The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
Comment On
World Events

At a meeting May 3 the Council
of Ministers Of Soviet Russia de-
cided to issue bonds Of new state
loan for 20 billion rubles.
Without waiting for the publica-
tion Of this resolution the presi-
dunn Of the All-Union Central
Trade Union Council met on the
same date and issued long pro-
clamation appealing to all the So
Wet citizens to subscribe to this
loan for the sum Of ga weeks
earnings.
At the sign from the same stage
manager on the same date meet
ings Of workers and employees took
place at all the enterprises and
koklhozes farm cooperatives) OF
the entire country, where the wis
dom of the governments economic
policy was extolled with the same
words and arguments and all those
present without exception subscrib-
ed to the loan for the prescribed
sum. According to IZVESTIA, by
5 p. m., May 3 there was not a
single worker at the Minsk radio
factory named after Molotov who
had not subscribed to the loan. The
odds are that no such worker could
be found at any factory of the
USSR.
On the next day MAY a. the So
Wet papers had only to state the
fact and to describe with what a
great enthusiasm" and how very
voluntarily" without the slightest
compulsion or any reminder from
the centre, not one of the 200 mill
ion Soviet citizens mistook his role
in the giant performance.
Thanks to the cleverness of the
stage managing this year the
papers did not need to publish q
single threat for the benefit OF
possible non-compliers as has hith-
erto been the case. This time the
threats were whispered by the
promoters-the administrative, the
MVD and the TUG machines. The
public did not hear them, only the
actors.
That the yearly loan reduces the
earnings Of the workers by one
twelfth is a small matter not worth
mentioning. And, of course, nobody
in the USSR does mention it, least
Of all the press and the radio.
AFL President William Green
writes in the American Federation
ist:
"The American Federation of
Labor has made its position plain.
We believe that communism is our
foremost enemy and its defeat our
first duty. If this defeat can be
accomplished in the cold war by the
combined efforts of diplomats and
civilian groups, many lives may be
saved. However, we can take nc
chances on military preparedness.
The enemy is utilizing all resources
for military strength, and we are
dealing with a despotism that will
yield only to superior power.
Whatever policy our nation
elects to pursue must be admins
tered only by persons who believe
in that policy. Our security is i'm
periled if American policy. is adj
ministered by Communists, Com
munist sympathizers or persons
who believe we can safely drift.
"All other policies have to be
squared with our basic objective
winning the cold war. Mobilizing
for cold war differs little from mo-
bilization for fighting war. The
government needs the support and
coop ion, of all national
groups. The first step each organ
lied group should take, in coopera-
ton, is to make sure that response
BILE leadership is in the hands of
anti Communists and, next, that
Communist members are under con-
troll and expelled. For their own
protection, all private organizations
should move to a security basis.
All individuals should avoid join
ing organizations until they have
asserted themselves that the pur-
poses served are clearly in line with
the best interests of the nation"