Indian troops like
_ these in the African
theater made a big
contribution to Allied
- victory—and to South
Africa’s security. But
in the Union a vicious
drive is now being
Promoted to expel the

India minority from

the country.

HE United Nations considering the Indian minority

: problem in South Africa, found that the ‘color bar’
=™- policy of the Union government not only violated

the principles of the charter but that it was a menace to

world peace.
instead of making adjustment
in line with the UN decisions,
is continuing its policy of vio-
-Tence against the African

masses ang the demand of the

- Indian minority for equality.

As soon as Prime Minister
‘Smuts returned to South Africa,
leaders of the United Party,
headed by Smuts, declared that
_ before they would lift the ‘color
bar’ or before they would per-
mit equality for Africans, “they
would exterminate them.”

A recent Canadian Press dis-
patch from Johannesbufg stat-
ed:
~ “South Africa’s ‘white suprem-
acy’ boycott of East Indians—
aimed ultimately at forcing the
Indian from the Union — is
spreading to industrial centers
_ from its inception in rural areas
to enforce land tenure restric-
ee est

“The movement began short-
ly after the Indians began pro-
testing against the Asiatic land
tenure restrictions passed by
parliament last year, and gain-
ed further support when the
United Nations censured South

a _ Africa’s racial policy.

“As the Indians’ protests
against their lack of rights re-
garding fixed property, repre-
sentation in parliament and on
provincial: and local governing
bodies, grew, so did the move-
ment among Europeans to get
the Indians to quit South Africa.

“The Afrikaans-speaking South
Africans and the Nationalists,
opposition party in parliament,

are the leaders, but the boy-

‘cott is supported by many Eng-
lish-speaking South Africans
and also by the farmers’ group
of the government United
Party.”

Ons e@

5HE South African  govern-

ment is now going a step

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1947

But the South African Union government,

It is starting a campaign to
smash all. democratic expres-
sion and rights.

Violence is openly incited
against those who fearlessly
stood up and branded the South
African ‘color bar’ at the UN.
They are accused of ‘treachery
to their country.” Threats of
violence are also being made
against those South Africans
who are beginning to question
the witch-hunting of the govern-
ment.

Latest’ developments in the
prosecution of 50 African trade
unionists and Communists re-
veal that the Union government
plans to extend its attacks to
include all workers’ organiza-
tions.

On January 6, eight members
of the central committee of the
Communist Party were brought
before the magistrate’s court at
Johannesburg on charges of aid-
ing the strike of 50,000 African
miners last August.

This was followed by raids
on quarters of the Communist
Party throughout the country.
Such attacks are now spread-
ing to unions and other organ-
izations and also to individuals,
colored and white, who disagree
with the ‘color bar’ policy. |

e

T is the source of the
trouble? The Union govern-
ment rests on its suppression
of the African masses. Difficul-
ties are arising between the
government and the Africans

and this is calling forth re-
sentment of. the white popula-

tion against the system of op-
pression.

The strike in August was
based on a demand for a wage
increase for African mine work-
ers from 8 shillings (60 cents)
a day to 10 shillings a day. Last

_ month 6,000. white workers in

&

the gold mines (who unfortun-
ately are not combined with
the trade union of African wor-
kers) went on strike.

The Council on Asiatic Rights
and the Council for Human
Rights petitioned the UN to
take measures against discrim-
ination and the ‘color
These two councils are com-
posed of white South Africans.

The increasing protest against
the white supremacy policy of

bar.’ -

the Union government also ex-
plains the visit of the British
royal family to the Union.

.)

E source of the trouble is

deeper than the immediate
symptoms noted above. The im-
perialist rulers have maintained
their domination by vicious laws
against the Africans. The Riot-
ous Assemblies Act, the Hert-
zog Native Bills and other re-
strictions were enacted years
ago. \

The government has regular-
ly crushed mass movements. It
smashed the Johannesburg un-
employed demonstrations. It
crushed Dingaan Day demon-
strations, when Africans burnt
their passes and _ protested
against curfew laws. This has
been a day of traditional strug-
gle since 1883, the year in which
the British. and Boers defeated

~ the

their
forced

Zulus, imprisoned
leader, Dingaan, and

“upon the Zulu people a ‘treaty’

which took from them the best
land around Natal.

’ At about the same time the
British government instituted
campaigns in the Capetown re
gion, breaking the resistance of
the Amaxosa, or ‘Kaffirs,’ and
confiscating their lands.

The Basutos also hag their
lands taken from them.

In the Transvaal, the Afri-
cans were driven into the ‘lo-
cations’ and reserves of the low-
lands, or they were driven into
European owned farms as
slaves.

This ruthless uprooting of Af-
ricans from their lands was the
source of the present cheap
labor in the.mines. White wor-
kers are beginning to realize
the effect on themselves of the
subjugation of, the Africans.

HAA eR

Cut to a fascist pattern

by GEORGE MORRIS |

—NEW . YORK.
FTER reading President Tru-
man’s Greco-Turkish speech
and of the moves to outlaw the
Communist Party because there
is too much ‘communism’ in
the CIO, I looked up the min-
utes of the Atlantic. City CIO
convention in November.
One resolution, unanimously

adopted, affirms support for the ©

World Federation of
Unions’ executive committee
which condemned ‘the suppres-
sion of trade union liberties
in Greece and demanded that
the Greek government. restore
such liberties and permit the
calling of -a new Greek Trade
Union Congress.” : ;

That resolution further pledg-
ed ‘our aid to the Greek work-
ers in their struggle for free-
dom and democracy.”

The foreign policy resolution
contains a section calling for
continued aid to countries that
have suffered from the war and
for loans at low interest rates

Trade

to help rehabilitate devastated

areas. the

warned:

“We also urge that under no
circumstances should food or
any other aid given by any
country be used as a means
of coercing or influencing free
but needy people of the exercise

But, resolution

‘of their rights of self-govern-

ment . "A

“Above all, the common people
of this country demand that
there be a fulfilment of the
basic policy of our late Presi-

dent Roosevelt for friendship
and unity among the Big Three
great wartime allies—the Unit-
ed States, Great Britain and
the Soviet Union. ; :

“We reject all proposals for
American participation in any
bloc or alliance which would
destroy the unity of the Big
Three. If we fail to achieve
unity then the world faces a
war which means destruction
of humanity itself.”

Still other sections of the
resolution condemn fascism in
Spain anq Argentina and call
upon the United States not to
nurture the disease as it is
about to do in Greece and Tur-
key but to help stamp it out.

d aes view of foreign policy
and the problem of peace,

inthe eyes of imperialist ex-
pansionists, is ‘communism.’ Rep. -
Fred Hartley, chairman of the
House Labor Committee put it

quite plainly. He said the Unit-

ed States “can not fight the
world Communist threat to de-
mocracy if we do not clean up
our own house.” Translated,
this: means that our imperial-
ists cannot press their drive
to expand and boss those sub-
ject peoples whom the dwind-
ling British empire can no long-
er dominate, unless those who
press for continuance of Roose-
velt’s policy are outlawed,
The chamber of commerce,
quickly following Labor Secre-
tary Schwellenbach’s proposal to
outlaw the Communists,  re-
leased its report which also
works the ‘foreign agent’ lie
to death. Rees Q

But there we are given the

‘domestic side of the same coin.

Removal of ‘communists’ from
the ranks of labor “will lead to
more peaceful labor-management
relations,” declared the report.
Translated, this means that
those who resist _attacks will
not be in the picture, so there
won’t be much resistance and

everything will be as peaceful

as labor-management relations
in Hitler Germany.»

To this was added 54 pages
of guidance to employers on
the technique of ducking the
Wagner Act or bargaining i?
800d faith under the excuse
that the company only wants
to safeguard its interest from
the “menace of Communism.”

e
Schwellenbach proposal

' was a trial balloon. If me?
like Wallace, Murray and others
who played a big part in the
pro-Roosevelt coalition take a”
indifferent attitude,
it is a matter that only coD-
cerns the Communists, the club
will come down upon the latter —
—to start with, che

But with that move the club
will only get into swing and
quickly reach out for the main —
objective—any resistance to 4 —

resurgence of fascism. Hitlers

pattern is still too fresh in OUT
minds for us to be mistaken
when we see it. iE

If non-Communist progressives
show that they are aware *
speak out vigorously, then the he
course of events, and the —

chances for 1948, may turn out ae

far differently than the plaps

chartered by the helmsmen
Washington. ee

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