WEST GERMAN COMMUNISTS MADE GAINS

DUESSELDORF — West Germany’s Communists made impor-
tant gains in the recent parliamentary elections, German Commu-
nist Party (DKP) Chairman Kurt Bachmann told a meeting of the
DRP Board in Duesseldorf. In the 90-day election campaign, the
DKP gained 2,233 new members and founded 41 new primary or-
ganizations (clubs). It received tremendous publicity in the West
German news media and increased sales and subscriptions to the
DKP paper, Unsere Zeit. In the election, the first in which the DKP
took part nationwide, it received 113,000 votes.

NO TAKE-HOME GOLD

MAGGNA, Utah — Workers at the gold refinery of Kennecott
Copper Corp. work in a sealed area, in a special uniform and are
required to showed thoroughly after each shift.

Their uniforms are processed each day and the shower water is
filtered to pick up stray particles of gold dust. The refinery pro-

_ duces about 400,000 ounces of gold yearly as .a byproduct of cop-

per mining.

MORE THAN 1,000,000. STRIKE IN ITALY

ROME — More than 1,000,000 Italian civil service workers and
teachers went on 48-hour strike last week not only to demand
higher wages but also to demand drastic changes in Italy’s out-
dated administrative and educational systems. The teachers’ strike,
which interestingly has the support of most students, involves
about 700,000 people and has the united backing of all teachers’
unions; more than 300,000 government workers also are on strike,
forcing government offices to close down throughout the country.

BRITISH SOLDIERS BALK AT GOING TO ULSTER

LONDON — More than 30 men of the Second Paratroop Bat-
talion have refused to serve with British Occupation troups in
Northern Ireland. This is the outfit that fired on a peaceful demon-
stration in Londonderry on Jan. 30, killing 13. It is again being
dispatched to Ulster.

Press reports say the British Defense Ministry is ‘‘seriously al-
armed” by falling morale of British Occupation troops.

U.S.-BRITISH FIRMS HELP APARTHEID

LONDON — Sonny Leon, president of the Colored Labor Party
of South Africa, said in London last week that U.S. and British
investment help South Africa’s racists carry out their apartheid
policy. :

“Very few American or British concerns are prepared to give
our people responsible and meaningful positions,” Leon said, “‘be-
cause they (the concerns) have adopted the baasskap attitude.”
Baasskap is an Afrikans word meaning “‘boss-ship,” or white su-
premacy. In South Africa, officially, people are divided into the
categories of Bantu (African), about 15 million; European, 3.8 mil-
lion; Colored (mixed), two million, who are also subjected to apar-
theid segregation and discrimination. There is a separate ‘‘Asian”’
category for people of Indian and Pakistani ancestry.

WHITLAM WANTS INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIA

CANBERRA — Australian Labor Party leader Gouph Whitlam
said he wants Australia to have an independent foreign policy, ona
nationwide television broadcast after he was sworn in as Australia’s

-new Premier in Canberra.

Labor won Australia’s elections on December 2, ending 23-year

rule of the conservative Liberal Party, which followed a strongly
_ pro-U.S. imperialist line. Whitlam said:
“The general direction of my thinking is towards a more inde-
pendent Australian stance in international affairs—an Australia
’ which will be less military oriented, an Australia which will be
less military oriented, an Astralia which will be less open to sug-
gestions of racism, an Australia which will enjoy a growing stand-
ing as a distinctive, tolerant, cooperative and well-regarded nation,
not only in the Asian and Pacific region, but in the world at large.”
Both Australia and New Zealand, which also has a new Labor

government, are expected to stress independence. Whitlam plans:

to end Australia’s military draft immediately.

U.S.-USSR trade cooperation took a giant step forward recently as

- U.S. grain was loaded on to the Soviet ship M-V Kasimov. The ship’s

captain, V. Strunets (right) chats with Fred M. Seed, president of

Cargill, Inc., the company loading the ship, and Konstantin G. Tretja-

/ Kov (left), commercial counsellor of the Soviet Embassy, Washington.
» PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1972—PAGE 4

50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE USSR®*

Gala Toronto fete held |

The 50th Anniversary of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics was celebrated at Lord
Simcoe Hotel, Toronto on De-
cember 8, as 350 members and
friends of the Canada-USSR As-
sociation heard Soviet Ambas-
sador, Boris P. Miroshnichenko
commend the policy of peaceful
coexistence, and the continuing
growth in trade and exchange of
visitors, between Canada and
the USSR.

Mrs. Margaret Birch, newly
appointed Minister of Youth of
the Ontario government, greet-
ed the gathering on behalf of
Premier Davis and said that the
development of personal rela-

. tionships between citizens of

the two nations was a positive
contribution to understanding
and world peace.

Special guests at the banquet
included members of the tour-
ing Soviet Selects hockey team,
a part of the 20-member cultu-
ral delegation from the Latvian
Socialist Republic now on tour
in Canada, Captain William Pet-
rov and two mates of the Soviet

ship Tsimlyansegas, now docked ,

at Toronto Harbor, and Dr.
Robert Morford, Executive Di-
rector of the American-Soviet
Friendship Association.

Andrei Starovoitov, key man
in‘ the Soviet hockey set-up, who
was accompanying the team,
said that friendly competition

between Canadian and Soviet.

hockey teams would continue
to grow, and that mutual ad-
vantage would come from this.
Gordon Dukes, Executive Sec-
retary of the Canadian Amateur

Hockey Association, which is
hosting the Soviet Select team,
said that the Soviet team had
been “lucky” in their 3-2 defeat
of Hamilton Redwings, the pre-
vious evening, but felt that re-
gardless ofthe outcome of the
current series, it would be ad-
vantageous to both nations.

A hockey stick and pennant
autographed hy the Soviet play-
ers, was presented to Mrs.
Margaret Birch, and to Michael
Lucas, executive secretary of
the Canada-USSR Association,
who was chairman of the cele-
brations, as a memento of the
occasion.

Prime Minister Trudeau sent
the following greeting to the
banquet guests: “It is with re-

gret that I am unable to join |

members of the Canada-USSR

Association as you celebrate the -

50th Anniversary of USSR to-
night. To all those assembled !
send greetings and best wishes
for a most enjoyable and suc
cessful evening.” Pierre Elliott
Trudeau, Prime Minister.
Entertainment following the
banquet was provided by the
Women’s Choir of the Federa-

tion of Russian Canadians, the

choir of the United Jewish Peo-
ples’ Order, and by the 100-
strong Shevchenko Male Choir
and Orchestra. Artists from the
Soviet group, touring Canada,
presented songs and a_ solo
violin rendition of the music of
their Latvian Socialist Republic.

Wicks in Globe and Mail, Toronto
“Did you say two pounds of steak, Mrs. Brown?”’

By V. OSIPOV

UNITED NATIONS — On
Nov. 29 the United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly adopted one of
the most important decisions
ever taken in the history of this
organization — a resolution on
the non-use of force in inter-
national relations and permanent
prohibition of the use of nuclear
weapons. Z

In this resolution the General
Assembly solemnly declared, on
behalf of all the member-states
of the United Nations, to reject
the use of force or the threat of
its use in all forms and mani-
festations, in international rela-
tions, in accordance with the
UN Charter, and to prohibit nu-
clear weapons for all time.

The resolution recommended
that the Security Council take
corresgonding mesures as soon
as possible for the complete im-
plementation of this statement
of the United -Nations.

Major Success for Peace

The adoption of this resolution
is unquestionably a major suc-
cess of the peace-loving forces
in the United Nations Organiza-
tion and at the same time still
another conspicuous merit of the
foreign policy and diplomacy of
the Soviet Union.

It should be recalled that the
proposal itself and the argu-
ments in favor of its endorse-
ment were first made just before
the opening of the current ses-
sion of the Genéral Assembly in
the letter of Soviet Foreign Min-
ister A. A. Gromyko to UN Sec-
retary-General K. Waldheim.

“Our country,” read the let-
ter, “proceeds from the possibi-
lity to do away with, or at any

rate, to firmly mitigate the threat
of any conflict which may cause
a nuclear catastrophe. This may
be achieved if the rejection of
the use of force in international
relations is raised to the level of
international law and simultan-
eously, I wish to stress — sim-
ultaneously, the use of nuclear
weapons is banned.” |
In Interests of All

The overwhelming majority of
the member-states of the United
Nations recognized the reason-
ability and expediency of such

an approach as the most realistic °

and maximum effective in con-
temporary conditions. This as
we see, found expression in the
resolution that was adopted.

It is quite obvious that the
present decision meets the inter-
ests of all states irrespective of
their social systems, of the size
of their territories and the num-
ber of their population, irrespec-
tive of whether or not they pos-
sess nuclear weapons. It is no
wonder that the very idea of
such a decision was given sup-
port not only within the United
Nations itself, but proved to be
close to and understandable to
the broadest strata of the world
public,

It is characteristic that only

four delegations voted against

the resolution on the non-use of
force and the permanent prohi-
bition of nuclear weapons, name-
ly, the delegations of China, Al-
bania, Portugal and the Republic
of South Africa.

The unanimity reached by the
Chinese representatives with the
Portuguese colonialists and the
South-African racists is quite a
natural development resulting
from Peking’s policy of rabid

anti-Sovietism and resistance to

any proposals coming from the ,
Soviet Union. The position taken |

by these four countries under-

scores the timeliness and need —
for the resolution which was |

adopted. That very same day the

UN General Assembly endorsed —
another resolution proposed by —
the Soviet Union and several

socialist countries: the convoca-
tion of a world conference on
disarmament.

New Sentiments .

The importance of these de-

cisions adopted by the United

Nations are significant as a sign

of the new sentiments in the
UN and of the determination of
the overwhelming majority of its
members to exclude war from

the life of human society, to

avert the threat of a nuclear
holocaust from present and fu-
ture generations.

These decisions are a reflec-

tion of the serious political and
psychological change which is

currently taking place in the —

world in favor of international

relaxation, a reflection of the be- _

lief in the possibility of peace
without predatory wars and the
burdens of the arms race.

Last but not least, these de-
cisions are very important in the
developing process of transition

from the “cold war” and armed — }
to negotiations, |
and from negotiations to coop- _

confrontation

eration, benefiting all countries
and peoples.

They constitute, together with ee
the major international acts and
agreements of recent times, sub- _

3

stantial elements of the future |

system of Stable peace. There
are ever greater possibilities of
creating it.