gLD SCENE AFRICAN SUMMIT CALLS FOR UNITY RABAT—The 9th Summit Assembly of the 41-nation Organization of African Unity held in the Moroccan capital stressed African unity against imperialism and solidarity with the Arab peoples of the Middle East. UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim at the open- ing session praised the OAU for efforts at preserving peace and security in Africa and the world. In a message to the Assembly, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin referred to the Soviet people’s “deep satisfaction that the cause of consolidating the national indepen- dence and complete liberation of Africa is successfully marching on. A growing number of young African states are carrying out pro- gressive socio-economic reforms, actively resisting domination by foreign monopolies. “The people of Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Mozambique,” the message noted, “have won new successes in their liberation strug- gle; the popular masses of Zimbabwe and Namibia are rising in a broad front for struggle against colonialist oppression, against racism and exploitation. Resistance to the apartheid policy in South Africa is mounting.” Kosygin warned that Africa’s enemies in NATO were giving ex- tensive aid to Portugal, and that “a hard and stubborn struggle lies ahead for the peoples of Africa.” OAU Chairman Moktar Ould Daddah (Mauretania) condemned the- imperialist powers for trying to block African unity. He denounced Israel for rejecting a peaceful political solution in the Middle East crisis. CASTRO AWARDED GDR MEDAL BERLIN—Huge crowds shouting in unison “Fi-del! Fi-del!” greet- ed Cuban Premier Fidel Castro as he arrived last week in the capital of the German Democratic Republic. Castro was met on his arrival by GDR Premier Willi Stoph and Erich Honecker, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party. Neues Deutschland (New Germany), the SUP daily newspaper, ran giant headlines in German and Spanish: “Welcome to Comrade Fidel Castro!” : The paper said, “The GDR knows the importance of Cuba as the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere, which planted the flag of socialism right in front of the gates of U.S. imperialism.” Castro was awarded the GDR’s medal, Great Star of Peoples’ Friend- ship, by Walter Ulbricht, chairman of the GDR State Council. FRENCH WORKERS SET “DAY OF ACTION” PARIS—A ‘“‘day of action” June 23, to raise the minimum wage and lower the pension age was announced jointly by the French General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT). The call follows a 24-hour general strike of millions of workers, the most powerful in France since 1968, involving metal workers, miners, dockers, construction work- ers and others. Union demands are for a minimum monthly wage of 1,000 francs ($195) and a 40-hour week. They want the pension age lowered from 65 to 60 and a guaranteed minimum monthly pension of 800 francs ($155). The CGT estimates that six million French workers (not including 550,000 unemployed) now earn less than 1,000 francs a month. U.S. GETS SOVIET-BUILT TRANSFORMER LENINGRAD — An electrical transformer with a capacity of 560,000 kilowatts was shipped from ‘Leningrad to the Detroit Edison Company this month. The transformer was built by the Zaporozh- transformator Works at Zaporozhye in Soviet Ukraine and weighs more than 250 tons. A railroad flat car had to be specially built to carry the apparatus to Leningrad. The USSR exports power equip- ment to more than 60 countries of the world, but this was the first order from a U.S. company. = SOVIET MERCY SHIP BOUND FOR DRV TOKYO—A Soviet ship with a cargo of medical supplies for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam donated by Japanese trade union- ists left the port of Osaka Friday and is now headed for Haiphong. The medical supplies, about $130,000 worth (40 million yen), were purchased by funds contributed during campaigns of solidarity with the- Vietnamese people in Japan. The largest organization involved was the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (SOHYO). The Soviet ship chartered by the DRV is the 3,358-ton Yasnomorsk. ARAB TRADE UNIONS AGAINST U.S. CAPITAL CAIRO—The International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions has published a study on the penetration of U.S. capital into the economies of Arab states. The U.S. annually receives more than $2 billion in profits from capital invested in Arab countries, the study pointed out, and is trying to gain even more by dumping and flooding the Arab world with U.S. goods. The ICATU said that the Arab countries ought to boycott U.S. goods. GREEK COMMUNIST LEADER HAILED IN USSR MOSCOW—tThe Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has issued a statement congratulating Apostolos Grozos on his 80th birthday. Grozos is a prominent leader of the Communist Party of Greece and long-time organizer of the Greek working class. The Soviet Presidium awarded Grozos the Order of the October Revolution for his active participation in the anti- fascist struggle. 100,000 NEW ITALIAN COMMUNISTS ROME—The newspaper L’Unita reported that 100,000 new mem- bers joined the Communist Party of Italy in 1971. The CPI’s total membership is more than 1,500,000. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1972—PAGE 10 if At SX\Qi. GS Bi. YAGI = EAL ST SDA B ne Ve stones nambedine 19 million are @ expected to sail on 1 Soviet Black Sea ships this year. n hydrofoils flash among liners and motor ships serving established routes, and new Odessa to topol and Odessa to Belgorod-Dnestrovski runs. ag “Ode! Where the Jews aren't ‘aliens | At a press conference in Mos- cow for the foreign journalists covering President Nixon’s visit, the representative of the American Jewish Press Associa- tion voiced concern whether Soviet citizens of Jewish na- tionality are able to receive in- formation. Alexander Chakov- sky, editor-in-chief of Literatur-, naya Gazeta, published by the Union of Writers of the USSR, replied, in part: “As I see it, Jews living in a particular country are citizens of that country. “The United States is not in a highly enviable position if the Jews living there do not regard themselves as its citizens but rather as members of some ab- stract Jewish community. Aft “any rate, as far as the Soviet Jews are concerned, they regard themselves as citizens of the Soviet Union, an equal part of the Soviet people. Together with people of other nationalities they take an active part in building up a new society, one which conforms to the'ideals of the Soviet people. To this they have devoted their life.” After dealing in detail with the literary and cultural Jewish activities in the USSR, he con- tinued: “May I add a few more words in connection with all kinds of advice on how the Soviet Jews should live and wild inventions about their position often ap-~ pearing in Western newspapers, including American. I am cer- tainly highly flattered by such attention to the Soviet Jews, to whom I have the honor to be- long. But I want to express one doubt which, if you wish, you can also take as a question. “There is one thing that sur- prises me very much: according to my information, in the past two years 39 or 40 synagogues, 15 Jewish cemeteries and I be- lieve three Jewish centres, plus six schools have been attacked, set fire to, destroyed or des- ecrated ... in the United States. “I know from the New York Times that there are instances of Jews being discriminated against during enrolment at uni- versities. I know that in the plushier districts of New York Jews are denied the right of residence. “Esteemed gentlemen, may I respectfully put just one ques- tion: perhaps you'll quit con- cerning yourselves with Soviet Jews at a time when there is such an extensive field of ac- tion on the Jewish question in your own country? - “Allow me to wind up in less serious tone. The book I am holding is The Golden Calf by - Ilf and Petrov, famous Soviet satirists. This book is regarded as a classic of Soviet satire. It has been translated in the Unit- ed States, and correspondents who follow not only the Soviet Jews but also Soviet literature surely know about this book. It appeared in the early 1930’s. An interesting episode is described in it. Many foreign correspond- ents have come over to attend the opening of the Turkestan- Siberia railway line. The fol- lowing conversation takes place between Palamidov, a Soviet journalist, and his American col- league Hiram Burman: ...To get things going they started talking about the art theatre. Somebody had a. word of praise for it, while Mr. Burman remarked evasively that, as a Zionist, he et of all interested in thé question. j “We have no such we any longer,” Palamidov i) “How can’t there be 4 ed question?” Burman aske amazement. “Just isn’t, that’s all.” sting Mr. Burman was gett a cited. All his life he ha. writing articles on the question, and he would } part with it (laughter | hall). ink “But there are Jews o sia, aren’t there?” he haltingly. alt! “There are,” replied : dov. eee gt" “Well, then theres tion, isn’t there?” _ - “Nope. Jews there” there’s no question.’ . a ‘res GDR automation polit/| guarantees jobs, wad” By OTTO KERBS (Excerpt from pamphlet titled The Trade Unions in the German Democratic Republic, published by the Ottawa Committee for the Recognition of the GDR. Mr. Kerbs is president, Montreal Typographical Union.) Everybody wants automation. Quite contrary to the West, every worker, white or blue- collar, welcomes any device or method that shortens time spent on any particular task. It seems that, of all the foreign countries, England seems to sell the most big computers. You find English electronic technicians in many places, installing their machines. As an illustration I would cite the case of the newspaper Neues Deutschland. They bought a Linotron 505 for their compos- ing room to eventually set all their composition in cold type. In this paper a great deal of ac- curacy is demanded and before any copy went to the composing room it would be retyped by women. typists who had excel- lent knowledge of the language. They are also members of the typographers union. An attach- ment was built on to their type- writers, which would produce endless tape at the same time. The shop steward felt it would enable them to “release” 12 linotype operators. I had looked in on the training and I had seen men training, but all were under 40. I went to the national office at the union and posed the following question: “y te ae that you allow sh body who is displace mation one full year @ salary to retrain. on it replaced by automatl “A shop of Neues Deuts rand to be at least 45 yee can 8 Now tell me, wha retrain for, if he ha® wi steadily on the linotyPy ven thirty years and al his trade are closed.” _ And this was “Right now we are of men in almost any men ‘released’ wil jobs with the same Pe ity and privileges. I? he chal) men are anticipating because their new closer to their hon also say, that the eT airentiateeed! to hav & any : who are to be lay@ rable at no jobs are availa i ! moment, to stay Of 5 aval their pay, until a joP Tae! ip through attrition an ef pension, etc.) bec# fo | will always be a need itt | ators.” Rad & In_a_ planned society f ved of Py workers see the fruits mer * Dh production in shortef 4 g 0 mation and better om : duce faster are wel 0 remain fairly stable way to achieve mo ie shorter hours iS in faster. Any wage directly felt in gt power. :