Soviet people sign for peace

In the Soviet Union, where 115,514,703 people signed the Stock-

ain Appeal for banning of the atom bomb, workers such as
a Shown here are now adding new millions of signatures to
0Se

of the 500,000,000 people throughout the world who have

already Signed the appeal for a five-power peace pact.

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Aliza ge While, demands fer nation-
itereact of the Iraqi oilfields are
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Crit; ng throughout the country.
Al y ‘cizing the new oil pact, Liwa
ato, qlal, a Bagdad paper, says
fig, Suzation of the Iraqui oil-
Tra,; 'S the only solution of the
wt oil question.
ting Traqi people want the en-
ang pl industry to be nationalised
“ject all agreements which re-

LONDON

If there had been no British troops in Iraq, British negotiators
ot have reached agreement with the Baghdad government,”
ibson, director general of the Traq Petroleum Company ad-
London financial circles, according to the London correspondent

fuse them the right to control all
the oilfields of the country,” the
Syrian paper An Nazir declares.

The new agreement between the
Iraqi government and the Iraqi
Petroleum Company and other for-
eign companies was reached on
August 13, when the British ne-
gotiators, frightened by develop-
ments in Iran, agreed to raise
Iraq’s share in the profits to 50
percent. It is generally agreed
that the new oil pact leaves the
country’s oil riches in full control
of the British, American, French
and Dutch monopolies,

Appeal for Five-Power

Peace Pact signed by

500 million people

An estimated 500,000,000 people thro

Power peace pact during the six months since th

compiled from reports received up

Albania (final) 865,885, Algeria
75,000, Argentine 1,000,000, Austral-
ia 40,000, Austria 788,432.

Belgium 262,529, Brazil 625,340,
Britain 1,000,000, Bulgaria (final)
5,627,000, Burma 100,000.

Canada’ 270,000, Columbia 10,000,
China (final) 343,808,541, Chile 500,-
000, Costa Rica 203,000, Cuba 612,-
299, Cyprus 102,490, Czechoslovakia
(final) 9,020,522.

Denmark 110,098, Egypt 22,000,
Finland 450,000, France 7,000,000,
Guatemala 60,000, Holland 261,298,
Hungary (final) 7,148,000.

India 1,000,000, Indonesia 431,000,
Italy 10,439,393, Tran 1,800,000, Iraq
12,000.

Japan 5,186,876, Jordan 11,500,
Korea 7,047,821, Lebanon 106,000,
Mexico 73,156, Mongolia 638,877.

New Zealand 4,300, Peru 5,578,
Portugal 32,000, Puerto Rico 20,000,
Poland (final) 18,053,315, Rumania
(final) 11,060,141,

Siam 13,182, Spain (including
emigres) 1,200,000, Syria 90,000,
Sweden 230,000, Switzerland 32,373.

Tunisia 100,000, Venezuela 35,000,
Vietnam 5,359,359, Uruguay 137,026.

This table does not include:
13,034,477 signatures collected in
the German Democratic Republic
in the people’s plebiscite for a
peace pact with Germany and
against the remilitarisation of
Western Germany; more than 200,-
000 signatures collected in the
western sector of Berlin; and more
than 500,000 in Western Germany.

American claims that the Jap-
anese treaty concluded last week-
end in San Francisco has general
support in Japan are refuted by
the fact that, as of August 15,
5,186,876 Japanese had signed the
five-power peace pact appeal and
4,647,625 had signed another peti-
tion calling for an overall peace
treaty, with full participation of
the Soviet Union and People’s
China, and declaring against reé-
militarization of Japan.

Highly significant, in view of th
visit of General De Tassigny,
French commander-in-chief in

Indochina, to Washington this

week, are the 5,359,359 signatures
to the five-power peace pact ap-
peal gathered in Viet Nam.

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ughout the world have si
campaign was launched.
to the end of last month, are:

PRAGUE

gned the Berlin Appeal for a Five-

Figures for 5] countries, as

LEADING FIGURES SIGNS

Soviets begin campaign
for peace signatures

By RALPH PARKER

MOSCOW

The campaign for collection of
signatures to the World Peace
Council’s call for a five-power peace
pact was launched on August 28
with powerful authoritative back-
ing of the entire Soviet press

Greatest prominence is given to
the appeal signed by 108 members
of the Soviet Committee for De-
fence of Peace They include re-
presentatives of all 16 Constituent
Republics; chairman of the All-
Union Council of Trade Unions V.
V. Kuznetsov; Pravda editor L. F,
llychev; president of the Academy
of Sciences of the USSR Ay N,
Nesmeanov; secretary of the Cen-
tral Committee of the Komosmol,

Nee AS Mikhailov; Metropolitan
Nikolai, the Patriarch of Georgia
and George VI., Patriarch of Ar-
menia; Lutheran Archbishop of
Latvia and Mufti Ishan of Central
Asia; famous Stakhanov workers
A. C. Chutkikh, N. A. Rossiisky
and D. A. Korobkov; woman trac-
torist Pasha Angelina; Academi-
cians Eugene Tarle, B. D. Grekov
and A. B. Palladin; writers Mik-
hail Sholokhov, Ilya Ehrenburg,
Konstantin Simonov, Alexander
Korneichuk, Leonoid Leonov and
Konstantin Fedin; film producers
V. I. Pudovkin and G. V. Alexan-
drov; a Moscow bricklayer and a
Stalingrad foundryman.

The annual peace conference will
be held in November. %

15 million in Turkey
live at starvation level

Fifteen million Turks are living
in undescribable misery, the news-
paper Kudret stated here, report-
ing: “Not only in the most remote
villages of the countryside, but
also in big towns such as Ankara,
Istanbul and elsewhere, starving
masses of the Turkish people are
living in slums.”

Special camps for beggars have
been established by the Turkish
authorities in the outskirts of Is-
tanbul to prevent them from “mak-
ing the town look ugly,” according
to another newspaper, Aksham,

which said large numbers of desti-
tute children are also in the camps,

sleeping on stones in the Open air.

Less than 40 percent of the able-
bodied population has regular em-
ployment, according to another
Turkish paper, Zafer,

The death rate in Turkey is
appalling as a result of hunger
and lack of the most elementary
medical care, but young Dr. Al-
stash, whose fate is typical of
many of his colleagues, is forced
to sell fruit in Istanbul streets
since he cannot find 4 job in his
profession, Cumhuriyet, another
newspaper, reported.

Meanwhile, the Turkish Ministry

of Health announced recently that

there will be no vacancies for
doctors until 1954.

AUSTRALIANS TO VOTE ON SEPTEMBER 22

By S. MURRAY-SMITH
SYDNEY

pete Menzies government’s ref-
“ndum to be voted on by the
Australian people on September
A ‘Sa blueprint for fascism in
UStralia and the counterpart of
Hers Enabling Act of 1933.
he Teferendum ostensibly is to
OS to the government powers
th an the Communist party. But
8 © mass of the Australian people
ai. Coming to realize that Men-
that 'S after much more than just

The recent act outlawing the
mine enist party and attacking
thant trade unionists was
OWN out of the High Court

4n almost unanimous verdict
he judges. It made Menzies
ae than ever determined to

Pose his rule—and that of the

te Polists he represents—on the
Ss

iia people. The Referen-

dum Act is the result.

The Referendum Act provides
that the right of the High Court
to interpret the constitution shall
be superseded by the right of the
government party to do so. It
seeks to grant parliament “the
power to make such laws...
with respect to Communists or
Communism as the parliament
considers to be necessary or ex-
pedient.” ~

It allows parliament to enact
the -discredited Communist Party
Dissolution Act of 1950, and not
only that, but to enact it with

additions, If passed, the act
would give the government
power:

@® To outlaw the Communist
party and seize its property
“without trial and without proof
that it has -committed any of-
fence” (Communist Party Dissolu-
tion Act, Section 4).

Menzies seeking fascist

® To outlaw any organization
any of whose aims or principles
correspond to those of the Com-
munist party—unions, peace or-
ganizations, women’s and youth
bodies, committees, etc.

@® To search all homes and
offices.

@ To sentence to five years
imprisonment anyone carrying on
activities which the Communist
party carried on or could have
carried on.

@ To remove from positions
in the trade unions or civil ser-
vice anyone supporting any of the
policies or principles of the Com-
munist party.

@ To declare a person a Com-
munist by “presuming” him so.

If the referendum is passed, it

will allow Menzies to amend the

powers in vote

constifution’ to provide for out-
lawing of all trade unions, or for
the institution of the death pen-
alty for offences under the act.

The Australian labor movement
has launched a national campaign
for a “No” vote in the referen-
dum. This campaign will point
out that if the referendum is
passed Menzies can:

@ Regulate and control all in-
dustry and all business activity
for any purposes the government
considers to be “defense.”

‘e Force Australian wool-
growers and other producers to
dispose of their produce at bar-
gain prices to the Americans.

@® Conscript labor,

@® Conscript servicemen to
fight anywhere — in the Middle
East, or against the liberation
Movements of Southeast Asia, un-

‘4

der the excuse of a “threat of

Communism.”

The referendum is Menzies’
main plank in his four-point pro-
gram for war. It must be taken
side by side with the Defense
Preparations Bill (providing,
amongst other things, for con-
trol and diversion of industry),
the amendments to the Arbitra-
tion Act (providing scope for
outlawing of strikes), and con-
scription, which is already in
force,

This is in keeping with what
Menzies said in February, on his
return from abroad: “Australia
must be placed on a@ semi-war
footing, which will inyolve re-
strictions on many civil liberties.”

In other words, the institution
of fascist-like repression in Aus-
tralia.

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