RM) into a new 1 unity with a new i the industriali- wit was not only in yeoledano found evi- ‘st intrigue. Report- Sent visit to Brazil, he jaced by a domestic “jmspiracy linked to — dictatorship in’ Ar- fic evisis in Brazil is 4 wage levels. Fas- Ss are building on against the Vargas | Brazilian pro-fas- m, the Temnants of 's or “Green Shirts,” i contact with Am- @be secret organiza- _ American fascist ‘eaingo Peron. ® ated out that while “yernment was not Wiocratic, it was tak- % part in the war i and a coup d’etat i be extremely seri- ‘Pan-American war af} more freedom to ®yanizations, he said, ‘overwhelming -sup- razils constitution fascist, ssolini’s “Carta di nm the near future .{ able, Toledano said. sidded, still had no @ spekesmen who @ounds set by the aent were frequent. ate the denial by @ilberto Villarroel, * olivian junta, that ist is fascist, two leaders who re- Btagasta, Chile, last @ iting Bolivia told # ire, arrest.and at- fovernment to take anions. "leaders, Jose Diaz ary, of the Chilean 5 Federation, and =, secretary of the #-: Chilean Workers, =t0 deliver a $5,000 (© and Confedera- ‘American Workers o£ the Catavi mas- ‘kers in 1942. 3 ‘turrieta: “The Bol- denied the fascist ‘2 recent Bolivian sxpressed the wish ternal democracy. nd in spite of a Sty, thirty political ffs Were jailed in {quarters of La Paz Lsoati Island. Politi- ere flogged. An un- Kader was given 24 S to conspiratorial f) he refrained, he sh’ an electrical ap- iffered severe in- 2 present status £ (the Chilean mine ey apparently? en- but that “the MINR eolutionary iWiove- = of the December t) “was attempting / er. In the middle Sd MNR partisans peal trade union in a s5 Paz Estenssoro Ewiose agents are i every sphere of = and Thanez visited € Catavi tin min- €perted that the _fxed by the gov- sUsufficient fo en- Subsistence. The nine Vargas govern-— weeaded by Argentine frazilian government modelled — . government efforts to secure a rapprochement - ee 8 NEXT OF KIN’ ‘TELEGRAM MNR’s fight against the big min- ing interests, which won popular support in the early days follow- ing the coup, has’ been replaced by a policy of conciliation, they said. : Paraguay: In Paraguay, where the pro-fascist Frente de Guerra seized complete control of the government in March, the power- ful opposition Liberal | Party, which. received a majority of votes in the 1939 national elec- tion, is. taking steps to form an alliance with the underground la- bor movement. nis follows re- fusal of former Paraguayan Presi- dent Col. Rafael Franco, now in exile in Uruguay, to participate in the newly-formed government. Col. Franco issued a sharp at- tack against the Frente de Guerra and denounced its with him. The actions of the Liberal party and of Col. Franeo haye made the position of Gen. Higinion Morini- go, Paraguayan dictator, more pre- carious than ever. At present the posts of finance minister, police chief and head of the investiga- tions deportment are vacant, with ne responsible political figures willing to fill them. The tiberal Party’s move to establish ties with labor is eor- roborated by reports reaching here on last Hebruary’s general Strike in Paraguay. These re- ports indicate that the strike was supported by all economic groups and that many employers hid their workers to prevent persecu- tion by the police. From that time on the labor movement was driven completely underground and its leaders arrested, tortured and assassinated. 2 Argentina: All recent attempts by Col. Juan Domingo Peron, strongman in the Argentine fas- eist government, to gain labor’s support have failed. x Following the overwhelming de- feat of pro-Peron candidates for Railroad Brotherhood offices, the Tramwaymen’s Union congress, in an action tantamount to a politi- eal demonstration against Peron, has readmitted 90 workers who last year were expelled from the union by Peron-supporter Jose Domenech. Thus, despite Col. Peron’s efforts, all transport syn- dicates are now headed by demo- eratic leaders. The Tramwaymen demanded the immediate release of. political and labor prisoners and the free- dom of trade union organization, THE WAR'S NOT OVER FOR HIMI_ and sharply protested the “arbi- trary” firing of workers by the Transport Corporation. Col. Peron siruck back at demo- cratic labor organizations last week, when, in his capacity as head of the national Jabor de- partment, he had the “special police” raid the offices of the Graphic Workers Federation and arrest hundreds of its members. The organization has rejected his -demand for execlusicn of a prelim- inary list of candidates for union posts. Recently, as the result of a Similar refusal, he eliminated 28 Railroad Brotherhood candidates. Free Czechoslovakia Night Is Ending ITH the Red Army as it thundered at the gateway to the Balkans this week were of- ficials of the Czechslovak govern- ment-in-exile headed by President Eduard Benes who not long ago signed a treaty of friendship and mutual assistance with the Soviet government. As the Red Army, in- eluding a Czechoslovak brigade, advanees into Czechoslovakia the officials will take over the civil administration of the liberated areas. From London the Czechoslovak government-in-exile has broadcast a eall to the underground organ- ization within the country to rise against the nazi occupation forces. “A|| the Czechoslovak people must use all means, not only by passive resistance and ttensi- fied sabotage but also by direct action against the enemy and his organization, to help pave the way for the work of the Allied army,” said the broadcast appeal. Twenty-four hours after these orders had been broadeast they had penetrated to every cell of the Czech resistance .movement. From secret listening posts clev- erly concealed in towns or hidden in remote villages patriots picked up the call and spread it far and wide through well-tested means of communication. : Special groups have listened at these radio receivers night and day through the five years or more of the country’s martyrdom, wait- ing and hoping for news such as has now reached them, a Czecho- slovak official said in London last week. In a matter of minutes, news must have been on it way over the great underground com- munications network by telephone, by primitive telegraph sets and by runner to every corner of the nation. : Underground newspapers also printed special editions which have been circulated throughout the country despite the Gestapo’s angry vigilance. The broadcast was preceded by a fanfare and by Czechoslovakia’s national anthem. “Czechoslovakia, which was the first victim of German-Hungarian agression, Will be the first Euro- pean State to which freedom has been brought by the Allied armies,’ Said the announcement after the reading of Marshal Stalin’s dramatic order. “the goy- ernment believes nothing will stop this victorious mareh and that the day is not far distant when the whole territory of Czechoslovakia will be liberated from the German and Hungarian occupiers. _ Behind the victorious forces of the Red Army and the Czech Army there will come—as soon as the military situation allows — organs of the Czechoslovak gov- ernment to take over the admin- istration. of liberated territory, ac- cording to Czechoslovak laws. “Those bodies will collaborate closely with the national commit- tees, which, until their coming, will, together with the Soviet ang Czechoslovak army commanders, ensure order and security on Czechoslovak territory.” AUSTRALIA Delegates A Bees Australian Council of Trade Unions has elected Charles Crofts, recently-retired ACTU secretary, and Ernie Thornton, general secretary of the MISron- workers’ Union, as delegates to the forthcoming world labor con- gress. Until his retirement last year, Crofts was secretary of the ACTU, a post he had held since formation of the organization in 1923. Under Thornton’s the dronworkers have developed since 1935 from a loose federation of scattered branches into a pow- erful, efficiently-run national union. It is now completing amal- gamation negotiations with the Metal and Munitions Workers Union to form the largest single Australian trade union with more than 110,000 members. Thernton, one of Australia’s most dynamic union figures, has in recent years borne the brunt of inereasing reactionary attacks. First Elected Aiest Communist to be elected to any Australian parliament, F. W. Paterson, barrister and Rhodes scholar defeated the gov- ernment candidate in Bowen, North Queensland last week. “ HORST WESSEL *% DELIKATESSEN leadership, _ Short Jabs. |---by OV Bill.__ WV eatertine WHEN some outstanding figure in the capitalist world is ikill= ed in a major disaster, the press, — in announcing the fact, telis us that “the world was shocked” by the event. One such oecurrence I remember, was a dirigible disas- ter in which a minister in a gov- ernment headed by Ramsey Mac- Donald was killed. The press may have had its finger on the social pulse, but from where I was posted I never felt any of the “shock”, not even so much as a tremor. Ramsey MacDonald and his friends may have been shocked, but the people with whom I was associated, in seme cases, only heard of the event weeks after it happened. But the death, practically under the surgeon’s knife, of General Vatutin, the liberator of Kiey and the Ukraine, is in a different cate- gory. The passing of that great Russian soldier did cause a wave of regret to sweep across that part of the world which is fighting to preserve civilization from de- struction at the hands of the fascists. It's only a short time ago that we were being told by the experts, “The Red Army is no good. Hitler will overrun Russia in six weeks because Russia has killed off all her generals.” The same yehicles that carried the croaking of the experts, now have to account for what they al- lege to be a new crop of generals. 50, when they have to refer to the death of General Vatutin, late commander of the First Ukrainian Army, they resort to such phrases as, “Vatutin, whose rise in the Red Army military ranks was nothing short of sensational”—‘“miraculous rise to leadership,’ and so forth. They write in the same way o£ Timoshenko, of Zhukov and of other generals who have been teaching the Germans the art of War since 1941. But there is nothing sensational, nothing miraculous, in the pres- enee of these victorious generals in the Red Army. In the army of tsars, the best brains of the coun- try were kept out of the leader- ship. But in the Red Army, the ranks are combed for military genius. Of Napoleon’s army it was said that every soldier earried a mar- shal’s baton in his knapsack, That was poetry. But of the Red Army it is literally true to say that every corporal may become a Red Army general. The training given the Red Army soldier is directed to that end. Voltaire wrote in his Candide: “The English shoot an admiral oc- easionally to encourage the oth- ers.” When a Soviet military tri- bunal condemned those traitorous Red Army generals to death, it Was not for the encouragement of the others. It was because they were Benedict Arnolds, all of them. They tried to sell their country to fascism. The shoot- ing of them made the Red Army so much stronger it has been able to “tear the guts out of the Ger- man war machine.” General Vatutin was one of the Soviet generals whose victories were proof that the “experts” were wrong, as they have so often been wrong. And his death is a less to all the United Nations.