@® Unless the British. Soviet,
Chinese and United States govern-
ments arrive jointiy at a clear cut
and specific agreement in the near
future upon certain basic -prin-
ciples. the hope of the creation of
a stable world in the post-war
years must necessarily be all but
illusory. SUmner Welles, in a
speech te the Foreign Policy As-
sociation at New York.

SoMa st theae eet head ae Ee

@ The Fifth Victory Loan cam-
paign is as important as any we
will fight with battles —Lieut-
General A. G. L. McNaughton.

@ The way

CLS Ts HUH CaS Usoib Gas ia EM

wines vase SN

to the Japanese Is-
lands leads across the {English}
Channel. Max Werner in The
Great Offensive.

rs sane Tae Ta Te eee

@ An exclusive Anglo-American
alliance involves ultimately the
hegemony of the most reactionary
forces in both countries. In the
United States, if net in England,
that could easily involve the su-
premacy of American fascism.
Joseph Starobin in New Masses.

ER SS ae eae

© The England which ended in
October 1939, knew the misery of
unemployment. Thousands, tens of
thousands = of boys and girls,
Straight from school, emerging
_firom their initial fellowship of
family life, stepped out into a
world of closed doors. They sought
their own niche in that world in
vain: It had no niche for them. It
Was a world of widespread unem-
ployment. If the unemployed youth
of 1939 had joined hands, an ex-
press train would have taken four
hours to traverse their line. Add
the adults, also unemployed, to the
line, and its dimensions became
appalling.
God grant us,

then, an England
where none is unemployed but
each shall share creative tasks.—
Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean
of Canterbury.

AUUHIAUNDULSOEUETOESUAUA AT UERIORUTERESTEEA ALATA ECT

@ The home front cannot be di-
yorced from military affairs, just
as the war cannot be seperated
from the peace but is an over-
ture to the peace. Consequently,
the way we carry through the war
will in-a large measure determine
the kind of peace we get.—Leslie
Morris in the Canadian Tribune.

Britain

AFL Stand Criticized

Aves Manchester Guardian, lead-
ing British daily newspaper,
this week delivered an outspoken
attack on the American Federation
of Labor for refusing to collaborate
with the Soviet trade unions and
for excluding the CIO from talks
with the British Trades Union Con-
gress.

“Tt is ominous that the AFL, in-
stead of doing what it can to further
good relations with Soviet Russia,
goes out of its way to emphasize
all the the differences existing in
the trade union world,” the news-
paper states in an editorial.

At its Boston convention this
month, the AFL rejected ties with
the Soviet trade unions on: the
ground that they are “instruments
of the Russian government,” and
charged the name of the Anglo-
American Trade Union Committee
to the TUC-AFL Committee “to
make it clear that the CIO was not
and could not be represented in
any manner.”

“The AFL used its tub-thump-
ing attack on Russia ‘totalitarian-

ism’ as an excuse to belabor
American Communists—of whom
the AFL has an hysterical fear—
and its rival trade union body
the C10,” the editorial continues.
“The TUC is also dragged in,
and fulsome praise is bestowed
on Sir Walter Citrine for his
‘skill and consummate _  states-
manship.” It is a sorry story, and
those British trade unionists re-
sponsible for the exclusive alli-
ance between the TUC and AFL
must be a little ashamed.”

Pointing out that the CIO “is
proposing to take the initiative at
its convention next month in call-
ing a world conference,” the Cana-
dian asks: “One wonders whether
the TUC would dare defy its re-
actionary partner, the AFL, by ac-
cepting the CiO'S invitation.”

The editorial concludes: “The
AFL conveniently forgets that
some of its own unions exhibit the
worst possible forms of racial dis-
crimination on the grounds of col-
or. It is itself a poor example of
trade union democracy.”

United States

New International Union

ACKINGHOUSE workers from
all parts of the US. and
Canada met in Chicago last week
and formed a new international
union. They named it the United
Packinghouse Workers of America.
Outstanding among the resolu-

tions adopted was a declaration of
solidarity with Argentine packing-

Trailing Snipers

house workers in their fight to
force the pro-fascist Ramirez gov-
ernment to release 43 of their
leaders arrested as “communists,”
The convention called for estab-
lishment of a committee of pack-
inghouse workers of North and
South America, pointing out that
the meat packing industry in the

Argentine was dominated by the
same “Big Four’ controlling the
U.S. industry.

In a number of strongly-worded
resolutions the convention:

@ Urged an immediate invasion
of western Europe.

@ Called for unconditional sur-
render of the Axis and for a peace
in conformity with the principles
of the Atlantic Charter.

® Reiterated labor's
pledge.

@ Condemned all forms of racial
discrimination and demanded abo-
lition of the poll tax. :

The section of the officers’ re-
port dealing with discrimination
against minorities stated:

“We recognize that our industry
is composed of workers of all na-
tionalities, of many races, of dif

no-strike

“the formation of th

dissenting vote.

and by recognizing
ment must be big en
pass all groups ant

Negro workers who
substantial section ;

tional union. Nearl
all delegates presen
groes. %

When Councilman
Powell of New York ¢
the convention he w
ly received. A -
Weightman, preside
Chicago Swift Local,
25 years in the indus
ed vice-president w

World Labor Conference

ICENTE LOMBARDO TOLE-

DANO, president of the Con-
federation of Latin American Work-
ers (CTAL), this week welcomed
the proposal of CIO President Phil-
ip Murray for a world labor con-
ference to help the war effort and
guarantee labor a voice at the
peace table.

“Three important labor organiza-
tions—the CIO, the Anglo-Soviet
Trade Union Committee and the
CTAL—now unitedly aspire toward
a world workers’ congress,” Tole-
dano told Owen Roche, Mexico
City correspondent for Allied La-

bor News. “Sixteen
bor centrals represen
CTAL are ready to c
full vigor to the cr
Toledano cabled
of the CIO plan f¢

Murray declared
seek _authorization

resentatives of
United Nations lab i
to join with the CIO ip
labor conference.”

Soviet

Union

Soviets Build Arctic Railway

Ee remarkable story of how
Soviet workers built a number
of key railways linking the north-
ern Soviet territory with the banks
of the Volga was revealed in Mos-
cow this week.

The rail construction, under-
taken on Stalin’s initiative, was
esrried on in the midst of the
Stalingrad defense a year ago, and
the railways are not only assisting
‘today in bringing new coal and
metal deposits into: use, but were
of value in facilitating the great
Don counter-offensive last winter,
it was revealed here. .

At the beginning ot 1942 a num-
ber of railways were begun to link
the lines crossing the Volga from
west to east. Their construction
was started at the time the Nazi
command was drafting plans to
capture Stalingrad and the Trans-
caucasus.

The plan provided for laying up

to three miles daily. Actually the
rate reached up to five miles.

Italian soldiers, fighting with the Allies in Italy, exchange fire

with Nazi soldiers during the fight for Castellemmare.

The North Pec
was also built maint
time. It passes entirely
the territory of the
public, running throu
less forests and cross
ous rivers and bogs
Arctic tundra. The
ficulty was presented . =
building of the track, >
ground is unsuitable
way embankments.
Building bridges aq

ers also involved trem
ficulties. According
these bridges required t 7
ders weighing up to 20.05 ¢

But the war dems
for the front, so the m
had to be replaced by ¥
manufactured on the

During the ice-dri
when the floes reached
in thickness, these b
stood the test. Wr
mometer 40 and 50
the road builders lai

Eastern Fron
advance along the