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chosen people who form the
ruling class. The large masses
of working men and women have
to live without any Of these
| goods.
"Theirs is a democracy of
minority. The workers live in de-
tendency on this minority, they
earn so little that they can never
provide for even the essentials:
or they are jobless and unable to
assert democratic rights. The west
ern countries are good for the rich
'upper-class' only, the working
masses of the people exist merely
to produce and supply wealth and
prosperity for few"
That doesn't sound like a friend
to western democracy.
| According to the propaganda
handed out by countries behind the
Iron Curtain their industries are
models of efficiency. A recent re.
port on conditions in the Iron and
Steel Works at Jesenice in Yugo.
slavia would indicate otherwise.
Industry Has Problems
The report said the chief problem
of "this industry is the accumula-
ton of finished goods in the ware
houses and the resulting immobil-
ization of the working capital of the
enterprise. Furthermore there is
too much top-level personnel in re-
| lation to too few workers."
The report continued: 1.-THE prob
lem of accumulated finished prod
ucts existed in 1947, but the situa-
ton has worsened since. Whole Sec
tons of the plant were at times
stuffed with finished goods. The
consequent disorder and waste are
incredible.
another cause of the present
plight is shortage of manpower
which stems mostly from in
adequate housing provided for
workers. The discipline among
the workers leaves much to be
desired, too. The workers come
late and leave early, thus
creating loss of at least one
work hour per day per man.
In the state owned mines at
Velenje, miners had to perform
60 per cent of overtime work to
make up for unjustified absentee
ism among the rest of the mining
crews.
And of the state owned farms,
figures are just as disappointing
in agricultural production.
Romunio Prepares for War
Private reports from Greece, by
reliable Romanians who recently
left their country, convey the i'm
preston that Romania is getting
ready for armed emergencies.
One report said: Gail summer
leaves for officers in the forces
have been cancelled. Many re-
serve officers were recently called
up. ALLEGATION of freight cars for
railway transportation of goods and
agricultural products is subject to
authorization of the general staff"
Romania is also concentrating
on propaganda telling of alleged
preparations for bacteriolog-
''ical warfare in the United
States. One recent broadcast
gave good many details of
names and places supposed to
be engaged in preparing bac-
THEOLOGICAL weapons.
The broadcast announced that a
central meteorological station was
situated at Camp LetWich in Mary
land where the army maintained
gigantic laboratories for testing
typhus, plague and cholera germs.
Other laboratories were asserted
to be situated in Mississippi, Utah
and Indiana.
One of the major dislikes of Com
munist countries is the Marshall
Plan. The Polish press said recent
ly:
1.-The Marshall Plan will expire
in the spring of 1852, and Washington
is looking for new ways of keeping
the western European countries in
a state of dependency. The plan
itself has fallen so far into disre-
pute that it cannot be continued in
its present form. Therefore it will
be succeeded by the so-called "plan
Xxx of integral defense" for the
Atlantic treaty countries"
The Polish press is also down Xxx
on the labor government of Great
Britain. A recent article stated:
The labor government has now
definitely proved to be no different
from the warmongering policies of
| Winston Churchill"
These are but few of the propa-
ganda themes and methods of the
! countries behind the Iron Curtain.