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National action committees zt workers, Fellaheen (landless Bee ants) and students Migr EE a throughout} -Egypt recen : oF a Haam, organ of the Israel munist party, reports.

i y ting of the This follows the meeti néwly established Congress of Hie National Front of Workers f Students on October ‘21, where

committees fo

tion committees with the fellaheen to fight for the following program: against Egypt's participation in the imperialist blocs, full support to the world peace movement, action to secure a Soviet-Egyptian non-aggression pact, struggle for release of all political prisoners and against anti-democratic laws and censorship, for abolition of the “secret. police” and for a ban on the activities of British and American agents such as_ the

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“Moslem brotherhood.”

The resolution on the Sudan question emphasises that “the road towards liberation of Egypt and

the Sudan is the common struggle of both peoples against a’ common- enemy: imperialism. The Sudanese people have the right to free them- selves from the imperialist yoke, and the right to self-determination must be reserved to the Sudanese neonle.”

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oviets divert river into

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rich irrigated land reclaimed from ae seis workers and collective farmers of the region,

Tbilisi Sea.

The entire Soviet press hails ee event as another link in the tea Stalin power and irrigati a schemes. Particular interest pe ; tains to it because the site o the new Tbilisi reservoir is the locality where over 50 years eo Stalin organized the fores He workers’ May Day gathering 1 Georgia. 2a .

To build up a store of ee sufficient to irrigate so a parched land southeast of Tbil red engineers who began to yee 1947 had to deepen three exis ne Salt lakes and build a new channe bed for the Lori from its enue in the glacial régions of the H ee Caucasus. They began the ns by exploding a 500-ton charge 4 ammonal. To complete the ahs they had:to excavate 5,000,000 cu metres of earth and rock and e lay nearly 300,000 cubic metres 0

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Georgia’s biggest irrigation and Power scheme is classified as one of the great post-war achievements and has been hailed as a construc- tion for peace. mie

Plans are already being drawn up to build new holiday centres On the banks of the Tbilisi Sea. Much of the reclaimed land will be planted with orchards.

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Exile ends as Greek MP's win right to seats

: LONDON

ter world protest, the Greek ee caret has finally been forc- ed to allow seven of the ten mem- bers of the Union of the Demo- cratic Left (EDA) elected to par- liament in the recent elections ae take their seats. The 10 ce members were elected despite the

‘fact that they were in exile or

ke direct ris6én and unable to ta

rane in the campaign, and hous. ands of their supporters were dis-

franchised. : ‘

ressure from democratic ae Ron, the Greek dg ment consented to the seven E : MP’s-elect in exile returning to take their seats and they were sworn in despite a rowdy regis stration in parliament staged fie members of Papagos’ Fascist Rally.

anjeffort to prevent the, peo- Je or welcoming their aie bers the government had the nava vessel returning them to Gurece dock, not at Piraeus but the sie fishing port of Rafina, from Ww iF they reached Athens in the early hours. Within a few hours, ee ever, the streets around the o pee of the newspaper areas ty were thronged with cages a waiting to welcome them. ater the seven visited Nicos Bplay sane Resistance hero, who is one of | ae three EDA MP’s still held-in jail.

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Vote against pact

Defying party whips, 33 Labor members, including supporters of Aneurin Bevan, ‘voted against endorsing the U.S.-dictated Jap- anese peace treaty in the British House of Commons this week. The majority of Labor members, acting on their- right-wing leaders’ instructions not to op- pose the treaty, which was signed while the Labor government still held office, voted with the Con- Servatives. The vote was 382

,votes for, 83 against endorsation, of the treaty, with some 200 members absent or abstaining.

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Truman’s assault on peace hit by DuBois acquittal

WASHINGTON

The campaign of the Truman administration to outlaw the fight for peace has been handed a major setback. Even glum government prosecutors were admitting this here this week as a jubilant peace move-

ment throughout the! U.S. hailed the acquittal of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois

and: four associates in the Peace Information Center of charges they

. bd ” were acting as “foreign agents.

Trial of the distinguished Negro author, scholar and peace leader and his associates ended abruptly on Tuesday last week when U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Mc- Guire granted a defense motion for acquittal on grounds the gov- ernment had failed to prove the

charges set forth in the indict- ment. 4 The sharpness of the judge’s

remarks led a government attor- ney to complain, “it is very diffi- cult to get proof of the kind Judge McGuire demands.”

In addition to the 82-year old Dr. DuBois, those acquitted were Mrs. Elizabeth Moos, former di- rector of the Peace Information Center; Kryle Elkin, who was the center’s- treasurer; Abbott Simon, its executive director, and Sylvia Soloff, its secretary.

News of the verdict brought a flood of congratulatory messages to the defendants

American Peace Crusade Co-Di- rectors Thomas Richardson and Rev. Willard Uphaus wired Dr. DuBois:

“The crushing of the infamous indiétment against you and as- with joy. You are a symbol to us of the best traditions of our country and of the Negro people. Your vindication is a triumph ‘of these traditions. It is a victory in the struggle for the right to speak for peace and gives us new determination as we

‘Taunch our new campaign for an

end to bloodshed in Korea and for an agreement among the major’ powers for lasting peace.” ' The Civil Rights Congress said: “The will of the American people, and particularly the Ne- gro peonle, for world Peace and the banning of atomic bombs, as well as world-wide protests against their jailing, won the freedom of Dr. DuBois and his four associates, * “From this great victory, pro- gressive Negro and white Ameri- cans must march on together to smash the indictment of William L. Patterson, famed Negro leader of the Civil Rights Congress, who is scheduled to stand trial January 28; and to smash the government's chains around Paul Robeson who is not permitted by the State De-

| partment to go abroad to talk of

the discrimination of the Negro States.”

The CRC congratulated Dr. Du- Bois and his four associates, as well as “their fighting battery of Negro and white attorneys,” headed by former Rep. Vito Mar- cantonio.

The government, Marcantonio had told the court, had not proved that defendants acted for a foreign principal. or that it was subject to the control of a foreign princi- pal. Nor had the government shown that the center had con- sented to act for the World Com- mittee of Defenders of Peace, he said. :

In an attempt to answer Mar- cantonio’s arguments, the govern ment attorneys, J. Frank Cunning- ham and F. Kirk Maddrix, said the sovernment did not have to prove & connection ‘of principal and agent. “We are content to deal with an implied agency,” Maddrix told the court. .

Judge McGuire apvarently irked

and oppression people in the United

at the government dragnet defini- |”

tion. commented:

“Maybe Congress has used inept language ... . Now Congress has said salt conceivably could be pep-

| der and pepper could conceivably

be salt, is that right?” “That’s exactly what it did,”

Cunningham replied as spectators suffawed. f

PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

The acquittal ruling was de- livered extemporaneously by Judge McGuire, who pointed out that the government was obliged to show “a manifestation on the part of one person. that another may act on his behalf, and con- sent by the other so to act,”

He held that the prosecution had@* not fulfilled its responsibility in this case.

“When a reasonable mind must have a reasonable doubt, the judge must require a judgment of ac- quittal.

“If I permitted this case to go to the jury, I should permit them to speculate on a speculation,” he said. -

It was at this poirit that he said “the motion for a judgment of acquittal will be granted.”

O. John Rogge, former U.S. as- sistant attorney-general, at one time prominent in the peace move- ment and now agent in Washing- ton for Tito, was the government’s star witness against his former associates in.the peace movement. He charged under oath that the Peace Information Center was “an instrument of Soviet propaganda.”

But Rogge’s testimony fell flat after defense attorneyd established that, in his own sworn statement, made at the time he filed as a foreign agent for Tito, Rogge has denied that the peace movement was under foreign’ control. :

Marcantonio stressed in his final argument that the chief witness against the peace advo- cates was himself a registered foreign agent.

Vietnamese now able fo produce . heavy artillery

RANGOON

One reason for the increasing strength of the Vietnamese Peo- ple’s Army and jhe defeats it is inflicting on the French colonial troops is the efficiency of the young republic’s war industry, despite enormous difficulties.

Vietnamese armaments workers have advanced from production of primitive hand-grenades to manu- facture of heavy artillery for at- tacking strongly fortified French positions, states a recent report of the Viet Nam General Confedera- tion of Workers.

This has been achieved under the difficult conditions of the liberation war: lack of machinery, insuffici- ent technical and professional — training of managers and workers, and lack of raw materials. French air raids have made it necessary to locate factories in remote areas, thus creating difficulties of supply and communication.

Training of new workers has been undertaken by ithe skilled workers, who outside of working hours devote most of their time to instructing the novices,

An important part of the work of the armaments industry has been production of mines and other types of explosives for use of par- tisan units.

Outstanding initiative has been shown by workers in utilizing scrap material and finding substitutes. Rails, spent bomb fragments and other such material is turned into firearms and ammunition. Success- ful research has been carried out in producing formerly imported chemicals such as explosives and acids, thus enabling the industry to attain sulf-sufficiency,

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