20 Nations Pick Delegates for Asia Peace Parley (list naming president of Indonesian Women's Movement)

=== [PDF page 1] === Daily Worker, New York, Tuesday, May 27, 1952 Page 4 Negro Press Roundup THE PITTSBURGH COURIER columnist Marjorie McKenzie urges the Negro press and the Negro community to pay more attention to the problems facing the Jewish people. "The least we could do," declares Miss McKenzie, "when large issues confronting Jewish groups do arise, is to be informed about the opinions which prevail among the people who are affected. Too often our response is that of the white Gentile world and our identification in such instances is often a false one." Miss McKenzie points out that "of course there are Jews who are proud to be white, who range themselves with the majority on the basis of color." THE CHICAGO DEFENDER columnist Langston Hughes says that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is certainly not an Uncle Tom book. Read it for yourself and see. Hughes points out that its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, "received thousands of poison pen letters. One day from a package sent her in the mails, a freshly severed Negro ear fell out." "Because it was an antislavery, pro-Negro, pro-freedom book, then as now censorship reared its stupid head. Book shop windows were smashed. ... An Alabama bookseller was driven out of town. A Maryland Negro got ten years in jail for owning it in slave territory." THE NEW YORK AGE warns the Democratic Party that it is toying with "disaster" with a "so-called compromise... of tossing the FEPC promise out the window..." in deference to the Dixiecrats. "The spineless weak-kneed leaders in the Democratic Party today who are afraid of the big mouthed bigots of the Confederacy seem to be gaining ground in the party councils. By pandering to the prejudices of the Dixiecrats they are playing America cheap...." THE AMSTERDAM NEWS political columnist Earl Brown notes that many believe the Democrats will put out a weak civil rights plank at their convention this summer. If this happens, Brown declares "it may be predicted that the Democratic Party will immediately lose the battle and the war for political leadership of this country, and sink to the role of a spineless, weak minority party." PEACE: A BIG POWER PEACE PACT NOW! Daily Worker Published daily except Saturday and Sunday by the Publishers New Press, Inc., 50 E. 13th St., New York 3, N. Y. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7054. Entered as second class matter Oct. [Unreadable], 194[Unreadable] at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Except Manhattan, Bronx, Canada and Foreign): 3 mos. / 6 mos. / 1 year. Daily Worker & The Worker $4.75 [Unreadable] $14.00; Daily Worker only 4.00 7.00 12.00; The Worker 1.50 2.50 [Unreadable]. (Manhattan, Bronx): Daily Worker & The Worker $5.25 $9.00 $14.00; Daily Worker only 4.50 [Unreadable] 14.00; The Worker 1.50 [Unreadable] 20 Nations Pick Delegates For Asia Peace Parley Representatives of 20 countries have announced their intention to take part in the Asian Peace Conference called by Chinese peace partisans, it was learned today. The China Peace Committee in Peking announced that cables of reply to the call have been received from Australia, the Mongolian People's Republic, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Burma, Indonesia, Colombia, Korea, India, Chile, Mexico, Salvador, Ceylon, Canada, Pakistan, United States, Japan, Viet Nam, Laos and the Soviet Union. The announcement was expected to sharpen the struggle in all countries influenced by the United States for accomplishing the tasks of actually sending representatives. The State Department's policy of attempting to sabotage such conferences is well known. It is recalled that the State Department interfered with the Inter-American Continental Peace Conference in Uruguay, the International Economic Conference in Moscow, and the International Conference for the Protection of Children in Vienna. The China Peace Committee announced that active preparatory work is under way in the countries responding to the call. Some national peace forces have already worked out lists of sponsors and set up preparatory committees; a number will send delegates to the preparatory conference to be held in Peking. Reports of work accomplished in some countries are as follows: Australia: Will send delegates to preparatory conference. Eight sponsors nominated on May 13 are: Clive Evatt, senator; Morrow L. Lambourne, member Australian Labor Party (ALP) Council; Albert Thompson, member ALP executive committee; Rev. W. J. Hobbin, director, Methodist Social Services Dept.; Owen Chapman, ex-medical missionary in China; Steven Macin[Unreadable], scientists; J. Hughes, secretary [Unreadable] Clerk's Union; Major Probyn [Unreadable] Mongolia: Plenary session [of] Peace Committee unanimously supported the call. Nicaragua: Delegates will attend preparatory conference in Peking. Guatemala: Sponsors chosen are Miguel Angel Asturias, writer; Luis Cardoza Aragon, president National Peace Committee; Roberto Alvarado Fuentes, ex-president Guatemalan Congress; Victor Manuel Gutierrez, secretary Central Obrera; Antonio Cruz Franco, vice president Peace Committee; Leonardo Castillo Flores, director of the Confederation of Peasants. Burma: Sponsors chosen are Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, writer; Dr. Htin Aung, rector, Rangoon University; Dr. Ba Than, dean of medical faculty; U. Ba, dean education faculty; U. Wun, director translation department, all of Rangoon University; U. Tun Aung Gyaw, chairman Labor Joint Action Committee; Ko Hla Win, president All-Burma Federation of Student Unions; Man Tun Yin, member of Parliament; Rev. U. Zawtika; Shwe U Daung, editor People's Daily; U Ohn Lwin, artist; Dagon Taryar, writer; U Ba Soe, ex-mayor. Burma will also [Unreadable] Indonesia: Will send delegates to preparatory conference. Among sponsors chosen are: [Unreadable] Werdojo, member of Parliament and representative of the Central Organization of Indonesian Workers (SOBSI); Dharta, general secretary People's Culture League; [Unreadable] Sukardi, educator; Djawoto, chief editor of Antara News Agency; [Unreadable], member of Parliament and president of Indonesian Women's Movement; Siauw Giok Tjhan, member of Parliament; [Unreadable] Kertapati, chairman of United Peasants Front. India: Will send delegates to preparatory conference. Sponsors include: Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew; Dr. M. Atal, physician; [Unreadable] Raj Kapur, artist; Professor Kosambi, scientist; Dr. Mulk Raj Anand, writer and critic; Sardar Gurbakhsh Singh, editor. Ceylon: Rev. Narawila Dhammaratana; A. Aziz, member of Parliament; Dr. Kumaram Ratinam, ex-mayor of Colombo; Pieter Keuneman, member of Parliament; Karl Kasman, artist. In announcing the current stage of preparations, the China peace committee declared that the favorable response to the conference call shows that "the peaceful life of the peoples of Asia and Pacific regions has been seriously menaced." "If the peoples in Asia and the Pacific regions are ever more closely united and unanimous in their actions to safeguard peace," the committee said, "the war plans of the American imperialists can be smashed completely." 'DEPRESSION' REAPPEARS IN THE NEWS By Labor Research Association THE GLOOMY WORD "depression" is beginning to reappear in the "free world." The Wall Street Journal notes an "Italian Recession" (May 9, 1952). A West German manufacturer is quoted: "We are facing the worst situation in the German textile trade that I have ever known." (May 7, 1952). The English textile industry has been operating at depression levels for months. (See our Economic Notes, 4/52). With these conditions fairly common, American banker ends are finding it increasingly difficult to whip up enthusiasm in Western Europe for their trade blockade of the socialist third of the world. To divert attention from the fundamental economic issue of real free trade between nations and products of U.S. industry, regardless of political and economic systems, Wall Street is [Unreadable] [Unreadable] driven into the arms of the Soviet Union." (N. Y. Herald Tribune, 5/9). Vergil D. Reed, vice-president of J. Walter Thompson Co., is similarly quoted as saying: "Every restriction we impose lends plausibility to Russian propaganda." Thomas H. McKittrick, vice-chairman of the Chase National Bank, recommended that "the United States should reduce tariffs and other trade barriers sufficiently to permit imported goods to compete in domestic markets." (N. Y. Times, 5/10). Summing it up, U. S. Assistant Secretary of State, Willard L. Thorp, "warned that the increasing demands of domestic industries for protection are threatening U. S. leadership in international economic policy and are endangering the goal of expanding world trade." (Journal of Commerce, 4/25). The N. Y. Times (May 10) lists the following items on which U. S. manufacturers have filed for tariff protection: "garlic, glace cherries, pregnant mares' urine used in estrogenic compounds, spring clothes pins, pearwood screws, jewelled watches, motorcycles and parts, bonita and tuna fish, blue-mold cheese, ground fish fillets, certain types of china, tobacco pipes and dried figs." The argument that U. S. tariffs are preventing the transition to a smoother-working, depression-free world capitalist economy is ludicrous. No matter how many more glace cherries the U. S. imports, the economic crisis of Western Europe will continue to deepen as long as the U. S.-imposed trade blockade of the Soviet Union, New China and the other People's Democracies continues. The American people do not have the income to purchase [Unreadable] products of U. S. industry [Unreadable] THE INTEREST of [Unreadable] representatives of U. S. corporate [Unreadable] The Wall Street Journal (May 13) claimed: "Hardly a one of them [W. European countries] can gain a solid economic position without access to wider export markets, and there is no other export market as commodious as that which the United States offers." OFFEND DEMOCRATIC ASSORTED MOGULS: American finance capitalism [Unreadable] now urging Congress to disregard the growing cries of numerous American manufacturers for tariff protection against foreign goods. H. Harold Whitman, vice-president of National City Bank of N. Y., is reported to have said "that through banning imports by high tariff barriers friendly nations could be driven into the arms of the Soviet Union." [Unreadable] only a few selfish and insignificant American manufacturers are trying to keep out foreign goods. [Unreadable] the U. S. monopolists are trying to create the impression that they honestly seek a solution to W. Europe's economic crisis. But even if all the tuna fish and blue mold cheese in the world were imported by the U. S. the crisis would not disappear. Only the end of the U. S. war policy can reverse the worsening economic situation in the capitalist world. THE MIRROR'S Drew Pearson is worried that "about half the people of Europe believe" that Gen. Ridgway used germ warfare against the Korean people. He also complains that "with prices high and wages low... Communist parliament members in France and Italy are endeavoring to create as much economic instability as possible." Translation: The Communists fight for lower prices and higher wages, and the workers of those countries are solidly behind them. THE NEWS' Ed Sullivan, still trying to make up to the fascists for his "crime" in having a Negro star, Lena Horne, on his TV show, spews out some moronic nonsense about "Communists" getting the "final blow" when actor John Garfield's last rites were "held in a synagogue." "In Russia they burn synagogues and churches," Sullivan lies. Of course they don't burn synagogues and churches there. But they do, in Miami, Philadelphia and Long Island, just to name a few places where pro-fascist racial and religious violence has flared lately. All done by good anti-Communists, too. THE WORLD-TELEGRAM's front-page headline: "Big Three Powers Sign Peace Treaty with West Germany." Reading about this alliance with the Nazis, one is immediately struck by its basic difference from the Hitler-Chamberlain pact. This one was signed at Bonn, not Munich. THE POST's Max Lerner begins by viewing the new Axis Pact as a "great victory for the Acheson-McCloy policy" but he winds up by admitting that it will mean the "return of Big Cartel control... and the return of the Wehrmacht generals into positions of German power" as well as an increase of "anti-American feeling" throughout Europe. THE JOURNAL-AMERICAN's George Sokolsky weeps bitter tears for the British exploiters who finally quit China. "The tribulations of the British merchant," he sobs, "can only be understood by those who had lived among them in the days of their greatness.... Each Taipan lived in a great house in which he entertained like a king." Yes, and little Chinese children died in the streets of Shanghai while these white imperialists fattened on the wealth of China. "The Communists," Sokolsky complains, have treated the foreign imperialists "like the scum of the earth." What he means is that the Chinese Communists have returned China to the Chinese. The arrogant white supremacy of a Sokolsky can never fathom the reasons why Chinese democracy can never be defeated. THE COMPASS' Norman Thomas, touring the Far East by grace of the State Department, obligingly "quotes" an anti-Communist "Chinese woman" who "should have been glad if an atom bomb had fallen on Shanghai." Candid warmongers and friends of Chiang Kai-shek openly call for the atomic pulverization of China's millions. Mr. Thomas obliges more discreetly. [Unreadable] in the weekend WORKER: The Housing Crisis [Unreadable]