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A shocking but timely reminder

museum, exhibited in Brooklyn,

the crimes for which Ilse Koch an

N.Y.,

outside urge citizens to protest the {

A similar bus on Vancouver's stree

Hitler fascism nor the actions of its Canadian apologists.

of the “horrors of Naziism has been assembled in this moving
by the American Labor Party, Photo murals inside recall
d other German war criminals have been set free.
“get soft” policy of U.S. authorities in Germany. ‘
ts might serve to remind the Provincial Censor Board, which
banned the showing of the film ‘Diary of a Nazi’ that Canadians haven’t forgotten the brutalities of

Signs on the

apanese dockers back
U.S. longshore strike

By HUGH DEANE

“Respect and admiration”
strikers and a hope for their

for the west coast maritime
victory were expressed in a

message of solidarity published here by the 25,000-strong
All-Japan Longshoremen’s Union.

“We are impressed by your dis-
play of watertight unity and by
the tactics with which you are
Carrying on your struggle,” the
“Tt is our firm con-
viction ‘that while reactionary
forces in many countries are adopt-
ing anti-labor statutes based on
the Taft-Hartley law, your strug-
gles against it will help not only
American workers but workers the
world over.”

Japanese labor faces. the pros-
Pect of anti-labor legislation pat-
terned after the Taft-Hartley act,
the longshoremen pointed out,
Citing the projected national pub-
lic service law as an example.

The Japanese maritime industry,
which was shattered during the
war, is now being reorganized on
the basis of “free competition,” the
statement said. It warned that
this will mean a revival of the
racketeers and feudalistic boss sys-
tem, notorious for its cruel exploit-
ation of workers. Nie

“By long effort our union has
Won noteworthy improvements in
working conditions here. But we
face a grim future,” the state-
ment said. ‘We shall fight de-
terminedly to defend basic union

hope to reimpose degrading work-
ing conditions.

“We hope from the bottom of
our hearts that your struggle will
end in a brilliant victory.

Just reading U.S. and British
hews agency reports in Tokyo may

employed by the Toho Motion Pic-
ture Co. and a leader of the union,
has been sentenced ot five years
in prison and fined 75,000 yen
(about one year’s salary) for re-
marks he made in a speech about
the recent Toho strike.

Tabat testified, and police wit-
nesses verified, that the speech
was made up largely of quotations
from the Associated Press, United
Press and Reuter’s dispatches de-
scribing how on August 19 more
than a thousand Japanese police,
backed by U.S. Army Sherman
tanks and armed troopers, forced
900 \strikers to evacuate a film
studio in which they had barricad-
ed themselves. <

.At the time of the incident al-
most no Japanese newspapers
dared publisk the truth about
the presence of the U.S. armed
forces. American censors. deleted
from newsreels scenes showing
the U.S. soldiers. \

—-TOKYO||

Straight talk.

President. John L. Lewis of the

United Mine Workers of America |

has asked AFL President Wil-
liam Green, “as one miner to
another” to urge President Tru-
“man call off the shooting of
hungry French miners. Pointing
out that “Truman controls the
money bags of the Marshall
Plan,” Lewis protested the use
of “American money, American
guns and American bullets to
shoot, starve and oppress French
citizens.”

constitute agitating the occupation,
a ist Cavalry Division Provost,
Court implicitly held in a/ruling

which has shocked Japanese
unions,
Shoici Tabata, lighting technician |

Nazi she-wolf seeks

sw .
British protection
—BERLIN

Margarete Heydrich, widow of
the Nazi hangman, Reinhardt |
Heydrich, wi! as killed by
Czechoslovak resistance fighters
in 1942, has. asked the British
Military Government to protect
her from extradition to Czecho-
slovakia.

Now living in the British zone
of Germany, she was sentenced
in absentia to life imprisonment
by a Prague people’s court for
brutal mistreatment of Jews em-
ployed on her estate while her
hushand was Hitler’s voice in
Prague.

elections. — ; ;
All sections of organized labor,

AFL, CIO and Railroad Brother-
hoods, were pledged to defeat of

‘the 68 senators and 331 representa-

tives who voted to override Presi-
dent Truman’s veto of the Taft-
Hartley Act. Some of the sena-
tors, however, like Senator Taft
himself, were not up for “election
this year, and Rep, Fred Hartley
did not seek re-election. ;

Among those defeated were Sen-

|} ator Joseph H. Ball of Minnesota,

‘one of those who designed the
Taft-Hartley Act, Senator C, Way-
land Brooks, labor-hating protege
of the Chicago Daily Tribune, Rep.
Charles J. Kersten and Rep. Gerald
WwW, Landis, Republican. members
of the House: labor committee.

John McDowell and Richard B.
Vail, Republican members of the
Hfouse Un-American Activities
‘Committee, were two of the 51
representatives defeated.

Mindful of the fact that» with
restoration of the Democratic

Taft-Hartley backers
 Bifty-Seven members of the 80th Congress, six senators
and fifty-one members of the House of Representatives, who

voted for. the notorious, Taft-Hartley anti-labor law, went
down to a.defeat largely administered by labor in last week’s

people

—WASHINGTON

majority in the House and Senate,
key committee chairmanships will
now go in the main to reactionary
Southern Democrats, by virtue of
seniority, foreshadowing stiff oppo-
sition to any progressive measures,
labor has already launched its
campaign for repeal of the Taft-

Hartley Act, as pledged by Presi-|

dent Truman.

CIO President Philip Murray

stated that “clearly the people
want repeal of the hateful Taft-
Hartley Act?
. AFL President William Green
hoped that the 81st Congress would
repeal the act “without delay and
quibbling.” :

In San Francisco, striking long-
shoremen, urged by their presi-
dent, Harry Bridges, to “back
Truman’s hand’ and so assure re-
peal of the Taft-Hartley Act sent
a message to President Truman
asking that he do all in his power
“to carry out the platform of the

California as a whole, compared
to two percent nationally.

Although no candidates running
on the straight Independent Pro-
gressive Party ticket were elected,
five Democrats supported by the
IPP were elected to Congress.
The were: Frank R. Havenner,
Cecil F. White, Helen Gahagan
Douglas, Chet Holifield and Clin-
ton D, McKinnon.

Three other candidates, Ned
Healy and Ellis E. Patterson, run-
ning as Democrats cross-filed In-
dependent Progressive, and Paul
Taylor| an IPP candidate, were
narrowly defeated.

Paul Taylor, brother of Senator
Glen Taylor, Progressive candidate
for vice-president, polled more than
40,000 in the eighth congressional

California vote shows
big. Wallace support

—SAN FRANCISCO

Of the more than one million presidential votes cast for
|Henry A. Wallace, California
vote for Wallace being six percent of the total in both San
Francisco and Los Angeles and four

contributed over 150,000, the

percent of the total in

district, although in the same dis-
trict Wallace received only 10,000
votes. Observers noted many in-
stances where local Independent
Progressive candidates drew a far
heavier vote than Wallace in the
same district, indicating that many
progressive voters had cast their
presidential ballots for Truman be-
cause they did not concede Wal-
lace a chance of election.

In elections to California state
legislature, labor and progressive
forces obtained a heartening vic-
tory in election of Joe C. Lewis,
a farm leader, on the Democratic
ticket. Election of a second can-
didate, Howard Q. Parker, on a
Democratic-IPP ticket was still
in doubt, depending on still un-
reported absentee ballots.

Murray and by James B. Carey,
CIO secretary, to the Central Coun-
cil of Trade Unions of Hungary,
asking the Hungarian workers to
support the Marshall Plan.

Gallacher then wrote the follow-
ing letter to Murray:

“I have just read a letter sent
by you and James B, Carey,
which is addressed to the Hun-
garian Trade Union Council. I
can’t understand why you should
allow your name to be attached
to such a. mendacious and de-
ceptive letter. :

“I can quite understand Carey
signing such a document. In
Europe he played the part of a
willing and servile instrument
of American imperialism. But
I must say I looked to you for
something better. The so-called
‘Marshall aid’ is not, as the letter
Says, ‘in the interest of true
democracy and economic better-
ment for peoples everywhere,’

if there is one country where
there is an urgent need for the
fight for ‘true democracy and
economic betterment for the
people,’ it is in America. There
is anything from 15,000,000 to
20,000,000. people in America,
colored and poor white, for
whom the scanty ration in
Britain would be luxury feeding.
For them the conditions here iv
Hungary would be paradise.”

“T have visited the factories
here in Hungary. The people
own them. The workers control
and. direct them. When you
‘have achieved anything like that
in America then you will be able
to talk to the Hungarian work-
ers in the language of working
class brotherhood, not as a
‘stooge’ for the big dollar-boys
who exploit and oppress the
people of America and desire to
exploit and oppress tke people
of Europe. :

“The ‘Marshall Plan’ is not to
help the peoples of Europe but
to keep decrepit capitalism in
existence. It does not support

“You know as well as I do that |

‘Get off that wagon’
Gallacher tells Murray

—LONDON

William Gallacher, Communist member of the British
Parliament recently told Philip Murray, president of the CIO,
some blunt truths about the Marshall Plan.
was in Budapest last month, was shown an appeal, signed by

Gallacher, who

democracy and betterment’ for
the people. It is designed to
keep the bourgeoise of Britain
and Western Europe on their
feet and to keep the workers on
their knees,

“Get off that ‘bandwagon’,
Philip, and get back, along with
Wallace, for a real fight for
Peace and ‘true dem and
economic betterment for peoples
everywhere’.”

New political group ie

formed in Ireland —

- DUBLIN
A new workers’ political or-
ganization, the Irish Workers’
League, has been formed here
“to achieve a genuinely free,
-united and democratic Ireland,
guided by socialist principles.”
IWL Chairman Michael O’Ri-
ordan told delegates that the
“Trish people want no part of
imperialist war plans and have
no quarrel with countries build-
ing along socialist lines.” — =
~ O’Riordan accused the govern-
ment of falling under the influ-
ence of “Marshall plan agents.”
He warned that as a result of
Prime Minister Costello’s recent
visit to the U.S. an _ Irish-
American special treaty of
friendship will be signed soon.
This treaty, he charged, will in
effect transfer “Irish allegiance
to the U.S.”
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