Franco's Spain J. Moreno. Jose Antonio Balbontin
Telephone-Tapping The Warden of All Souls The Monster of Piccadilly Circus Sidney R. Campion, Patrick Hut ber
The BBC's Yugoslav Service Michael L. Derry,
Stjepan Grabovac, O. Pick
The Boycotters Gareth Davies C. H. Rolph and the BBC Sir Alan Herbert and others
Banking Services Walter N. Bernard Again Ben-Gurion A. Ben Avigdor Embarrassment of Empire Sudhin N. Chase, Colin MacInnes 'Spectator' Back Numbers A. W. Savage FRANCO'S SPAIN Sta.—With reference to Mr. Gilmour's article and to the subsequent correspondence published in your journal, we, the London Group of the Union General de Trabajadores de Espaiia. en el Exilio, endorse the sentiments expressed by our friends of the Partido Socialista Espanol, en el Exilio.
We venture to say that not only Spanish refugees and a great number of Spaniards now enjoying the full blast of Franco's dictatorship strongly resent the 'political' help Franco is receiving from the United States. Here, in the UK, you and other friends do not approve the official backing given to Franco by the American authorities, and in the US at least the trade unions are against such policy.
The general secretary of our executive committee, Sr. Pascual Thomas, has received a strongly worded cable from the American Federation of Labour- Congress of Industrial Organisations. Our weekly newspaper El Socialista, printed and published in France, has published a photographic copy in a recent issue of the cable in question. We enclose a copy of El Socialista. but for the benefit of your readers we give below the full text of the cable: AS YOU KNOW, AMERICAN LABOR HAS ALWAYS CONSIDERED THE FRANCO REGIME AS A REPREHENSIBLE DICTA- TORSHIP AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF SPAIN AND UNWORTHY OF DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION OR ECONOMIC ASSIST- ANCE. IN SEPTEMBER 1959, THE AFL- CIO CONVENTION UNANIMOUSLY RE- AFFIRMED THIS POLICY IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND THE WORKING PEOPLE OF SPAIN. ON THE OCCASION OF THE DECISION OF OUR GOVERN- MENT TO HAVE PRESIDENT EISEN- HOWER BE THE GUEST OF THE FRANCO REGIME WHEN EN ROUTE TO A NUM- BER OF COUNTRIES IN ASIA, WE OF THE AFL-CIO REAFFIRM TO YOU OUR INTER- NATIONAL FREE TRADE UNION SOLI- DARITY AND EXTEND THROUGH YOU OUR WARMEST GREETINGS TO THE HEROIC SPANISH WORKERS AND LIBERTY LOVING PEOPLE OF SPAIN. AMERICAN LABOR WILL CONTINUE ITS EFFORTS IN COOPERATION WITH FREE WORLD LABOR TO HASTEN THE DAY WHEN SPAIN WILL BE FREE AND DEMO- CRATIC AND THE SPANISH WORKERS WILL ENJOY THE FREEDOM AND PROS- PERITY WHICH THEY SO RICHLY DESERVE GEORGE MEANY PRESI- DENT AFL-CIO.
Yours faithfully, J. MORENO, Secretary. Union General de Trabajadores de Espana,
en el Exilio, London Group. S McGregor Road, W 11
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