OVERSEAS NEWS

Grey River Argus, 9 May 1936, Page 4

OVERSEAS NEWS

SPANISH FARM HANDS SEIZE ESTATES. Badajoz, Spain, -March 26th. —Sixty thousand farm labourers, under the leadership of the Land Workers’ federation. occupied scores of estates in various parts of Badajoz to-day. Arriving at the large estates it was repoitcd that the land was equally divided among '.he poor farmers from [ire[Hired lists.'.. The farm labouArs themselves carried out the tasks of confiscating the estates of the reaction ary landowners and grandees, justjis '.he Government announced that 3.75-1 families had been placed on estates expropriated by the Government. Since the general elections the Communist Party of Spain has demanded that the Government confiscate without compensation all the estates of the nobility, great landlords, church and religious orders and the immed'ate- free division of the land among the farm workers and toiling peasants. SOVIETS EXCEED RAILROAD. PLAN. -Moscow. Soviet Union, -March 24th. —'l'he first ten-day period of the Stakhanov movement ‘for the whole Soviet railway system closed yesterday and achieved a great daily average in ear loadings, 94,000 ears daily. The plan called for 76,000. In the last day of the period 98,300 cars were loaded. Such resu'ts 1 ram the Stakhanov movement were reach rd for the first time in a whole branch of industry, and are the result oi Stakhanov work on the part of •en.'of thousands of workers, not an individual Stakhanov record.

FRENCH COMMUNISTS HITLER W'AR MOVE. Paris, France, -March Sth. —.hn a stirring appeal the Communist Party of France branded Hitler’s militarisation of the Rhineland as a blow at peace. The manifesto says: — “We Communists who pride ourselves in our fight against the inquitoiis Treaty of Versailles; we who have, at the price of our freedom, struggled again the shame of the Ruhr occupation; we who love the German people* who are symbolised by lhaelmann, Hitler’s prisoner, denounce this provo cation. “If the Reich Chancellor has been able to act in this fashion, it is because there are in Franco friends of his who support his policy, because the Government of France allows these people to go free* at the same time as it arrests and imprisons anti-Fascists. “Let us together realise the unity of the French nation against those in France who, hand in glove wit), tho foreign warmongers, want to lead us to another massacre.” IRISH LABOUR MOVES. Dublin, February 15th. —The Irish Labour Party at its annual conference has declared for separation from the British Empire, and the establishment of a Workers’ Republic for all Ireland. The now Constitution declares: “Pledged to the declaration of democratic principles and sovereign nationhood, proclaimed at Easter. 1916, the Labour Party asserts that the purpose for which the people of Ireland have struggled so long can be fulfilled only through the establishment of a Workers ’' Republ:c.' ’ Air. W. Norton, opening the debate on the new constitution declared: “We stand for a Republican form of

Govei'iimOnt. administered by the workers. . . . On the political side x'e would break the chain of foreign domination, and on the soc-al side we would break the chain of connection with poverty and misery anil squalidness.”