Loader worries coal miners A long shadow of unemployment is cast by the continuous Joy loader, latest in mechanical miners. A small crew operating the long, alligator-like machine can mine two tons of coal a minute, simultaneously loading the coal on conveyors. Miners fear that unemployment, already on the rise in their industry, will be seriously aggravated by the new labor-saving, profit-making machine. Cardinal conspired for overthrow of Hungarian gov’t on visit to Canada A tremendous campaign is in full swing through the press and platforms of the Western countries to depict the recent trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty as a general attack upon the freedom of religion in Hungary and others of the people’s democracies. The facts, discarded by the daily press of Canada and other countries for the politically more attractive fantasies of obscure refugees, expose this charge as Part of the cold war propaganda. And to obtain the tacts it is neces- sary to go no farther than the columns of Hungarian newspapers. Over the past few weeks Hun- garian newspapers have published |. Scores of ietters from Catholic priests denouncing Mindszenty for having abused his high office by conducting treasonable activities against the Hungarian people’s de- Mocracy. These letters, which re- fute the charge that the Catholic Church is being persecuted, could €asily have been verified by West- ern correspondents had their pa- bers been interested in establishing the truth. Similarly, the attempt to depict Mindszenty, a self-confessed con- Spirator, as a martyr crumbles be- fore the hard facts of the proof against him. Ascribing his confes- Sion variously to the use of drugs or torture—this is an old claim widely employed, to disparage the trials of Trotskyist agents of Ger- Many and Japan at Moscow in 1987—confuses the issue but it does not answer the charges on which Mindszenty was convicted. 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At that time Muindszenty began building wp a legitimist organiza- tion to prepare for and effect a coup detat, with the object of restoring the monarchy and placing the hat- ed Otto, wanted as a war criminal, on the Hungarian throne. In these efforts Mindszenty found an active supporter in the Belgian cardinal van Roey, who maintained contact with Otto, Mindszenty .exchanged several written and verbal’ mes- sages with Ottd through van Roey. : Not only van Roey and Vatican circles in general, but also some western powers were eager to lend their support to Otto. ¥or instance, the head of the Am- erican military mission in Buda- pest gave his private plane for Mindszenty to use on his trip to Rome, where he met the Belgian cardinal. And when Mindszenty’s ‘departure was slightly delayed by passport formalities, the telegraph wires were jammed with inquiries from New York and London. The investigation has now re- vealed that Mindszenty met Otto personally on June 21. 1947, dur- ing the cardinal’s trip to Canada, ostensibly to attend a religious | fete, On his arrival in Canada, Mindszenty lost no time in. con- tacting. the former confessor of Otto’s father Charles. Through the agencies of the priest, the Cardinal saw ex-empress Zita in a convent near Ottawa. Then travelling incognito, the cardinal flew to Chicago, where he was the guest of the local bishop, who arranged a secret meeting with Otto in a monastary near that city. 16 E. HASTINGS ST. STANTON & MUNRO ; Barristers 'and Solicitors 501 HOLDEN BUILDING r VANCOUVER, B.C. MArine 5746 Mindszenty admitted that during ‘this meeting Otto and he agreed that it was necessary to unite the forces of the Hungarian legitimists and to expand the existing secret organization, and that he under- took to do this. “‘The legitimists in Hungary,” he told Otto, “will or- ganize and rally their forces until they achieve their ends.’ On his part, Otto, referring to an “authoritative source.” assur- ed the cardinal that the aggrava- tion of relations between the great powers would soon lead to’ war, adding that he had it on good authority that certain circles in the U.S, would welcome restor- ation of the Hapsburg monarchy in central Europe after the next war. Both cardinal and pretend- er agreed that their hopes could be pinned only on a new war. During the same trip Mindszenty had two other secret meetings in the U.S. In New York, where he flew from Chicago, he was received by Cardinal Spellman. Mindszenty told Spellman about his agreement with Otto and wrote a statement empowering Otto to represent the Hungarian Catholics abroad, and particularly in the U.S. During his meeting with Tibor Eckhardt, the notorious traitor to the Hungarian people, Mindszenty instructed him to rally Ameérican Hungarians to support Otto. On his return to Hungary, Mind- szenty immediately informed the heads of the Hungarian legitimists, in particular, Jusztin. Baramy, of his meeting with Otto. On his in- structions, Baramy drafted a char- ter for the illegal legitimist organ- ization. This draft was also found by the police in the cardinal’s sec- ret vault in Esztergom. The ‘docu- ment incorporates a detailed plan for the restoration of the Kingdom of Hungary after the invasion of the country by a certain foreign power. Other documents found in Mind- szenty’s secret archives leave no doubt as to what foreign power the Hungarian plotters had in view. The metal safe in the palace base- ment contained a letter in Mind- szenty’s own hand in which he urged the Western great powers to interfere in the internal affairs of the Hungarian republic. The safe also contained replies transmitted to the cardinal by the U.S. minis- ter in Budapest. All these letters have been published in the Hun- earian press, but American and Canadian newspapers apparently eee find them too embarrassing to print. German competition | alarms countries of western - The huge increase in exports Europe a PARIS. from Westem Germany now being planned as part of the Marshall aid program has caused a wave of worry in Britain, France and Belgium. These countries fear com- petition with their own exports, without which they cannot maintain industrial recovery or employment at home. U.S. Marshall plan administrat- or Paul G. Hoffman has insisted on an increase of textile exports by $200 million in west Germany alone. The British have been pro- testing because this sum is almost exactly equivalent to their own 1949 production for export, which has also been approved by, Marshall planners. .Belgium is another tex- tile exporter that will be affected. Unemployment is already high in Belgian: textile mills, and must rise still higher if the newly-authorized German competition materializes. The automobile industries of Bri- tain, France and Italy are frighten- ed by new prospects of big German car production. Just before the Second World War, cheap German Opel cars had begun to push them out of world markets and even penetrated their home countries. General Motors has been a big in- vestor in the Opel firm. In steel, western Germany will soon outstrip neighboring countries which were her victims in the war. The Ruhr valley is to be allowed to turn out 10 million tons this year. Britain will be unable to compete with this production since her plant is less modern than that available in Germany. A flood ef German goods’is ex- pected to erupt into world mar- kets because wages in Western Germany are insufficient to al- low the population to buy back any significant proportion of the products of the mighty industries of the region. Within Germany, the profits of renewed production will go to the big industrialists. Outside Germany.. large exports will make things more difficult for other countries. Faced with U.S.-sponsored Ger- man recovery that is much faster than their own, many Européan peoples are beginning to wonder who won the war. WETU plans China meet —PARIS The World Federation of Trade Unions executive board ended its session here with a decision to meet again in Peiping, North China, next May. Peiping, a former Chin- ese capital, was recently captured by the Communist-led People’s armies. The purpose of holding the next executive meeting in China, where a new 2,800,000-strong all-inclusive national labor federation was form- ed last August, is to cement WFTU links with Asiatic labor movements. A permanent liaison office of the WFTU will be set up in the near future to call a Pan-Asiatic Trade Union Conference next fall. In‘ making its decision, the WFTU executive board called at- tention to suppression of labor in Indonesia, where the Dutch have outlawed the Indonesian National Labor Federation (SOBSI), and in Malaya, where British authorities have banned the Pan-Malayan Trade Union Federation. Consider- ation of WFTU action on behalf of these colonial movements, previ- ously impeded by British and Dutch objections, followed a British and Netherlands walkout from the last executive meeting. The CIO, British Trades Union Congress and one of the two Dutch labor federations have signified their intention of withdrawing from the WFTU. French, Italian, Australian, Soviet, Chinese, Latin American, Indian and Israeli un- ions now comprise its main mem- bership. During January the WF- TU also admitted unions in Chile, Malta, the Philippines, Siam, Tunis, and Southern Rhodesia. The affili- ation of Japanese unions was ap- proved in principle. ’The second session of the World Labor Congress, highest WFTU body, has been called for June. 27. It will be held in Milan, Italy. . U.S. plans to muscle in on™’ Britain’s African schemes By ROB F, HALL a WASHINGTON One of the first objectives of th e“bold new program” proclaimed by President Truman in his inaugural address is to muscle into Bnitain’s hitherto private colonial preserves in Africa. At a recent press conference Thomas K. Fineletter, ECA chief in Britain, revealed that the US. was financing and providing tech- nicians for surveys in British col- onial Africa These surveys are for the purpose of getting strategic raw materials needed by the U.S. he said, but they will also provide the sort of information needed by American investors. Howard Bruce, deputy ECA admin- istrator, told the same press confer- ence that there ‘was no great en- thusiasm” among Americans for investments in Britain and other Marshall Plan countries. “But for investments in colonial areas,’ he added, “there is much more en- thusiasm.” : ECA roving ambassador Averill Harriman supplied the information that under the European Recovery Program, Truman’s plan to exploit undeveloped areas can proceed without special legislation. Five of the ERP countries — Britain, PACIFIC TRIBUNE — France, Holland. Belgium and Por- tugal—have colonial empires, he said, and under the ERP Act, “we can go full steam ahead in the undeveloped areas of these five countries.” When this writer was in London a year ago, talk of African devel- opment was widespread. British of- ficials and businessmen conceived of that rich and undeveloped con- tinent as a new imperialist hunting ground which would compensate for the loss of India, Burma, and other sectors of the empire slipping from their grasp. But. inasmuch as the British bankers are short of the capital necessary for intensive develop- ment, the British cannot refuse American participation, even thouggh they ralize that this means accepting American-dictated policies. FEBRUARY 18, 1949 — PAGE 3