We Base 4 ‘ Roundup of world news Swedes hunt Bormann STOCKHOLM — The newspaper Aftonbladet reported last week that Allied authorities have asked police to search small towns in southern Sweden for Martin Bor- mann, Hitler’s deputy at the end of the war. Bormann disappeared in Berlin during the last hours of Nazi re- sistance, and has been presumed dead. The Nuernberg war crimes court tried him in absentia, and sentenced him to death. Meanwhile, police have disclos- ed that they have discovered a Swedish ‘Edelweiss organization’ which has been smuggling Nazis from Germany to Sweden and ‘hen to South America. Wazis still in office BERLIN—The men. running Germany’s coal, iron, steel and ‘xtile economic committees under U.S. and British control held si- Milar jobs under Hitler, it is revealed here. Hans Joachim von Loebel, deputy director of basic industries, was a leading SS menm- der and one of Hitler’s top eco- Domic aides. The chief of the per- gonnel section, Dr. Gimpel, is re- ported to have dismissed every person with a strong anti-fascist Background. iabor Front’ set up JOHANNESBURG — An anti- labor law in force here sets up a government-controlled labor front in which whites and Afri- eans are prohibited from belong- ing to the same union. All in- structions issued by the govern- ment must be obeyed even though they violate union constitutions. Strikers are liable to fines and imprisonment up to three years. In the nation’s largest industry, mining, unions are specifically banned. WFTU, ILO to cooperate GENEVA — The International Labor Organization, a UN agency, and the World Federation of Trade Unions may soon be col- laborating on economic and social problems facing world labor as a result of a WFTU offer of cooper- ation to the current ILO session here. Cooperation with.the ILO was recommended by the recent WFTU general council meeting in Prague. Following up, Secre- tary Leon Jouhaux of the French General Confederation of Labor and President Vicente Lombardo Toledano of the Latin American Federation of Labor raised the question here. —y e e Youth project aided LONDON—Yugoslav young peo- ple building the Youth Railway as a contribution to their coun- try’s reconstruction are getting help from Britain. A group of 20 has left here to work on & 130-mile stretch from Samac to Sarajevo. Other groups from Den- mark, France, India and Aus- tralia are due to join the project. Since parties from Poland, Ru- mania, Hungary and Czechoslo- vakia did their bit last year, the road has taken on a cosmopoli- tan tinge. When finished, the rail line will link the Bosnia valley mining re- gions with the nation’s industrial centers. An estimated 200,000 vok unteers will! work on the enter- prise this summer. Housing problems met MOSCOW —A rough idea of :So- viet housing needs, and what is being done to cope with them, is ‘reported in a recent Pravda edi- torial. “When war. ended,” it says, “millions of peasants in areas once occupied by Germans were living in earth huts. Last year alone, over 150,000 houses were built. By the 30th anniver- sary of the revolution, November 7, there will be no more earth huts left.” FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1947 Pobyeda is latest Russian car Here is a fleet of Russia’s new Pobyeda (Victory) cars, manufactured by the Molotov automobile plant in Gorky. Combining all the latest advances in design, the Pobyeda, a 5-passenger sedan, develops a speed of more than 70 miles an hour on a 4-cylinder, 50-horsepower motor. WETU will back American labor in fight against Taft-Hartley bill PARIS—(ALN)—American labor in its fight against the Taft-Hartley act has the sympathy of the 71 million workers in the World Federation of Trade Unions, WFTU Louis Saillant told Allied Labor News. The spdkesman for the powerful organization, which has among its affiliates every major union body in the world except the AFL, ‘ex- pressed the hope that “all American unions—CIO and AFL—will reach an understanding in all industries and professions to present the necessary united resistance.” Leading British union hits US anti-labor law =~ LONDON—(ALN)—The British Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers voted unanimously at its convention to ask the Trades Union Congress to raise the question of U.S. anti-labor legislation before the World Federation of Saillant’s statement follows: “The final vote on the anti- labor law, overriding the presi- dent’s veto, cannot fail to have deep repercussions in all world labor and democratic circles. “The limitations on democrat- ic and union rights in the U.S. appear to contradict American foreign policy, which is present- ed by American diplomacy as representing the highest demo- cratic principles. “We do not forget that CIO President Philip Murray himself defined this social policy as pro- fascist. “In many European countries such as England, Belgium, Nor- way, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, France and others, union rights are uncontested. The passage of laws limiting workers’ rights in the U.S. risks setting labor and democratic opinion in these coun- tries against the U‘S. “It will be the WFTU’s role to tell everybody that a distinction must be made between the re- actionary policy of American em- ployers and industrial monopolies which stand behind their political stooges and the American work- ing people, who remain deeply democratic and uphold _ labor’s rights. ? “J hope that, in such a situ- ation, all American unions— CIO and AFI—will reach an un- derstanding in all industries and professions to present the necessary united resistance. “Unions throughout the world will follow with immense inter- est and sympathy the great strug- gle of American unions for their freedom of action.” Development retarded MANILA—American advisers to President Manuel Roxas are di- rectly responsible for retarding of Philippine economic life, Salva- dor Araneta, acting president of the Chamber of Commerce, charg- ed here. The Bell Act, which al- lows U.S. big business to control the islands’ industries, he declar- ed, is the major reason for the unemployment and social unrest now gripping the nation. Center of the social unrest to which Araneta referred results from Roxas’ efforts to crush the Hukbalahap, the people’s_ resist- ance movement that fought the Japanese and is now seeking civil liberties, a fair division of crops and land reforms. Although six of its representatives were elect- ed to Congress from Central Lu- zon, they were denied seats by the government. Trade Unions. During a floor dis- cussion one delegate described the trades disputes act, which un- til its recent repeal limited Bri- tish workers’ right to strike and to function politically, as “the work’ of angels compared with these vicious attacks now being tried out against our American brothers.” “What is happening in America today is similar to what happen- ed in Germany in 1933,” said an- other delegate. “If the American monopolists can liquidate the trade union movement its means they will sweep out of existence any organized resistance to the drive which they intend to make against other countries through dollar loans.’ PCA states program CHICAGO —The Progressive Citizens of America, meeting here last week, adopted a six- point program for the econom- ic betterment of the United States and “a complete revers- al of the Truman foreign doc- trine.” The policy program adopted proposed “public ownership of coal mines, railroads and elec- tric power, through the medium of independent government Cor- porations of the TVA type, and in such a way as to protect to the full, the rights of labor and consumer.” Fascist groups watch Eva Peron By GEORGE TATE _ LONDON—Secret fascist groupe in six major countries are w: ing with close attention the politi- cal propaganda tour now being made through Europe by Bva Peron, ‘the Argentine president's vee. apes ass particularly eg ed in her. pr it a proposed visi Eva Peron is in Sweden now. It is believed that she is give® official! welcome in Italy and Britain after being feted by Franco and giving the fascist salute at demonstrations organks ed for her in Spain, she will have done a major job—not only for Spain and Argentine. but for Te viving fascist ideology in gen The most important groups taking an interest in Eva Peron and believed to have contacted oe are centered in Sweden i ra ler the leadership 0 Bernard Klotshy, Malmoe it- dustrialist, who is of German extfaction. This group publishes fascist and anti-Semitio newspapers and spends large sums of money i® sending leaflets and pamphlets abroad. ; Large supplies have gone t four fascist organizations im South Africa and to fascists im Britain. Their most important activity has been concerned with smug: gling top German Nazis into gentina via Portugal. Among recent yoyagers in this category have been Riedel, on0of the Nazi military attache Stockholm, engineers from the ant Krupp combine and atomic¢ research workers from Germany: The Swiss arm of this sir ister internatienal network # t be found in Lugano, where herr Von Stohrer who 1945 was Hitler’s ambassador. to Beenie, keeps in close ye tockholm, Capetown, drid and Buenos Aires. Ford grants pensions DETROIT — The Ford Motor Company has set a precedent i? the auto industry by agreeing to @ pension plan for 120,000 em ployees in a two-year contract with the CIO Unitea Auto Wor ers’ union. é F The agreement, subject to rat fication by both parties, provide® a straight seven-cent hourly increase, retroactive to May and an additional eight cents he hour to be placed in the pe fund. The union estimates that tbe pension feature of the new ©? tract, yet to be worked out, cost Ford $200,000,000 in acuarie! benefits for the past 10 years $20,000,000 yearly in the future Press drive correction In recording standings im per Pacific Tribune’s sustaining >" drive, Cowichan Lake should been credited with $248.20 raise on a $200 quota. Author Howard Fast convicted by court WASHINGTON—A federal court jury last week found 16 leaders of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee guilty of contempt of congress. The jury deliberated 65 minutes. Other recent developments aris- ing out of the witch-hunt being conducted by the House Commit- tee on un-American Activities are: @ Gerhert Hisler, German-born refugee, has been sentenced to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine on a contempt charge. @ Carl Aldo Marzani, an alleged Communist and one-time. $7,500- a-year state department. aide, sentenced to three years for “attempting to conceal _ his Communist connections.” @ Eugene Dennis, 39-year-old se- cretary of the U.S. Communist Party, has been found guilty of contempt of congress by a federal district court jury. He faces a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Dennis had one cham- pion during his brief trial, Rep- resentative Vito (ALP, N.Y.), who testified for him as “a champion of the Marcantonio | rights of labor and democracy: the rights of Negroes (4 against the Ku Klux Kae native fascism.” ae @ The U.S. state department PE. announced that Secre George C. Marshall recor or fired 10 department worker® “suspected disloyalty.” ine The 16 -anti-fascist officials: his cluding Howard Fast, famous torical novelist, Dr. Edward Barsky of New York, and ork Lyman R. Bradley, a New University professor, fas G same penalty imposed OF 00 —a year in jail and @ $1 fine each. Like Eisler and Eugene penny the group’s officers had iM’ it the wrath of the House © tee. ~ pat? Bisler refused to take @? Mee as a witness. Dennis refust) os answer any of the co Ref questions. The Anti-Fascist eed ugee Committee leaders ‘newer to supply their records in to a committee subpoeDa. cE 2 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—F*'