citizenship rights.
Discrimination carries over even

in death. At one of the few uni-
versities that does permit a small
number of Indians to study, non-
white medical students are pro-
hibited from performing a post-
mortem on a white body. As a
matter of fact, all Indians must
leave the room as soon as a
white body is brought in.

The list of “dont’s,” Meer said,
covers everything from work to
play. To keep Indians from learn-
ing any skilled trade, a law
passed in 1925 prohibits their
handling any machinery run by
steam or electricity. They can’t
use libraries. Their children aren't
allowed to ride on the same pub-

far east,” Liu declared, “we
Chinese workers have no alterna-
tive -but to unite together and
resolutely and thoroughly elimin-
ate the fascists headed by Chiang

Kai-shek.”

To protest’contempt’
citations of artists

NEW YORK — With a warning that a “time bomb”
hangs over the American people, Hollywood director Irving

Pichel called upon unions and

other organizations to demanc

that Congress refuse to cite 10 Hollywood artists for contempt.

Should the contempt proceed-
ings succeed, Pichel said, it will
set off the “time bomb” which
will deprive all Americans of their
civil liberties. , Himself one of
those cited for refusing to give
Yes or No answers to questions
about his political affiliations, Pi-
chel pointed out that already the
committee is attempting to create
political blacklists and impose
censorship on Hollywood films.

Addressing a reception held by
the Civil Rights Congress for 12
of the 19 Hollywood writers, di-
rectors and actors summoned be-
fore the committee, Pichel said
the bomb is set to go off Novem-
ber 17 when the special session
of Congress convenes.

“Before Nov. 17 we intend by
every means that exists to per-
suade congressmen to vote against
these citations,” he declared. One
of the means was launching of a
campaign to obtain 500,000 signa-

tures to petitions to abolish the
committee. mae

Ben Margolis, one of the attor-
neys for the 19, said there was
sound legal basis for fighting the
committee but warned that “what
the supreme court does devends
largely upon the political climate
of the country.”

Screen actor Parks de-
clared that loyalty to one’s coun-
try “is not necessarily loyalty to
@ group’ of government officials.
Sometimes true loyalty consists
in opposing the policy and ideas
of government officials.”

“I believe that no agency has
the right by public inquiry to
force men and women to submit
their associations or their thoughts
or their religion or their politics
to public scrutiny and congres-
sional approval,’ he declared,
reading a statement he was un-
able to present to the un-Ameri-
can committee.

lic playground swings as whites. |:

In most buildings, public and pri
vate, elevators are out of bounds
for a man with dark skin.

Another law prohibits Indians
from carrying guns. Even during
the war, Meer said, this law was
kept in force by the Smuts reg-
ime. It meant that an Indian in
the army often found himself fac
ing a Nazi machine gun in North
Africa armed with nothing more
than a pickhandle or spear.

Indians are not allowed to ride
On some bus routes though the
buses. are operated by taxes re-
ceived from Indians on the same
basis .as whites. Almost 80 per
cent of the Indian ponulation is
kent illiterate because the govern-
ment will not provide them with
school facilities. In Natal, where
Indians are 50 percent of the pop-
ulation, there are 155 schoola for
whites, 16 for Indians. An official
in Natal responsible for handing
out licenses necessary to open
businesses summed up his prob-
lem by saying: “A European 1
cense is pranted as a matter of
course, whereas the license to aD
Indian is refused as a matter of
course.”

When the South African parlia-
ment passed its Ghetto act in
1946 compressing Indians into dia-
ease-ridden, squalid areas at ex-
orbitant rentals, a passive resis-
tance movement was officially
launched. Joined by a number of
progressive whites, the Indians
set up tents in the restricted zones
and stood their grouna until
dragged off by police.

“Even in jail,” Meer added,

speaking from personal expert
ence, “discrimination goes on. A

white murderer is given a 10x?
foot cell to himself. Seven In
dian passive resisters are crowd-
ed in a cell exactly the same
size.” j

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Ambassador

Russian comment that Brar
zilian generals were made, not
in battle but on coffee planta-
tions, has irked Brazilian diplo-.
matic leaders. Brazile has broken
off relations with the U.S.S.R-
and Mario Pimentel Brandao,
(ABOVE) Brazilian ambassador
to Moscow, is reported being
‘detained by Russian authorities
pending safe return of Soviets

diplomats from Brazil.

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