Draja Mikhailovitch, Yugoslay Chetnik leader, admitted
under cross-examination that he received arms for the
Germans, and attacked Marshal Tito’s partisans instead of
concentrating his Chetniks against the Nazi invaders.

German Nazi
stage for big

trusts set
comeback

By WILLIAM PETERS

BERLIN.—The big German trusts, which built up and
sparked Hitler’s war machine, are going ahead with their

plans for a comeback, just as

they did after the first World

War. Their strategy is to work out a deal with British and

U.S.

industrialists to prevent their huge,

heavy industry

from being broken up or scrapped, as provided in the Pots-
dam agreement of the Big Three

Recently, Herr Spenrath, Ber-
lin representative of the electrical
trust (AM@) explained why AEG
should not be broken up. His
main point was that 30 percent
of the capital was “non-German.”
When Hugo Stinnes the coal king
was arrested, it was found that
he had transferred his assets to

the Hugo Stinnes Corp. in New
York. :
Meanwhile, six leading Ameri-

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up trade for heavy industry. W.
Randolph Burgess, vice-president
of the National City Bank, des-
eribed efforts at de-Nazification
and the breaking up of cartels

as “negative” and urged “positive
action” to start trade. Philip
Reed, chairman of the General

Electric Co., expressed the view
that “if we could get the Ameri-
can importer and German ex-
porter where they could meet, we
could do business.”

German industrialists are now
counting heavily on the hope
that the U-S. and Britain will

serap the Potsdam agreement. So
far, the U.S. has suspended rep-
arations deliveries of machinery
to the USSR, as provided at
Potsdam. Britain never even be-
gan them.

Even. prominent Nazis are now
helping to prepare for the “busi-
ness revival.” Karl Becker, a
Nazi party member since 1933 and
“Huehrer’” of .the iron and steel
industries in 1935, today is chair-
man of the same industries.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 6

MALRAAAALD PADD

A criticism of
“Mr. Hangers’

Dear Mr. Editor:

I, like a lot of other readers of
the P-T. usually wait with a cer-
tain amount of relish for the ar-
ticles by “H. W.—Mr. Hangers.’
His philosophy generally is one
which is acceptable and one that

I have on more than one occa-
sion agreed with heartily. How-
ever, in the issue of Friday, June
21, Mr. Hangers
went somewhat off the beam in
arguing and drawing conclusions
in the matter of the lumber work-
ers strike.

While I feel that features such
as that of Mr. Hangers can be
allowed a certain amount of “Ii-
cense” by the editor of a working
class paper, nevertheless conclu-
sions finally drawn should be
those that will enable readers to
get a working class conception of
the problems being, discussed by.
the subjects. ©

in my opinion

commenting on the strike of the
Moulders and Chemical workers
stated: “They’re hangin’ tough,
those lines. They seem tuh be
Stickin’ on ’em, an’ not runnin’
to Victoria or Ottawa, or Moscow
or Kalamazoo tuh get a govern-
ment tuh win their strike for
[em fa

This is not all of the quote but
in essence shows that Mr. Hang-
ers evidently on this occasion at
least, has completely missed the
boat. As a matter of fact it means
that with ail his Philosophy he
has completely misunderstood the
whole strike movement and the
methods that had to be employed
in order to win.

And again, in Speaking of the
role which labor played generally
during the war and characterizing
the anti-fascist peoples front, he
Stated in conclusion as though
there is still no need for an anti-
fascistepeoples front ‘But some of
yuh seem tuh be too tender-
hearted tuh handle bricks after
daisies.”

These are only two outstanding
quotations from the article of
June 2ist but they show a com-
plete misunderstanding of the re-
quirements of the labor move-
ment and also they show a com-
plete misunderstanding of what
has been accomplished as a re-
sult of the anti-fascist coalition
both insofar as the national pro-
gSram™of the labor movement in
Canada is concerned as well as
some of the international features
of that program.

In short then Mr. Editor, I feel
that Mr. Hangers must correct
his position on the anti-fascist
peoples program both internally
and abroad.

I will still look with a great
amount of interest to the future
Sayings and’ doings of Mr. Hang-
ers. I sincerely hope he gets over
his “peeve” which is a “peeve”
developed as a result of deep mis-
understanding of what has al
ready been accomplished by the
progressive labor movement in
Canada.

Yours Comradely,
S. CORAY CAMPBELL,

The editorial board of the Pacific
Tribune concurs with the criticism
offered in Coray Campbell’s letter
on the feature article contributed
by ‘Mr. Hangers’ in the June 21
issue. ‘Mir. Hangers’’ critical ‘peeve’
at the lack of militancy in the
IWA strike, while well intentioned,
presented a purely negative estim-
ation of the strike, and in that
sense could only have the effect
of serving less well-intentioned cri-
tics of the strike. The Tribune’s
own estimation of the strike was
Carried in numerous editorials.

For instance, Mr. Hangers, in

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Not peace, but war aim

of Operation Crossroads

Reports coming in from

newsmen, scientists, military,

naval and other experts who participated in the Bikini Atoll
atom bomb test, indicate that the experiment was carried
out “successfully” but total results falling a bit below gen-

eral expectations.

Prior to the test a great deal
of speculation and disquieting
propaganda was thrown around;
the world would be rocked; we
might have big earthquakes, tid-
al waves and Such happenings.
Noted scientists like J. B. Hal-
dane, Niels Bohr, Dr. Urey and
others whose work in the field
of nuclear energy has resulted
in the opening of ‘the atomic
age, drew sober estimations of
the probable outcome -of the Bi-
Kini tests. : :

A lot happened inside the Bi-
iiini lagoon; outside the world
held to its ordered course: The
wild surmises of what “might
happen” was well calculated to
strengthen the big stick of the
atomic diplomats. Dramatic des-
eriptions of the elaborate organ-
ization and physical aspects of
the operation have already been
given to the world in numerous
press and radio reports. Scientific
data on the effects of the bomb
blast in the target area, and
whether naval war craft can
stand up under atomic warfare
or have to be “revolutionized,”
will become part and parcel of
the atom bomb “secret,” calcu-
lated to strengthen the hands of
Anglo-American imperialism in
its drive for world domination.

U.S. Navy Secretary James For-
restall has conceded that the
atom bomb does not mean the
end of naval power, a statement
which backs up the assertions of

Soviet military men that the
bomb’s destructiveness has been
very much over-rated.

While we may therefore assume
that from some angles, the atom
bomb test at Bikini Atoll on June
30 was a dud, it would be a
fatal error to- underrate the po-
tential of atomic warfare either
on land or sea. Five ships were
Sunk and a great many damaged ~
in the mighty atom blast. In the
hands of people who ‘can only.
think in terms of exploitation,
domination and empire, the atom
is indeed a fearsome weapon,
The so-called “secret” of the atom
bomb, utilized to stimulate the
phychosis of fear, is not lessened
by the Bikini tests, but on ‘the
contrary strengthened. :

The prime objective of the Bi-
kini tests, carried out at tre-
mendous cost, was to consolidate
this ‘fear’? and to strengthen the
hands of the atomic diplomatts
against Big Three unity “which
Symbolizes the people’s desire for
peace. ‘Operation crossroads,” like
‘operation muskox’ and the Pro-
jected US ‘operation iceberg’ car-
vied out under the pretext of
“defense,” are preparations for
War against the common people
and against the Soviet Union.
Bikini represents the ripening of
the Truman-Attlee-King policies
of atomic imperialist domination.
The “bang” at Bikini may have
been a dud, but the potential is
deadly to all humanity.

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