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/■ > Plush-less UN meet if strike continues The United Nations as sembly, scheduled to meet in New York in September, won’t sit on any rose and blue plush chairs unless the Kroehler Co. of Naperville, 111., comes to terms with its striking work ers. The men, members of the Upholsterers Inti. Union (AFL), rejected a suggestion by their president, Sal B. Hoff man, who flew here recently from Philadelphia, that some of the men go back to work for the specific purpose of fin ishing the 1,858 chairs the com pany is making for UN. The men said the company was trying to “make a goat of the union” after it had failed to meet its contract delivery date. The chairs were original ly scheduled for delivery Aug. 1 and the company received an extension to Aug. 12. The men did not walk out until Aug. 19. Protest British Palestine Plan in Orchestra Hall Meet An admission-free mass meeting to protest the British Plan for Palestine will be held at Orchestra Hall Tuesday, Sept. 10, under the sponsorship of progressive Chicago un ions, Jewish organizations and civic groups. Beginning at 8 p. m., the meet will concentrate on four major points: 1. Immediate admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine. 2. Withdrawal of British troo'ps from Palestine. 3. Immediate transfer of the British mandate to the United Nations and 4. Opening of America and ail other countries to displaced per sons. Among the organizations co operating in the sponsorship of the mass meeting are the Chi cago Action Council, Chicago Council of Applied Religion, Na tions’ Lawyers Guild, Interna tional Workers Order, Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order, Ameri can Veterans Committee, Nation al Citizens PAC, Independent ★ ★★ A STAR COLUMN ★★ ★ By JOHANNES STEEL Paris, France TWO maneuvers, not directly connected with the purpose of the peace conference, have been going on be : hind the scenes M Vy . One is con fer 1, cemed primari ly. " A: ■. ly with Ger : many, and in | Mi, 'Jp this th« French t *7? ' Mkf'; Govern me n t T** - '/JL : was taking the initiative. The other is con lcerned primari- J£i. r ly with the Me diterranean and here the initiative is British. Together they add up to a full scale repudiation of almost every thing that has been done in the way of Big Four cooperation since tljp Yalta Conference and on this the United States was taking. If not the initiative, at least a highly active interest. * • * ON the German question the French Government’s activities were directed, In the first place, towards gaining time. The NTER NATIONAL SCENE An editorial A yardstick for Soviet-baiters American foreign policy today is apparently based on an international Gallup poll in each country with this basic question: Do you hate Russia? Those who answer “yes” get our backing. All others catch hell. This simple formula has been set by American mon opolists who doubled their already staggering productive capacities during World War II and who are determined, with British capitalists, to rule the world. They have all but lynched the Roosevelt policy and have set up Truman and Byrnes as their glorified errand boys. That explains our global power politics and our at tempts at Paris to sabotage our own agreements with the foreign ministers on the peace treaties. The fascist-monarchist alliance won the Greek election because Britain and America had helped put down the resistance movement dominated by pro-Soviet forces. They didn’t hate Russia. So they’ve caught hell. In a few days Greece will get back its puppet king whose strings are manipulated in London financial circles. The Yugo-Slav government does not hate Russia. It fights to raise the living standards of the plain people and against exploitation. So the U. S. bullies this valiant little nation which fought Hitler so bitterly, violates its skies, Albert E. Kahn, president of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order of the International Workers Order, will deliver the principal address at the Orchestra Hall meeting to pro test the British Palestine Plan on Tuesday evening. Sept. 10. v y Voters of Illinois, Lawndale Post of AMVETS, Independent citi zens Committee of Arts, Sciences and Professions, Young Men’s Zionist Council, Jewish Labor Council, CIO Fur & Leather Workers. Regional Action Com mittee of the Protestant, Negro Peoples Congress, Back of the Gold Coast, Chicago Committee to Win the Peace, United Pack inghouse Workers’ CIO-PAC and the United Farm Eqiupment Workers’ CIO-PAC. • No Peace at Paris French apparently believe that between now and the end of the year discussions between the other allies will have produced a position in which French bar gaining power will have been in creased. At the moment, the French are in a comparatively weak position,, are forced to insist as strongly as possible upon their own plans for Germany while rejecting all others, and, above all, are forced to subordinate almost every other consideration to their need for Ruhr coal. They are being pressed from some quarters to agree now to “modify” the existing Four Power compromise as it affects she boundaries of the “free terri tory” to be brought into being at Trieste, to favor new arrange ments more agreeable to Italy, and to request a more favorable Anglo-American attitude towards French claims in Germany. * * * THE French Foreign Office is reluctant to take any such deci- ~ ... MSKzSapllfajfe<Jjl> -Up 1* y#-~. \ ~ f i&MdW'z OSCAR LANGE of Poland, current UN chairman, awaits pre.< tat ion of the gavel as delegates prepare to begin deliberations at the new Lake Success quarters. sion at this time presumably because it feels that under pre sent circumstances a bargain from the French point of view would be all give and no take. But it is certain that the Quai d’Orsay also takes the view that a few months may make all the difference in this situation. It was with this in view that the French tried to make the most of the slow motion proceed ings at the Conference and seized upon existing differences to press as hard as possible for -an ad journment of the Conference nominally, in order to prevent it clashing with the meeting of the General Assembly. This aim on the part of the French Foreign Office happens to coincide very neatly with the desires of the Italian Govern ment which, in its first statement to the Paris Conference, Immedi ately suggested that the settle ment of the Trieste question at least should be adjourned for a ignores Tito’s formal protests, and manufactures a syn thetic war scare when Yugo-Slav planes, in desperation, shoot down two trespassing American transports. The Turkish government meets the hate-Russia test so we back it. We send a powerful striking force into the Mediterranean within bombing distance of Soviet oil fields for the sole purpose of intimidation. Greece and Turkey merit “good will” visits. Governments in that area that do not hate Russia face the concrete threat of business visits. We have just made another deal with the Chinese governmnet of Chiang Kai-Shek, “selling” him a huge supply of surplus goods, which the Chinese Communists say will help the Nationalists wage two more years of civil war. The Nationalist reactionaries hate Russia. Having helped make the Philippines safe for American capital through his support of President Roxas, Gen. MacArthur today is bolstering the dictatorship of the Japanese big money gang that has made a career of hating Russia. This, then, is the picture of American foreign policy today as dictated by Big Business. But it is not too late to take direction of our foreign policy out of reactionary pro-fascist monopolist and aim it back along the Roose velt path. sire for an adjournment of the year. • # • AT this point, the French de- Conference began to dovetail with the plans of the British con cerning the formation of a Medi terranean bloc in which the first step is the “defense” of the posi tion of the present Italian Gov ernment. In Paris this week the organi zation of the Mediterranean bloc or it would perhaps be more accurate to say, the preliminary steps towards its formation • were being taken. In fact, a kind of Mediterranean office seems to be in progress on the edge of the main conference. Naturally, the headquarters of this marginal office were in Mr. Bevin’s room at the Hotel Geor ges Cinque. Here, in quick suc cession, Mr. Bcvin discussed the matter wither. Byrnes, with Mr. Tsaldaris of Greece and Mr. De Gasperi of Italy. Messrs. De Gas peri and Tsaldaris, in turn, had had conversations with the Turk ish representative in Paris. And. parallel with this, conver sations were in progress with the representatives of fascist Gener alissimo Franco. Pepper to speak at UE convention Senator Claude Pepper of Flo rida will address the national convention of the CIO United Electrical, Radio, & Machine Workers in Milwaukee next week. Union officers announced this week that the national progres sive leader had accepted theii in vitation to address the tlth con vention of the UE, third largest CIO affiliate, which meets in Milwaukee during the week of September 9th. Over 800 delegates will partici pate in the convention, the first in two years for the electrical union, the 1945 meeting having been canceled because of war time travel restrictions. The UE now represents the workers of 1,375 plants, accord ing to the officers report, of which over 80 are in Chicago. 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