Produced

900,000 metal beds to be
Will be the same year, 4,200,000
“tories eee abuted by aircraft fac:

“The 4 600,000 by arms plants.
tet v nig ustrialization of the So-
of hea On and swift development
base ral industry as a material
ditio Be ec alism has created con-
Welt or a swift advance in the
of in + our people undreamed

‘It rite declared Mikoyan.
Dlish i €en necessary to accom-
Soviet mmary tasks in building
Steat p comomy, but now many
futuye» °Ssibilities existed for the

a

'N 4

hile” We are in a position,
Continuing to develop

Producti
on of consume dg
38 © Sovi r goods.

et Union’

q S new econom-
Va «opment plan had opened
Mstas for our forward pro-

dounds»” Sigantic leaps and

M

Octobe: . Soviet trade officials on

Viet gov, the speech inspired the

y nen tment’s latest decrees

Production “ain targets for food

S0ods RS and manufacture of
. © the home market
tkoyan, :

whose report filled
m ig tees of Pravda, Soviet Com-
tore th ey Paper, noted that be-
22,099 cn of this year an extra
009 mine” roubles (about $9,-
be on 4, °™ Worth of goods would
ie home market.
percent more food
Id this year than last.
: a ares sold by
creased by 42 per-
nd butter by nearie 45 ae

the quantity of but-
A uated through the state
Would : erative trading network
times p° More than two-and-a-half
But re of 1950
eo omang had grown even
iy Peed in some places
Susag Still a Shortage of meat
and butter, .
Toduction targets f
i ets for
4597 (2Cludea: 3,445,000 Bienes,
and television sets,
i Tators, 64,000 tons
nen utensils,

: following year
bicycles, 23,000,000
000 radio and tele-
Oduect;
De aca tt Of these Goods waula
i ones. Y a constant re-
Siting Of in ane Costs through
Ca USURYs In relation to
mia. thnaie Improving quali-
inltikoyan i ISIng distribution.
® Soviet 2/80 announced : that
aS a six-month
Nearly twice
ie Sold now as in
oj
Seve Rane out there had been
 Picas in ecutive reductions in
947 Meat” Soviet Union since
Consumption in main

Nag bled Since 1950,
aber reverse of what
: 'N capitalist coun-

or example,

Rent : f
hat Ri of bread had doubled,

2 hag yet increased One and
Rea hate S, and of butter tw
Inreases times, imilar Silek
Uniteg ad occurred in the’
tye eternj . and France, s

7 Mh Sovi e wy mica =a Superiority of
vkoyan ver i
. Many Clareq: Capitalism,

ied him to sign these demands, and

Ca: . Was
tee og Countries could

for huge output of consumer goods

ee ’ MOSCOW
thig ,_ the Soviet arms industry, freed by recent cuts in defense expenditure, is to produce huge quantities of household goods. Announcing
ais last week, Soviet Trade Minister Anastas Mikoyan also stated that all goods will be cheaper. Supplies of food for the home market will be
7 1 enormously. About one-fifth more meat will be sold in stores this year than last, and nearly half as much more butter.

de Of the 3,445,000 bicycles the Soviet Union plans to produce in 1955, 500,000 wil be made by the defense industry. More than half
hag Kitchen utensils manufactured in 1955 will be produced by aircraft plants.
by the defense industry and 90

Of 330,000 refrigerators to be made in 1955, 110,000 will be

,000 by the aviation industry.

For the Soviet people “vast
by gigantic leaps and bounds.”

raise the production of goods... .
but willy-nilly they must cut down
and sometimes cease production
and close factories, because, due
to exploitation, the impoverished
workers have less and less means
of buying goods.

“With us demand moves produc-
tion forward.” :

Mikoyan said he was not against
introducing foreign methods of or-
ganization and work into Soviet
business.

“We have some model stores and
restaurants,” he said, declaring
that their example must be wide-
ly followed.

“But it must be admitted that
capitalist trade also has some
qualities which should be studi-
ed here. Owihg to competition
and difficulties in attracting cus-
tomers they have developed

vistas for our forward progress

rather good methods of organ-
izing trade.”

Where such methods were use-
ful the Soviet Union should follow
them, he added.

The Soviet government, he said,
had also decided to increase pro-
duction of vacuum cleaners and
washing machines, mechanical po-
fato-peelers and bread cutters.

He made a strong appeal to all
workers in restaurants and can-
teens, railway station buffets and
dining-cars, cafeterias and tea
rooms to improve the quality of
food and to introduce more variety
in dishes. :

“A new scale of wages for cooks
is being introduced as an incentive
for better work, he announced.

Some 11,000 new restaurants and
snack bars will be opened next
year to satisfy the growing need
of the population. :

| He is the Communist plot.

‘What are

By MALCOLM MacEWEN

LONDON

British Colonial Secretary Oliver
Lyttelton was compared last week
to Lord North, the British states-
man under King George III who
lost the American colonies.

The comparision was drawn by
Emrys Hughes, Labor MP, speak-
ing in an adjournment debate on
British Guiana in the British House
of Commons.

Stating that Lyttelton failed, to
realize he was a lineal descendant
of Lord North, Hughes declared:

“This combination of the iron
hand and the wooden head has
dogged us through British history
for hundreds of years and now it
is doing the same thing again.

“He talks about the Communists.
He is
the greatest asset to Communism
in the world today. He has creat-
ed more Communists in a few days
than Dr. Jagan (ousted prime min-
ister of British Guiana¥ could do
in 20 years.”

Recalling that Prime Minister
Nehru of India was imprisoned for
seven years and that Sir Winston
Churchill called Gandhi a “naked
fakir,” Hughes said: “Unfortunate-
ly they don’t learn anything from
history. ;

“One of the great planks in our
foreign policy is to demand free
elections for Eastern Germany.

“And here we are, supposed

to be the great supporters of
democracy in the world, we have
‘suppressed free election in a

British colony.”

Hughes said he had tried to find
out who owned British Guiana and

he had learned from the Stock Ex-

soldiers

doing in Guiana?’

change Year Book—“Mr. Lyttel-
ton’s bible’—that British Guiana
Consolidated Gold Fields, whose
chairman, Roland Robinson, MP,
is chairman of the West Indian
Committee of the Conservative
party, Owns 35,000 acres.

“The Scottish soldiers when they
see these goldfields will want to
know what it’s about.

“| think they are going to de-
fend a classic example of Brit-
ish capitalism, squalor and pov-
erty.”

Asking how long the troops
would have to stay, Hughes said:
“They have got to do the dirty
work of the British exploiters and
the incompetent British govern-
ment. '

“When they meet the people
working on the plantations they
will say: ‘We are British soldiers.’
And the workers will say: ‘You
are slaves in uniform. Shake
hands.’ 2

“We are told the argument
for conscripts and a great Brit-
ish Army is that they are to pro-
tect us at home.”

Hughes said that Dr. Jagan’s
statement that he was in favor of
a campaign of non-cooperation
was not arson, but it was a very
dangerous thing for the people
who made profits out of the gold-
fields and the sugar plantations.

Lyttelton, his voice trembling
with an anger that he could ill
conceal, replied to Hughes by
pointing out that James Griffiths,
colonial secretary in the last Labor
government, had said that he too,
would have sent troops to British

Guiana. -

POWs reveal terror inside camps

Chiang agents ‘kidnapped’

By ALAN WINNINGTON

KAESONG

Special agents of Chiang Kai-
shek captured Major General Thor-
at, commander of Indian troops at
Panmunjom, and forced him to sign
an agreement to the agents’ de-
mands. Repatriated Chinese POWs
have now told this story.

One of these prisoners, Chu Shu-
wu, stood only a few feet from the
Indian officer while the agents forc-

then seal the document with his
fingerprint before he could be re-
leased. This was on September 25.

Nine other Chinese prisoners
who also applied to go home have
corroborated Chu’s acount of
what happened.

The extraordinary situation at
the Panmunjom camps where pris-
oners coerced into refusing repat-
riation are due to hear North Ko-

rean and Chinese explanations is
shown by this fact.

two agents who led the cap-
an Hes General Thorat and
several other Indian officers were
the prisoners’ “representatives at
a meeting with General Thimmaya,
chairman of the Neutral Nations

Repatriation Committee.

For about one hour General
Thimmaya tried to “persuade
these two to allow prisoners out of
the compounds into the explana-
tion tents.

Instead, the Chinese prisoners
told me, when the agents Ying
Hsiang-yun and Liu Wen-chieh got
back to the compounds they gave
directions for the throwing of rocks
at the explainers.

They also showed on_black-
boards pretended positions where
Syngman Rhee and Chiang agents
would be waiting to kill any pris-

oner who chose the exit for re-
patriation.

The chief aim in the attack on
the Indian general was to secure
the return of a Chinese volunteer,
Wang Hsu, who risked death to es-
cape from Compound 31. Although
the general agreed to return this
man—to gain his own release—he
was not able to keep his word since
Wang Hsu had already been re-
patriated. ‘

A few seconds after the attack
an Indian lieutenant led a platoon
of armed troops into the compound

for arescue. Thorat stopped them. |.

He also ordered troops with him
not to use their truncheons.

When he had signed the agents’
document they demanded that the
Indians leave their truncheons be-
hind. They did, and walked out

unarmed.

general

SYNGMAN RHEE

While Chiang Kai-shek’s agents
organize provocations in the
POW camps and sabotage re-

patriation agreements, South Ko- |

rea‘s dictator laughs and openly
boasts of his plans to resume the
war in Korea.

- PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 6, 1953 — PAGE 3