FiveStiicapisaage’’, Phin PRUZT gy teneaHiseSRET Co stbueddIN cs sat tees OT

@ What is obvious is that our closest Asiatic neighbor is the So- viet Union and that in the North Pacific the stretch of water that separates us from each other is less than forty miles wide. In the age of air power, which is now fully upon us, that may become the most important new strategic fac- tor affecting our destiny in the Pacific—Edgar Snow in Saturday Evening Post.

Gh. ete Acs ee cE Ad aA

@ Our relations with the Soviet Union are intimately tied up with Anglo-American relations. It is an illusion to think that we can come closer to Britain by weakening our relations with the Soviet Union. The opposite is true. The weaken- ing of one part of the Anglo-Soviet- American alliance weakens the whole structure: the strengthening of one part of it helps to strength- en the other When we take a course which tends to separate us from our Soviet ally, we are at the same time destroying the foundations for all world order, we are taking the path of a new iso- lationism. These are harsh and un- pleasant facts, but it is better that we face them in all their naked-

ness.—Earl Browder, general sec- retary, Communist United States.

Party of the

@® I am confident, like Stalin, that if we strike now in Europe, the war will be over by Christmas,— Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury.

TAT

@ The effect of anti-Semitism is to create among some people a false objective, to split the work- ing class movement between those who recognize fascism as the enemy and those who are diverted into an attack against an imagin- ary enemy, the Jews. Therefore, an anti-Jewish expression by a worker cannot be allowed to pass as a means of letting off steam or as idle luxury. Such anti-Jew- ish expressions are a serious men- ace to the whole working class movement. — William Gallacher, M.P., in Anti-Semitism.

HUEUTEUILSU EUTROPHA

@ Work as though you were fight- ing on the battlefront. Every port worker is a fighter on whose de- yoted efforts depends to a great extent the success of our comrades on the battlefields.—Nikolai Shver- nik, chairman of the All-Union Council of Soviet Trade Unions, in a letter to Liverpool dock- workers.

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Latin America

Fascist Decrees In Argentina

oEEORTS reaching Mexico City from Argentina tell of an in- creasingly bitter revolt by trade unionists against the government- sponsored wing of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and its secretary, Jose Domenech. The main body of the CGT, headed by Francisco Perez Leiros, was dis-

solved by government decree on July 20. The reports further disclose

that recent arrests of anti-fas- cists in Buenos Aires, including anti-Domenech union members, have been made with the aid of known German agents co- operating with the “Special Sec- tion” of the Interior Ministry. They were kidnapped by Nazi agents, who, after severely beat- ing them, turned them over to the “Special Section.”

Many of those arrested were seized during street demonstra- tions against the Ramirez dictator- ship, at which huge crowds shout- ing “vivas” for the United Nations were attacked with tear gas and clubs.

The startling resemblance be- _tween the labor policies of the Ramirez regime and those of Nazism is shown in a Labor De- partment directive recently is- sued te Buenos Aires unions by department head ®r. Emilio Pel- jet Lastra.

“We expect

complete collabor-

ation from all labor organizations,” the directive stated. “You must completely refrain from any po- litical activity—national or inter- national — limiting~ yourselves strictly to union problems. Unions must not be governed by political aims, nor provoke strikes on false pretexts, nor originate movements which might cause public dissen- sion. They must trust the state to attend constantly and patriotically to the solution of all social prob- lems.”

Further indication that the Ram- irez government has no intention of backing down on its anti-labor program is contained in a speech Ramirez delivered before an audi- ence of businessmen in Tucuman on September 24.

“My anti-communist campaign is my most important achievement since taking office,” he declared. “I have attacked and will continue to attack all communist and com- munist-led organizations with all the power of my government.” This is belieyed to be a direct ref- erence to the outlawed CGT, since both Ramirez and Domenech have charged unions urging a break with the Axis as “communist-led.”

In the same speech, Ramirez re- vealed that he had taken over all the functions of government when he stated that he had issued 9,500 decrees since his June 4 coup d'etat.

Germany

Home of The “New Order’

HWAT’S life like inside Ger- many today? According to a Norwegian worker who recently escaped to Sweden from forced la- bor in Germany, “everything in the country is in a state of decline. The concrete buildings are crack- ed, lime and plaster are falling off, the parks are uncared for, and the civilian population wanders around completely apathetic. Neither joy nor sorrow, neither success nor failure, makes any impression on them. The war and its progress is seldom discussed.”

Men and women in industry work at least 12 hours a day, but al- though they get relatively good wages, they have only enough left for the bare necessities of life after they have paid taxes and sub- seribed to “voluntary” funds.

The Black Market is flourishing. A Joaf of bread may cost two dol- lars and a pound of butter twelve dollars.

Corruption prevails throughout the official services. Parcels of food sent through the mails, for

instance, seldom reach their des- tination.

Housing conditions in and around Berlin are appalling.

“Tt is impossible to get an apart- ment in Berlin without exchanging some valuable possession for it. All big apartment blacks have been confiscated by the military author- ities or by the Todt Labor Organ-

ization. The civilian worker has been forced to move out to a ‘garden colony’ or to a state labor camp,” the Norwegian worker stated.

“At these garden colonies a state of indescribable misery prevails.” Here families live together in small confined huts which consist, in the main, of packing-case boards and tin sheets. The hygienic con- ditions are terrible. The streets are like pigsties—used both as lava- tories and refuse dumps.”

In the fourth year of war, the bright promise of victory has fad- ed and the German people see nothing ahead but the misery and hunger their armies have already brought to the rest of Europe.

Australia -

‘Political Considerations

7 A strongly worded resolution, the New South Wales Trades and Labor Council, representing

300,000 workers, last week charged that “political considerations” are delaying the opening of a second front in western Europe and point- ed to Prime Minister Churchill’s declaration that a second front was the decisive way to win the war.

“Coupled with the island-hopping strategy in the Pacific,’ the reso- lution stated, “we are convinced that this failure will prelong the war unnecessarily, not only in Europe but in relation to Japan.” The council urged the Australian government “to make representa- tions to the British government for early action along the lines indi- cated,” and called on the British Trades Union Congress to take sim- ilar action.

In a supplementary resolution the council voted “to press for the intensification of the Pacific campaign.”

The consensus of labor opinion here, as expressed in the council debate on the conduct of the war, is that Germany is the most im- portant Axis nation to defeat. Council members agreed with General Douglas MacArthur's con-

demnation of the police; ; hopping,” which take years to defea further agreed with Arthur’s view, state view on Sept. 21, that was not the best w. War as soon as and possible.” : The full text of lution reads: “This with concern the co of the British and A ernments i dir) Europe, declared by ~ ister Churchill to be;

Hitlerite Germany. the ‘island-hopping® the Pacific, we are

unnecessarily, not but e relation t0_ BE

front, and urge the 2 ernment to make rep to the British goyernmeé action along the line: A copy of this resoluti forwarded to Prim: Curtin and be cabled ~ ish Trades Union Cong their support of its ter

Soviet Union

Behind German Lines

HE story of the part writers and printers are playing be- hind the German lines on the eastern front was told this week by Victor Zhutayey, chairman of the central committee of the Press Workers Union.

“The courageous and untiring efforts of members of the Soviet Press Workers Union, working under the most adverse conditions, have assured the continued publi- cation of newspapers both at the

front and behind the German lines,” Zhutayev said. “Our union was banned along with other

unions in the oecupied areas and union leaders who fell into the

enemy’s hands were quickly dis-

posed of, but the pr were not intimidated — lerites.

In Mechetino, in the trict, for example, t buried their equipme torture nor offers of fr force them to disclose places. The machine well hidden until the | entered Mechetinc. & a few hours after the t erated, the paper wa’ the presses.

“Lists of union men. up after the areas wert show appalling losses. in the Stalingrad and ons, aS many as 50 pe union members peris

Italians Fight Nazis

Even as the American 5th Army entered Naples, you patriots like those shown here battle with tthe rep the Nazi rearguard on the city streets,