COMMUNISTS: The Iron International

Communism last week unsheathed a new political weapon. In Soviet Vienna, 130 metalworkers, carefully selected from Red-ruled unions on both sides of the Iron Curtain, assembled in the "Temple of Workers' Unity" to found by acclamation the "Iron International." Their purpose was to fight a new menace from the U.S. The real enemy of peace, cried Iron Internationalist Giovanni Roveda, delegate from Trieste, is the American "productivity campaign" in Western Europe. According to the Reds, U.S. help to French, Italians and Britons to grow more food, make more steel, mine more coal and grow more prosperous is a form of...

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