Evening star., 1943-04-18
European Workers
Call for Postwar
Planned Economy
SociaIistic Democracy
Urged to Replace
Fuscism and Nuzi-ism
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, April 17.-Delega-
tions claiming to represent millions
Of workers in nine European coun-
tries, including Germany, today an
nounced the framework for post
war reconstructions calling for a
socialistic democracy based on
planned economy to replace Naziism
and Fascism.
Members of an expatriate inter-
national group of Democratic
Socialists with headquarters here
drafted a platform calling for the
common man to have a voice in
planning the peace.
They say they represent workers
groups in Germany, France, Aus
tria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Po-
land, Norway, the Sudetenland and
Sweden. The sponsors emphasized
that the program was designed
only as framework for pursuing
reconstruction problems.
Major points in the program in
clude Cd a socialiStic democracy
based on planned economy and the
banning of economic imperialism; !;
60 overthrow of the fatal alliance"
between Germany's heavy industry
and Junkers and Prussian militar-
ism, and CD provision for the par
ticipation of international trade
unions in the peace conference.
Extended Social Control.
In the important economic field
the group urged an extended social
control of economy in order to pre-
vent crises, to create order and ef-
f1ciency and to attain the greatest
possible economic and social equal
ity.''
1.-THE revision of States control
Of economy extended in wartime
back to the so-called free capitals
tic conditions would be mere retro
gression." the program said.
Predicting that the democratic
and socialist movements would
emerge in Germany and.other Euro
pean countries after the Allied vic
tory, the workers group said inter-
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be contrary to the Atlantic Charter.
The platform said that "the Ger
man revolution, like the revolution
In many other European countries
-. will not be limited to the sphere
Of politics. If we will overthrow
Nazism we shall have hit the chief
social powers that have supported it.:
the fatal alliance between heavy
industry and the Junkers and the
generals.
The working class will be an i'm
portant factor in that reform No
doubt it will try to fix democracy by
measures of a socialist character. A
corresponding continuation of a
democratic revolution on a socialist
line very likely will become actual in
other countries, too.
Resources Question Important.
THE question will be very impor-
tant whether the resources of the
victorious powers and the troops
they will keep on the continent will
be used to support such develop
ment or to render it more difficult -
This is the first effort that has
been made to air the views of demo-
cratic Socialists, whose voices on the
continent are stilled by the Nazi-
Fascist gag. The leaders of the in
ternational group working in neutral
Sweden said they aimed to see that
the working class would guarantee
that the war catastrophe would not
be repeated.
Their program also advocates a
union of smaller countries in re-
gional groups with federative ar
rangements to protect national mi
norities; a league of nations; pun
tshment of war criminals by inter-
national courts; disarmament of the
Axis and continuation of the close
cooperation between the Anglo
Saxon nations and Soviet Russia.
The group suggested that workers
organizations proclaim the peace
aims of democratic Socialism on
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