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Unemployment increasing in Western Europe

Unemployment is increasing

Above). Through 1948 into 1949 the total has risen steadily
it stood at four millions.

Complete fi :
and gures are available,

lave the Western zones of Germany more t
Yofts in recent months are increasing the

in the Marshall plan countries of Europe (shaded in the map

until in April, the latest month for which
‘Italy has some two million unemployed
han ‘one million. In Belgium, France and Austria new
ranks of the unemployed by thousands.

Foster’s statement barred

in U.S. Communist tri

The clearest and most incisive exposure yet made of the framed nature of the indictments of the 12

hati : ; :
ational leaders of the U.S. Communist party was given by Gilbert Green.
reen, a member of the Communist national co nmittee, and

to .
ok the witness stand on June 14.

Later, Prosecutor John F. X. McGohey fo

had Written for the Communist.
€ article was a clear statement
a saad reasons for becoming’
Medi munist. Judge Harold R.
jectin?, UPheld the MeGohey ob-
ctions. Green said:
thought we would | get
€ to prove our case.”
hereby remand you (to jail)
the {he remainder of the trial,”
Judge declared, flushing.
hak Medina also barred as
Com Mce an exposition of the
eee ee party’s program and
aera by William Z. Foster, na-
Fost Communist chairman.
sum, €r’s document, a 27,000 word
Mary of Communist . strategy
Bag ertice since 1935, was con-
y we a key portion of its case
Most " defense. It represents the
Positi ucid and comprehensive €X-
View on of the Communist party’s
made mM refutation to allegations
leaderceunst the party and its
then by the U.S. justice depart-
erg, and a coterie of FBI inform-
os development took place in
timon, highlighted by further tes
beatin, from Gilbert Green. Green's
and ete drove home to ayrors
of roan the real meaning
aes a to the Truman Doc-
busine Green quoted from a_ big
hig Ss sheet of March, 1947.
ener admitted huge Amerl-
tecteg votments were being pro-
Ww by Administration policies.
all Street’s investments have
ed half a billion dollars in
Two billions in China,
Tran are seeking expansion in
the pieore® and Saudi Arabia,
: ig business paper said.
made aie rane aie he
arch, 47, in jeago,
ope Seta:
r Sin the name of democ-
eriegend anti - Communism, Am-
the Ae business interests, with
~your of the taxpayers’ money
ernmae, 224d mine—and the f0v-
All 6 nt military, are beginning
€r arain in the same trend

a
Chang

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for

and

Of ¢
into Vents that plunged the world

chairman of the party in Illinois,

NEW YORK.

first

rmally objected to court introduction of an article Green

Green went on to say that if
loyalty means defense of demo-
cratic traditions and institutions,
then Communists are second to
none.

Thousands fought and died in
the war against fascism, he said,
“but not a single Communist was
4 war profiteer, a black market
operator or a draft dodger.”

But if loyalty is interpreted to
mean defense of undemocratic
policies and reactionary prac-
tices, he continued, and allegiance
to the trusts and monopolies which
rob the people, then Communists
are “disloyal.”

Green’s powerful radio address
presenting the view of Commun-
ists on several vital issues that

have arisen in the trial was given
when he was candidate for mayor
in Chicago in 1947.

Judge Medina and Prosecutor
John F. X. McGohey tried to bar
it. But a boner by the prosecutor
resulted in admission of his radio
address. :

In three paragraphs of the
speech Green offered a thousand
dollar reward for anyone who
could show that Communists any-
where ever advocated the use of
force and violence.

Only if the U.S, should be-

come a fascist dictatorship, and
al} change by democratic order-
ly process thus made impossible,
would Communists advocate vio-

lent overthrow, Green said.

Nazis planning revival
in West German zones

Police in the western zones of Germany are giving rough treat-

ment to former Germa
not. interfering, however,
bid for power in the countrv.
British occupation authorities
in Hamburg have launched a
campaign of harassment against
the German Federation of Former
Political Prisoners and the Union
ictims of the Nazi Regime.

pF ave conailackele of the UVNR

were searched and attempts were
made to limit the celebration of
Liberation Day (V-E Day) by both
groups.

The GFPP and the UVNR have
issued a protest declaration stat-
ing that ‘imitation of the rights
of surviving active fighters
against German fascism is equal

tification of the mur-

to moral jus r
der of 11 million victims by Hitler

while he was in power.” They de-
ilared that *German resistance
fighters are not prepared to sub-

Beneration astly wars in a single

mit to these deliberately undemo-

n opponents and victims of Nazi rule. They are
with Nazis who are organizing for a new

cratic measures and are prepared
to fight, with the same _persist-
ance and decision they showed
during the years of fascist terror,
for the rights which are theirs.”

By contrast with the hounding
of anti-fascists, undisputed and
influential Nazis met behind
closed doors June 20 at Bad
Godesburg, also in the British
zone, to form a group called the
Association of Independent Ger-
mans. No one disturbed them.
An election manifesto they is-
sued attacked the Allied denazi-
fication lIaws, expressed deter-
mination to “protect the honor
of those who did their duty to
the Fatherland” (in Hitler’s ar-
mies) and declared that the AIG
planned to become a_ super
‘party to supersede all existing

German political groups.

e

By MARY

“A full blown depression’ is
and “unless decisive and large-scale

conference here.
In a special report prepared by
party economists, the committee
predicted that “close to 10 million
will be unemployed by winter by
any realistic count, if present
trends continue.” The Progressive
party’s warnings have, of course.
yeceived -the same silent treat-
ment in the U.S. press as has the
fact of the crisis itself.
Progressive party leaders,
headed by Henry A. Wallace,
charged government and  busi-
ness leaders with “a conspiracy
of silence and double - talk’ to
hide the fact that their policies
have brought the nation to the’
first stages of an economic cri-
sis of the same or more disas-
trous proportions as in 1929.”
Denying that the present econo-
ic situation is either a “mild de-
flation” or “healthy adjustment,”
the Progressive party leaders said
that an actual unemployment of
five million workers has been
concealed by ignoring millions of
‘workers laid off by temporary or
doing part-time work. J
“Instead of improving,” they
pointed out, “the depression has
moved from the acute areas of
textile and shoe factory shut-
downs in New England and the
south to layoffs and shutdowns
in the steel plants of Ohio and
Pennsylvania. The slump is
spreading from consumer goods
to the basic industries. Steel pro-
duction has declined from ten
percent in March to 86 percent
of capacity in June. And steel
men themselves admit it will
drop below 70 percent by the end
of the year.
~ * *
Truman administration's
foreign policy is a direct factor in
the depression, they said, pointing
out that “wasteful foreign spend-
ing to support reaction. and the
foreign interests of oil and other
monopolies, the Marshall plan, the
in rearmament

The

vast increase
and now again another rearma-
ment program at home and

‘abroad—have boosted prices for
consumers, created cold war short-
ages in homes and goods, and
wasted the taxpayers’ money on
costly and unproductive military
expenditures that have pinched
spending for the health, the - wel-
fare and the conservation of
America. os:

“American foreign policy is
spreading the depression through-
out those nations whose economy
xs tied to ours. The fatal bipartisan
cold war policy has not only fail- |
ed to restore the economies of
Western Europe but has actually
brought on the European depres-
sion. The cold war economic
blockade of the East has brought
nereasng unemployment in West-
ern Europe and has deprived Am-
erican workers of the vast market

of 700 million neonle living in
Russia, China and Eastern Eur-
ope.

“A serious drgp n_ Britain’s
export trade is forcing currency
devaluation that will lower the
living standards of Britain’s
workers iust as it did in the
nineteen-thirties. And even while
the foreien ministers agree to im-
_ nose the new crnshing militarv
burdens of the North Atlantic
nact on their weakened econo-
mies, there is increasing unem-
plovment in Frgmce and Italy
and mass unemvlowment in the
‘model Marshall plan countries
of Belgium and western Ger-
many.” :

The Prorressive narty statement
estimates that endine of the TIS.
economic blockade of Eastern Fu-
rone and China and immediate
granting of credits could create

Wallace warns of
‘full depression’
under way in U.S.

DOBBS

: NEW YORK.
under way in the United States
emergency action is taken at once,

there will be unparalleled suffering for millions of Americans,” the
national committee of the Progressive Party warned after a two-day

HENRY A. WALLACE
“Close to 10,000,000 unemployed
by winter if present trends con-

’ tinue.”

Life ‘normal’
in Shanghai

SHANGHAI

Factories are running again in
Shanghai. Ships are sailing in and
out of the great port. Life has
returned to the biggest’ city in
China, recently liberated from the
paralyzing grip of the Kuomin-

, tang.

China’s house cleaning is not
yet complete. On the island of
Formosa, the defeated Chiang and
his Madame still plot and concoct
fantagtic schemes for repairing
their broken ‘war chariot with
American aid. But the No. 1
Chinese war criminal is fighting
for a lost cause; he can never
defeat 400 million people in mo-
tion, working to build a new and
better China.

Shanghai fell almost without a
struggle—the first time in history
that a city of 6,000,000 was sur-
rendered with only a token resist-
ance.’

Troops of the Liberation army
marched into one end of the. city
as Chiang’s fled to river boats,
taking with them the bars of gold
given to them as bribery by rich
businessmen who dreaded the so-
cial revolution taking place around
them.

To’ complete the picture. two
significant events occurred. One
was the fact that 2,000 Kuomin-
tang troops did not run or fight,
but marched down the city’s
main avenues to greet the enter-
ing vanguard of the Liberation
army..

The other was the action of
Shanghai’s students, who, real-
izing that the, scurrying Na-
tionalists hart made preparations
tan dextray kev factories before
they abandoned the city, took
contro! of the plants and de
fended them against all at-
tempts to wreck or sabotage
them.

A century of ruthless profiteer-
ing on the part of British and
other imperialist forces has come
to an end.

Foreign firms have already be-
gun to trade under the new regu-
lations announced by the peobles’
government. With life back to
normal] in Shanghai factories
running, trade increasins, all
public departments  functionine

ers in the next year.

a million jobs for Amercan work- |

again—a new day has dawned for
the common neonle of China.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 1, 1949 — PAGE $8