ai tehic) cruei'y off junita Chile needs outside help CHICAGO — It is the “una- "mous conclusion” of the 10- eber “Commission Inquiry in Orne, Status of Human Rights : hile that “Chile needs. help ©m outside the country to stop fe “ae and the cruelty be- mates Iced by the military a Said Abe Feinglass, vice- President of the Amalgamated mee eutters Union, who was a ‘™Mber of the commission com- Posed *of Us. labor, religious visi community leaders, which €d Chile to investigate the ascist junta, © Commission was headed One junta general says that “the state of internal war will viewed by the commission was Sen. Ernesto Araneda, who had been elected in Marach of 1973 on the Communist Party ticket. Fox said the commission had learned that Jose Toha, a pri- soner on Dawson Island, had been taken to a military hospital with a perforated ulcer, now weighed 112 pounds, it was re- vealed. Rail Workers Executed Workers interviewed by the commission said that the junta colonel placed over the nation’s railroads had ordered 10 union activists taken from work and nae ee by last five or six years in order to shot on the spot, in full view of Gave Rey. Father Gerard change the mentality of the the other workers. wy t SJ. people.” An end to the state of “inter- & 24 fron mission returned Feb. Fein a its visit to Chile, and with @Ss discussed its findings Teporters in his offce. Pres- nal war” is the main demand of the democratic Chileans, Fox re- ported. Even the former mem- Frank Teruggi, another mem- ber of the commission, the fa- ther of Frank Teruggi Jr., one of MIDDLESEX — Trade union convener M. A. Khan (left) and fellow workets picketing the British firm Perivale Guterman Ltd: which : Were three other members font e Commission, Anna Lang- mae hicago’s only Black wo- alderman, Prof, Geoffrey two U.S. citizens murdered by the fascist junta, told reporters upon his arrival last Sunday at Chicago O’Hare International bers of the Christian Democra- tic Party are raising this de- mand, he said. The CD newspaper, La Pren- sa, has closed rather than be sacked the entire trade union branch membership for protesting the dismissal of Mr, Kahn from his job. The members of the Transport and General Workers Union are also protesting the law under the Tory Industrial Relations Act which says that a worker must be em- ployed for 104 continuous working weeks before he is entitled to | Se a Doris Strieter, May- cane Se eal Be Le made into a junta communica- — make a case for unfair dismissal. . Bong fe, CuCl! trustes. con's murder, Ree ee tas a me tk COMMUNIST ELECTORAL VICTORIES | Feinglase ya “at oes with He said he would make his Papers are Sen by aE junta STRENGTHEN LEFT IN INDIA ii | Oris Streiter ee a and findings public at a report-back P we a p02 PUR Beane oe NEW DELHI — Communist electoral victories in important state FF 8i, Sr, Whose oy an es meeting scheduled for March 10, O0%€¢- elections in India March 1, strengthened the Left in general 4 the ascists in rs on murdered “\where “all: 10 “members of the Tortures Continuing : and ensured the continuation in office of the government of Pre- + | the Coup that . - days of commission will be heard. The tortures are continuing, mier Indira Gandhi. The most important election was in Uttar i Popular Unity ade One ue Teruggi said he had wrung an. the commission members said. Pardesh (U.P.) state in central Ganges Valley, with 84 million ; | ll. vernment Sept. agreement from the U.S. Embas- Alderwoman Langford said people. Of U.P.’s 425 districts, Premier Gandhi’s ruling Congress : 4 Other Me = sy in Santiago that the facts that one woman they inter- Party won at least a majority of 213 seats, and the allied Com- i Others ne td a — that he had uncovered required viewed told of identifying her mynist Party of India’ won 16, enabling a working majority to i | clude Ern u the Commission in- the reopening of the investiga- son in the morgue only two succeed in the state legislature. idene -¢ ©St DeMaio, vice-pres- Worker, ‘© United Electrical bigs €an Peerman, Latin Centy ‘a per of the Christian Cut; azine; Prof. George hive nee of Northern Illinois In DeKalb; Prof. tion by U.S. authorities into the murder of his son. At the press conference in Feinglass’ office, the members of the commission were allowed to visit only the Stadium. “We interviewed four prison- weeks ago, his hands, feet and private parts mutilated by tor- ture. Fox quoted a junta general as saying the-state of internal war would last five or six years of military rule, “in order to change In the state of Orissa (main city, Cuttack, on India’s east coast H south of Calcutta) Mr. Gandhi’s Congress Party failed to gain an i absolute majority; they won 69, five short of the required 74. But. the Communists (CPI) won seven seats, and this fact will allow 1 a Congress-CPI coalition to form a new state govérnment. In the northeastern state of Manipur (capital, Imphal) on the Burmese | border, in the 60-seat assembly an alliance of three local parties | | Sity ore Ox, of the Univer- ers in the Stadium,” Feinglass the mentality of the people.” won 32 seats, Congress 12, and the CPI six. Woski 1, ,0!8, and Joan Pryz- reported, “and in every case Feinglass declared that the Staduate of Chicago they did not know why they had labor movement must eee GUINEA-BISSAU MADE MEMBER OF WORLD LAW MEET T ‘dent. been arrested or what they were the U.S. government to cut o GENEVA Th : : é c bie é ee : : o e Republic of Guinea-Bissa i ll *stricteg mission was severely charged with. They had been military and economic aid to memberof’ the inten ee Caniereaes e PP int ait se Chile in its investigation in held from two to seven months. Chile and use its influence to » Said Feinglass. Members We: Nott followed in Santiago, he States et the commission, he large anaged to interview a Unionist mber, _including trade Prisoners’ Political leaders and ag request of the 0 visit Dawson denieg Aion Camp, he said, was ‘ atly by the junta. Left “When we asked Col. Rodri- guez, the. official in charge, he said they were still gathering evidence against them before charging them.” : Alderwoman Langford said, “In Chile there is no due pro- cess, In fact, there is no legal process. at all so far as political prisoners are concerned.” Among the prisoners inter- © tight, Anna Langford, Doris Strieter, and Abe Feinglass on their trip to Chile. : Pinochet fears loss of war save the lives of Chileans. “What exists in Chile can only be called fascism,” Fein- glass declared. Mrs. Langford added, “Every- where you go ther are two or three soldiers with machine guns. And as you approach they always, without exception, point them straight at you.” , —Daily World. being held in Geneva, Switzerland, under the sponsorship of the United Nations and the International Red Cross on March 1. The motion to admit Guinea-Bissau was presented jointly by the socialist’ and developing countries attending the conference. The purpose of the conference is to up-date the 1949 Geneva Conven- tions and other humanitarian agreements in the international law. Guinea-Bissau was proclaimed an independent state in September, although the Portuguese fascist armed forces still hold about one- tenth of its territory. The new republic was immediately recog- nized by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and became its 42nd member. Recognition by the Soviet Union and other states brought the total up to more than 70. OTTAWA—The Canadian La- bour Congress, on Feb. 21, offi- cially protested the Ambassador of Spain against the arrest and imprisonment of five additional trade unionists by the Spanish authorities on. charges of trade union activities during wage ne- gotiations in the shipbuilding in- dustry in Cadiz, Spain. In a letter addressed to Am- bassador José Maria Moro, CLC choice,” Mr. MacDonald said. Mr. MacDonald noted that thé International Metalworkers Fed- eration has lodged a formal . complaint with the ILO, charg- ing Spain with a violation of the principle of freedom of asso- ciation. “If the arrested trade union- ists are not released forthwith, the CLC will do all in its power within the ILO to support this | ny Doza : * : President Donald MacDonald complaint,” the letter warned. © Chi » Argentina (PL)— “They accuse me of being an elections are held.” The chief to urged the Spanish government The trade unionists concerned hil : se the aa Military Junta “will SS to «oe iit does not man: assassin, a fascist and a delin- quent,” stated Pinochet but he the military regime added that “the marxist parties are collect- to release the jailed unionists, pointing out that the arrests are are José Luis Rodriguez Anino, an elected member of the official Ay this