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Greek regime steps up 4
execution, death sentences |

—ATHENS
The Greek royalist government executed 281 men and women,
mostly unionists, between May and July. An additional 133 persons
in various cities were sentenced to death for opposing the U.S.-supported
government between July 19 and August 10. On August 23:7 a
court-martial at Florina ordered
the execution of 51 more men and
women charged with “subversive
activities.”

Franco teaches Peru
fascist police tricks

LIMA

The Peruvian government, which
has a bad anti-labor record, has
invited @ mission from Franco
|Spain to give “technical and pro-
fessional services’ to its police
force. The mission will be com-
posed of representatives of the
Spanish secret police and Civil
Guard, the latter an armed force
used by Franco to keep down the
population. §

The new terror campaign coin-
cides with triumphant government
claims that Greek royalist forces
have “completely defeated” the
Greek Democratic Army in_ the
Vitsi mountain region. Democratic

Army headquarters communiques,
however, make different claims.
They report that their forces with-
drew from Vitsi with small losses
after inflicting heavy casualties on

RENT RAISED 300 PERCENT

George A. Long, 99, a blind inventor, and his daughter, Georgina,
70, caution movers to be careful lest they “throw anything out of

adjustment.” An impossible rent increase
Boston store brought about eviction.

from $20 to, $80 for his
The machine that cuts

bronze window edges is Long’s only means of support.

British unions hit

Spineless

Wages, prices and profits have

leaders

—LONDON

been the chief subject of discussion

among British workers since the general council of the Trades Union
Congress came out in support of government wage freeze policies and
served notice that it would stop pressing for such reforms as equal

Wages fon women and 2-week paid |
Vacations for all workers.

The right-wing leaders of the
TUC, who have thus again caved
Mm to government policy of buck-
ling down to American demands
that Britons work more and eat
less, are drawing fire from all sides.

British big business, through its
Press, feels it has the TUC on the
Mun and is barking at the heels of
Union leaders to make them sur-
render more. The Conservative
party’s Daily Telegraph complains
that the TUC has not been tough
€nough with workers who continue
asking for more wages and offers
little argument to convert the re-
Calcitrant.” The Liberal party’s
News Chronicle says that “senti-
Ment is not enough” and “manage-
Ment must have the last word,”
The ‘Times, which claims to repre-
Sent the national interest in the
abstract, says the TUC position is
“well meaning but meffective.”

Member unions of the TUC, on
the contrary, assail it for yielding
on workers’ interests. Answers to
& questionnaire published in the
TUC’s own report reveal sharp dis-
Satisfaction with government man-
agement of nationalized industries.
The National Union of Minework-
€rs says the workers’ goodwill “is
being replaced by cynicism.” The
National Union of Railwaymen say
it is “extremely disappointed” at
not being consulted on matters of
Major policy. The Union of Shop
Distributive and Allied Workers
Says there is “class prejudice in,
deciding promotions against those
Who have no. university back-
&round.” Many unions complain
‘that instead’ of the promised “prior

Consultation” on steps taken in

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their industries, they receive only
“prior notification” of decisions
taken without them.

The British Comfaunist party,
which is strong in a number of
unions, has just published an
election platform proposing radical
steps to be taken by labor in its
own interest. It calls for lower
profits and prices, higher wages
and increased nationalization with
a proper voice for unions. Party
vice-chairman R. Palme Dutt, in a
press conference, called for rever-
sal of “Tory-Labor policies which
have turned Britain into a ‘foot-
ball for high-powered American
journalists to kick.” He advocated
increased trade with non-dollar
countries such as the USSR, the
new China and east European. na-
tions.

Qther Communist demands are a
40-hour, 5-day week, equal pay for
equal work for women, 2-week va-
cations with pay, the abolition of
the House of Lords and a ban on
the fascist movement. ‘The Com-
munists also say that compensa-
tion paid to former private own-
ers of nationalized industries

‘should be cut and that the con-

trolling boards of these industries
should be made up of workers and
technicians—not former employ-
ers.

Keynoting their demands with
the judgment that “the failure of
the Labor government is not the
failure of socialism; it is the fail-
ure of Tory policy in the leadership
of the labor movement,’ the Com-
munists have announced that they
will run 100 candidates for parlia-
ment, five times as many as in the
last election.

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Mann tells of
Nazi upsurge

NEW YORK

Thomas Mann, novelist and
Nobel Prize winner, last week ex-
pressed alarm at the increased
danger of “Nazi-like nationalism”
being encouraged by American offi-
cials in western Germany. In con-
trast, Mann pointed out that in
eastern Germany the Soviets had
eliminated all Nazis from public
offices.

Mann was interviewed here on
his return from a trip to both the
western and eastern zones of Ger-
many, where he received the bi-
centennial Goethe awards.

“Every decent German I met,”
said Mann, “expressed alarm at the
recrudescence of nationalism,
which became exceptionally obvi-
ous during the election campaign.
Instead of curbing these threats,
the American government in some
eases even welcomed them as a
sign of healthy self-expression.

“On the other hand, high city
officials in Frankfurt and other big
cities in the American zone, all of
whom have a long standing demo-
cratic background and spent many
years in concentration camps, are
complaining of the lack, of coop-
eration they received from the
‘American government in their fight
to stamp out nationalism.”

In eastern Germany, Mann point-
ed out, “both the Liberal and Cath-
olic parties are allowed to coexist
with the Communists, while Nazis
are thrown out of all offices.

Mann denied reports that the
Russians were carrying out “mass
executions” in Buchenwald. He
said that of the 30,000 prisoners
there, two thirds are former Nazis.

Discussing his trip to the Soviet
zone, Mann said that such visits,
were “the only links left to unity
in Germany. :

“T would like to call the visit a
‘peace mission’,” Mann said. “The
cultural exchange between western
and eastern Germany are still
about the only links that have not
been broken. Such contacts must
be intensified unless we want to
run the risk of creating an irrep-
arable division in. Germany.”

Outwit police, hold
congress for peace

SAN SALVADOR
Despite a polce ban, labor and
ether democratic groups in San
Salvador held a national congress
of fighters for world peace here.
The parley was held in secret.
Salvadorian authorities did not get
wind of it in time to interfere.

WON'T SIGN T-H

Delegates to the 91st conven-
tion of the International Typo-
graphical Union (AFL) voted by
a wide margin to reaffirm their
refusal to comply with the Taft-
Hartley anti-communist affidavit.
President Woodruff Randolph
(above) said: “We intend to ex-
ercise every right of a citizen
to have that law changed to re-
store our right to bargain with
or without permission.”

the attacking royalist troops and
that the next phase will be a coun-
ter. offensive in other aneags of
Greece. That. is what happened in
the 1948 campaign in the Grammos
mountains, in which the govern-
ment also claimed “annihilation”
of its enemies, who later emerged
stronger than ever.

To put a democratic face on its
suppression of all freedoms, the
Athens government has now called
new municipal elections through-
out the country, in which women
as well as men will be allowed to
participate. Women voters, how-
ever, must produce the March 1946
voting papers of their fathers or
husbands before they can qualify.
The 1946 elections were boycotted
as unfair by 50 percent of the vot-
ers then eligible. The present rul-
ing means that all women whose
male relatives are critical of the
government will be disenfranchis-

ed.

Chinese

blast

U.S. White Paper

—PEIPING

The All-China Federation of Labor and individual Chinese union

leaders have denounced the U.S.

state department White Paper on

China as giving added confirmation that the U.S. government intends
to keep on interfering in the internal affairs of their country.

“No matter how the policy of
American imperialism is covered
up and misrepresented in the
White Paper and no matter what
forms this policy may assume,” the
federation’s statement charges, “it
has only one aim: to reduce’ China
to a colony.” The reference here is
to Secretary of State Dean Ache-
son’s statement that, while the cor-
ruption of the Chiang Kai-shek
government is now admitted, the
U.S. will support any groups seek-
ing to overthrow the new People’s
Government now being set up in
China. The ACFL also charges that
the White Paper seeks ta sow en-
mity between the Chinese people
and the Soviet Union, and says that
Chinese workers. “will never fall
for this.”

Federation vice-president Chu
Hsueh-fan, who is well known in
the U.S., said August 23 that the
policy announced by Acheson pur-
sues the same aims as U.S. support
of Chiang Kai-shek did, but that
it relies on “so-called democratic
individualists” within China and
economic blockade to increase the
difficulties of Chinese reconstruc-
tion. “The second dream will col-

lapse like the first,’ Chu asserted, |,’

because Chinese workers will over-
come blockade consequences by in-
creased production.

Another ACFL vice-president,
Liu Ning-yi, said the White Paper
foreshadows a new “scheme to dis-

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rupt China from the outside by
blockade and from the inside by
planting fifth columnists.” He pre-
dicted that the coming Asian-'
Australasian trade union confer-
ence, to be held in Peiping in Nov-
ember under the auspices of the
World Federation of Trade Unions,
will enable “the consolidated force
of the working class in these
countries, and in the whole world,
to safeguard the democracy and
peace of Asia and the world.”
Chairman Hsiao Ming of the
Peiping Preparatory Trade Union
Council described the White Paper
as a historical record of aggres-
sion against China. “Since we have
overcome past difficulties and ob-
staclesy’ he said, “we can also

overcome any obstacle that lies

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