FiveStiicapisaage’’, Phin PRUZT gy teneaHiseSRET Co stbueddIN cs sat tees OT

@ What is obvious is that our
closest Asiatic neighbor is the So-
viet Union and that in the North
Pacific the stretch of water that
separates us from each other is
less than forty miles wide. In the
age of air power, which is now
fully upon us, that may become the
most important new strategic fac-
tor affecting our destiny in the
Pacific—Edgar Snow in Saturday
Evening Post.

Gh. ete Acs ee cE Ad aA

@ Our relations with the Soviet
Union are intimately tied up with
Anglo-American relations. It is an
illusion to think that we can come
closer to Britain by weakening our
relations with the Soviet Union.
The opposite is true. The weaken-
ing of one part of the Anglo-Soviet-
American alliance weakens the
whole structure: the strengthening
of one part of it helps to strength-
en the other When we take a
course which tends to separate us
from our Soviet ally, we are at
the same time destroying the
foundations for all world order, we
are taking the path of a new iso-
lationism. These are harsh and un-
pleasant facts, but it is better that
we face them in all their naked-

ness.—Earl Browder, general sec-
retary, Communist
United States.

Party of the

@® I am confident, like Stalin, that
if we strike now in Europe, the
war will be over by Christmas,—
Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of
Canterbury.

TAT

@ The effect of anti-Semitism is
to create among some people a
false objective, to split the work-
ing class movement between those
who recognize fascism as the
enemy and those who are diverted
into an attack against an imagin-
ary enemy, the Jews. Therefore,
an anti-Jewish expression by a
worker cannot be allowed to pass
as a means of letting off steam
or as idle luxury. Such anti-Jew-
ish expressions are a serious men-
ace to the whole working class
movement. — William Gallacher,
M.P., in Anti-Semitism.

HUEUTEUILSU EUTROPHA

@ Work as though you were fight-
ing on the battlefront. Every port
worker is a fighter on whose de-
yoted efforts depends to a great
extent the success of our comrades
on the battlefields.—Nikolai Shver-
nik, chairman of the All-Union
Council of Soviet Trade Unions,
in a letter to Liverpool dock-
workers.

es aL AUTLUGSASESSAMAL AM Hetas et

Latin America

Fascist Decrees In Argentina

oEEORTS reaching Mexico City
from Argentina tell of an in-
creasingly bitter revolt by trade
unionists against the government-
sponsored wing of the General
Confederation of Labor (CGT) and
its secretary, Jose Domenech. The
main body of the CGT, headed by
Francisco Perez Leiros, was dis-

solved by government decree on
July 20.
The reports further disclose

that recent arrests of anti-fas-
cists in Buenos Aires, including
anti-Domenech union members,
have been made with the aid
of known German agents co-
operating with the “Special Sec-
tion” of the Interior Ministry.
They were kidnapped by Nazi
agents, who, after severely beat-
ing them, turned them over to
the “Special Section.”

Many of those arrested were
seized during street demonstra-
tions against the Ramirez dictator-
ship, at which huge crowds shout-
ing “vivas” for the United Nations
were attacked with tear gas and
clubs.

The startling resemblance be-
_tween the labor policies of the
Ramirez regime and those of
Nazism is shown in a Labor De-
partment directive recently is-
sued te Buenos Aires unions by
department head ®r. Emilio Pel-
jet Lastra.

“We expect

complete collabor-

ation from all labor organizations,”
the directive stated. “You must
completely refrain from any po-
litical activity—national or inter-
national — limiting~ yourselves
strictly to union problems. Unions
must not be governed by political
aims, nor provoke strikes on false
pretexts, nor originate movements
which might cause public dissen-
sion. They must trust the state to
attend constantly and patriotically
to the solution of all social prob-
lems.”

Further indication that the Ram-
irez government has no intention
of backing down on its anti-labor
program is contained in a speech
Ramirez delivered before an audi-
ence of businessmen in Tucuman
on September 24.

“My anti-communist campaign is
my most important achievement
since taking office,” he declared.
“I have attacked and will continue
to attack all communist and com-
munist-led organizations with all
the power of my government.”
This is belieyed to be a direct ref-
erence to the outlawed CGT, since
both Ramirez and Domenech have
charged unions urging a break
with the Axis as “communist-led.”

In the same speech, Ramirez re-
vealed that he had taken over all
the functions of government when
he stated that he had issued 9,500
decrees since his June 4 coup
d'etat.

Germany

Home of The “New Order’

HWAT’S life like inside Ger-
many today? According to a
Norwegian worker who recently
escaped to Sweden from forced la-
bor in Germany, “everything in
the country is in a state of decline.
The concrete buildings are crack-
ed, lime and plaster are falling off,
the parks are uncared for, and the
civilian population wanders around
completely apathetic. Neither joy
nor sorrow, neither success nor
failure, makes any impression on
them. The war and its progress is
seldom discussed.”

Men and women in industry work
at least 12 hours a day, but al-
though they get relatively good
wages, they have only enough left
for the bare necessities of life
after they have paid taxes and sub-
seribed to “voluntary” funds.

The Black Market is flourishing.
A Joaf of bread may cost two dol-
lars and a pound of butter twelve
dollars.

Corruption prevails throughout
the official services. Parcels of
food sent through the mails, for

instance, seldom reach their des-
tination.

Housing conditions in and around
Berlin are appalling.

“Tt is impossible to get an apart-
ment in Berlin without exchanging
some valuable possession for it. All
big apartment blacks have been
confiscated by the military author-
ities or by the Todt Labor Organ-

ization. The civilian worker has
been forced to move out to a
‘garden colony’ or to a state labor
camp,” the Norwegian worker
stated.

“At these garden colonies a state
of indescribable misery prevails.”
Here families live together in
small confined huts which consist,
in the main, of packing-case boards
and tin sheets. The hygienic con-
ditions are terrible. The streets are
like pigsties—used both as lava-
tories and refuse dumps.”

In the fourth year of war, the
bright promise of victory has fad-
ed and the German people see
nothing ahead but the misery and
hunger their armies have already
brought to the rest of Europe.

Australia -

‘Political Considerations

7 A strongly worded resolution,
the New South Wales Trades
and Labor Council, representing

300,000 workers, last week charged
that “political considerations” are
delaying the opening of a second
front in western Europe and point-
ed to Prime Minister Churchill’s
declaration that a second front was
the decisive way to win the war.

“Coupled with the island-hopping
strategy in the Pacific,’ the reso-
lution stated, “we are convinced
that this failure will prelong the
war unnecessarily, not only in
Europe but in relation to Japan.”
The council urged the Australian
government “to make representa-
tions to the British government for
early action along the lines indi-
cated,” and called on the British
Trades Union Congress to take sim-
ilar action.

In a supplementary resolution
the council voted “to press for
the intensification of the Pacific
campaign.”

The consensus of labor opinion
here, as expressed in the council
debate on the conduct of the war,
is that Germany is the most im-
portant Axis nation to defeat.
Council members agreed with
General Douglas MacArthur's con-

demnation of the police; ;
hopping,” which
take years to defea
further agreed with
Arthur’s view, state
view on Sept. 21, that
was not the best w.
War as soon as and
possible.” :
The full text of
lution reads: “This
with concern the co
of the British and A
ernments i dir)
Europe, declared by ~
ister Churchill to be;

Hitlerite Germany.
the ‘island-hopping®
the Pacific, we are

unnecessarily, not
but e relation t0_ BE

front, and urge the 2
ernment to make rep
to the British goyernmeé
action along the line:
A copy of this resoluti
forwarded to Prim:
Curtin and be cabled ~
ish Trades Union Cong
their support of its ter

Soviet Union

Behind German Lines

HE story of the part writers
and printers are playing be-
hind the German lines on the
eastern front was told this week
by Victor Zhutayey, chairman of
the central committee of the Press
Workers Union.

“The courageous and untiring
efforts of members of the Soviet
Press Workers Union, working
under the most adverse conditions,
have assured the continued publi-
cation of newspapers both at the

front and behind the German
lines,” Zhutayev said. “Our union
was banned along with other

unions in the oecupied areas and
union leaders who fell into the

enemy’s hands were quickly dis-

posed of, but the pr
were not intimidated —
lerites.

In Mechetino, in the
trict, for example, t
buried their equipme
torture nor offers of fr
force them to disclose
places. The machine
well hidden until the |
entered Mechetinc. &
a few hours after the t
erated, the paper wa’
the presses.

“Lists of union men.
up after the areas wert
show appalling losses.
in the Stalingrad and
ons, aS many as 50 pe
union members peris

Italians Fight Nazis

Even as the American 5th Army entered Naples, you
patriots like those shown here battle with tthe rep
the Nazi rearguard on the city streets,