The Coming Cut-Backs And Unemployment SEE PAGE 5 — THE PUBLISHEDMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE VOL. IX—No. 13 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SAT URDAY, MARCH 31, 1945 267 PRICE: FIVE CENTS ADMINISTRATION AIDS MEAT PROFITEERS9 Documents Show Wacs Protesting 66Equality of Sacrifice99 Yields To "Famine" Threat Jim-Crow Given By Granting Price Subsidy British Bribe Hard Labor Terms FORT DEVENS, Mass., Mar. Roosevelt Tells People to "Tighten Belts" 21.— Four Negro Wacs who While Packers Divert Meat to Black Market struck at Lovell General Hospi­ Greek Royalists By Art Preis tal in protest against Jim Crow In his column of March 22, Drew Pearson published the restriction to menial jobs, were Two weeks ago before the Senate bearings on sensational revelation that a British Intelligence Officer wearing today sentenced to one year at an.American uniform had given bribes to Greek leaders of Royal­ hard labor and dishonorable the price control act lobbyists of the Meat Trust ist and right-wing organizations who served Churchill in the discharge. threatened to impose a “ meat famine” upon the massacre of Greek workers. The court martial imposed sen­ country unless OPA “ inconsistencies,” meaning “ Governor Lehman's UNRRA is British Deport 15,000 tence after only twenty minutes doing its best to hush it up, but “ deliberation” by nine officers, in­ price ceilings, were promptly removed. They issued a very strange thing has hap­ Greeks to N. Africa cluding two Wac officers and two pened in Greece,” Peprson wrote. One of the charges hurled Negro officers. Col. Crandall, this ultimatum even though the packers have boost­ “A British UNRRA worker was against ELAS by Churchill commanding officer of the hos­ ed their profits almost eight times during the war killed, and in his possession were was that they “held hostages” pital, who told some of the de­ found receipts for money paid by during their struggles against fendants that he did not want and llieir spokesmen admitted that “ the country has /the British to Greek factions, to the British-supported reaction­ “black Waos” in the motor pool ^the raw beef.” encourage them to fight against ary forces. Now the other or as medical technicians, did not each other. side of the picture — the B rit­ appear at the proceedings. He is Last week the Roose­ “ Here are the so far suppressed ish seizure of ELAS hostages on thirty-day leave, granted just $5,000 Reward facts as to what happened. The — has been revealed by Over­ prior to the opening of the court velt administration UNRRA worker who was killed seas News Agency. m a rtia l. promptly yielded to the was L. F. R. Shepherd, chief of According to the report The fo u r g irls , Pvts. A nna C. In Tresca Murder the UNRRA’s Greek Mission In­ dated March 17, “ The B ritis h Morrison, 20; Johnnie Murphy, profit-greedy meat bar- telligence Division. On the rolls have deported 15,000 Greeks, 20; Mary E. Green, 21; and Alice Posted By Police oils’ brazen threat of en­ he was listed as “ Mister” Shep­ many of them veterans of the Young, 23, had stru ck w ith 56 Prodded by public indignation herd but actually he was a colonel campaign against Italy in other Negro Wacs on March 7. forced scarcity. in the British Arm y and had been over its inertia in this important 1910-41 and alm ost a ll o f They charged that they were OPA Director Chester Bowles case, the N. Y. Police Department in MO-4 and Force 133. them veterans of the fighting forced to scrub floors and wind­ on Feb. 20 finally posted and sent announced to the Senate Banking “ Colonel Shepherd jo in e d against the German occupa­ ows because of their color, while out to 14,000 police throughout UNRRA right after the liberation tion forces, to North African white Wacs with .similar educa­ and Currency Committee that the country the $5,000 offer made the goverment is granting an ad­ of Athens, but during the whole concentration camps. tion and training did not do men­ .time up until his death lie was “Reports had been current ia l w ork. Anti-Stalinist Militants Gain over three months ago by the Tre­ d itio n a l subsidy o f 50c a hun­ sca Reward Committee for in­ acting for British Intelligence, earlier that the British had Ordered back to w o rk on dred pounds to the cattle slaught­ formation leading to the appre­ erers. He further revealed that though using the American flag deported some Greeks to A f­ M arch 10 b y Gen. M iles, 54 com­ on his car. rica, but until now there had plied. Two others later returned hension and conviction of the as­ previously the government had sassins of Carlo Tresca. Tre­ quietly granted a subsidy of 75 been no approximation of to duty. Strength In Ford Local 600 EVIDENCE OF BRIBES sca, the beloved editor of the their number.” Pvt. Morrison, who told her cents a hundredweight on hogs. “After he was killed, U'NRRA By Roy Weston Italian paper 11 Martello and An American government white Wac commanding officer officials who took an inventory prominent working class leader, ROOSEVELT’S PRETEXT official said that “The Greeks that she could not continue doing DETROIT, March 17 — A significant development in the of property in the Colonel’s hotel was shot to death in a di-'v.rt At the same time, Roosevelt were taken from their home­ heavy work, said before the trial, CIO United Automobile Workers ijs the weakening of the Stalin­ room found receipts for huge IN THE NEWS while leaving his office on Janu­ himself provided a cover for the land before, during and after “If it will help my people I will amounts of gold sovereigns. The ist influence on the huge Ford Local 600 as evidenced in the existing scarcity, in part delib­ take a court martial.” She told a ry 11, 1943. receipts were dated Oct. 22 to the recent civil war in the elections now in progress. erately created by the food pro­ country, where indications are the court that she would have On March 19 the Tresca Re­ Nov. 29, four days . before the The most powerful blow yet delivered to the Stalinist-con­ Taking No Chances 1 fiteers to force up prices. He accumulating th a t, another “preferred to dig” rather than ward Committee extended its ef­ trouble broke in Athens. trolled Grant-Tappes machine was struck by J. B. Jones, a lead­ At National Labor Relations declared that the American peo­ crisis is blowing up.” continue doing work which white forts to find the slayers of Tre­ “The receipts said: ‘I have re­ Board hearings on CIO charges ple must “tighten their belts” be­ Wacs were n o t compelled to do er in the huge Press Steel Unit, when he announced his can­ sca to other continents. Leaflets ceived from Mr. L. F. R. Shepherd cause, he falsely claimed, the also. didacy for the presidency of h is ^ of unfair practices by the North were sent to about 40 principal a sealed bag said to contain 1,000 the British zone and the ELAS Carolina Shipbuilding Corpora­ “humanitarian” capitalist gov­ , All defendants testified that o f 1941. M ost of you also know cities in South America, Central gold sovereigns.’ These receipts zone. And he did. Furthermore, he unit in opposition to the Stalin­ tion, Leo Grooms, a labor spy ernment intends to “feed” starv­ the Negro Wacs were assigned that after all the workers had left America, Europe and Africa. The were signed by Greek leaders of did so, in a car draped with the ist machine. who joined the union to secure a ing Europe. Actually, during different duties than white Wacs. (he plant on the night of the Reward Committee is appealing various royalist and right-wing American flag. Under cover of Jones, an old - timer in the blacklist for the company, testi­ 1944, on ly 6.8 percent o f a ll the Taking the stand against the strike, 1 re-entered the Produc­ to sympathetic newspapers and organizations. The amounts men­ the American flag he went into Stalinist ranks and the man who fied, according to The Shipyard nation’s meat, and but seven- defendants, Lt. Virginia Lawson tion Foundry with the Reverend progressive organizations in for­ tioned in the receipts varied from ELAS territory ostensibly to talk played the outstanding role in Worker, that “stooges were tenths of one percent of the beef, of Tulsa, Oklahoma was compel­ Horace White and we asked the eign and American cities to pub­ 100 sovereigns to 2,000. about food distribution, but ac­ o rg a n izin g and leading the 1941 watching stooges and supervisors was shipped in Lend-Lease to all led to a d m it th a t o f 178 w h ite Negro brothers to leave the plant licize its $5,000 offer. “In other words, all during the tually to get m ilitary information. historic strike, shook the local were watching supervisors.” the “United Nations,” according Wacs»only 15 are classified as or­ with us and to join the union. The Committee regards Tre- period when Greek political fac­ “ When Colonel Shepherd’s car union to its foundations when he * * * to official government figures. derlies, w hile 60 o f the 99 N egro During the balance of that even­ sca’s killing as a political murd­ tions were trying to work out hit an ELAS mine during the last openly proclaimed his break with The government’s generous Wacs, college-trained medical ing and the following day I sign­ er committed by a hired assassin.