Phe.

hae

“1 take this opportunity of declaring my belief that no British miner

for such a war, and the sooner the warmongers understand that the better,
ineworkers, Scottish area, declared before |,
A few minutes earlier, Wood had niade it c
Make no bones against whom it is to be foug

* UN cornerstone laid

dangerous” because “reactionary element

; oN thé permanent United

Secretary-General Trygve

As workmen lower the huge cornerstone onto the first building
Nations headquarters in New York,
Lie spreads mortar with a silver

wel. Statesmen and diplomats from 59 nations attended the

Ceremony,
Sp

~ommunist

indica organ.
resist ; :
Policies, ce to Tito’s anti-democratic

aut increasing struggle against

form to regime takes various
BENG from strikes in enterprises
Pen clashes with police.

“val® Paper declares that the
have Majority of Yugoslav workers
aac clear conception of the
atop or their country as the
hte clonal enslavement grows
Volicg 22d adds “despite severe
of | oppor for the smashing
Mt soe’, the workers’ move-
Tito Sainst the gestapo regime of
Stronee @2t Rankovich becomes
F ee daily.”
_ Siona) m members of the re-
Slay ¢, Committee of the Yugo-
Blo mmunist party in the By-
[ Patrigne® were killed and many
Was ¢ arrested after rebellion
Tecentiy, with military forces,
“yen Collapse of the so-called
- Titoit brigade” organization,
fore. Ss @t€ mobilizing labor by
“nd are filling factories with
ed” persons but the “en-
are quitting work despite
of arrest.
that of elgrade paper Borba admits
facto. 245 workers enrolled in &
~ lege ie in Kralievo, only three were
on? days later, The rest walk-
The same paper also ad-
Walkout” other cases of mass
ery by workers. (
a Students of the agron
Sity yc2eulty of Belgrade Univer-
Portin Te arrested recently for SuP-
& tHe Cominform, Rabotnich-

beg pePorts. Many times that num-

: Tiversity

+o
t

a

~

Y First reports of strikes as well as a mass boycott of
geeky workers are ‘referred to in the latest issue of the Yugoslav
: An article in Raboliniches Delo carries reports
ting significant broadening ahd

been expelled from the|ed

Strikes, rebellion mark
‘Struggle against Tito

—SOFIA
work by

the strengthening of popular

The supreme military court of
‘the Yugoslav army recently re-
fused to Sit at the trial of a Com-
munist group. The president of
the court, Major General Mirko
Krdjitch, his deputy Major- Gen-
eral Shchepanovich, State At-
torney Major-General Djitich and
‘other members of the, court were

arrested. ‘
pag eh See

Manchurian output
sets new records

—DAIREN

Industrial progress and poten-|

tialities in thé new China are
being highlighted in an industrial
exhibition here which has been
drawing over 100,000 visitors week-
ly from all parts of the country.

Exhibits show that many Man-

churian industries. are now pro-
ducing a more varied, as well as
greater, output than under Jap-

anese occupation. Dairen and Port
Arthur plants now -produce loco-
motives, marine engines, propel-
lers of ocean-going ships and many
chine tools.
steel output in Dairen and Port
Arthur is now 64 percent above
the Japanese -occupation period.
Railway workshops and shipyards
have more than doubled their pro-
duction. Soviet engineers helped
achieve these targets’ by advice
on organization and teaching in
technical schools, which have train-
14,000 skilled Chinese tech-
nicians in the last three years.

By PHYLLIS ROSNER

constructive purposes.
John Horner, secretary

our country, the trade unions.”

eace Congress denounces arms squandermania when social security cut

Hits Britain’s ‘madhouse economics’

'

LONDON

or other conscientious worker will produce any materials
” John Wood, vice-president of the National Union of
000 delegates at the British Peace Congress held in London last week.

lear what sort of war he was talking about.
ht, namely the Soviet Union,’

“The advocates of atomic destruction
‘Wood said, describing the world situation today as “’ugly and
s, allying themselves to the America of Wall Street, are determined to halt the advance
of socialism.” It is “the economics of the madhouse,”’
armaments for each man, woman and child in the country “‘at a time when the statesmen call on workers
to restrain wage claims even when they get 5 pounds ($14)a week or less.”
drawal of all: British troops in foreign areas, Wood suggested that money saved on arms be used for

he said; for Britam to spend $42 a year on

Calling! for the with-

: ner, of the British Fire Brigades Union, forecast that the peace congress
‘can be the beginning of something that will change the situation in the great mass organizations of

He predicted that the pressure on British workers’ living standards

‘Europe, met in Paris. The other,
ministers accredited to East Euro-
pean countries, met in London.

Both conferences had much to
discuss. At Paris, the practical
working out of Atlantic pact pro-
visions, the situation created by
Soviet possession of the atom bomb,
the economic chaos and political
crisis caused by devaluation and
the increasingly apparent failure
of the Marshall plan, were high on
the agenda. :

In London, the conference heard
generally gloomy reports on the
failure of “Project X” and the
smashing of U.S.-engineered plots
to overthrow the People’s Democ-
racies, with the Tito regime’s be-
trayal of socialism in Yugoslavia
advanced as the sole accomplish-
ment, -

Defeat of plots in Poland and
Czechoslovakia was revealed in
reports made by American diplo-
mats to those countries. The re-
ports expressed disappointment
over inability of their agents to
exploit what they termed “the
traditional dislike and distrust of
Russians” among the Poles and
“strong associations with west-
ern democracy” among the Czechs.
\Similarly, the defeat for U.S. cold
war strategy represented by the
trial and conviction of Laszlo Rajk,
former Hungarian foreign minister,
was acknowledged in admissions
that the Communists in Hungary
and Rumania had “the situation
firmly under control.”

Bulgaria was held out as the one
country most likely to follow Yugo-
slavia in breaking away from the
Cominform, but even in Bulgaria,
it was admitted, “the prospects are
not good.” -

The London conference ended
with a decision to urge President
Truman ,to give the Tito regime
full political, economic and diplo-
matic aid, a decision which Tito
did his utmost to justify by de-

Soviet Union and creating a fake
“war crisis.”

The close connection between
American diplomats and American
tress agencies in Europe was
shown by dispatches filed in the
days immediately following the two
conferencés.

In Rome, Josip Vidmar, presi-
dent of the Peoples’ Council of the
Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia of
Yugoslavia, claimed that George
Dimitrov, world - renowned Com-
munist leader and premier of Bul-
garia until his death this summer,
had been “a strong supporter of
Marshal Tito’s anti-Kremlin views.”
Vidmar, following a familiar Trot-
skyite pattern, compounded this
slander by implying that there was

claring his readiness to fight the -

—LONDON

Called in from the capitals of Europe by the U.S. state depart-
ment, America’s agents of the cold war held two conferences last
week. One, representative of U.S. diplomates stationed in Western

attended by U.S. ambassadors and

a connection between Dimitrov’s
political views and his death.

It was obvious, however, that
Vidmar’s fabrication, given prom-
inence by the capitalist press in
most Western countries, was a
flimsy attempt to give substance
to the hopes expressed at the Lon-
don conference that Bulgaria
might follow Yugoslavia.

Another inspired story, emanat-
ing from London, claimed “im-
mense” support in British left-wing
circles for Tito’s position. This
should be translated to mean that
the British Labor party leadership
is preparing to follow the U. S. lead
in supporting the Tito regime.

Donets Basin
now restored

MOSCOW

The Donets Basin, main coal pro-
ducing area of the Soviet Union
has now fully recovered from the
almost. complete wartime destruc-
tion of its mines and towns and
once again holds first place in coal
output.

Reconstruction of mining towns
-has also been completed, and ex-
pansion has begun. Housing space
in the Stalino region, which had
been reduced to rubble by gigantic
battles and Nazi vandalism, is now
greater than before the war. Apart
from the reconstruction of previ-
ously existing houses, more than
7,200 Stalino miners’ families have
oecupied new apartments equipped
with modern plumbing, gas, tele-
phone and radio. In accordance
with Soviet law, veteran miners
with the required\seniority have
been given lifetime leases on their
apartments.

Novoshaktinsk, a new city which
had only begun its development
when the war broke out, had en-
tire streets blown up or burned by.
the Nazis. Today the city has a
population which is double the pre-
war peak. The government has
built a number of apartment houses
for miners and extended millions
of rubles in credit to miners wish-
ing to build their own homes.

Facilities for education, culture
and recreation now exceed those ex-
isting before the Nazi invasion. Be-
sides a network of libraries and
ordinary schools, the Basin now
has seven colleges, 45 specialized
vocational high schools, 48 “palaces
of culture,” 23 movie theaters and

would convince them “how mistaken it had been for the Trades Union Congress to withdraw from the
World Federation of Trade. Unions’” and “‘how essential it is once

U.S. secret parley
voices chagrin at
Project X failure

again to link hands.”

D. N. Pritt, Labor independent
MP, said: “We have both to or-
ganize a movement that will not
allow war; one that will not al-
low preparations for war. We
are many; they are few. We
can impose our will, life will
triumph over death.” Referring
to greetings from U.S. author
Howard Fast, Pritt said “the
best elements of the American
people” were fighting against
war preparation in the U.S., but
that Britains “have got to help.”

Two other Labor independen
MPs spoke. Konni Zilliacus ee
ed of Britain's being drafted “to
fight for the U.S.” in a war against
the Soviet Union. Leslie Solley re-
ported on how the U.S. had “con-
structed runways in northern
Greece capable of taking the lat-
est bombers, including atom bomb-
ers.” He declared: “I ask my
friends here, are. these intended
for the Greek air force’s small
planes ‘or: for bases for World
War III against the USSR?”

Another speaker, reporting on |
Spain, charged that the U.S. had
built up Franco’s airfield. facilities
for future war use until there are
now 54 airports, 37 airdromes and
seven seaplane bases in Spain—
or 1% landing grounds for every
civil plane the country now has
flying. :

Peter Jewell, representing anti-
war scientists, told how a group
of these men have decided to
expose and publicize projects
now under way for World War
I1i—such as bacteriological weap-
ons. The group will also publish
material showing what scientists
now working on war jobs could
do for peace.

Roger Garaudy, French delegate
who spoke for the World Peace
Committee, told how “in London,
in Paris, in Moscow, in Mexico,

ah erbat army of peace is mobiliz-
ng.”

Academician Volgin, vice-presi-
dent of the USSR Academy of
Sciences, said: {

“What possible motive can we
(the Soviet Union) have for ag-
gressive war? It is only four
years since we emerged from an
unprecedently bloody war which
cost us seven million human lives
and incredible material sacrifices.”

The peace congress concluded
with adoption of a manifesto call-

ing for: . : :
—Support of the United Nations.
—Immediate arms reduction.
—Banning of the atom-bomb.
—Use of science for construction,
not destruction.

—Cessation of British and Ameri-
can support to Franco Spain
and Royalist Greece.

Actions undertaken by the con-
gress included sending of a dele-
gation to the U.S. embassy to de-
mand removal of the U.S. atom-
bomber base at Burtonwood, for-
mation of peace committees in
unions, questioning all candidates
for election on their stand on

five theaters for drama, opera and

ballet. ;
PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

peace, and conducting a peace-
ballot.

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