° Page 6 — Saturday, November 18, 1944 Senator E. Wagner, President Daniel Tobin, AFL Teamsters, CIO President Philip Murray and President Elmer Millman, Maintenance o at Roosevelt rally. f Way Employees (AFI) at AFL, CIO Leaders Hail Labor’s Part In Roosevelt Fourth Term Victory NEW YORK—(ALN)—U.S. Labor, particularly the CIO’s Political Action Com- mittee, was generally credited with playing the leading part in the election of President Roosevelt, the defeat of isolationist candidates for Congress and the election of a majority ef congressmen favoring full campaign strategy centering on attacks on the PAC and its chairman, Sidney Hillman, all political observers declared that the PAC has emerged as one of the strongest political forces in the country. CONTINUATION OF PAC Although continuation of the PAC rests with the CIO national convention, which meets later this month, Hillman, CIO Presi- dent Philip- Murray and R. J. Thomas, president of the Unit- ed Automobile Workers, have al- ready stated that the PAC “must go on.” Declaring that the national vote was “a stunning repudia- tien of the anti-labor isolation- ist and defeatist element who based their campaign on big- otry and prejudice,’ Hillman said that he was proud of the PAC’s “contribution to the happy result.” GIO Secretary James B. Carey stated that the large vote in the industrial areas of the coun- try “contributed in a large measure to the re-election of President Roosevelt and a better Congress. The vote overwhelm- ingly repudiated the anti-labor program of the Republicans. The efforts to make the CIO appear to be in league with the Com- munists again failed to fool the people. The election result is a clear mandate for a progressive program in the! imternational and domestic field.” AFL HAILS RESULT Hailing the results, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, which did not formally endorse President Roosevelt, declared that they were not only a mandate for President Roosevelt, but for basic issues in which labor was vitally interested. imternational cooperation. With much of the Republican “The American people in this election have overwhelm- ingly rejected isolationism,” Green said. “That should be clear to everyone and it is the best possible augury for the establishment of lasting peace based ‘upon international co- operation.” Harvey W. Brown, president of the International Association of Machinists (AFL) stated that “the voters made a wise choice. It would have been most unfor- tunate if the voters had retired to private life the man that is so badly needed to continue to carry on the war to early vic- tory and win the peace.” Labor, organ of a group of railway unions, said that the election polled “the heaviest vote in labor history” and that one of the great. contributing causes to Re- publican defeat was the alliance between Republicans and sweat- shop Democrats in Congress.” LEWIS DEFEATED With returns still incomplete, President Roosevelt leads in electoral votes by 432 to 99 and is expected to win the popular vote by about 4,000,000 out of the approximately 50,000,000 votes cast. Great imterest was ex- pressed in the large vote given to President Roosevelt by New York’s. American Labor Party, the only state labor party, which is also headed by Hillman. ‘The ALP polled more than 484,000 votes in New York, the largest they have ever received. The Liberal Party, formed by the right-wing former ALP mem- bers, polled -830,000 votes in the state. ; “One of the most striking things about the election was the overwhelming repudia- tion of Jokn L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Work- ers and actiye supporter of R&- publican candidate Thomas E. Dewey, by miners in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and West Virginia who gave their support to President Roosevelt. Lewis had werked for months through his well-knit district organizations to conyince min- ers that their economic inter- ests and the UMW’s prestige rested with a defeat for the President. STRENGTH -IN INDUSTRY Labor’s greatest strength came in industrial areas throughout the country, including Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York, New Jersey and Califor- nia and in the mine areas of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. The Roosevelt ticket also had the support of scores of Republican supporters. of the late Wendell Willkie, who saw in a possible Dewey election the strong possibility that the Unit- ed States would not play its part. in international affairs. Loyalist Soldiers Greeted in France Paris and Madrid laughed over a little incident which drew a protest from Franco’s Consul in the French capital, Senor Alfon- so Fiscovich. Spanish soldiers in General Leclere’s “Second Arm- ered Division placed the Span- | ish republican flag alongside, the French tricolor on their tanks during a parade of allied troops in Paris. They received a great ovation from the Parisians, who greeted them with cries of “Vive L’Es- pagne libre!” : That was what annoyed Fisco- vich and caused him to protest to the French Foreign Office. _ razilian Exiles Ba Pro-Fascist Activiti BY ANDREW GORDON MONTEVIDEO—(ALN) — How three key-p' Brazilian fascists two army men and one Pliest, the | a former secretary to fascist Integralista leader Plinio gado, have carried on anti-United Nations and pro- propaganda in Brazil was told ‘to this correspondent by Brazil- jan political exiles here. They also disclosed the arrest of mem- bers of a secret Japanese reli-. gious sect, a propaganda group in disguise. ANTI-UNITED NATIONS Brasil-Portugal, the daily newspaper edited by President Getulio Vargas’ brother Viriato, is continuing its campaign against the United Nations, de- spite Brazil’s membership in it. One recent copy attributes to the Russian and Mexican foreign of- fices the fostering of subversive activities in Latin America. The Japanese religious sect, Tenri, was discovered and broken up in the state of Minas Geraes in October and its leaders ar- rested. In the state of Parana, a Japanese named Bunji Tdana, a resident of the settlement of Gornelio Procopio, was arrested at the end of October for destroy- ing 4000 small plants used by the silk industry. Japanese na- tionals Tomasaku Sevigawa in Belo Horizonte and Naboro Hara and Keniechiro Awayama in Sao Lorenco were involved in propa- ganda work and were arrested. LEADING AGITATOR Brazilian Lieut. Col. Osman Plaisant, commander of the fourth artillery battalion garri- ned in Santa Ana do Liyra- mento on the Brazil-Urusuay frontier, was named as a lead- ing agitator against’ the Brazil- lan expeditionary, force fighting in Italy. He is said to distribute propaganda materials of German origin criticizing the quality of lend-lease supplies. of war ma- terial from the United St While a major in Florianc Santa Gatarina, Lieut. Gol. Silva became conspicious }: cutspoken pro-Nazi speeche: his attacks on Russia. He tated in the army againsi sending of Brazilian expedi ary forces to Europe and that Brazil’s support of the ted Nations was a graye take. : ILLEGAL ORGANIZATION Father Edgar de Ac Rocha, a member of the Ord Salisians and former secre to Integralista chieftain Sal¢ is the third pro-Nazi named by the exiles. He is d tor of the Salisian colles Bage in the state of Rio Gr do. Sul and is considered on the highest ranking ‘Inte listas within their illegal o; ization and to be in direct tact with Salgado, who is ini His closest associate is T Candiota da Rosa, a lawyer chief of the MIntregralista: Bage as well as a profess the same college. Both f racial discrimination ag Jews and Negroes. Other ports indicate that Nazis reorganized their cells in town of Blumenau in Sante tarina, while-in tHe stat : ser is reported active. HAst. 0340 766 E. Hasti Hastings Steam Bat Vancouver, B.G. 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