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@ The overwhelming majority of
the inhabitants of that Ukraine
region of what was known as Po-
Jand regarded the Russians as
liberators from the Nazis and from
their Polish overlords. And I feel
sure that after the war they will
want to be united with all Ukrain-
jians who are already in the Soviet
Union.—H. H. Field, former British
government refugee administrator
at Cracow in a broadcast over
WHN.

\
AUTOLUST

® Organized labor, acting as the
vanguard of the people, must con-
tribute emphatic aid in fighting
the enemies of mankind’s freedom.
Ramirez must be economically
quarantined to permit the Argen-
tine people the opportunity to act
to insure the return of democracy
—otherwise the Latin American
people are menaced with losing
the present war.—Lombardo Tole-
dano, president of the Confeder-
ation of Latin American Workers,
in a message to affiliated organiza-
tions in 16 Latin couniries.

AUNTIE

@ For the German people the
thousand year Junker dream—the
drive to the Hast—has been the
greatest evil in their history. Lith-
uanians, Estonians, Czechs and
Poles fighting with the Red Army,
Ukrainians and Yugoslavs, regu-
lars and guerillas, are one with
the Russians. They are driven by
a thousand year hate of the Ger-
man Knights, Baltic Barons, Junk—
ers, Nazis. They are helping to
bring to an end the thousand year
daydream of the marauders, the
thousand year nightmare of the
Slay and Baltic peoples—and of
the German people as well—Bruno
Frei in Soviet Russia Today.

HNN

@ inasmuch as the government
had te take full responsibility for
getting co-operation from all
groups. to convert our economy
from peace to war, it will have to
take equal responsibility for con-
verting from war to peace.—Henry
A. Wallace, vice-president of the
United States.

MLA

@® Recently it was announced in
Spain that all Spanish troops on
the Soviet-German front had been
recalled home >. . Formerly there
existed the Blue Division, the 250th
Division, and now a Spanish Le-
gion has appeared.—Statement is-
sued by Tass, Soviet News Agency.

exposing

Britain

Preparing for Invasion

pS preparation for the coming
full-seale Allied invasion of
western Europe, the National
Council of Engineering and Allied
Trades Shop Stewards has called
a nationwide production confer-
ence, to be held in London March
12. The conference, expected to be
largest of its kind to be held in
Britain during the war, will be
attended by 2,000 delegates repre-
senting over a million workers, im
war factories and shipyards. “Lhe
national council, originally formed
in 1935 as a coordinating body for
shop stewards in the aircraft in-
dustry, now represents steward’s
committees in over one thousand
plants in the principal war indus-
tries.

Explaining the purpose of the
conference in a circular to all af
filiated committees, the national
couneil says:

“The coming second front de-
mands a supreme effort by work-
ers in our key industries—steel,
shipbuilding, aircraft and muni-
tions. Britain is now an advanced
base of operations. We must be
ready for a last frenzied onslaught
by Hitler. The task of the factory
front will be to keep up maximum
production under all eircum-
stances. We will demonstrate to the
men in the armed forces that their
comrades in the factories will meet
all ‘the needs of the fighting
fronts.” _ Asta

In a statement to Allied Labor
News, Ken White, secretary of the
national council, said:

‘Ne see in the decisions of the
historic Teheran conference frui-
tion of the policies for which our
council has long fought. Teheran
is a victory over reaction. Per-
spectives have opened up for
gaining a decisive victory this
year, paving the way for social
advances by democratic forces

the world over. We recognize the
immensity of the task of carry-
ing out the Teheran decisions.
Terrific battles, involving heavy.
loss of life and materials, will
be needed on the various fronts.

Britain will be a supply base in
the immediate rear of the front
line. We must face the possibility
of conditions similar to those of
Stalingrad, where production had
to be maintained under all cir-
cumstances and difficulties. We
must achieve the speediest possible
replacement of materials, thus re-
ducing the loss of life.

“Sinee the national council’s con-
ference in October, 1941, great pro-
gress has been achieved in the pro-
duction of war materials. Never-
theless, we still face certain ob-
stacles to maximum production.
Some employers, believing the war
to be nearly over, are launching
a counter-offensive against the wor-
kKers and their trade unions. There
is increasing opposition to the
joint production committees, and
heavier attacks are being made on
workers’ conditions.

“These obstacles must be elim-
inated,” White continued. “That
will be one of the main tasks of
our conference. In addition, we
must discuss how to build up the
trade union movement now and af-
ter the war. While undertaking the
immediate job of ensuring the
speediest possible victory, the con-
ference will discuss control of in-

dustry after the war for the re-

habilitation of Hurope and Britain.
In this respect, we especially wel-
come the forthcoming world labor
conference called by the Trades
Union Congress, which will im-
measurably strengthen the cause
of international unity.”

The national council has held
two previous conferences during
the war, the first in April, 1940, and
the second in October, 1941.

Free Greece

Provisional Government

2 \aou nema of the forma-
tion of a new provisional govern-
ment-in-exile has been virtually
repudiated by the oppressed but re-
bellious population in the Nazi-oc-
cupied homeland.

While the provisional govern-
ment of Yugoslavia, headed by Dr.
Ivan Ribar and Marshal Josip
Broz (Tito), is in the process of
the non-representative
and reactionary character of the
government-in-exile, a similar pro-
cess appears to be under way in
Greece.

The news was carried by the
(reek National Herald, published
i. New York, in a dispatch from
its London correspondent.

Head of the new Greek govern-
ment is Professor Alexander Svo-
los, deseribed as a left Progressive
Democrat, who is associated with
the National MJLiberation Front
(HAM).

While no mention is made of
King George, it is believed that
the provisional government of Pre-
mier Svolos is going ahead without
regard to the Greek goyvernment-
in-exile.

e new Greek regime
which has mobilized

i- i move-
0 percent of the anti-Nazi :
eee there into a coherent organ
with democratic adminis-

Backing th
is the EAM,

‘ion dmii
enon. of all liberated districts.
The EAM recently requested

i George to remain away from
eee eee the war until the
people had time for an unhamp-
ered vote on their form of govern-
ment. The request was made by a
delegation which visited King
George’s bossa in Cairo on

er 15, 1943.
Sees organization of the
EAM is the Greek National Libera-
tion Army (ELAS), headed by Gol.

-S. Sarafis, with an army of 175,-

000 trained fighters.
The National Heraid calls at-
tention to the fact that the new

governments head, Pra;

Svolos, who formerly taugh!

stitutional law in the Uniy,
was an exile”
Greece who put John Meta?
the premiership on Aug)

i

of Athens,

1936.
Professor Svolos held the

of Director of Labor Divis|
der the Greek Ministry of 15
Economy a score of years ;:;

fore the rise of the Mexta:)
tatorship.

Associated with Premier ~
in the government is Ehen
Sofoulis, head of the Libera”
regarded as conservative |
VieWs. : i

Details of program and =
members are lacking in the”
possibly due to British cet:

in Egypt.

United States _

Roosevelt’s Message Hailed

ae 5-point legislative program
set forth by President Roosevelt
in his third wartime message to
Congress was hailed last week by
Philip Murray, president of the
CIO, as a “challenging call for na-
tional unity to which the CIO sub-
scribes completely.”

The president's
program called for:

@ A continuation of the renego-
tiation of contracts law to prevent
exorbitant profits.

@ A food cost Jaw—embodying
continuance of subsidies—to guar-
antee minimum prices to farmers
and impose ceilings on- prices to
consumers,

@® Reenactment of the stabiliza-
tion act of October, 1942, which ex-
pires June 30.

@ A national service act “to
make available for war production
or any other essential services
every able-bodied adult in this na-
tion.”

“The CIG pledges

“win-the-war”’

its complete

support to the efforts of th
dent at the Cairo and |

cenferences to obtain the ¢
action essential for a spe p

tory over the Axis ane &

“lish a durable peace for thi;

of the world,’ Murray dei

“The President's
poses the glaring and 7}
failure of Congress to Col
flation. Soaring prices, bia

kets and frozen wages er §

just and burning grievance
American workers. These |
facts which they face, as
the outrageous and ext
profits extracted by the
tions out of war productic
Murray also hailed th
dents call for an ei
“Economic Bill of Rights”-
antee the future security
American people, and w
his “clear-cut declaration
of assuring servicemen t

to vote through federal a &:

advocated by the CIO.”
The only point in the Pi

ferent altitudes.” ...

That was seven
thousands
one. Hitler
mans of their conscience.
has sueceeded in this

tien, as distinct from
others.

young SS man, Hans Ritz.

innocent people... .

1,200.

The bandit
not deny the
four children.
tion, he said:

him too, but did not do so.”

years ago.
Since then, I haye come across
of such murderers.
Their spiritual world is a simple
at one time said
that he wanted to free the Ger-
He
opera-
many

However, there is one detail
that surprised even me at the
Kharkoy trial. The logic of the
He
said, that if he had wanted to,
he could have killed many more
He had
killed 120 and could have killed

Very long ago, when mankind
did not know of “gas vans,” a
bandit was tried in Paris for
the murder of a woman and her
four children. In those distant
days, the murder of five per-
-sons, Stirred millions: of people.
admitted that he
had killed the woman. He did
murder of her
In his justifica-
“The fifth child
Was asleep. I could have killed

Turning The
By ILYA EHRE |

“|= world press has written much about the K!

not surprised at the evil of the heroes of the ?
flyer who had bombed a peaceful Spanish town. V j
explained that he “wanted to check the effects of 7

I foresee that Hani]
argument has a rich fui {|
commander oj

The

“Deathshead” division ¥

as easily have shot if

The Gestapo men wi

sent more than 1000):

cent people to their cp}

Baleyi Yar, will take a’

pencils and begin to cf
many Kievites if

how
alive.

The fire-bugs who bh’
-stroyed Lidice, will

“But we did not bur &

Stuepnagel will indisne

claim, “It was no effort Ff
to declare all Frenchm =

ages.”
Even Hitler will :
murmur: “I did not sen

not hang the Hskimos
fore, I should be
among humanitarians
given a Nobel prize?

The German woma:?

rude Muller, writes to
band from Berlin:

surprises me any 1c

heither your letters ab:p.

MeESSi f,

er vans to Patagonia, a Be

“Well and good, £ ha}
12,000. But could I have ¥