ALLIED POLICY IN WESTERN ZONES

Chronicle (Levin), 5 March 1946, Page 5

ALLIED POLICY IN WESTERN ZONES

■v ALLEGATIONS BY GERMAN COMMUNISTS Received Monday, 8.45 p.m. BERLIN, March 4. German Cominunisis, hoiding theii first conference since the end of the war, attacked the British Military Government s . policy in the British Zone. - German speakers from the iiulir and Hamburg aileged that the admin

istration protecred industrialists iikv. Krupp from trial as war crioinals, did | not allow democratic Partics to xigh> against Fas-ism, tried to foist on Ger man workars a kind of trade unionism fchsy did not want, and a.lowed wa. ' criminals to recrwanise their businessej. ! It is impcs.ib.e for the Social Demo crat Party in ilie British, American and ci'ench Zonrn to unice v/.th the Co_n munist Party, Dr. B.arl ochumacher leader of the Soci?.i Demoerats in the ! British Zone, told a meeting of 9000 Germans at Iserlohn. He added that uermany saw enough of the one-party system undcr the Nazis. The Commun ists in Germany were not free. Th. fcjocial Democrats wouid work v/ito them, but not at the cost of their iden- i tity. Dr. Schnmacher, commenting on the j , French proposals for intern.iti:nalisa- , : tion of the Ruhr, doclared t.iat what- ! ever happened, the Ruhr must remam : German. He added a plea for the Alliei i to send more food to Germany to avert starvation. The free trade umon movemsnt as 1 understood in Britain, with iull ligh.s of trade unionism, is not practi'eal p.l itics in Germany and is not Lkely to be o.ne so d.inng the military oceupi. tion, says the report oi the T.U.C dele , gacicn, consisbmg of ivlessrs H. L. Bul ocx, ,/i'i L-a. tuer ;-.n 1 Jack Tanner , which visited a numbor of Curopeaf : . eoanorics rec'.n ly The report a ids that conditions in Europe are so fan.asti chat real, efieclive de aocracy d pcnd5' mere upon tho srint and virility of the people than upon the structure. i The delegation condenms the propos- : ais for centralised trade unionism in iiGenmany. - -It says that the urge for centralisation must be replaced by a Live, active rnovement, so organised as to give thc rank and file me nbers a real voice in the goi7?-nment of their union Oonimunist leaders in Germany crit cised British, french and United States policy in the wsstern sones, reports Reuter's Berl'.n ccrrespoodent They complained of the app^arance oi vraces of separatism and lederalism at : che Communist Party Congress in Beri lin. This was the first session since j 1933. jtxerr Walter Ulbright, the deputy chairman, said there had been no land ceform in the v/estern zcnes' and largi I estates remained in the hands of war nongering landowners, while the Pas cist monopoly wrs remaining in cen'-.ro. if industry. The Russians in the eastern zone were plann ng nev/, democratic life, while iu the west there was only i feeble attempt to return to the conditions of 1913.