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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
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fer 1, cemed primari
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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.
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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-
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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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