— Lieut. Henry McIntosh of Palm Beach, Fla., marches with a band of Maquis into a liberated French town. CIO and British Uniens Urge Conference Strike of Underground Unions Speeds Liberation Reynaud Praises Union Worker LONDON— (ALN) —Ai strike of Parisian railway workers on August 13 was prelude to the historic general uprising by which the people of Paris liberated their , from Nazi occupation, Henri Reynaud, general secretary of the Paris district federar of trade unions and a member of the General Confederation of Workers (GGT) gen council, declared recently in an interview with the London Daily Herald, which the people fought | \ tle of the Paris workers was the backbone of the revolt, in quently with bare hands against the Germans,” he said. By August 18, after the Ger- mans had opened fire without warning on a crowd of French - civilians and had invoked a 9 p-m. curfew, a general strike of the underground CGT and the Confederation of Christian Workers broke out. German warehouses were stormed and German soldiers were engaged in the streets. Between August 19, when it was rumored that the Al- hed troops would arrive at any moment, and August 24, Union Leaders Return From Europe By ANTHONY JENKINSON NEW YORK—(ALN)—The leadegs of the British Trades Union Congress are in “complete agreement’ with the CIO on the need for immediately calling a conference of international labor on problems of the peace and postwar, R. J. Thomas, president of the United Auto and Aircraft Workers (CIO), declared on his return with five other U/S. labor leaders from a three-weeks’ trip to Britain and the French battlefronts. Sir Walter Citrine, general Secretary of the TUC, gave a luncheon in honor of the Am- erican viSitors at which LUC officials stressed the impor- tance of such a conference, Thomas said, adding however, that the AFL spokesmen at the luncheon, headed by AFL dir- ector of organization Frank: Fenton, insisted that the Sov- tet trade unions should not participate on the grounds that they are not “free agents.” The CIO leaders present argued that the collaboration of labor in all the United Nations was necessary if the conference was to be effective. : The TUC leaders also agree with the CIO on the need for a “hard peace” for Germany, Thomas said. Declaring that Oust Franco Regime U.S. soldiers in France also share this opinion, he stated: “Qur troops are violently anti- Nazi and they fear that the U.S and Britain will be too soft - with the Germans. Most of them agree with the leaders of the Russian army that Ger- many should be crushed. They have nothing but good te say about the Red Army, and a number expressed hope that the Russians get to Germany first. This is not because they fear the Germans, but because they believe the Russians will . be tougher with the Nazis.” Another CIQ member of the group, secretary Dayid J. Mac- Donald of the United Steel- workers, also stressed the friendship among U.S. soldiers in France for the Red Army, saying that “the comradeship Spanish People Urged NEW YORK—(ALN)—The Moscow radio recently called upon the Spanish people to oust the Franco govern- ment and break with Germany. “The Spanish people should know the danger that might fall on their country by shelter- ing the remains of fascism,’ the broadcast said, adding that if they break with Germany, they can “gain a place for Spain among the democratic and freedom-loving nations.” The broadcast was monitored. by the Federal Communications Commission. Charging that Franco is a “willing host for all fascists who are trying to escape the people’s justice,” the broadcast declared: “It is the immediate task of the Spanish people to prevent new fascists from com- ing into the country and to ex- pel from it the German and Italian fascists who for a long time have been in business in Spain.” wed: Hitlerites The broadcast contin- to expel the “Naturally, from and fascists Spain, they must first expel those who open the gates of the country to them. “At present the complicity and friendly relations that Franco maintains with Ger- many may lead to deciding the fate of the country. Germany is crumbling militarily and po- litically. -It is now time to break off with Germany. The people of Spain can do what Franco and the Falange are un- able to do.” and fellowship with our Allies being built up during the war is a good harbinger for lasting peace.” The delegation was in- formed by high British and Ameriean officials, he revealed that the underground trade un- ions of France,had been ‘‘the backbone of the liberation movement.” Trade Unions In Poland Restered LUBLIN, (A LN) — The workers in the liberated areas of Poland, whose story of tor- ture and persecution has been revealed only in the past few days, are already reorganizing their trade union organizations. In Lublin the building trades workers have met to study or- ganizational problems, and have elected committees to carry out an organizational plan. < The leather workers have also elected an executive committee and at the first meeting of the union the workers pledged to produce 500 pairs of boots for the Polish army in the follow- ing week. {/ +}, Hoy’s Radio Electric 605 E. 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