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protesting zooming prices in

‘their jobs for brief protests in

it labeled them “morally repri

Among those freed was Field
Marshall Hugo Sperrle, who com-
manded the aerial blitz against
Britain in 1940. Sperrle first be-
came one of Hitler’s darlings when
he led the Nazi legion on the side
of Franco in the Spanish war.

By deft legal language the court
found that these top Nazis, ‘who
planned all major German inva-
sions, were not really policy mak-
ers. ;

While freed of the major charges,

two of the Nazi generals were
found guilty of crimes against
civilians.

—LONDON.

In an address to the British con-
servatives last week, tory leader
Winston Churchill advocated,

“drawing the sponge across the
crimes and horrors of the past
and looking for the sake of our
salvation towards the future.”
In less rhetorical language Brit-
-ain’s master of demagogy blunt-
ly said it “was time to stop the
denazification trials in Germany”
as these were inflicting “needless
severities’ upon the German
people.”

“Atom-bomb Winnie, as Church-
ill is being dubbed in some labor
circles, is now rounding out the
thesis of his Fulton and Llandudno
speeches—war on the Soviet Union
and the rebuilding of Western Ger-
many and the remnants of Naziism
to spearhead the job. In the new
‘Bizonia’ created by the Anglo-Am-
erican military government, top
nazis in the Hitler regime now oc-
cupy all leading posts. :

More nazi war crimminals freed,
‘end denazification’ - Churchill

—NUREMBERG

Another batch of Hitler’s military lead2rs were acquitted of plotting agressive war
by an American war crimes court here October 27. Because they had only followed orders
as “instruments” of Hitler, 13 top Nazis ure absolved of war guilt, the court held, although
mandable” for carrying out the Nazi policy.

Bares U.S. ‘denazification’

cartelization official.

- NY

of Ilse Koch’s life sentence to

investigation. .

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Among witnesses at unofficial New York inquiry who revealed
collapse of the U.S. denazification program in Germany were
Solomon Surowitz (1) prosecutor of Ilse Koch, and Richard Sasuly,
Federated Press Washington bureau chief and former U.S. de-

Surowitz charged Gen. Lucious Clay who okayed commutation
four years, with covering up evid-
ence of the woman’s bestial crimes.
Nazis in the U.S. occupation zone have been set free without any

Sasuly revealed 21%4 million

U.S. polices worry
people ‘down under’

—LONDON.

Sharp differences of opinion
and misgivings about the ef-
fects of U.S. policy took place
at the British Empire Confer-
ence here.

Australia and New Zealand
urged that the U.S. be asked to
‘yeconsider its contemplated re-
building of Japan’s economy.
This revival of Japanse indus
try, it was charged, will hinder
their industrial development,

These dominions also express-
ed fear that Britain’s obliga-
tions under the Marshall plan to
subsidize western European
countries would conflict with
their own demands for supplies’
of British goods. ;

‘Bizonia’ workers
face U.S. tanks

—STUTTGART

American tanks and cavalry
went into action here October
28 against German workers

the U.S. zone.

The troops were called to quell
outbreaks which erupted following
a mass rally of 40,000 workers.
While most of the workers left the
meeting quietly, some ‘marched on
newly-built shops displaying lux-
ury goods. Twelve workers and
two Americans were injured before
peace was restored. ;

The Stuttgart demonstration cli-
maxed a series of meetings against
high prices held since the new
currency reform became effective.
In Mannheim, 60,000 workers turn-
ed out while thousands more quit

Karlsruhe and Heidelberg.

In Hanover, Hildesheim and
Brunswick more than 90 percent of
the longshoremen were - reported

Repression

By BRUCE

pation.

Thousands of union leaders and
the mildest critics of the British
regime have been arrested as the
monopolistic rubber and tin barons
use force to keep the people in pov-
erty and subjection. Apparently
they haven't learned that Britain’s
devastating defeat here by the
Japanese proved the wholly bank-
rupt nature of the colonial system.

Under the Japanese the force was
retained and enlarged. The most
modern methods of oppression were
learned, including some quaint Jap-
anese torture techniques.

The British government promis-
ed to purge the police but the prom-
ise was not carried out on grounds
that mass dismissals would lead to
a lowering of the force’s morale.

In the coffee shops police boast

Israel within the territory of the
Jewish State.

This historic decision was reach-
ed after negotiations between the
Central Committee of the Israel
Communist party and the League
of National Liberation. Unification
will formally take place at an en-
larged plenum of the Central Com-
mittee of the Communist party of
Israel, which will open with a Pub-
lic meeting in Haifa Oct. 22.

‘ready to strike unless immediate
Wage demands were granted.

By this step, the Communist

recalls Japanese rule

Swaggering slow-moving police, ruthless Gurkha soldiers,
uoisy young British troops and the brutal British planters
make Malaya seem just as it was during the Japanese occu-

‘have responded.

~ “enemy” territory. It is ironical

sy UMA

Jews, Arabs unite in C.P.

By A. R.

The Arab League of National Liberation, the only Pales-
tine Arab organization fighting foreign invaders and native
reactionaries, has decided to join the Communist | party of

in Malaya

STANTON
—SINGAPORE

loudly of tortures inflicted on al-
leged Communists. The disrepute
in which police are held has made
the British offer various induce-
ments for enlistments to get an
adequate contingent. Only the
scum of the towns and villages

To date British troops have not
been involved in attacks on the
people, but progressives feel that’
shortly there will be a revival of
incidents which occurred in
1946. The British soldiers have
been told they are going into

that the local European business-
men whom they have come “to’
save from terrorists” bar them
from clubs and hotels.

MAGIL
—TEL AVIV

party becomes the only political
party in Israel which unites both
Jews and Arabs. Arabs will be in-
cluded in all its leading bodies and
will be among its candidates in
the forthcoming elections sched-
uled for some time in December.

At one time the Communist party
of Palestine included both Jews
and Arabs. After the split in the
party in 1943, the Arab Commun-

ists organized the League of Na-

foreign financial

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use against

St. Etienne, where two miners
were killed and 40 wounded Oct. 22,
hundreds of miners remained firm-
ly entrenched in the major mine
pit, defying police orders to evacu-

ate. More than 15,000 members of
combat forces were sent to drive
them out.

The strike took on an interna-
tional aspect when the General
Confederation of Labor (CGT)
asked the World Federation of
Trade Unions to appeal to Ameri-
can and British longshoremen to
refuse to load coal destined for
France.

Protesting the police terror, the
CGT called a 24-hour general
strike of all its members in the
highly - industrialized St. Etienne
region. The police provocation and
aggression against miners, the CGT
said, is part of a plan imspired by
interests “who
openly demand ruthless action
against miners and French workers
in general.” i
French and foreign correspond-
ents joined the CGT in denouncing
the shooting at St. Etienne. The po-
lice fired without warning and the
miners did not fire any shots, the
group said in a signed statement,
contradicting police charges that
workers had started the shooting.
The CGT assailed the govern-
ment’s virtual establishment of
martial law in the mine areas as “a
montrous provocation of the work-
ing classes and an anti-constitu-
tional violation of the right to
strike.” .
The government, which owns the
nationalized mines, the CGT as-
serted, must bear sole responsibil-
ity for the continuation of the
strike. The miners are seeking a
33% wage hike to compensate for
soaring prices, which have increas-
ed 115% since May, 1947.

Sincceiicaiitil NEW YORK.
It should be no surprise to Euro-
pean workers that with the sing-
ular exception of President John L.
Lewis of the United Mine Workers
(unaffiliated), no American labor
leader has pledged support to the
striking French miners.
This glaring omission is just one

French miners’ strike
tests world labor unity

—PARIS

The full. weight of French arms was being readied for
the nation’s striking 300,000 coal
Thousands of heavily armed troops were rushed to mine areas
to smash the strike, which began early in October. At

miners.

apathy and accompanying political
opportunism which has now be-
come the pattern of top U.S. labor
leadership.

Lewis in his letter to AFL
President William Green put it
to him simply, saying: “You are
supporting Truman. [I assume
you have his ear. Just as one
miner to another, why do you
‘not have him stop the shooting
of French coal miners who are
hungry?”

No comment at all has come from
President Philip Murray, who in
the past was a leader in the fight
for international labor cooperation
through the World Federation of
Trade Unions.

Supporting Truman to the lim-
it, Murray would be contradict-
ing his own stand if he accept-
ed Lewis’ advice to Green and
asked the President to use the
Marshali plan to "force the
French government to abandon
Police state methods and cease
making war on its own citizens.”

This lack of support by top AFL
and CIO leaders for French miners
in their struggle against high liv-
ing costs and government strike-
breaking is in essence not much
different from the way top union
leaders react to similar problems
at home.

Union membership i

—OTTAWA.

Union membership in Canada rose
nearly 10% in 1947 and now stands
at the highest level in history, the
government Labor Department 3p-
ported here October 24. i

The department disclosed that
912,124 workers held union cards
in 1947 as compared with 831,697
in 1946, Preliminary 1948 figures
reveal that membership is still on
the upgrade. ee es

The Trades & Labor Congress,
parent body of AFL unions here,
had 403,000 members; the Cana-
dian Congress of Labor, CIO group,

tion of Labor numbered 91,026, and

more example of the deadening bers totalled 39,627.

independent rail brotherhood mem-

‘Dedicated’!

some months ago shows Chiang

him by Gen.
Chinese people.

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The above picture, widely publicized in the commercial press

Kai-shek “dedicating” himself to

fight the Communists in the new Chinese National Assembly.
Now Chiang’s U.S.-trained and equipped army of half a million
men are in full flight before the People’s Armies in ria.

It is reported that an American B49 and a British battleship
are ‘standing by’ to save the “Peanut” (a name conferred upon
‘Vinegar’ Joe Stilwell) from the wrath of the

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