i,

+ to,

ie unionists from West-
dll, Countries heard the bril-
% mag Teport to the congress
ile by Indian trade union
j,,¢ S. A. Dange,-on the
hye Of the world trade union
aR Ment in the fight against
Malism.

any delegates followed him
We te rostrum to demonstrate
ai uth of his claim that “the
4c. C8! freedom of millions in
4 Ye » Africa and Latin America
€come a fact.”
‘ detew Others — such as the
Jyaent® from Saudi Arabia—
lTaetined the fact that, °for
jay oS upon millions, there is
@ hard struggle ahead.

Rt

Jie, € Saudi Arabian delegate
it tibed conditions bordering
| Woy prery for some of the oil-
ty ts in his country prior
=e Strikes in recent years.
“the a report, Dange divided
8st areas and countries of
4 iy Africa and Latin America
stn Wo groups, the first con-
§ of countries which had
Political independence,
|g; “8¢ond of those still strug-
q. tor it, such as Algeria,
Prus and Kenya.
th, © in the latter countries
’ “naitis fight to improve living
‘Jt: 22S, often catastrophic,
Hii, 2€ combined with the
4 for national independ-
‘It; Gemocratic and trade
i Neat ents, and an end to
Th iscrimination.
< is Other group of countries
a oe as India, Indonesia,
lati &; Malaya, and those of

| de ena ready won political in-
 Nbje dence; but they are still
‘fy, tO pressure or control
Unite Titain, France or the
inj — States, or other imper-
*t powers,
‘tig Clear task of the trade
! ting _Movement in these coun-
terns to help to eradicate the
Dons: of colonialism, by
‘! on ing rapid economic de-
Ihde Ment leading to eventual
Ndence.
tring to his own country,
| Bee fave the example of
Opposition to Indian
aye tS to nationalize mines,
Wher ors oilfields.
) “long Te the old “classical”
‘Ue ‘lism of direct political
| % > 88 developed by Brit-
|g France — had been
| Neng €d, the U.S. colonialists
* rep Ving in, endeavoring

py, “fe

Nesea tary pacts against the
Menace of Commu-

Changing colonial
World tops agenda

By PHYLLIS ROSNER

Delegates representing millions of colonial and semi-
jwual peoples, along with those from countries which have
4. ved independence from the capitalist countries and from
. Ocialist world, have just concluded their discussions at
Pzig — at the World Trade Union Congress.

hg, “Merica — have in the:

BERLIN

nism, and through technical
missions.

There was no objection to
taking aid from foreign coun-
tries, but it must be without
strings, not like the “Hisen-
hower Doctrine” ‘for the Mid-
dle East. It must be aid really
serving the country’s develop-
ment.

The monopolists — driven
away from their traditional
spheres of exploitation by
China, and with the growing
threats to their holdings from
free India, Indonesia and the
Arab world — were beginning
to concentrate their attention
on Africa.

Africa, “that vast continent
of untold possibilities,’ was
more and more attracting the
monopolists.

They hoped to exploit her
cheap labor and vast wealth
on tap, to use it against the
workers of the newly inde-
pendent countries against
Asia’s democratic masses and
against Europe’s workers.

In all the countries he had
mentioned, said Dange, in gen-
eral progress had been achieved
in the trade union movement,
though there were still short-

comings “which have to be

looked straight in the eye.”
What was decisive, however,

‘for a victorious struggle for

national independence and the
workers’ interests, was the

“unity of the trade union move-

ment.

Points of common interest
and agreement were many.

Dange expressed the hope
that the trade unions within
the International Confedera-
tion of Free Trade Unions de-
manding rational independ-
ence would “unite to orientate
the ICFTU’s policy more
favorably toward the fight

against colonialism, to force ,

the ICFTU leadership not only
to talk about it, but also take
action against colonialism.”

The gigantic achievements of
the peoples of Asia, Latin Am-
erica and of the Middle East,
justify the confident note of
Dange’s report and his con-
cluding words:

“As we have seen, the most
ancient lands of vast natural

resources and manpower are ,

following their own road of
development, bringing the
whole imperialist system to a
erisis from which it has no way
out, even through war or
threats of war.”

Wt Lam. ne LH ye a dl

Here the first bridge ever to be built across the Yangtse is shown under construction:

First train crosses Yangtse as’
great bridge project completed

By ALAN WINNINGTON
PEKING
Crowds cheered, sirens wail-
ed and firecrackers exploded
as the first passenger train
ever to cross the mighty Yang-
tse roared over the new mile.
long bridge at Wuhan on Oct-
ober. 16.

Opening of the bridge means
it is now possible to travel by
train all the way from Hong
Kong to Paris.

The bridge is a _ double-
decker with a highway for six
lanes of traffic on the top and
a double - tracked railway
below. Both decks are flanked
with footpaths.

The first train was bound
from Peking to the Viet Nam

border. The bridge links the
capital directly with Canton
over 1,450 miles to the south.

It also links several other
railways and joins the vast
triple, city of Wuhan into a
single metropolis which will
become one of China’s major
industrial bases.

Formally opening the bridge,
Vice-Premier Li Fu-chun re-
minded the enormous crowd at
the bridgehead that this had
been a dream of the Chinese
people ever since they over
threw the Imperial Dynasty.
But it could only be realized
after the people themselves
took state power.

The bridge was a sign of

the infinite resources of social-

ism, and a monument to the’
friendship between China and

the Soviet Union.

Soviet Minister of Transport

Construction E. F. Kozhevni-:

kov, responding to this refer-
ence to help from about 20
Soviet experts, said that
bridge-builders had
mastered complex engineering
and technical problems of this
dificult bridge on a torrential

China’s

river and that “the world’s
latest method of bridge con-
struction was first put into
practice here.”

The Chinese built the bridge
in the amazingly short time of

25 months.

Kuibyshev now tops Grand Coulee
to become world’s largest dam

By SAM RUSSELL
: MOSCOW

A Soviet power station —
the Kuibyshev hydro-electric
on October 14 became the most
powerful in the world, with the
switching in of its 20th turbine.

This dam on the Volga, now
completed, has a capacity of
2,100,000 kilowatts. The Grand
Coulee power station in the
U.S., with a capacity of 1,974,-
000 kilowatts, was previously
the world’s biggest.

The new station started sup-
plying Moscow with power
over a year ago, but it was not
due to have been completed

till the end of this year. En-
gineers and technicians on site
had earlier decided to finish it
before next month’s 40th anni-
versary of the Russian Revolu-
tion, but a month ago they put
the completion date forward to
October 15 and then beat the
new schedule by a day.

The last six turbines at
Kuibyshev were assembled,
tested and put into operatien
in 20 days, a feat never before
known in engineering history.

Kuibyshev station’s comple-
tion comes almost 25 years éo
the day after the Dnieper Dam
power. station first gave cur-

October 25, 1957 —

e

rent to Soviet industry in Oct-
ober 1932.

For nearly 25 years it main-
tained its position as the Sov-
iet Union’s and Europe’s big-
gest power station.

Kuibyshev has taken that
place, but will not hold it long,
for the Stailngrad station, 2,-
300,000 kilowatts, also on the
Volga, is due to be completed
by 1960.

This will be followed by the
Bratsk — 3,600,000 kilowatts,
the Krasnoyarsk — four mil-
lion, and the huge Yenesei sta-
tion with a planned capacity
of six million kilowatts.

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