THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1948.
UNION DOMINATED BY
REDS
COMMITTEE'S ALLEGATION
Washington, Dec. 19.-The House Labour sub-Committea today charged that the CIO United Electrical Workers of America were dominated by Communists and called the situation a "serious threat the security of the United States."
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A report released by the sub- Committee chairman, Represen- tative Charles Kersten, called the American Communist Party n "sinister apparatus controlled from abroad.”
"It is mostly composed of mis- Aukled but intelligent and resource- ful zealots who would break the dyke of civilization And let bar- barism flood the world," said the report.
that chit
Stating that the Communist Party "acek sources of power paralyse America", it end the Party Irad "gained a strong foothold in one of the nation's mozi strateple Industries electrical industry". The report charged that Communists had seized controlTMTM
Offled of the Nutlonti
The
Executive
Beard, and paid the staff of news. papers and a number
of District
CIO
Councils and Locals of the Electricnt Union, the largest in the electrical Industry.
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SECURITY THREATENED Noting! that many products of the electrical industry "relate national defence,"
*The it said, above facts, taken together, con- sillute a serious threat to the security of the Unlied States."
The Electrical Workers Union is the largest of the CIO Left Wing Union, with membership of over The CIO President, Philip 000,000. Murray, has not tried to purge its leaders as he has those of other Left CIO amates.
National CIO leaders belleva the electrical group's officers, are not
and actually Communists
can be won away from Left Wing leanings. In addition, the Union's top officers were overwhelmingly elected in October.-United Prels.
re-
CATHEDRAL'S NAVE RESTORED
Vienna, Dec. 10.-The main nave of the war-damaged Cathedral of St Stephen was officially re-opened today withi pontiacal High Mass, celebrated by the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Theodor Inuitzero, The Archbishop ceremoniously opened the great door with a golden key before loading a procession to the high altar..
For an hour the cathedral choir song and the whole building was flood-lit. Loudspeakers had been installed to broadcast the ceremony to the huge crowds outside who joined in the hymns.
17 Govt. Servants
As
Dismissed Security Risks'
Washington, Dec. 19.-A House spy investiga- tor today revealed that the State Department had discharged 17 employees in the past few months as "security risks." The disclosure came from the acting chairman of the House Un-American Activi- ties Committee, Representative Karl Mundt, who said 151 State Department employees had been ousted since January 1, 1947.
Mr Mundt said the State Department figures underscored the Committee contention that the "hazard" of Red espionage still existed and that every Communist in the Government was a poten- tial spy. He said: "The Communist espionage hazard is still very much present in our Government offices today. Our investigations have now made this fact abundantly clear."
With
the
ex-
wartime
the Hiss-Chambers
case confessed courier for a nearing its end, the Committee is Soviet spy ring, as well as two setting out to determine
present other witnesses-United Press. Communist espionage within have been assigned and are Government. Two Investigators pected to report within two weeks. Mr Mundt sald 91 of the Stato who hnd Department employers been dismissed as security risks were cases that could be classified us "ot acute significance."
"In virtually all cases of oculo and immediatë significance, it was relationships or sympathies with
The cathedral was badly damaged during the battle for the city in April 1945. Half a million glazed | Commúnla!" groups in this country tiles were provided to restore the multi-coloured roof materials were made available for renewal at precious frescous, paint- ings, statues and gargoyles. Reuter.
that brought about terminations of and other employment," he said..
"VITAL INFORMATION"
Gen's Memory Honoured
He issued his statement
a
ns the
Heavy Losses By British
Air Companies
вате
Include subsidiary and
London, Dec. 19-The three British State-owned Airways Corporations lost £3,990,000 Committee prepared to map out its between April and September explounge. Investigating programme this year, compared with a loss for the rest of the year. Legislators of £4,690,000 for the will meet tomorrow morning to confer on what witnesses to call. period in 1947, according to There is a possiblity they will hear | provisional figures lasued by Shanghai, Dóc, 20-An Impres- George Hewitt, negro ex-Communist the Ministry of Civil Aviation
who promised to provide "vital in- tonight. sive memorial service for the late formation". on Soviet Nationalist
espionage. commander, General Huang Po-too, and Commander Llu However, he made his promise on
This figure does not condition of protection.. Committee Shen-hao, of the 4th Division, who
members said Hewlit would receive losses of certain fell in the battle of Hsuchow, was that protection, through formal sub-
associated companies. held at a Chinese theatre here yes-poena, which would bring him un- This losa terday with over 3,000 people at-
was expected to bo der the law, making it criminal tending tending.
offence to molest a witness who has the current financial year, and the more than doubled by the end of The Mayor of Shanghal, Mr K. C.
appeared before a Congressional final deficit was bound to exceed Wu, presided over the mass meet Committee.
£8,000,000 subsidy voted for ing and lauded the. "glorious exam-
Mr Mundt sald the Committee three corporations this year, ple" of the two milltary leaders. Queting the famous hard-fighting might not hear Hewitt until later in Ministry's statement said.
Mundt is week. General Yo Fel in Chinese history, the
with negotiating
the Justico Mayor Wu said the war will come Department for permission to call been made over the last two years.
"While substantial progress to a victorious end if "civil servants eight witnesses shun money and Army officers defy volved in the espionage investigament sald.
who may be in-
there is sull far to go," the state- death."
were Mrtlon of the New York Federal Among other speakers
the local Grand Jury. Mr Mundt said the Fang Chih, head of
Al- and Mr Commitice wanted to call Mrs Kuomintang headquarters, Sul Halang-yun, chairman of the ger Hiss, Alger's brother Donald,
Henry Julian Wanleigh and Wil
former. Go. Many crippled and wounded Army Bom Ward Pigman, officers
'and soldiers who
also accused served vernment employees
and under the late General Huang Po- by Chambers, and Chambers
Elizabeth Bentley. another self-
4.
Shanghai General Labour Union.
tao were also present-Reuter.
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the
the
has
"Tho
measures of reorganisation and economy, which have not yel had time to exert much influence un financial results, are being pro- secuted with drastic vigour. aircraft will begin to come into service next year."."
The Marines GENERAL
Arrive
U.S. Marine reinforce- ments from Pacific bases march off the dock at Tsingtao, after disembark- Ing from the USS Bayfield (in background) which -brought them to China to protect American lives and property at Tsingtao, Photo by Associated Press Staff Photographer C. P. Gorry.
LEAKAGES
IN EXPORT CONTROLS
A
STRIKE
CALLED
ITALIAN CIVIL
SERVANTS
19.
Italian
Rome, Dec. workers were ready to fight to the bitter end, Signor Gluseppe de Vittorio, Secretary General of the Communist-led Italian General Confederation of La- bour, sald in a speech in Rome tonight.
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Signor
POCKET CARTOON
"Now, 'remember, Jen-. kina, don't want any favouritizm-in the Terri- torials I'm a private and you're a colonel-but don't get tough!
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The Premier, Signor de Gasperi, in a speech on the radio, declared that Government servants could only be paid more money by increasing taxes and added: "If we granted
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CONSCIENCE PROTEST
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Confederation
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Ile sald the public
employees have the greatest interest in seeing freedom does not perish in Italy "a has happened in so many other countries of Europe."
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Le Der Giulioniere, in another front page editorial, Government Import and Export trade union leader, Signor Fastore, suld today it
bal said that Garry Davis is "probably Licence Forms 10 cents sach. Obtaini take part.
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PLEBISCITE
Washington, Dec. 19, --- Senate super, - investigating Committee today charged that,
Tho Trade Union Movement is there were "serious delinquin- still awaiting the results of a plebis
for or against strike cien" in United States export cite
action controls and demanded stricter among its provincial organisations.
With the help of the independent enforcement to make
sure Trade Union Movement, the Govern- goods shipped abroad did not ment hopes to maintain -skeleton trickle through the Iron Cur-allway services during the strike,
The Government has announced tain
that these services will run with The Committee; licaded by Senator full safety measures," thus answer. the Communist newspaper, Unlib, ing Homer Ferguson, said the export pro-which today alleged that trains would gramme was being handled better run "without the legal safety de-
now, but "there is still considerable | vices » MAN room for improvement."
Its report was based on a long investigation of an alleged black market in forged export licences and charges that scarce commodities eventually found their way to Russia and her satellites...
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Mersey Collision
today
London, Dec. 19. The 3,450-ton Swedish • motor vessel, Kajlum, bound for Narvik, collided with the 1,988-ton Danish steamer Harald In the Mersey according to a Lloyd's message.
The Government also told workers
The Kailum had that they are liable to dismissal and
two plates on if they
took part in the, starboard aldo dented and thei prosecution "any movement disturbing normal Harald was damaged forward and has taken water. Both ships will be public services." night but little worried by the strike
The Italian population seemed to-docked.-Reuter.
call as they prepared for the most plentiful Christmas since the war-
Among other things, it urged the Commerce Départment to strengthen | Reuter, present expert regulations, to keep to make a strict check on all shipments and certain their final des- tinations. Without such precautions, it said, the flow of illegal exports
would create shortages at home and could reach such volume that it
fire up an "inflationary spiral".
LACK OF VICOUR
Tojo Wants To
Get It Over
for. the
Tokyo. Dec. 10-Japan's wartime Promier, Ideki Tojo, under sentence of death for war crimes, Then, also, it said, "the national was quoted by his lawyer today as security aspects are of transcendent. | saying: "I am just hoping importance, particularly in view of execution of the sentences as soon the present activities of the Soviet da_possible." Union and its satellies'',
Seichiro Kyose, the lawyer, told The Committee said that during its over the appeals of the seven
reporters that Tojo believed the fght top Juvestigation the programme was Japanese convicted of war crimes to being run so that it "rewarded the the United States Supreme
Court unscrupulous and made It extremely was a question dimeuit for many honest merchants American Constitution and the con
of protecting the to
survive"
It said the Adminis-flet over them will be carried out tration had approached the problem according to that Constitution. "with marked lack of vigour foresight".
American Government attorneys had submitted to the Washington ms almost incredible a Suprento Court on December "It seems nation such as ours would embark that it had no authority to rule in the on a programme to control its ex-appeal of
of Japanese convicted of wa ports without having greater fore crimes by sight and more advanced planning." tribunal.
United Press.
and
New To Seek Congress
The British Overseas. Airways, the biggest of the three
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the Tokyo military
of the Five
Japanese wero sentenced to prison terms and two condemned to death.
The United States Solicitor General, Mr Philip B. Perlman, in a brief fled with the United States Supreme Court, hearing the appeals, asked it not to "tamper" with the Interna- New York, Dec. 10-The New Hojo and six other high Japanese tional Tribunal which sentenced lost 2,784,000 in the six months York Republican Representative, war leaders to death. period, compared with 23,104,000 Mr Jacob Javits, sald tonight he will in 1947, while the Corporation's ask Congress next month, to lend ravenue has risen by over £1,001-Israel $100,000,000. 000. from £0,037,107 to £7,044,- 034-Reuter,
concerns,
DRUG RESTORES
MAN'S SIGHT
Vienna, Dec. 10-A blind man recovered his sight within five minutes of his. being given an in-
Ho regards the Middle East as n "finder box which can be ignited- Into
war" and "a key point for effective internal aggression by Communists in the Arab countries.
He wantsitsinet to have the loan for a recovery programme of "self- help and mutual co-operation" in the Middle East.--Reuter,
Jection of an American "truth Schooners To
drug" in Vienno, according to. Pro Sail 18.000 M
Miles
Clinle of Vienna University, “..
The professor believed the cause.
rather than physical. He gave no
Moscow, Dec. 10. "A group of Soviet schooners leaving Leningrad.
Some of those sentenced have not. appealed-Router,
S’HAI ORDERS
U.S. COAL
Shanghai, Dec. 20-An order for the purchase of more than $200,000 tons of coal from the United States, Soviet Russia and India has been placed by the local authorities in an effort to augment the depleted stocks of fuel of Shanghai's various public utility services, according to .an un- confirmed Chinese press report today.
sald The measure
to have beon necessitated by the spread of
that he could 800 Snoutes/offchlasoviat: nowwi agency, said 1:100.000 tons of ECA cobl, the ra?"
of the blindness', to be paychio to join the Far Eastern fleet will the civil war, which has cut of cover: 18,000 miles under Ball cross coal supplies from the Sino- injection of the "trull drug (sodium tag the Baltic, the North Sea; and British Kallan Mining. Admlalatta amythal) and while the pallent was the Atlantic and Pacifle: Oceans Intion in North China, under its influence suggested to
voyage to Viadivostok, Tass, the The imported cost will include The professor sele
today Kuma
dhesive portaid, adding that Soviet coal after the injection, the man god They will be used as Babing will be shipped hem vis Vladivos 21,2 was able to read a newspaper, Verrals and despatch boat with, the took. No. definite dale of shipment
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