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U.S. ‘aid’ ruins

By NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

INCHUN, Korea

‘The region from Seoul to Inchun
was once the induStrial heart of
South Koréa, In this area was
concentrated 70 percent of all in-
dustry below the 38th parallel. Now
the whole region is ruined and
derelict—not by bombing or war
but by American “aid.”

The decline began after the
American occupatjon in 1945. The
Syngman Rhee regime, in return
for the support that maintained it
in power against growing popular
Opposition, allowed huge imports
of American goods. Five years
ago the area employed half a mil-

lion people. Now, fewer than 40,-
000 still have jobs.

By the end of 1949 the textile
industry of this region had fallen
to 1.4 percent of the level in 1945
under the Japanese and the mach-
ine industry 0.5 percent.

Now the machines have gone,
the steel windows have gone, even
the metal roofs have gone—sold by
their former ownerg who were
bankrupted,

For mile after mile you pass
factories but never*see a whisp of
smoke. Masses of unemployed
men sit around in the sunlight. It
is a memorial to American “aid”
and it is half the reason why

Truman wanted to conquer the

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South Korean industries

northern part of Korea as well—
driven by his own unemployment
problem.

As though to emphasise the
treachery of Rhee, warehouses in
Inchun are stacked with Economic
Cooperation Administration (ECA)
goods, some of the. goods for
which the puppet government sold
the ‘country’s independence,

But look at what the Amerjcans
sent,

I examined one great warehouse
which contained fireworks, can-
dies, and ‘the following second-
hand goods — wrenches, clothes,
arctic wear, tropical wear and
mosquito nets. Among the new
articles were cleaning swabs, py-

rethrum flowers and Coco-Cola,
the inevitable sign of American
colonization which began to ap-
pear in Europe after the Marshall
Plan.

Dive bombers raided the town
this afternoon, wave after wave
screaming out of the sky, cannon
spitting as they came, blasting in-
discriminately with rockets and
bombs and wrecking more work-
ers’ homes.

After the raiders had gone I
saw a woman, with a baby strap-
ped to her back in the Korean
Style, crawl out: of a slit trench
and creep back along the walls,
automatjcally feeling behind her
every moment to make sure that

her child was still alive after that
15 minutes when the whole world
seemed to be rocking under a
blanket of flame and ear-splitting
din,

.An enormous burden is being
borne by the civilians in this war.
American bombing is pitiless, con-
tinuous and specifically aimed at
smashing civilian morale,

Today Inchun gave its reply, as
it has done before. Two hours
after the raid, over 8.000 citizens
had reported to the offices of the
Inchun People’s Committee to
work on clearing bomb 5
Whatever happens, the people will
not falter or give up until the last
invader is driven from their soil.

Youth relays
carry peace plea

across France

By MARK FREEMAN

PARIS

Coming from the farthest corners of the country, from

mines. fields: and factories,

passing through war-ravaged

cities and those that would be destroyed if another war broke
Out, a great company of young’ people has been marching.

Clear-sighted and confident, re-
lays of young miners, workers,
peasants and students have been
carrying the. standard of world
Peace towards Nice, where a great
international youth peace meeting
Opened last Sunday. Some 20,000
young people, mainly from France
and Italy but also from other

‘countries, ares attending the meet-

mg,

The echo of their songs has

_ Struck a chill in the hearts of all

those who would rather hear the
tramp of military boots along Eu-
ropean roads.

' The first peace relay took to the
Toad on July 29 from Le Mans and
n August 2 arrived at the Renault
8uto factories in the Paris suburb
°f Boulogne-Billancourt. Here the
Peace standard was handed to a
young Algerian auto worker, who
took it on a further stage of its
Journey, At Nice it was handed to

young workers of the Italian Fiat
factory,

The French government once
More demonstrated its fear of the
Peace movement by banning the
Passage through Paris of three re-
“YS coming from the martyred
Cities of Cherbourg, Dunkirk and
Aseq,

From Paris this relay crossed
the mining district of St. Etienne
end Ales, scene of savage police at-
tacks on miners during the great
Seneral strike of November 1948,
for the “crime” of struggling for
Peace and decent living conditions.

The departure signal for another
relay was given at bomb-scarred

rest by a war widow who has col-

Netea 6,000 signatures to the Stock-
Clm Appeal. Its path led through

rhateaubriand where the first hos-

“8s, among them young Guy Mo-
Nal Were assassinated by the
Szis: Tt followed the coast with
t ® Ports where dockers are in the
ont line of the peace struggle,
Sed through ruined Oradour
fre almost the entiré population
‘or massacred by the Nazis and
te €re those who miraculously es-
ene have voted unanimously for
Stockholm Appeal.

pabother branch of this relay left
de v°2Ux, the city where Raymon
yeaa Was imprisoned for two
of , ,/°° preventing the departure

& trainload of war material by
&cross thé rails,

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The third relay, after leaving

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Turkey sends troops,
Jails peace leaders

ANKARA

The Turkish government's deci-
sion to send 4,500 troops to Ko-
rea, without parliamentary or
any other kind of public debate,
coincided with the arrest on July
28 of several leaders of the Turk-
ish Peace Supporters Association.

Among those arrested were the
organization’s president, Behice
Boran, prominent lawyer Vah-
dettin Barut and a leading pub-
lisher.

The Peace Supporters Associa-
tion had sent a letter to the na-
tional assembly urging that Tur-
key join Indian Premier Jawa-
harlal Nehru in advocating me-
diation in the Korean conflict,

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Metz, crossed the eastern industrial
district which, under the Schuman
plan, would be turned into a center
of .the war industry. Another
branch, leaving Strasbourg, passed
through Abcheim where Colonel
Fabien, hero of the Paris libera-
tion, was killed.

BRUSSELS

Workers from all parts of Bel-
gium who arrived in Brussels‘ only
to learn that the scheduled mass
demonstration against Leopold
had been called off by right-wing
Socialist leaders openly wept and
Swore under the public ioudspeak-
ers’ biaring Leopold’s arrogant
“message to the nation.”

*

The unity and militancy demon-
strated by the Belgian people in
past weeks has been a ‘source of
fear not only for Leopold, the

church, and the U.S. state depart-
ment, but also for the right-wing

SS

Betrayal charged to right-wing
Socialists in Leopold ‘compromise

f

portunity to strike a personal bar-
gain by riding on the wave of
popular wrath against Leopold.

When, however, they began to
realize that they could no longer
control the popular forces they co-
operated directly with the Leopold
clique, to present the workers with
a “compromise” in the hope that
the failure would undermine the
militancy of the Belgian working
class movement.

Presented as a “victory” by right-
wing Socialists, it actually leaves
power in the hands of the mon-
archy, and is, in fact, a victory for
the Vatican and the U.S. state de-

Socialists, who at first saw the op-

Union leaders
murdered by
South Koreans

SEOUL

The torture-marked bodies of
Kim Sam Ryong and Lee Joo Na,
leading South Korean unionists,
were discovered on August 3 in a
ditch in which they had been bur-
ied by Syngman- Rhee’s police be-
fore South Koreans abandoned the

partment.

Six British unions call on TUC
for campaign to ban atom-bomb

LONDON

Six British trade unions, with a
total membership of almost one-
half million, are demanding that
the British trade union movement
start an immediate crusade to ban

the atom bomb.

The unions concerned are the
Union of Shop, Distributive and
Allied Workers, the Association of
Scientific Workers, the National
Society of Metal Mechanics, the
Scottish Painters’ Society, the Na-
tional Union of Vehicle Builders
and the Tobacco Workers’ Union.

These unions have tabled resolu-

stance, point out wage increases

tions calling for an anti-atom bomb

campaign for the forthcoming
Trades Union Congress. The annu-
al conferences of the unions con-
cerned instructed their executives
to take this action.

Higher. wage claims will be well
to the fore at the Congress. A
number of motions show serious
concern at the continued rise in
the eost of living, and many unions
repudiate the government wage-
freeze.” The electricians, for in-

can come from the present inflated
company profits.

Housing and nationalization are
also issues likely to be discussed
at the congress, <

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Labor gov't planning
political police setup

LONDON
The Labor government's chief

to “combat political agents and
sabotage.” This department, the
paper said, is to be composed of
former secret service experts.
The Daily Herald made it quite -

clear that the “special depart-
ment” is in fact to be a ‘political
police directed against any oppo-
sition to the warlike politics of
the unofficial Labor-Conserva-
tive coalition.

capital,

Kim and Lee, each of whom had
a union record going back to the
twenties and had spent more than

| 10 years in Japanese jails, were ar-

rested by Rhee’s police March 27.

Their imprisonment was the sub-
ject of a World Federation of
Trade Unions letter to United Na-
tions Secretary-General Trygve Lie
on. June 21, four days before the
Korean war began. The WFTU let-
ter, written at the request of the
North Korean Federation of Trade
Unions, asked Lie to use his in-
fluence “with the government of
President Syngman Rhee as well
as with the U.S. authorities to ob-
tain immediate release” of Lee and
Kim.

MP’s denounce U.S.

: SEOUL
Meeting here, 48 members of the
former South Korean parliament
have issued a statement denounc-
ing American intervention in Korea,
condemning terror bombing of the
Korean civilian population and

‘calling on other former members

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 18, 1950

to come over to the Korean People’s
Democratic Republic. : :

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