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British Labor party opens
campaign against H-tests

LONDON — The British Labor Party and Trades Union Congress have
launched a national campaign against nuc ear warfare,

ences of local Labor parties and trade union branches.
as announced by the international sub committees of

1 The British government should make a serious effort to
bring about summit talks in the near future;

2 1: should immediately give a lead to other nations by sus-

pending British H-tests;

> Simultaneously the British government should press for a
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general agreement to’ end all tests, hydrogen and atomic —
if necessary as a separate measure — distinct from any wider

disarmament measures;

4 Agreement on tests must lead, within a reasonable Period,
to real progress on the basic problem of general disarma-

ment;

A. general disarmament aereement should include a dec-
laration banning the use of all nuclear weapons;

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be discontinued forthwith:

Patrols by aircraft based in Britain carrying H-bombs should

P7 Ne. nhvsical stens chanld be taken to set un missile bases
in Britain hefore a fresh attempt has been made to negotiate

with the Soviet Union.

The declaration described
the present situation as an
“unprecedented menace to the
people of the world.” Britain
was particularly vulnerable.

Britain should test the “sin-
cerity” of the Soviet offer to
suspend the tests. The govern-
ment should press for interna-

tional agreement on the mat-
ter.

But in the hope that agree-
ment could be hastened, and
2 lead given toward general
disarmament, the government
should unilaterally. suspend
tests for “a limiteg period.”

The declaration refers to
“Soviet preponderance” — in
conventional arms, but omits
details of Soviet offers to re-
duce such arms.

It added, however, that it
seemed “logical” and “sane”
to attempt to meet Soviet pro-
posals for a nuclear ban by
negotiating the removal of the
“preponderance” in Soviet con-
ventional arms and forces.

The early conclusion of a
non-aggression treaty between
East and West would similarly
help to build confidence, the
declaration continued.

On disengagement in Eur-
ope, which could range from
a nuclear-free zone to more el-
aborate schemes for a neutral
area, the declaration suggests
that agreement on such lines
could be sought with the
“Communist powers” provided
that the “balance of security
is maintained.”

U.S. planes carrying H-
bombs over Britain increased

international mistrust and ten-
sicns, the declaration said. But
instead of calling for a com-
plete ban, the Labor party and
TUC suggests that the carry-

‘ing of H-bombs should be lim-

ited to transport of weapon
stocks. Dummy bombs should
be carried on training flights.

Agreeing that there had been
much “public concern” over
the agreement to set up rocket
bases “of American origin” in
Britain, the declaration re-
treats from the overwhelming

demand caliing for a ban on all
rocket bases.

The declaration said that
bases should be British con-
trolled. It added that no
attempt should be made to set
them up until negotiations
with the Soviet government
had been sought.

starting with regional confer.
Policy objectives of this campaign
the two bodies last week, are:

China's first
A-plant ready

By ALAN WINNINGTON

PEKING — China’s first 7,-
000-kilowatt atomic reactor
and 25-million electronic volt
cyclotron have been mainly

completed with Soviet help, it

was announced here last week.
The announcement was made
at a meeting of the planning
committee for the develop-
ment of science, which review-
ed the tremendous advances
being made in all scientific
fields.

Among the successes report-
ed for Chinese scientists un-
aided were completion of an
electrostatic generator, voltage
multiplier and beta-ray spec-
trometer for research into nu-
clear physics.

The making of semi-conduc-
tors is already proceeding.

Reports on newly discovered
huge deposits of coal, iron, oil,
managanese, copper, lead, zinc,
bauxite and molybdenum were
given to the meeting.

Chinese scientists have dis-
covered a method of making
synthetic oil which is superior
to the normal method and
cheaper.

China’s' average daily out-
put of iron per cubic metre of
available volume of. blast fur-
nace space is 1.32 tons — high-
er than the United States and
Britain — while the highest
level is 1.5 tons.

RUSH LEVELS CHARGE

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___ People information about arrangements to erect io)
installations like this on Canadian territory? This we fo
was posed this week by Maurice Rush, LPP candida™

Vancouver Centre. Above js shown the United states
supersonic Bomarco missile,

AGAINST PM

Facts on U.S. missile bases

Prime Minister Diefenbaker
is holding back a public an-
nouncement on secret negotia-
tions with Washington for
U.S. missile bases in Canada

until the election is out of the
way, Mauric Rush, LPP can-
didate for Vancouver Centre,
charged this week in a broad-
east over station CKWX.
Pointing to recent state-
ments by Diefenbaker and
Liberal leader Lester B. Pear-
son that peace is not an issue
in this election, Rush said there

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exists a tacit agreement be-
tween the Conservative and
Liberal parties to keep the is-
sue of peace and Canadian
foreign policy out of the elec-
tion campaign. He said both
old-line parties are anxious to
keep this country tied to the
suicidal cold war policies of
John Foster Dulles and the
U.S. State Department and
want to avoid widespread
public discussion of this vital
question.

Condemning Tory and Lib-
eral leaders for failure to

withheld |

meetings and against Dulles’

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speak out in favor of summit ernments. He said thé! i,
sabotage of an early meeting,

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candidates, CCF had ? 2

Rush said the two leaders of tered a word on the pia

establishment of U.S: A

the old-line political parties
act as if a summit meeting to support Canada’s ad
were of no concern to Canadi- to the NATO military a
ans. Only popular pressure, in Rush said the LPP
which every citizen had a re- new national policies
sponsibility, for an early sum- would make this cov” t
mit meeting, could compel bridge for peace. inste?®
them to change their attitude. launching site for nucle ¢
Rush criticized leaders of He urged withdrawal ° j

the CCF for supporting the military establishmeD® ,
rejection of U.S. prop?
establish missile baseS ~ ~

Mareh 14, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PA

main foreign policies pursu-
ed by Liberal and Tory gov-