A,

Rapid advance of Soviet
agriculture seen in ’64

By JOHN WEIR

MOSCOW—As Spring swiftly
advances northward, the great

moves. into battle to make up
losses suffered due to bad clim-
atic conditions last year and to
chalk up record crops in 1964.
While the early freeze last
autumn caused some concern,
the weather now is favorable.

With the government invest-
ing the unprecedented sum of
5.4 billion roubles in agricul-
ture, the farmers are already:
getting the benefits of more fer-
tilizer irrigation and improved
machinery.

Rapid advance is guaranteed
by the fact that the farmers
themselves are spreading the
drive. In addition to measures
already taken to make farming
more profitable to the farmers
such as higher prices for meat
and dairy products, the govern-
ment and party recently issued
a joint statement condemning
‘‘planning from above’’
in practice has still persisted in
some areas, and insisting that

the final word regarding what
crops are to be grown always
remain with the farmers.

The government’s policy of
increasing farm production and
farm incomes at the same time
is bearing fruit. Here are se-
veral samples of news culled
from the press:

* All 560 collective farms in
Estonia have instituted guaran-
teed monthly wages for farm-
ers with even those of the most
backward farm in Rakveres as-
sured a minimum of 43 roubles

for seven hour day. In addition’

are the bonuses and other bene-

army of Soviet agriculturalists |

which

fits including pensions for all
men at 65 and women at 60.

Moreover, the Estonian farm-
ers are using their wealth —
the result of the turn to special-
ization in meats and dairy pro-
duction last year — to begin
construction of towns with
apartment houses to replace the
present villages. :

* The employees ‘of the
**Banner of October’’ state farm
near Moscow -have_ already
moved into such a new town
of five-storey buildings with all
modern conveniences. The idea
is spreading and before many
years villages will become mu-
seum pieces along with the
wooden plow.

* Many collective farms are
establishing their own‘‘Miamis”’
—sanatoria rest homes and
playgrounds, Seventeen collect-
ive farms of the Pshevalsk re-

gion for example, have pooled -

funds to build their own health
resort on the shore of pictures-
que Lake Issykkyl.

* Another new feature is the

turn to agro-industrial com-
plexes which was initiated ai
Ivov in Ukraine where the
farms gowing sugar beets join-
ed with the sugar refineries
they were supplying to form a
closely knit enterprise. This
type of ‘‘vertical integration’’
which benefits both worker and.
farmer is now being closely
studied in other regions where
industrial enterprises and farms
producing raw material for
them exist side by side.

The outline of the future when
the differences between city and
farm will be no more are al-
ready beginning to take shape.

Ready to‘repudiate Johnson

WASHINGTON—“ The historic
debate in regarc toSouth Vietnam
will increase in tempo in the
weeks and months immediately
-ahead, because we are not going to
be silenced,” Senator Wayne
Morse (Democrat - Oregon) told
the U.S. Senate last week.

“The policy of the Johnson ad-
ministration in regard to the uni-
lateral war being conducted by:
the U.S. in South Vietnam must ?
be stopped; and the only force
that can stop it is American
public opinion.”

U.S. actions in South Vietnam
*€can lead to a holocaust which
would spread around the world,”
Morse warned.

Morse said he had been advised
by a leading newspaperman that
the Pentagon was considering

sending “American guerrilla
fighters” into South Vietnam, and
declared:

“J serve notice onthe Penta-

gon that I intend to watchdog the |

Pentagon day by day for a con-
stant check on its maneuvers.”
He added the Johnson administra-
tion should be repudiated unless
. it changes its policy towards that
‘» unhappy country— and I speak as
* a Democrat, but as a patriotic
American first.”

The rising tide of opposition to
the U.S. dirty war in Vietnam
was emphasized further by a
demonstration of over 6,000
people in New York’s Washington
Square on March 28 (Easter

‘ Weekend). The turnout was twice
as large as had been anticipated.

British violence in Guiana

Charges that British-com-
‘manded police were using tear
gas and bayonets against non-
violent sugar strikers in British

Guiana were made by Deputy.

Premier Brindley Bennin London
recently.

Yankee, Go Home!
President Karume of Zanzi-
bar has demanded the U.S.
withdraw its Project Mercury
tracking station by the end of
the month. He told the U.S.
Charge d’Affaires that this
was the result of a statement
by the American ambassador
to Kenya, which was designed
to bring about conflict between
Zanzibar and East Africa.

Serious injuries had been sus-
tained by some strikers, Benn
said.

He stated several people had
testified to an incident in which
orders had been given foratrac-
tor to run over women demon-
strators lying in a roadway,
where one mother of four had been
killed and 10 other women in-
jured.

The strike has been going on
for seven weeks and 23 sugar
estates and 11 grinding mills are
closed down.

Benn blamed the sugar bosses
who are refusing to agree to a
vote to determine which of two
unions should be the bargaining
agent for the 23,000 workers in
the industry.

By WILLIAM STEWART

There are many signs that an
era is coming to its end in Van-
couver.

After twenty six years of un-
relenting domination of civic
politics in Vancouver the big bus-
iness real-estate Non-Partisan
Association is reeling under the
twin pressures of dissention from
within and widespread opposition
from without.

The arrogant refusal of the
NPA to heed the demand for basic

NIGEL MORGAN, provincial leader
of the Communist Party, last week
returned to Vancouver after an
extended study-tour of the Soviet
Union. The PT will carry a special
article by Morgan in its May Day
edition on his trip.

CHINA — CP

Cont'd from pg. 6

fecting social revolution peace-
fully.

“They call tor reckless actions
with arms in hand, in disregard
of the existing situation.

“The Chinese leaders evade the
essence of the present stage of
the national liberation revolution.
They are blind to the differences
prevailing in the situations inthe
various countries and are offer-
ing the peoples of all countries
just one prescription — armed
struggle for the establishment of
the dictatorship of the proletari-
at. Such a prescription may, if
put into practice, undermine the
national front and strengthen the
positions of the colonialists and
neo-colonialists.

Restore unity

“The Chinese leaders are dis-
rupting the unity of the Commun-
ist movement and of the demo-

cratic organizations. They are —
- founding factions and are striving

to split our movement and its
national contingents.

“In brief, the Chinese Com-
munist leaders are opposing the
Communist movement in all the
basic questions of strategy and
tactics: theirs is a course in
which petty-bourgeois revolu-
tionism and nationalistic great-
power aspirations merge.”

Suslov emphasized that the
Soviet Party wants to strengthen
friendship with the Chinese
people an® to cooperate with the

Chinese Communist party in all

fields. He stresses the “deep
respect” that theSoviet commun-
ists have for the “revolutionary
traditions”
Party of China.

“We will do everthing in our
power,’’ he said, “to bring back

the relations between the Soviet —

Union anc the People’s Republic
of China to a path that conforms
to the rockbottom interests of
all the working people of our
countries.”

changes in civic policy has fuel-
ed up a heated attack from almost
all sources of civic life in Van-
couver. :

Under the pressure of this at-
tack the Aldermen and the Mayor
have entered into a round of in-
fighting in an unprincipled at-
tempt to shift the responsibility
of the Vancouver political news:
off their respective shoulders.

No better illustration of the ar-
rogance and the dilemma of the
Council can be found than the is-
sue of electoral reform in Van-
couver.

Although not a single public fi-
gure, organization, radio sta-
tion or newpaper supports the
present inadequate electoral sys-
tem in Vancouver, the City Coun-
cil has attempted to sweep the
demand for reform under the
rug. It is openly recognized that

their refusal to open up the is-_

sue is dictated by their recog-
nition’ that the NPA owes its
power to the present unrepresen-
tative, undemocratic electoral
system.

In an editorial in its April11l
issue the Vancouver Sun ticked
off the City Council sharply for
the offhand way it dismissed the
growing demand for electoral re-
form in Vancouver. It expressed
its support for more representa-
tive civic reform in Vancouver.

It expressed its support for more -
representative civic government _

and suggested the only way City

Council could be forced off their-

: campaign,

high horse was by put
sure,

_ The ratepayers mover!
Vancouver had reached t
clusion following the 1a!
election and are presé
culating a mass petition
couver calling for an are
sentation system in the

The Vancouver and D
Labor Council at its 14s
ing decided to sponsor ab
lic forum in co-operatid
the ratepayers organiza)
other interested bodies 5°
in the month of May to ©
the matter of civic dé

It was also indicated
chairman of the MuniciP:
fairs Committee at the
meeting, that the Labor '
will support the petition spon
ed by the ratepayers.

There are many signs tha
breadth of the demand for
hauling of the civic electoral
tem in Vancouver can
victory for the voters of ile

ae

The importance of the pe
of the ratepayer’s organiZ
cannot be overestimated
struggle. Rolling up a imP
sive number of signatures?!
petition is at the core %
struggle for civic reform a
time and all workers and d P
gressive people should —
their share of the responsi
for the success of this '

of the Communist

LABOR ROUNDUP

Shipyard workers rejec
latest deal—unity grow’

B.C. shipyard workers enter-
ing their tenth week on the picket
line have rejected an offer put
forward by Deputy Labor
Minister Sands.

Sands called a meeting of the
22 unions involved last Tuesday
and proposed settlement of the
work stoppage, based on a 3-
year contract which would pro-
vide a wage increase of 12 cents
an hour each year, of the 21
unions represented at the meet-
ing, 19 voted to reject the deal.

The unions are holding fast
to their original demand of 30
cents an hour spread over a two
year pact. The workers feel this
is a modest enough demand in
view of the profits being piled
up by the three struck opera-
tions.

Meanwhile, labor is rallying
to the support of the workers
on strike. Financial aid is pour-
ing in to the unions involved
and their morale has been boost-
ed by the solidarity displayed by
members of Office Employees
International Union, Local 15.

The members of orl, 4
all, have refused to cros? |,
picket line in Victoria sinc
first day of the strike ©
applied for, but’ were T@™
unemployment benefits.

In turn, they are receiviné
from various sources—V@"
ver Civic Employees — OU
Workers, and others.

It is on solidarity such
this that the labor mové
was built and Local 15 9,
Office Workers is showiN®
it is prepared to live up ©
best traditions and mi
labor.

e@

The meeting of vane
Labor Council was informe?
week that VLC and the B.©
eration of Labor will be 5
delegates to the next annu
vention of the B.C. Fish
Game Clubs.

The Fish and Game clubs
spearheading the fight
surrendering provincial P
to logging and mining mon0P
for exploitation.

“Keep on past the Ban the Bomb sign, turn right ai the
‘Polaris and fork left where it says No Foreign Bases Here.”

Eccles in the London Daily wor

April 17, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—