By TOM FOLEY NEW YORK — “The situation in Northern Ireland is into!er- able. People just can’t live this way any longer,” Mrs. Margaret Murray of Belfast told a news conference here. Mrs. Murray, mother of five children, told newsmen that. the brutality of the British troops “has to be seen to be believed.” Mrs. Murray’s sister-in-law was shot and killed by British soldiers. Two of her brothers, now interned in Long Kesh con- centration camp, were so badly tortured during their British military police interrogation that their cases have been taken up by Amnesty International, the London-based political prisoners’ organization. A third brother re- quired 12 stitches to close a face wound inflicted by a British Army rifle-butt. “My brother, Colum, was ar- rested by two detectives on Aug. 16,” Mrs. Murray said. “He was punched, kicked and beaten for 43 hours of ‘interrogation.’ They kept putting a gun to his head and pulling the trigger, telling him he was going to die.” Mrs. Murray said she belonged to no political organization, legal or illegal. She added, “T used to . say when I heard these torture stories, ‘This is IRA propagan- da.’ But then I saw my brother six days after his ‘interrogation’ and I could still see the marks of the beatings on him. “My brother, Eamon, was ar- rested later, and when I went to see him, he didn’t even recog- nize me.” Mrs, Murray said Amnesty International had examined the documentary evidence of her two brothers’ torture and agreed to present their cases before the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Court. Her brothers are now in Long Kesh concentration camp _ in (1) Arrest without warrant; corpus or a court of law; any hours of day or night; answer 8 question; property; imprisoned without trial; ‘ regulations.” leliovable brutality’ The Special Powers Act Northern Ireland Under the Act the authorities are empowered to: (2) imprison without charge or trial and deny recourse to hebeus (3) Enter and search homes without warrant, and with force, at (4) Declare a curfew and prohibit meetings, assembiles (includ- ing fairs and markets) and processions; Permit punishment by flogging: Deny claim to a trial by jury: Arrest persons it Is desired to examine as witnesses, forcibly detain them and compel them to answer questions, under penalties, even if answers may incriminate them. Such a person is gullty of an offence if he refuses to be sworn or ; (8) Do any act involving interference with the rights of private (9) Prevent access of relatives or legal advisers to @ person Prohibit the holding of an inquest after a prisoner's death; Arrest @ person who “by word of mouth”. spreads falee reports or makes false statements; Prohibit the circulation of any newspaper: Prohibit the possession of any film or gramophone record; Arrest @ person who does anything “‘caiculated to be pre- judicial to the preservation of peace or maintenance of order _- In Northern Ireland and not specifically provided for In the Northern Ireland, Mrs. Murray said, under the internment pro- visions of the Special Powers Act, which allow them to be held indefinitely without charge or trial. There are 1,200 prison- ers at Long Kesh, she said. “It’s bitter cold in Long Kesh,” she said. ‘‘The prisoners have no heat, no proper clothing, and no regular facilities for washing. They are all very dirty and many have come down with scabies.” Asked about religious differ- ences in Northern Ireland, she said: “I fear the British troops more than the Protestants. I feel as a mother that most Protes- tant and Catholic mothers want peace more than anything. I think most people feel that way. The bombings that go on are acts of desperation, of retalia- tion for unbelievable brutality people can’t endure. “We want to smash intern- ment. Either let the men go or bring them to trial is what we say.” Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Maire Meehan, and a woman friend were both shot and killed by British soldiers while riding through Belfast in a car. The British military claimed at the time that both women were dressed in military uni- forms, as “IRA auxiliaries,” but photographs taken on the scene of the shooting clearly showed the two women wearing ordin- ary civilian clothes. Both women were shot in the back of the head at close range. Mrs. Murray said they had been demonstrating a new type of horn used as a warning device by women in Belfast action committees to alert neighbor- hoods to the presence of British troops. The troops were known to be very angry about this, she said. = By B. BULATOV The world has marked the 23rd anniversary of the Univer- sal Declaration of Human Rights. Twenty-three years is an adequate amount of time for the noble principles proclaimed by the UN to be implemented. What could and should be said in relation to this? First of all, that the granting of political and civil rights to people is a sheer formality if they lack the opportunity to ex- ercise economic and _ social rights as well. No genuine per- sonal freedom can exist without the guaranteed right to work, rest, education, and maintenance in old age or in case of sickness. The pitiful speakers who have been yapping in London’s Hyde Park for decades about the ne- cessity to respect human dignity have not brought the triumph of social justice nearer by one iota. But then it is an absurd idea to speak of social fairness in the world of capitalism. The money- bags who constitute less than 1% of the population in the USA appropriate two-thirds of the country’s national income. The wealth of three clans of multibillionaires — the Rockefel- lers, DuPonts and Mellons—ex- ceeds one year’s wages and the entire savings of all. American workers. Liberation of Labor The implementation of the basic human freedoms and rights depends on the socio-economic pattern of society. The liberation of labor from exploitation is the main condition for genuine per- sonal freedom. Experience has shown that only socialism liber- ates labor and secures real equality in all respects for each and every member of society. It was not by chance that the USSR and other socialist coun- tries insisted, in spite of the re- sistance put up by the capitalist West, that the clauses on social, economic and cultural rights of man be incorporated in the De- claration. M. Cranston, an Eng- lish jurist, had to admit in his book What Are Human Rights?, which is inimical to socialism on the whole, that the inclusion of economic and social rights in the Universay’ Declaration of Human Rights constituted a considerable diplomatic victory scored by the communist coun- tries in the UN. Labor is the source of man’s subsistence, and therefore the right to work is the main one among socio-economic human rights. The chapter on the fun- damental rights and duties of citizens in the USSR Constitu- tion starts as follows: “Citizens of the USSR have the right to work, that is, the right to guar- anteed employment and payment for their work in accordance with its quantity and quality. The right to work is ensured by the socialist organization of the national economy, the steady growth of the productive forces of Soviet society, the elimination of the possibility of economic crises, and the abolition of un- employment.” Jobs Are Assured The recently adopted Law on the 9th Five-Year Plan lays it down that state capital invest- ments will grow by almost 40% by 1975, as compared with 1970. The increase in industrial pro- duction will be nearly 50%. It is planned to create approximately 10,000,000 news jobs. In other words, the right of Soviet man to work will be even more firmly _guaranteed. The Soviet working people are absolutely assured of their future. This is not the case -communal Expanding power for new industry guarantees jobs. The Burshtyf heat and power plant on the Bug River is the largest in the Lvo¥ power system. in the world of capitalism, which is now passing through a period of industrial depression, and where unemployment rages. “Situations vacant’”’ advertise- ments, saying “We need turners, fitters, milling-machine opera- tors, engineers, technicians, bookkeepers,” etc.—hang by the entrances of industrial enter- prises, research institutions and offices in the USSR. Just Wages “Everyone who works,” says the Universal Declaration, “has the right to just.and favorable remuneration ensuring for him- self and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protec- tion.” The minimum wage: in many areas of our country is to be raised to 70 roubles per month in the forthcoming year of 1972, according to the Law on the 9th Five-Year Plan. Seventy roubles is, of course, a modest sum, but then it is the minimum wage. On the whole, the average monthly wage of Soviet working people will increase to 150 roubles in the forthcoming five- year period and, with account taken: of the payments made from public consumption funds, it will amount to 200 roubles. It would be quite opportune here to remind the reader that the “USSR has low taxes, one of the lowest rents in the world (6-8% of one’s wages, as against 25- 30% in the USA), low prices for services, transport, etc.; free medical care and free education at all levels. The stan- dard of life of the Soviet people is by no means the highest in the world as yet. But what is important is the trend of its steady growth. Equal Pay “Everyone,” states the Decla- ration, “without any discrimina- tion, has the right to equal pay for equal work.” The question arises, how is this article implemented? Any discrimination with respect to labor -remuneration has been eradicated in the Soviet Union, while the USA has no all-Amer- ican law on equal pay for equal work. The ‘New © York * Daily World wrote that if all the wom- “ciety is democracy for the Nou | : a St e « A en workers in the USA woulds overnight turn into men, the | employers would have to payr 10,000 million dollars more ime: wages than at present. Is thatts not a feature of the other capi, talist countries as well? K The right to work cannot bey: separated from a person’s attita tude towards labor. Man_ nott only has the right to work im socialist society, but work is hisA foremost primary duty as wellic The USSR, which has abolishedli: exploitation of man by man forti ever, has no classes or social: groups free from the obligatiome to work. We cannot conceive @. life of idleness or parasitism. \d The overwhelming majority of} Soviet people cannot even ima gine life without work. Theif\t life, of course, includes innume erable other things as well, bulh it is precisely labor which they consider to be their vocation and, the purpose of life. Therefore, honest and enthusiastic work: elevates a man in the eyes Oh Soviet society, and makes him an example to be copied. The social ist emulation campaigns — thal mighty stimulus of economigl development — are based upon this feature of free labor, which* becomes not only a duty, but a natural necessity as well. | Persecute Parasites {t Every able-bodied person if, a socialist society must work\¢ This obligation is not only 4 | moral norm, but is supported by law. The state, acting on behall; of the working people, pers; cutes the few parasites and usé\,, severe sanctions against them\,. We think that forcing a parasit\, to become a human being i highly democratic and humane, Naturally, our enemies do no, like this. They raise a hullabal\ loo about “the stifling of demQ cracy” and try to describe thi parasites sent to do obligato labor as some kind of “cham pions of freedom,” “‘social pro\, testers,” etc. Let us remin( everyone once again that thi; principle of socialism is, “ \ who does not work neither shi he eat.” As for the concept democracy, it was always a clas | concept, and remains such. Thy democracy of our socialist $0, ; tu ing people. (Moscow New PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1972—PAGE 6