Page 10 — Saturday, December 2, 1944

_ G@hurning up dust, America
trail of retreating German forces.

enemy withdrew.

n armored vehicles roll through Beaux, France, on the
Allied shells were poured into the town before the

~ C10 Political Action Committee
~ Will Continue To Function

CHICAGO—Reaction will find labor on the job at the polls in the 1946 and 1948
This was made certain when the CIO executiv
to the seventh annual convention that the CIO Political Action Committee be continued

elections.

to lead the people’s fight for a
lasting peace and full employ-
ment.

‘The convention, which opened
November 20 at the Stevens, the
world’s largest hotel, was ex-
pected to put its stamp of ap-
proval on the executive board’s
recommendation by a practically
unanimous yote.

JSOLATIONISM DEFEATED

Jsolationism and imperialism
alike were denounced as perils
that CiO-PAC€ will continue to
fight by a broad program of edu-
cation between elections. The
program will be financed by a
fund of $225,000 which was
‘frozen’ during the 1944 cam-
paign because of the Smith-Gon-
nally Act.

“We have learned,” CIO Pres.
Philip Murray said, “that we
don’t need huge funds: Most of
our work is done by volunteers.

Shoe leather is still cheap and

ringing doorbells doesn’t cost
money. We can match the mil-
lions of dollars spent by reac-
tion by the voluntary work of
millions of our members.”

Asked if CIO-PAG deserved
the credit for reelecting Pres.
Roosevelt which has been given
it by the reactionary press,
Chairman Sidney Hillman smiled.
“Isolationism was defeated on

-November 7,” he said, “and we
feel the CIO-PAG made a great
contribution.”’

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e board unanimously recommened

Hillman pointed out that the
Gallup poll had predicted that
only 37,500,000 people would
vote. The vote, he said, was near-
ly 50,000,000 and labor had led
the greatest registration cam-
paign which got out the vote.
Although indorsements were
made only for national candi-
dates in the 1944 election, Mur-
tay declared that in future elec-
tions recommendations might be
made in local elections as well.

FUTURE SECURITY

“The future security of the na-
tion,” declared Murray in his re-
port to the convention, “is a
political question, to be decided
by political means. The common
people do not propose to leave
this all-important issue in the
hands of individuals who care
less for their country than for
partisan advantage, as happened
after World War 1.

“They do not propose to let
World War II be followed by
World War III. They demand
that world peace and security,
with prosperity for all, as out-
lined by Franklin D. Roosevelt
and the leaders of the United

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Nations at Quebec, Moscow and
Teheran-~ and other conferences,
be preserved from a new period
of iosolationism and imperial-
ism.”

Murray paid tribute to the co-
operation of AFL and railroad
brotherhood members with PAG
“The people,” he declared, “have
built an instrument for securing.
their will to peace and security
in CIO-PAC.” Es

NEW YORK.—Negro work-

ers will be hit much harder than |:

whites in case of layoffs during
the transition from wartime to
peacetime industry, unless ad-
justments are made in seniority
rules, the National Negro Con-
gress reported after a test sur-
vey of war plants.

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German Benefactors

By PHILLIP JORDAN

(The well known war correspondent, writing fro
from the French-Spanish border.) .

The Gestapo keeps an office just a few yards from :
this is being written——across a footbridge in Puigcerda’
Gestapo office acts as forwarding agent for Gestapo ©
quarters, which are situated in Soe a ia
the bureau of the police chief of enediseerert Spain Ga
Barcelona, thus, where drivers ch’
A regular German courier
comes from there and is passed
into the small Spanish enclave
in French territory here. The
receiving end is the postmaster
at Llivia, capital of this enclave.
Thus Franco continues to help
his German friends.

over and Germans were
stituted fer Spaniards.

Sixty trucks passed re
every Tuesday and Friday
brought quantities of DU
cohol, coffee, cocoa, fruij
and other commodities for
the starving people of Spai
erying out. In many cas |
Spaniards had not even hy
to take off the labels pair
the. crates by the Britis
U.S.

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Until the very day of libera-
tion he was sending goods into
France for the use of the Ger-
mans. On August 20, the day of
liberation here, a trainload of
wolfram and wool arrived from
Spain for the Germans at the
frontier station of Lattour de
Carol, round the corner from this
place. This consignment was the
last of the regular supply. It
came in two batehes and totalled
71 railway trucks. 3

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sent to the military autho;

Day after day trainloads of
wolfram and other goods, in-
cluding at one time a number
of United States aircraft en-
gines, came into Cerbere for
transhipment on to the French
gauge railways. Twice weekly

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