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Foreign Policy Plank Reflects CIO Proposal

Labor Played Key Part at Chicago P arley

By Anthony Jenkinson
NEW YORK (ALN) ——

Labor ‘erganizations, par-
ticularly the CIO. played a
dominant role in the pro-
ceedings of the recent na-
tional convention of the
WDWemocratic Party at Chi-
cago, all first rank reporters

coverins the convention
agreed.

Referring to the fact that
James F. Brynes, director of
the Office of War Mobiliza-
tion, withdrew his candi-
dacy for vice-president fol-
lowing the announcement
of CIO opposition, Arthur
Krock, chief of the Wash-
ington bureau of the New
York Times, went so far as
to report from Chicago:
“fhe ClO, much more than
the Wemocratic National
Committee, is in charge
here.” :

“Never before in all the his-
tory of American political
conventions has a labor union
organization played a part
such as the CIO has played
this week in influencing the
Democratic national conven-
tien,” David Lawrence, syndi-

V. LOMBARDO TOLEDANG
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tion of Latin American Work-
ers, who sees the Republican
Party as “the lingering nega-
tive force in the U.S. whose
leaders plan to revive im-
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cated columnist and editor of
United States News, wrote.
“The CIO lieutenants worked
like old-line political bosses,
Saying bluntly what they
would or would not accept and
threatenins things in certain
populous siates unless the big
machines did their bidding.”
Among the 125 labor leaders
who were delegates were CIO

President Philip Murray, a
member of the Pennsylvania
delegation; A. F. Whitney,

president cf the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen, of Ohio;
James Timmes and Mervyn
Rathborne, president and sec:
retary respectively of the Cali-
fornia CI@ Council; Philip R.
Hanna, secretary of the Ohio
Federation of Labor: and John
Crossland, of Yexas, a member
of the executive board of the Oil
Workers Unie (CIO). The 58-
man Michigan .delegation in-
cluded i0 representatives of
labor, aryong them R. J. Thom-
as, president of the 1,250,000-
strone United Auto and Air-
eraft Workers (CIO), and
UAW-GIO vice-president Rich-
ard Frankensteen, who was
elected chairman of the delega-
tion.

Of particular significance was
the fact that Daniel J. Tobin,
president of the powerful Team-
sters’ onion (AFL), was not
only a member of the Resolu-
tions Committee but was also
ehosen to second the ncmination

of President Franklin ). Roose-
velt for zeelection for a fourth
term. UAW President Thomas
was also a member of the Reso-
lutions Committee.

Noting the fact that the for-
ward -looking foreign policy
plank adopted by the convention
closely paralleled the foreign
policy statement previously
made by the ClO, Anne O’Hare
M’Cormick, leading writer for
the New York Times on inter-
national affairs, commented:

“The ClO leaders have played
so important a strategical role
in thjs convention that their
position on the foreign policy
plank is of more than passing
interest. Their proposal on in-
ternational organization does
not differ much from the plank
adopted by the convention, but
this does not mean that the
resolutions committee adopted
the program of the labor organ-
ization. The plank adopted by
the convention followed the
lines laid down by the State De-
partment. CIO policy-makers
are going along with the pres-
ent administration on this issue.

“The program urged by the
CI@ Politicz] Action Commit
tee is distinctly international.
If this represents the new at-
titude of labor in general, it is
immensely significant in the
development of American pol-
icy. As far as ClO mfluence

_on the Democratic strategists

is concerned, it is worthy of

note for the record that it
went ahead of the convention
in genera! in urging a strong _
foreign policy plank.”

The CIO-PAC, represented
at the convention by its chair-
man, Sidney Hillman, and Philip
Murray, was also credited py
commentators with blocking the
jusertion into the party plat-
form by a sirong bloek of South-
ern delegates of a plank favor-
ing continuation of the poll-lax

~ and other forms of auti-Negroe

discrimination. The €i0 plank
on racial discrimination, as pre-
sented to the Resolutions Com-
mittee by Murray, declared:

“The hateful practice of dis-
erimination because of race. re-
ligion or national origin, against
which we are fighting abroad,
must be stamped out at home.
Anti-Semitic and . anti-Negro
practices undermine the very
foundations of our democracy.
Full economie, political and civil
equality must be guaranteed to
every American regardless of
his race, ereed or national ori-
gin.”

The plank finally adopted by
the convention, after a stubborn
fight by the Southerners, de-
elared: “We believe that racial
and religious minorities have
the right to live, develop and
vote equally with all citizens
and share the rights that are
guaranteed by our Constitu-
tion.”

ltalian Partisans Have I4 Brigades

But Allied Policy Restricts Role

By GIUSEPPE BERTI
Editor of LE’ Unita del Popolo

~One year ago Mussolini
Was Overthrown, and the
gates were flung open to the
liberation of Italy. Yet the
strange and paradoxical fact
remains tremendous Parti-
San movement, a virtual na-
tional army acknowledged
by Allied commanders, is
being shunted aside as scon
as Italian cities are being
liberated.

The same partisans who have
admittedly played the key role
in assisting the rapid Allied
advance to the north, are stead-
ily being disarmed by the AMG,
the Allied Military Government,
and this is leading to intense
dissatisfaction, straining rela-
tions between the Italian peo-
ple and the Allies.

Recently the Bonomi govern-
ment brought the issue to a head
by adopting two measures:

@ It officially recognizes
“the armed units of the patri-
ots which fight against the
Hitlerite invader, as part of
the nation’s armed forces and
consequently of Italy’s war
effort;”’

@ It formally requested the
Allies to “reach an agree-
ment which will regulate the
position of the Partisans by
giving them “the mnecessary
material and moral support.”

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What is the military power
of the Partisans in Italy?
what are their military con-
tributions to the Allied cam-
paign?

According to the OWI the
Italian Partisans are organized
in 14 Garibaldi Brigades. Nu-
merous small units, more or less
equipped, exist in every village
of northern Italy.

These 14 brigades are mili-
tarily grouped in two divisions
which operate in different zones.
A general command exists.
Contact with the Allies exists.

“The Allies are now fur-
nishing arms and equipment
te the Partisans. Supplies
are thrown from airplanes in
predetermined regions. Often
British and American offi-
ers join the Partisans in the
capacity of observers or ad-
visors,” says the the OWL.

Obviously, Partisan warfare
is no less intense, no less bloody
than that waged by the heroic
Allied troops. Practically all of
northern Italy is under Partisan
control; each city has its own

_ Independent leadership provided

by the local Committee of Lib-
eration.

Six German divisions are
unable to defeat the Partisans
in the north, despite the added
support of Musselini’s neo-
fascist government, of the
fascist police and militia. In
fact,-the German General Vor
Kesselring has ordered his
troops to engage in warfare
with Partisans only when it is
militarily indispensable.

It is quite clear that if the Al-
lies continue a policy of disarm-
ing the Italian partisans this
can seriously delay the war in
northern Italy, and will certain-
ly lead to a very ugly situation.

If it is true that the armis-

tice terms of Septenrber, 1943
only permit the Italian people
to have ar army of 14,000, then
these terms must be revised
For who can deny the
Italian people the right to oblit-
erate the climate of fascism in
the only way possible—by joint
battle with the Allies against
the common enemy. Germany?

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