PROTEST AGAINST ACTION

Grey River Argus, 29 June 1945, Page 5

PROTEST AGAINST ACTION

Reported by Yugoslavs (Rec. 1.15) June 28 The Jugoslav News Agency says: Trieste Trade. Unions have cabled to British, Russian, French and Italian Trade Union organisations, protesting against the British and American military Government’s policy towards them. The protest alleges that the Military Government is confiscating and requisitioning Trade Union property and also is making arrests. The message apepals to Trade Union > organisations to do their utmost to end the Military Government’s unfriendly policy. GREEK LEFTIST COMPLAINT AGAINST GOVERNMENT. LONDON, June 27. ' A Greek news agency, “Marit Press” stated: The E.A.M. cabled to Mr Churchill, Mr Truman and Mr Stalin, stating a new civil war was inevitable unless the Big Three intervened to establish an inter-Allied commission to examine the situation in Greece. E.A.M. claims that the Greek Government has fulfilled none of the principles proclaimed in the agreement of four months ago. Monarchist bands are fiercely prosecuting the Resistance Movement. German Trade Unions ADOPT PROGRAMMEE. IN RUSSIAN OCCUPIED AREA. (Rec. 11.15). LONDON, June 28. Moscow radio says: Trade unions in the Russian-occupied zone in Germany have adopted a four-point programme as follows: — (1) To fight against the Nazi ideology, and against German militarism; and to purge the Administration and the factories of Fascist elements. (2) To employ all of the manpower for the welfare of the population, and for reconstruction. (3) To organise the protection of labour and employment, the concilia sion of wage agreements, collaboration ,in rebuilding the German economy, and social insurance; and to safeguard the democratic rights of workers and employees for consultations on all questions affecting them. (4) To educate the. German workers in a spirit of anti-Fascism, and democratic* progress, and in the acknowledgement of their social position and also their joint interest with the workers of other countries, .and the consolidation of friendship with other countries.

GERMANS GET MORE FREEDOM THAN FROM ALLIES. LONDON, June 27. A “Times” diplomatic correspondent stated: Disturbing signs of different policies in the western and eastern zones of Germany are accumulating, and disparity between West and East becomes clear in’the treatment of direct political groups. They are still forbidden in the west and south, British and American authorities wishing to make doubly and trebly sure that the leaders have clean records and trustworthy programmes. _ The Russians on their side are permitting the development of groups which are said to be genuinely anti-Nazi, allowing them to publish programmes in newspapers, and over the radio. Most Germans are probably too numb to mark the difference in political approach, but at least some in western and southern zones are listening to the Berlin radio. Evidence from Germany strongly suggests differences will sharpen unless the Allied plans are more closely co-ordinated economically and politically. The latest and sharpest example is the dissolution, at the request of the British Military Government, of the Free Socialist Trade Union Association at Hamburg because it has become “too political in character”, simultaneously with the announcement from Berlin that the Russian military leaders approved the establishment of the F'ree German Trade Union Association. KATYN MASSACRE. ALLEGED A FAKE. LONDON, June 27. A Stockholm newspaper 1 “Tidningen” claims as its source of information a member of the S.S., Schellenberg, who was Himmler’s lieutenant, who says: Ribbentrop and Goebbels faked the evidence of the Katyn massacre .of Polish officers. Bodies came from German concentration camps and were dressed in Polish uniforms and taken to Katyn. The Germans parly in 1943 claimed to have found a mass grave of Polish officers in the forest of Katyn near Smolensk, and ascribed the massacre to Russians. The Russians, last year after capturing the area, established that a massacre was carried out by Germans to create Russo-Polish disunity.