Indian housewives protest grain prices These Indian housewives demonstrated outside th government withdrew a subsidy to the states, cau sing sharply. _Women police barred the housewives from carrying their Thousands of Johannesburg unionists demonstrate as Sach defies ‘Malanazi’ ban. \ The whole of Johannesburg’s pig garment white and colored workers went on strike in protes industry closed RLS, Sachs, veteran leader of their union. At a meeting at the city hall Sachs was arreste Charge of defying a government In the House of Assembly at Capetown, Opposition leader Strauss accused the government of trying to get rid of, trade union leaders it considers ‘‘awk- Ward,” “This country is in a state of tension and suppressed anxiety Such as I have never seen in my life time,’ he declared. The public was beginning to feel that the government was try- ing to eradicate free trade un- ionism, he added. The strike throughout the Transvaal] last week involved thousands of members of the Garment Workers’ Union. It had been called when the 0vernment ‘named’ Sachs in an effort to get him to leave the union under the terms of the Suppression of Communism Act. Workers marched through the Streets of Johannesburg to the city hall — scene of demonstra- tions and police baton charges farlier when Sachs was arrested after addressing a protest meet- ing, The crowd swelled rapidly and Was about 3,000 strong when Sachs arrived on. the city hall Steps amid a great roar of cheer- ng, Speaking through a microphone On the sidewalk in front of the City hall step, Sachs paid tribute to the “magnificent courage and discipline’ of the garment work- ers following his arrest when the Police pbaton-charged demonstra- tors, : “I am terribly sorry for those Who were injured,” Sachs said. “I want also to thank all oth- &rs —_ many of them complete Strangers to us—who are helping 8nd supporting our cause.” _ “The issue is not simply one ‘volving me. Tomorrow it Might be someone else. This e Delhi legislative assembly after the central the price of rationed food grain to rise protest into the assembly itself. JOHANNESBURG down last week as thousands of t at the Malan government’s action against da for the second time in three days on a order banning him from public meetings. is a struggle for liberty and justice against fascism,” he de- clared. The crowd was continually swelling with the arrival of marching workers —— the whites and the colored arriving in sep- arate procession but joining in front of the city hall and re- peatedly chanting: ‘‘We want Sachs” and “Down with Malan.” The marchers earried banners and flags with slogans demand- ing the right for workers to choose their own leaders. After Sachs finished speech from from the sidewalk. he walked up the city hall and said that unless the police prevented him, he would now go on to make the spéech he had intended making when arrested there earlier. his steps: Six men emerged from the hall. One tapped Sachs on the should- . “Wwe are from the CID,” he er. “We want you for question- said. ing.” The six men warned the crowd not to interfere and they took Sachs inside. After the detectives had escort- ed Sachs from the meeting, the speech he intended to make was read to the crowd by a union organizer. It denounced the recent gov- ernment actions against trade union leaders, under the Sup- pression of Communism Act and likened the present situa- tion in South Africa to~ Nazi Germany. The meeting passed @ resolu- tion of protest against the gov- ernment’s actions and declared the determination Of ‘workers to “fight till we have regained our freedom.” PREMIER DANIEL, MALAN The Italian Communist party 314,000 votes, Labor warns: Malan out to destroy all unions The South African ‘Trades and Labor Council has sent a message to all British trades union and. Labor organizations asking them to protest against the Malan government’s actions in arresting E. S. Sachs, South African union leader. “Solly Sachs,’ says the Trades and Labor Council in a message “has earned the implacable hat- red of the Nationalists and it is natural that they should first use on him the vast powers with which they have armed them- selves. “But we know he is only the first, and this present act announces a fresh onslaught — on trade unionism and the lib- erties of the people. “We appeal to you, as fellow trade unionists and democrats, to deluge South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, London, and Dr. Malan in Capetown, with telegrams of protest from your committees, local and national, and other sympathetic bodies, to which you have access.” The national executive of the South African Labor party has also cabled the (British Labor party asking for its support. in “the fight to preserve the Labor movement from the vicious at- tempt by the South African gov- ernment to destroy the trade union movement.” The Labor party executive, said that Sachs’ arrest must have been ‘‘deliberately timed to pro- voke people, probably. with the intention of showing the gov- ernment’s authority and as an example of what may be expect- ed in future.” A-bomb after two years weapons—and limitations on the Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer, after the main documents setting up the ‘‘European Defense Commun- ity’? were signed. In letters to the Western pow- ers, Dr. Adenauer said he ac- cepted the provisions under which atom bombs, long-range guided missles, biological and chemical weapons and military planes were not to be manufactured in West Germany. He added that this recognition West German contingents in formed in Paris last week are to get atom, germ and chemical West Germany gets germ weapons now By SAM RUSSELL PARIS the so-called European Army manufacture of atom weapons in West Germany may be lifted within two years. These disclosures were made in Paris by the West German was given on the understanding that the supply of these weapons would not be withheld from the West German contingents. Dr. Adenauer also said that he understood that the Western pow- ers were agreed to review the limitations on the manufacture of atomic weapons two years after the entry into force of the ‘““Buro- pean Defense Community” Treaty and the conventions signed in Bonn. - Rome votes Left but Rightists still dominate eouncil ROME’ and its Socialist and Democratic aliles have emerged as the largest political force in Rome, as a result of the municipal elections here. In the elections for the Rome City Council they polled over while the Christian Democrats—the government party—only polled 285,000 votes. But the Christian Democrats” alliance with Liberals, right-wing “socialists” and other parties brings their ‘total vote up to 384,- 020. Under a new electoral law, tle group* with the biggest vote takes two-thirds of the seats. As a result of this legal faking the Christian Democrats and their allies got. 53 seats, Communists and allies 16 seats, and the neo- fascists and monarchists (with 206,819 votes) 11 seats. But in the elections for the Rome Provincial Council, where the electoral system is more straightforward, the Commun- ists and allies obtained a ma-* jority of seats as well as v - and now control the council. The Communists and their So- cialist allies also won control of the provincial councils of Foggia, Spezia, Perugia, and Ferrara— where they obtained every single seat on the provincial council. Town councils won by the Com- munist and Socialist alliance in- clude Aosta, Terni, Perugia, Syra- cuse, Enna, Matera, Trapani, Marsala, Carbonia and hundreds of, others, Main feature of the elections has been the considerable swing to the left, together with heavy losses by the Christian Democrats. There were also considerable gains by the neo-fascists and mon- archists. Compared with previous munic- ipal elections in Rome and south- ern Italy, the Christian Democrats have lost about 1,500,000 votes, of which 500,000 went to the Communist-Socialist alliance. Most of the other million went to the neo-fascist and monarchist groups, The advance of these groups is due to the policy of the Chris- tian Democrats, who were actually considering an alliance with the extreme Right. The Christian Democrats paved the way to the victory of the neo- fascists in Naples and Bari, where the extreme Right won control of the town councils. Even in Bari, however, the Left alliance increased its votes by 11,000 compared with 1943. . The Christian Democrats re- sorted to a number of tricks to increase their votes. Special trains took large numbers of nuns and monks from the north, where they had voted last year, to towns and villages in the south, where they voted again. In Rome, dozens of nuns and monks were discovered trying to vote twice. One nun, when arrested, was found to be in possession of 20 voting certificates. The Christian Democrats also organized a mass turnout of the inmates of St. Joseph’s Mental Home, in Rome, and thus secured another 883 votes. “Everything in Flowers” EARL: SYKES 56 E. Hastings St. PA. 3855 Vancouver, B.C. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 6, 1952 — PAGE 3