ifaneous blows from —
ist that will smash Hit-
‘machine. We express
“ion that the militant -
-established during
7. be Maintained after

exer, president of the
lea Engineering Union.
pr “the 916,000 officials
rs of the Amalgamated
ft: Union in the British
falia and South Africa,”
ia eee
w your members, like —
% done a splendid job~
's the armed forces of
#| Nations,’ Tanner stat- -
essage to Murray, “and -
otting- forth every ef-
fvide equipment which
‘d in the final assault
s.cism in Europe and
junity of purpose and
‘ween our countries,
bring about the de-
It fascism, must be
i) and strengthened for
the world. We must
ur trade union move-
38 powerful organiation
olay a decisive part in
7 peace.” :

SNG that the Argentine
fs Lodge’ or GOU
fying itS activities in
y ainst the democratic
) Of President Juan
\.S Made this week by
seeretary of
Wuion of Workers
(UGT), im an inter-
diied Labor News.
si: tool of the GOU in
Fe said, “is Luis Al-
ta, nationalist leader, «
tately on his return
s Aires earlier ~ this
waced the publication
iaily newspaper and.
jadio station CxX44.
h. is financed by the
‘eaders Brunet and
storious. speculators.
agents are infiltra-
45e “packing houses,
2 industry of  Uru-
‘quez continued. “In
2s daily, Hl Debate,
‘Mmocratic: public op-

ddenly launching a
© a general strike.
failed, they raided

7% UWGT locals in an
create disorder.

_to create the im-—
{ Uruguayan dem-
Sak- and to prove

eernment is unable to
er. This is typical of

2 of the GOU. The

*- ‘ing to create closer
1 labor, democratic ~
aes and the govern- _
Fense of our country
3m.” s,

2 embassy at Monte-
* agreed to intervene
Seas to prevent the
*0~Eraneo Spain of
1 Urrutia, who fought
esh Republican Army
mber of the Spanish
nmbassy, which stayed

c Serrata of
= also promised to use
» Prevent Cuesta’s be-
5° fascist Spain.
ane government first
/ deport Cuesta when
©st_ background was
¥ Argentine police
ether observers of an
‘it student demon-
arrested last weelk.
= the others arrested

aa

sre

were released, Cuesta was held

in jail because his papers were
not in order. The police attempt-
ed to deport him immediately in
the Spanish ship, Cabo Buena
Esperanza, but were stayed when
the British ambassador, acceding
to representations made by the
General Union of Workers of
Uruguay and the Spanish. UTG
intervened. ;
This week the second attempt
to deport the labor leader was
made. He was hustled aboard the
Monte Alaya which, contrary to
usual practice, will not stop off
‘at any other South American

port.

_ The action is considered further
proof of the Argentine regime’s
active collaboration with Franco.
it is known that it has been de-

porting Spanish Republicans, put-

detailed information has been dif-
ficult to obtain.

SPAIN

Double-Cross
DECLARING that “Nazi espion-

age continues in Tangier and

Spanish Morocco, despite Spain’s
agreement with the United States
and Britain that German consul-

“ates there would be closed,” Man-

uel Delicado, former director-gen-
eral of agriculture in the Spanish
Republican government, who is
now in Uruguay, last week de-

- nounced the agreement as “tanta- .
“mount to an agreement with Hit-

Jer,” and as doing “great harm
to the United Nations war effort.’
- Delicade, a member of the Span-
ish General Workers Union (UGY),
added that “the long drawn-out

‘negotiations prove that the terms

Were first approved by. Berlin.”

Even if the German consulates
were closed down, he said, “ex
pelled Nazi spies would be re-
placed by other German spies of
Spanish citizenship. Hitler and
Franco cannot dispense with es-
pionage On the eve of the inva-
sion of Europe.”

Discussing FEranco’s acceptance
of the Allied demand that he re-
turn to Italy interned Italian mer-
chant ships, Delicado said this “is

‘good business for Franco since

he is getting North American oil
in exchange for ships which do not
belong to him. With the Red Army
approaching the Ploesti oilfields
in Romania, Hitler is more than
interested in insuring a fuel sup-
ply.” :

Franeo, Delicado said, is “dou-
ble-crossing the Allies in his

._ promised dissolution of the Blue

Division, already partly liquidated
by -the Red Army, since at the

L-

Jerk

- partisans’

Same time, he has authorized Span-
ish Soldiers to obtain German na-
tionality in order to continue fight-
ing On the eastern front. Franco
is continuing his support to Hit

FREE AUSTRIA

Freedom Front

/ DSEEIOAN fighters from. the

Austrian proyince of Carin-
thia, are today. fighting alongside
Marshal Tito’s Yugoslav People’s
Army, the underground Austrian

Freedom Front radio has revealed. _

The Austrian Freedom Front
Was founded in 1942 and is a
broad, anti-fascist underground
organization representative of ali
patriotic forces within Austria.

Operations of the Carinthian
guerillas are rapidly developing
In scope, and the Nazis are des=
perately stepping: up their violence
in an attempt to suppress. the-
movement, z

Appealing for support of the
Carinthian partisans, the wunder-
fround radio stressed that “the
battles inthe south are of tre-
mendous importance for Austria’s
liberation struggle. The entire
Austrian people must back up the
attempt to surprise the guerillas.”

Taking note of the Yugoslav
aid tc the Carinthian
Patriots, the Freedom Front radic
said Austrian fighters “enjoy the
support of Marshal Tito . for
this the magnanimous Yugoslav’s
have won the eternal gratitude of
all the Ausirian patriots.”

The underground radio told its
listeners that. the link between
the Yugoslav Liberation Front and
the Carinthians must be further

Strengthened by an increase in

measure of support from the Aus-
trian people themselves. ~

“The most important and urgent
task of all freedom loving Aus-
trians is to give every help to the
Carinthian guerillas.” *

SOVIET UNION

Production

[pyes largely to “the patriotic ef-.

forts of the trade unions,” labor
productivity in Soviet industry as
a whole has risen over 40 percent
in the last two years, Vasily Kuz-
netsov, president of the All-Union
Central Council of Trade Unions,
revealed last week.

Writing in Pravda, on the occa-
sion of the second anniversary of
the socialist competition produc-
tion drive, he stated: “In the air-
craft industry labor productivity
has risen 47 percent, in the build-
ing industry 43 percent, in the
ammunition industry 54 percent
and in light industry 55 percent.”

“The leadership and practical
asistance given to the workers by
their unions represents a gsiorious
page in Soviet labor history,” he
added. “Our unions have given
competing grotps technical aid,
and have organized an exchange
of experiences so as to help new
workers master the technique of
their jobs and become shock pri-
gadiers and Stakhanovites.”

Highty-five percent of all work
ers in the aireraft industry are
taking part in competitions for bet-
ter work, he stated, 80 percent in

the petroleum industry, 86 percent

in ordnance, 83 percent in ammus

nition, 90 percent in cotton tex--

tiles, 86 percent in footwear and
89 percent in railway transporta-
tion.

‘Cultural Service’

“Cts service cars” are

a familiar feature of life on
the Soviet front. They are as a
Tule maintained at the expense
of frontline Red Army clubs. The
crew of each car includes the
“manager—usually a senior lieu-
tenant or captain—a lecturer, mo-
tion picture operator and driver.
_ Equipment consists of a travel-

ing’ motion Picture outht, a varied

stock of films, a victrola with a
loudspeaker and a large selection
of records. Folk songs are especi-
ally popular. One member of
each crew is a skilled photogra-
pher who takes pictures of out-
Standing soldiers as the car tours
the frontline zone, thus adding to
the traveling exhibit. 3

Bad roads or shelling never de-
ter the “cultural service cars.”
They visit battalions and even in-
dividual companies in the forward
positions, where they are impa-
fiently awaited. Films, lectures on
the international situation, on
home affairs or the situation at
the front, are always sure of a full
turnout.

At all stops a photo display is
arranged, leaflets distributed and
books circulated. Officers and
men who have distinguished

themselves in action are: photo-
graphed, and figure in the display
at the next stopping place.

These “cultural service cars” are
continuously on the road, spending
a day or two with each regiment
and returning to their bases.

Residents of Botoshani. a Rumanian town, watch from balconies and street corners as
Soviet armored forces pursue the retreating Nazis.

| Short
Jabs

Presentation _
OMMERCIALISM finds al]
kinds of excuses, or alibis

rather, for making presents —
Christmas, birthdays, mothers’
days, graduation days and so on.
Of course, there is a reason. But
none of these excuses or alibis
Was behind the recent presenta-
tion, by the London Daily Work-
er, of a copy of Stalin’s book,
Problems of Leninism to the lit
brary of the House of Commons.

When the book was presented
by William Rust, editor of the
Daily Worker, the librarian ex.
pressed great pleasure at the gitt
because, he said, he considered it
a most important work and he
eould not understand why. it had
not been added to the library

when it was first published. That

Was before his time.

- Lhe occasion for the gift was
an atrociously ignorant speech
about the policies of the Soviet
government, made by the dyed-
in-the-wool Tory member for Cam-
bridge University. Rust proposed
that it should be available to the
reactionary members of the moth=
er of parliaments. That is one
Way, possible in any democracy,
of making books available to
people who ‘might or should read
them. :

Another Way
jah OME SEDS, Way was demonstrat-
ed about the same time in one
of the fascist dominated
tries. _A bookstore on the Boule-
vard Poincare in Brussels was
entered by four armed men and
held up in the familiar “stick-
up” style favored by some mem-
bers of the criminal fringe in
their dealings with American and
Canadian-banks. But the men took
no money. They did not kill

any of the clerks, nor did they

wreck the store.

They took only what they were
interested in, a large stock of
books, including a six-volume Ta-
rousee dictionary. But Brussels

“peole can tell that this was no

“stick-up.” The men. who carried
it out Were not criminals. They.
were patriots, active workers in
the Belgian underground move-
ment. And the purpose of the
raid was to provide books for
refugees from forced labor who
are living in hiding under the
eyes of the hated Gestapo.

That is one way it is done in
fascist lands and by those under
their rule. -

Press Drive
wrt we went over the tep in
our declared intention to raise
$250. We got that and enough
over to buy a couple of good
cigars for the star reporter. In
last week’s
manager refers to “Ol Bill’s one-
man _ show.” Now, that is not
strictly correct. O’ Bill had some
hard-working assistants who had a
great part in the raising of that
quarter grand. -

I can’t mention every name, but
some deserve special mention —
Pete Lowe, Norman Taylor, Cliff
Worthington, Marie Hodges, Jack
Eva, and tWLarry Davies. Then
there is a long list of people who
contributed subscriptions and do-
nations ranging all the way from
90 cents to $50 They were ail
part of Ol Bill’s “one-man” show.
And they are hereby thanked for
their part in doing a good job and
doing it well.

by OV Hill...

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