as STUN A TTT AT TTT TTT A REVIEW OF WORLD EVENTS TATRA A STS EST ee TS RS Britain ‘Autumn Leaves’ for Churchill HE tooiroom workers of a Mid- jJands aircraft factory last week sent two autumn leaves addressed to Prime Minister Churchill as a “token of promises made.” Their message said: “Qur growing might has reached maturity. Fascism is crumbling. Emulate the Red Army and give our lads the best chance by attacking in the west now.” Speaking June 30 at the Guild- hall in London on receiving the freedom of the city, Churchill said: “J cannot go further today than to say this—very probably there will ranean and elsewhere before the leaves of autumn fall.” Hundreds of telegrams demand- ing the opening of a second front now have been sent to the prime minister and military leaders from trade unions, workshops, shipyards and offices. Workers from a Newport factory sent a telegram to General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Commander of the British Eighth Army, and re- ceiyed a cable in reply thanking them for their pledge of all-out war production. This cable is now being raffled and the money raised be heavy fighting in the Mediter-will be donated to the Red Cross. Labor ‘Darlans’ Plot In Stockholimn LANS are far advanced for a secret conference in Stockholm between reactionary labor leaders in Axis-controlled and other coun- tries and preliminary discussions have already been held. These charges are made by Nove Cesko- lovensko, the Czechoslovak paper published in London. “At the last moment,” writes Nove Ceskolovensko, “the gallery oi Darians has been joined by a new type — the Social Democrat leader. “British newspapers have already indicated that Wungarian Social Democrat leaders have had contact with Allied emissaries in neutral countries. And Hungarian Social Democrat representatives have already ne- gotiated with some of the men of the Second International or’ repre- sentalives of some labor groups in Stockholm.” Remarking that the Finnish So- cial Democrats have also had con- tact with Second International rep- resentatives in Stockholm and that in these comings and goings the Gestapo has not intervened, the newspaper states: “Social Democrats from those eountries not yet represented in Stockholm are packing their trunks, for they do not want to miss the chance.’ And the object of the Stockholm talks, it is stated, “is the rebirth of the Second International.” There are circumstantial re- ports in London that certain Bri- tish Labor Party circles are heavily implicated in the affair. Reynolds News recently reported that there would be grave sus- picion of the Stockholm conference if Soviet representatives were not to be invited. But the reactionary labor leaders involved have no such intention, Included among them are Ger- man Social Democrats who have learned nothing since 1918 Aus- trian Social Democrats who still want to see Austria incorporated in a “Greater Germany,” Polish Social Democrats who—in the words of Nove Cesko- lovenske—“want an Eastern Euro- pean Federation under the hege- mony of Polish militarists direct- ed solely against the Soviet Union,” and Hungarian Social Democrats who want to retain the territory seized from Czechoslovakia. And finally, there are the Finnish So- cial Democrats who would like to see Finland withdrawn from the war behind a Mannerheim Line of enmity against the Soviet Union. As the newspaper comments, there is a grave danger of a new kind of Darlanism emerging from the schemes of men who, instead of strengthening resist- ance to Nazi tyranny in their home countries, are engaging in anti-popular, anti-Soviet intrigues at Stockholm. Latin America International Labor Unity Move poe steps to affiliate with the Anglo-Soviet trade union committee have been taken by the Confederation of Latin American Workers. CTAL President Vicente Lombardo Toledano, acting on in- structions given him by the July meeting of the CTAL executive council, has written the committee suggesting preliminary negotiations in London and Moscow. The CTAL represents more than 4,000,000 Latin American trade unionists in 15 countries, “Since the outbreak of the war,” Toledano wrote, “the CTAL has striven not only to contribute to- ward winning the war against the Axis, but also to educate the people of the Ibera-American countries to the need for establishing deep and lasting ties of friendship between them and the rest of the world. “Since its foundation the CTAL has sought to maintain close ties with those organizations nearest Latin America—labor inethe United States and Canada. However, we believe the time has come to set up firm and close ties with the labor movement in the two great non-American nations who have contributed so much toward rid- ding the world of the grave men- ace of fascism: Britain and the Soviet Union. In this way we hope to make it possible for world labor to express its point of view on problems pertinent to the fight against fascism and to the all-im- portant problems which will come with the peace.” 5 The message further stated that affiliation with the committee is being sought “because we believe that the committee is an organiza- tion representing the interests of the working class and fighting for labor and world freedom. We, for our part, shall maintain constant contact with labor represented by the Anglo-Soviet committee for the good of the world cause we are fighting for together.” Soviet Union Reconstruction Plans Hhe Soviet people have re- ceived with great acclaim the news of the all-embracing govern- ment measures for speedy restor- ation of regions liberated from the Nazis. Herds are to be increased; horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, evacu- ated to the interior during the German advance, are to be re- turned to the farms which have been exempted from all tax in 1943. Kalinin, Smelensk, Kursk, Orel, Voronezh, Rostov, Stalingrad and Stavropol regions are affected. In these devastated areas are to be built new schools and a network of special children’s homes for the orphans of the battles. Fuel captured from the Germans is playing its part in the recon- struction plans. The inventory for Smolensk province includes 1.500 barrels of “booty” oil which has already been handed over to tractor depots. Plants are being constructed for the mass production of concrete blocks and bricks. Thirteen fac- toriés are being opened to produce prefabricated houses. Every family desiring to build - its own dwelling will be granted credit. Organizations engaged in industrial restoration are obliged at the same time to _ restore dwelling-houses. : Particularly extensive restora- tion—before the end of this year —is planned on the railways, and a great number of army restora- tion and repair squads will be assigned for this purpose. Those responsible for the tre- mendous rebuilding and recon- struction program are four mem- bers of the State Defence Commit- tee: Maienkov (chairman), Beria, Mikoyan and Voznesensky and Andreyey, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. India New Railway Union Center Planned EADERS of the rank-and-file Indian railway unions, repre- senting 90,000 of India’s 110,000 or- ganized railway workers, are taking steps to establish “a strong repre- sentative central” organization of Indian railwaymen to insure the efficient functioning of the trans- port industry as part of the war against the Japanese and for the winning of gational independence for the Indian people,” it is report- convention. the co nual leadership, : voted to expel the Sout Railway Union (SIR), the resolution, and # dia Peninsular Union “agents of political © the AIRF.” i. called for: bership in the unions this program and to -quate dearness allowa the rising cost of agement production insure against every age and overcome ail g efficient work. we With the growth of the: file unions during the 1 came the demand that qd potential leader of India railway workers, function recting center for the ganization of railroad wor By AIRF executive council © openly hostile to these ; First anti-unity action — ta’s group was to block ination of N. M. Joshi @ secretary of the All-Indj Union Congress, for ms dent against Mehta. The tion was withdrawn whe refused to accept a Sik § that delegates’ credentis! amined and threatened § SIR delegates from the ec # The biggest setback came at the end of the c when Mehta’s supporter: passage of a resolution new unions be allowed t to the AIRF where oid i ready existed on the sam § system. Its object was §& affiliation applications f large unions—the Bomba Central Indian union {58 © the Bengal Assam Railwz workers, with a members 000 and 3,500 respectivel: After the SIR and the: gations had jointly move’ ance of the applications supporters moved a cou posal to disaffiliate the ate Abandoned 8 ubs Left By Japanese The Japanese left Kiska so short a time before a joint American-Canadian force lant the Aleutian island that they -were unable to ta terial with them. These two-man subs and the rails to take them to water are the equipment, much of it wrecked and damaged, that the Japanese left behind. * ES: ke much of their laboriously transporte only Pp: