. Sat * United States aviation experts conceded that this Soviet TU-104 je‘ airliner was two years ahead of the U.S. after it made its historic crossing from Moscow to New York alt H-tests demands TUC SEE ORES By GEORGE SINFIELD last week, with stops at London and’ Goose Bay, Labrador. It carried Soviet diplomats to New York for opening of the UN General As- sembly nex’, week. Shown here taking off BLACKPOOL Immediate and unconditional suspension of atom and hydrogen-bomb tests was demand- ed Unanimously by the closing session of the British Trades Union Congress here on Saturday last week. The resolution also expressed the opinion that there should be an immediate cessation of Manufacture of these weapons and that no more tests should take place. oe only will the TUC Gen- yp. Council place the view of Ntain’s eight million trade lonists before the Macmillan Trerment, but through the €tnational Confederation of cae Trade Unions it will seek a llar actions by trade union- Sin other countries. Tn addition, the 1,000 dele- €s, reaffirming support for that United Nations, proposed 800 Tepresentatives of China’s i Million people should be x Mediately admitted to that Ody to assist in the task of _Uilding world peace. " ‘ot one voice was heard 8ainst either proposal. ne delegate said that na- *G Se demonstrations, similar hose of the great Char‘ist 4YS of the last century, were ®cessary to compel the gov- ™ment to act and another one industrial action if all her efforts failed. i alph Bond of the Associa- sa of Cinematograph, Tele- “Sion and Allied Technicians Tew attenion to the appalling “gers facing all humanity Particularly, he said, the Sh people. - h 9 cries of “Hear! Hear!” ‘a accused the Macmillan gov- thoment of “stalling all along © line? sq enough the Tories were {Wandering millions, he said €y must know that nulear tee Would be tantamount to lonal suicide. Agreement e Brit °'stop the tests would bring = breaih of hope to the world. urches, scientists, trade _-Mons* and the Labor party, €ed the entire people, de- -Manded an end of the tests. But the government arrogantly defied public opinion, defied world opinion, defied the con; science of. mankind. To applause, Bond added: “If the general council would take the lead, we would have the greatest “demonstrations since the days of Chartism. The government must be made to listen to the voice of the people.” Jim Gardner of the Amalga- mated Union of Foundry Workers, reminded delegates that the government now frankly admitted there was no protection against the bomb. Defense Minister Duncan San- dys had said that, in the event of war, defence would: be con- centrated on our bases. “The British people resent anything of this kind. They resent policies that inevitably lead to the tests and war,” He declared. If research was directed f peaceful means, there was ab- solutely no fear for the people and for prosperity. “We need demonstrations like those organized during the Suez crisis, he said. “The ARMS TALKS END IN DEADLOCK from Moscow airport, the jet liner made the 1,610-mile non-stop flight from Moscow to London in 3 hours 46 minutes. working man wants peace.” Denouncing the waste of re- sources on arms Bob Edwards, MP, Chemical Workers’> Un- ion, said Britain was spending $4,200 million a year — a charge of $1.68 a week on every man, woman and child. All NATO powers spent $22,400 million annually, and he thought that Soviet Russia was spending at least half thfat sum. The peoples. everywhere must go over the heads of statesmen to stop this stupid- ity, stop this madness. New disarmament move up to UN Assembly LONDON © The London disarmament talks recessed on Friday last week after nearly six months and. 70 meetings — without setting a date or place for the next meeting and without reach- ing any agreement. The disarmament issue, in- cluding the top-priority ques- tion of H-tests, will now be taken up by the United Na- tions General Assembly, which starts its new session in New York next week. The Western nations on the UN Disarmament Sub-Com- mittee Britain, the U.S., France and Canada had wanted to fix a date in Oc- tober for resumption of the committee’s meetings: But the Soviet representa- tive Valerian Zorin, pointed out that this could be used to prevent proper discussion in . the Assembly, and that no date should therefore be fixed be- fore the Assembly had finish- ed its deliberations on the question. “It seems necessary that the disarmament problems should be discussed not at private and narrow sessions of the sub- committee, but with the en- rolment of all states vitally interested in the settlement of disarmament problems,” Zorin said in a press statement after the wind-up session. Still unsolved are such prob- lems as the immediate sus- pension of atomic and hydro- gen weapon tests, the renun- ciation by states of the use of these weapons, the substantial reduction.of armed forces, and other problems. “The main reason for this situation is that the Westérn powers, as the negotiations at the sub-committee showed, have no-intention of embark- ing on the road to real disarm- ament. They have no desire whatsoever to renounce atom- ic and hydrogen bombs as weapons of war. “They do not want to stop the tests of these weapons,” Zorin said. But an agreement “is quite possible — all one needs is a desire, which, however, the governments of the Western powers represented on the sub-committee lack,” he added. “The Western Powers open- ly opposed the renunciation of the use of atomic and hydro- gen weapons, their prohib:- tion and elimination from the armaments of states, regard- ing these weapons as the foundation of their policy and military strategy.” This was “clear. evidence that the Western powers want no agreement on the _ basic question of disarmament, and that they need the negotiation in the sub-committee only to create an impression of their efforts.in this field in order to allay the fears of worid pub- lic opinion,” he said. The Western disarmament package proposals made a halt in tests “dependent on the solution of all the other problems of disarmament,” thus frustrating a solution, Zorin said. In Zorin’s opinion, the fact that four out of five members of the sub-committee were the leading powers in NATO did not help the work. For NATO’s whole policy was based on continuance of the armaments race, on the preparation of a new war in which atomic and hydrogen weapons will “be used,” he said. “The Soviet Union will go on making every effort, and using every opportunity, t? break the deadlock over the problem of disarmament. and achieve an agreement which would put an end to the arnia- ments race and remove the danger of an atomic war,” Zorin concluded. September 13, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3