Evening star., 1952-04-16

Stain can wait. While he waits
his Red legions, spearheads fol
the conquests of the future. buile
This is the second Of four articles by Mr.
Ryon otter q two-month tour Of Eu-
rope from YusosIoyio to Finland.
patiently and carefully against The
day they insist must come-the
day of world victory of Com
muniSm."
While Stain waits, the schoo
Of the dirty trick goes into action
"One should be able to accept
every sacrifice: to use, if neces.
Sary, every artifice or strategem
to adopt illegal methods, to keer
silent at some times and concea,
the truth at others: all this ir
order to penetrate the trade unions
and perform there the Communist
task. in spite of all"
So wrote Lenin years ago. This
IS the guiding doctrine today for
the Communist parties of Western
Europe.
No issue is too small. No ad-
vantage is too trif1ing.
Workers Stirred to Frenzy.
Jean Dubois, worker in a
French metal plant. grunts dis
pleasure. His jacket has fallen
again from the pile of garments
hung on a f1imsy nail in the shop.
He dusts it off. swears. and re-
places it.
A Communist cell member near
by notes the proceedings with in
terest. He is schooled to be alert
to any possible issue, no matter
how small. Any grievance, legiti-
mate or otherwise, must be used.
There is the germ Of a grievance
here, and the Communist cell gets
busy in the shop.
Suddenly there is a demand for
racks and coat hangers. It is
stirred up to a pitch of frenzy.
There is a one-day strike of pro-
test. Somehow or other, the gov
ernment becomes the scapegoat
for the lack of coat hangers. The
feminist doctrine that every strike
must be a political one, is in oper-
alton again. Another blow has
been struck by the Communists.
It is a small blow, but the effects
mount up. The blows are con-
tinuing, constant. Always the re-
gime is attacked, no matter what
the grievance. Jean Dubois,
worker, learns to blame his every
woe on the badgered government
in Paris.
Wounds to Dignity Cited.
Today. Jean Dubois. metal
worker. is being told day after day
that his dignity is being wounded.
His brother in Italy, Giovanni
Verdi. is being told that the
Americans are responsible for un-
employment and high prices be-
cause of defense plans. His fell
low worker in Germany, Hans
Schmidt, is being told that the
Americans are preparing Ger
many as the battle-ground for an
other bloody war.
In France there Is a carefully
planned drive against what the
Communists call the cadence in
fernal"-the internal cycle, or
speedup. casually disregarding the
known history of the speedup in
Russia and the Sovietized coun-
tries, the Communists are bent
upon convincing Western workers.
particularly in defense installa-
tions, that they are being super
exploited" in the interests of the
United States.
The campaign is adapted to the
country. Thus, while in Italy un-
employment and prices are the
targets, and in Germany the
specter of new war is raised. the
appeal in France is centered on
the Frenchman's cherished per-
sonal dignity. This is frequently
effective. The Frenchman is
likely to get his back up if he feels
his dignity and rights as human
being are molested.
Lights burn throughout the
night in the Vienna headquarters
of the World Federation of Trade
Unions, This organization, now
wholly the creature of Moscow,
supplies the scientific leadership,
the literature, the information,
the techniques for the anti
productivity drive of the European
communists. The WFTU charts
the overall drive and the organiza-
ton work goes forward from the
plant level upward.
Aim to Neutralize Europe.
The result is a Europe-wide
anti-productivity drive. The goal
is to neutralize Western Europe,
to render first Germany, then
France and Italy neutral in the
cold war of the giants.
The tempo of Communist inner
party activity in France and Italy
has been rising lately. In each
plant where Communists hold
sway, there is q central bureau.
Up to recently, this bureau con-
centrated on labor issues. Now.
apparently on Moscow orders. it
experiments with the political
strike.
The central bureaus tell the
workers: your government is no
good. It Is against you. It is the
tool of the Americans. It is ex-
plotting you mercilessly SO Ameri-
cans can wage war and make
profits.
The Importance Of the political
strike in today's scene is under
scored by Auguste Lecoeur, who
may be heir to Maurice Thorez in
leadership of the French party.
He warns that the party must re-
study the feminist principle that
any economic strike must at the
same time be political.
A look at the Communist parties