. Sat

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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