"GO TO THE HILLS!"
DALLIN, DAVID J.
East and West "Go to the Hills!" By David J. Dallin ON JUNE 2S. 1949. exactly one year after Yugoslavia broke with the Cominforra, . the Budapest radio beamed a Serbianlanguage broadcast to...
...Last fall the President appointed Cole to the emergency fact-finding board which settled the dispute between the railroads and the non-operating rail unions...
...The board's most forceful member undoubtedly is Samuel I. Rosenman, 53, braintrust to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, former Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, and, though presently engaged in a lucrative law practice which is said to number large industrial corporations among its clientele, long an ardent New Dealer...
...Big Steel has not yet said it officially, but persons close to it are charging that the President consulted Steelworkers President Philip Murray about the strategy to be followed before proposing a 60-day breathing spell...
...The same doctrine is used also to justify the unequal treaties concluded between Moscow and its satellites and, in general, the economic benefits it derives through its power position...
...In Paris another Cominform source, Jacques Duclos, announced that Tito had been surrounded by British Intelligence agents since the beginning of World War II, and for that reason Churchill supported Tito's partisans while refusing to arm the French guerillas (meaning, in Duclos' view, French communist guerillas...
...For Tito's fall would: 1. Erase th hated anti-Stalinist Communism...
...Big Steel Nursing Sore Head But Lives To Fight A New Day By Jonathan Stout WASHINGTON...
...M ITKCL'I APMtntrtftlON is understandable when one considers the personnel of the board...
...It wants the WeBt t keep hands off during this period of trial fo Yugoslavia...
...Eighty different kinds ol hors d'oufwree ate serred...
...FrascaUL-and of course...
...This novel presentation of Tito as a veteran British secret agent parallels the rewriting of Trotsky's personal history by the Communists...
...The President is aware that he has won only the opening skirmish of a titanic struggle with the spearhead of American Big Business...
...Beside them stand pretty women In splendid eveniag gowns...
...it is sending advisers to educatthose inexperienced in "building socialism...
...J.) lawyer, is an arbitrator, labor dispute mediator and lecturer on labor relations...
...There Is an abundance of wine* Tokay Bordeaux...
...thi«u£ Yugoslavia, ,t»\pt**»0*m country can exiaCand fr*>op»unleaa it {§ closely connected with th« great Soviet Union...
...exactly one year after Yugoslavia broke with the Cominforra, . the Budapest radio beamed a Serbianlanguage broadcast to Yugoslav Communist* calling upon them to "Go into the hills" and fight Tito...
...that the political and economic system of such a nation will be underrainod by "imperialist forces...
...David L. Cole, third member of 'he board, a Paterson (N...
...Along with other pro-Soviet Yugoslavs, they have started publishing in Moscow a Serb-language newspaper called, For a Socialist Yugoslavia, which is violently antiTito and serves as the official organ of a future loyal Yugoslav government...
...THE COMINFORM IS OUT TO PROVE...
...Russia has assumed, so the theory goes, the obligation to protect her seven small satellites from any attack: it will deliver arms wher necessary...
...The Cominform press reports that the socalled Yugoslav youth labor brigades are actually a slave labor force, and pointedly describes splendor in which Belgrade Communist dignitaries live...
...They are grumbling that the fact-finding board was handptcked to give the Steelworkers the decision, and that the steel corporations cannot expect the kind of differential treatment they think is their due...
...and that it will, under those eondk...
...Big Steel's bright executives realize that they were jockeyed into the untenable position of precipitating a strike which might have been ruinous to America's economy for the purely political reason of promoting the Taft-Hartley Act...
...D. C. THE SIGH OF RELIEF that went up when the President's steel fact-finding board went to work following Big Steel's lastminute backdown, may be premature...
...Such a debt can't b( paid through normal export-import procedures Thus, the theory of "helping" the satellites at tain socialism becomes a rationalization for ex ploiting them on such a huge scale "that ah dealings have to be kept secret...
...Moreover, Hungary has refused to pay agreed-upon reparations to Yugoslavia totalling $70,000,000 or to return property looted during the war, and has expelled the Yugoslav Reparations Commission from Budapest...
...Daugherty, once chief economist of the Department of Labor and stabilization director of the National War Labor Board, is now on the faculty of Northwestern University...
...tions, have to revert someday to capitalism...
...Another phase in this struggle will open five weeks hence when the fact-finding board makes its report and recommendations to President Truman, and the latter then seeks Big Steel's agreement Big Steel's mood is not promising for such an agreement...
...Carroll R. Daugherty, the board's president, is somewhat on the conservative side but has an intimate knowledge of steel economics...
...Russia and her satellites only yesterday were accusing the U. S. of practicing economic discrimination, but originally it was they who prohibited Tito from joining the Marshall plan and now they are tearing up their own trade agreements with Yugoslavia...
...Russia has to be paid foi these services...
...Most were recalled to Yugoslavia but some remained...
...This does not mean that the board is expected to render a decision 100 per cent In favor of the steelworkers' demands for $150 monthly pensions, health Insurance, and wage increases up to 20 cents an hour...
...The tables are bursting under huge golden and silver pistes with roasts...
...Washington does expect recommendations which will make possible give-andtake proposals that would result in peaceful conclusion of the dispute...
...Champagne...
...In 1919, a short-lived Hungarian Communist regime was overthrown —"At that time," Stalin points out, "we were unable to give it assistance...
...Thousands of Yugoslav officers were trained in Russia before" the Yugoslav break, it is now revealed...
...from head to toe they are covered with gold and silver embroidery and orders...
...i' is educating thousands of foreign military ant civil administrators...
...Thus, for once, Big Steel is confronted by a board of inquiry on which it does not have a majority of "safe" men...
...Trumnn...
...At the Kiev Military Academy, General Ermolov has been trying to win over Titoite officers by promising them high positions in Yugoslavia "after the, coup d'etat...
...and 2. Confirr the necessity for further Soviet expansion...
...In, short, any nation desirous of developing from capitalism into socialism must adhere to the growing Soviet Empire...
...He makes the same point regarding the Communist Internationale's failures in Bavaria, Vienna and Hamburg in the early 1920's...
...This is a theory of Stalin's...
...The blockade of Yugoslavia has been gradually tightened since May...
...Aside from its argument with the Steelworkers Union over the Tatter's insurance, pension and pay demands, Big Steel now is nursing a sore head over the tactical walloping it got /rom Mi...
...The Cominform would be very happy to Bee Tito's regime fall "by itself," without a mili tary push from the East...
...But how...
...Thus Mathias Rakosi, the Hungarian Cominform leader, describes a Tito reception in the palace of the former Regent Paul: "In the great hall three hundred generals stand...
...Wallers wear snow-while tsilcoais trfauMd with gold...
Vol. 32 • July 1949 • No. 30
