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 "super-exploitation," which forces the workers to pay the costs of war. Iron International proposed to rescue Europeans from the web of "Wall Street-propagated productivity" by encouraging them to feign sickness, refuse overtime, work carelessly and damage factory equipment.