from I.C.F.T.U. FP. & R. Service i Ina long article published on 19th. Sept. in Trud, the daily newspaper of the Soviet trade union, a spokestian for this organsiation tried to explain why the visit of a delegation from the Soviet trade unions to the Spanish trade unions was postponed. The very obscure explanation, however, indirectly confirmed the fact which the comminists wanted to hide, namely, the undoubted evidence of a contact between the communist state-run trade unions and the fascist state-run Spanish trade unions,
The fact is, that the initintive for the visit to Spain cone from the Soviet trade union federation which -— by the intermediary of the see W.F.T.U. — asked UNESCO to sponsor this trip under the UNESCO programme for international workers! exchanges, On tho Spanish side, the reality is that the trip was prepared by the Spanish trade unions in cooperation with the Spanish government and it would include visits to the four most industrisal— ised regions: the Asturins and the Basque country, os woll as Catalonia and Madrid, :
It is also interesting that although the cable announcing that the Soviet trade unions would postpone their visit, was dated 10th Septe, it was only nino days later that it was announced in Trud,