- By ALAIN PATRIE

? “Student power in Soviet Uni-
€tsities? Most certainly,” said
pressor Evgeny Sergeev from
© University of Moscow, (Lo-
Monosovy), Professor Sergeev
nd 15 other deans of Soviet
Wiversities are attending the
Nternational Association of
Niversities Conference here in
“ontreal, °
The..600 delegates from more
than 80 countries are focussing
bee attentions on the confer-
Nce’s two main themes — inter-
National university cooperation,
Ng the university in relation to
@ needs of contemporary
Society,
What Prof. Sergeev told the
adian Tribune on the subject.

Niversity could apply to any
titute of higher learning in
€ Soviet Union.
is was one of. the topics
that had animated the delegates
© most. Student unrest, stu-
a demands for a voice in
ministration was a favorite

€nt alienation is as much a part
the university syndrome as
worker alienation in industrial
ag It cannot be different in
Society that uses people as
things, :
as point of view,” explained
: f. Sergeev, “is that the social
qebosition of universities
‘ Ould correspond to the social
Omposition of society. It is evi-
nt that the working class
Ominates society and we gave
lm power fifty years ago.”
gers basic difference in social-
F: universities is not in the
Udies but in the social aspect.
Timarily, the Soviet univer-
Sities offer free education: 80
percent of the students receive
wrens In other words, the
Bec raity pays the student for
ttending and not vice versa.
alee is the factor that eliminates
€nation. A socialist university
S a free association, not a wage
System.
Soviet students have wide

MOSCOW Aeroflot, the
World’s largest air company,
Plans to. boost the scale of its
%perations by one-third in the
Next five years. Today Aeroflot
les airlines to 57 countries and
Carries some 65 million passen-
8es annually and accounts for
Over 30% of world air carriage.

Bois Bugayev, Soviet minis-
ter of civil aviation, told jour-
Nalists this week that Aeroflot
Plans to carry 100 million pas-
Sengers a year in the mid-
Seventies. Passenger air traffic
IS the main but not the only
activity of civil aviation in the
USSR. This year, for example,
the company is aiding farmers
Y spraying mineral fertilizers
@nd chemicals on an area of
Some 200 million acres.

The early history of Soviet
Civil aviation is tied up -with
he name of Lenin, who from
the first days of socialist power
Urged the creation of an air
fleet. He signed over 200 docu-
Ments on aviation in 1918 and

the Civil War helped set up re-
‘Search and designing organiza-
tions. The Council on Civil Avia-
tion was established on Feb. 9,

Student power at Moscow —

Subject at the conference. Stu- ©

latitudes in their universities, _

1919, and during’ the period of

Soviet profs discuss

Soviet student power

They control the residences com-
pletely; they operate their own
sanitoria through their student
union; they represent 50 percent
of an examining committee that
reviews border line applications
to the school. They pursue fun-
damental subjects and optional
ones; but within each subject
they have a right, and very often
exercise it, to invite their choice
of lecturer to address them on
the subject. It would be in inad-
missible, the Pro Rector explain-
ed, that students not be given a
voice.

What about student demands
to. be allowed to interfere in
actual pedagogy? On this Prof.
Sergeev was categorical. Prob-
lems in science are not solved
by votés. It would be incorrect
to tackle all problems by votes.

There is a common problem
that faces all the universities of
the world: How to cope with the
fantastic growth of information
that has resulted from the scien-

be

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1923, and this date is considered

the birthday of civil aviation in

the USSR.
‘The initial regular flights
were between “Moscow and

Nizhny Noygorod (now the city
of Gorky). The ANT-2, the first
all-metal plane designed by An-
drei Tupolev, was introduced in
1924. The following year Soviet
pilots carried out a group flight
to Peking and back.

The world applauded the
courage of Soviet pilots Chukh-
novsky. and Babushkin who
saved members of Umberto No-
bile’s polar expedition. (This
dramatic rescue is the subject
of a recent film, The Red Tent).
In 1929 pilot Shestakov and
crew flew from Moscow to New
York in an ANT-4 plane called
Land of Soviets.

The Thirties were years of
great aviation achievements —
the saving of members of the
Otto Schmidt polar venture,

whose ship had sunk; the rec-
ord non-stop flight of Chkalov
and crew over the North Pole
to Portland, Oregon; the USSR
to USA flights of Gromov and
Kokkinaki; the flight of women

tific technological revolution?
The university has a limited
amount of years for each stu-
dent. The rector of the Univer-
sity of Alma Ata proposed that
the conference discuss the use
of computers to determine what
shall be taught, so as to remove
the obsolete and determine the
essentials.

The sincere desire of the
Soviet delegation is to see the
IAU undertake practical steps to
solve some of the most urgent
problems. “We believe,” Prof.
Sergeev explained, “that the time
has come for a start on world
teaching. Subjects such as ma-
thematics, physics, biology and
chemistry have little ideological
color. Universal curricula should
be drawn up on these subjects.
There would be no obligation or
compulsory attitude, but we
would have a standardized world
level of texts.”

The president of the Univer-
“sity of Tel Aviv, Dr. George
Wise, said that university in-
volvement in public affairs must
be limited so as to protect its
autonomy. Asked to comment on
this statement, Mr. Sergeev sug-
gested I pose this question to
Dr. Spartak Belaev, the Rector
of Novosibirsk University and
the only academician with the
delegation.

“We weigh the tasks of the
universities,” Dr. Belaev began,
“from the standpoint of the full-
grown socialist system. We hold
that institutions of higher learn-
ing, are always part and parcel
of social development as it emer-
‘gences from given conditions;
that science and education are
servants of social progress, of
the interests of the working
class and all working people, of
the happiness of mankind.

“If higher education is to do
its part. in meeting the actual
needs of society then it must
intermesh with the whole. Uni-
versities must outline the res-
ponsibilities of readers and
lecturers to make the outcome
of their work useful for peace,
humanism and social progress.”

pilots Grizodubova, Osipenko
and Raskova from Moscow to
the Far East.

Then came the war and So-
viet airmen had a new role to
play. Civil aviation flyers de-
livered ammunition and food ‘to
guerillas operating behind the
German lines, and transported
soldiers and military cargo.

The postwar years saw the
introduction of jet planes and
vast expansion of Aeroflot’s ac-
tivities, Planes were used more
and more in geological pros-
pecting and scientific research.
Air transport became a means
of mass passenger traffic to all
parts of the country. Direct
air links were established with
dozens of countries.

Today Aeroflot is the world’s
major air company. Its planes
are. famous for safety, speed
and comfort. Next year the TU-
154 willreplace the jet planes
now used on many routes. and
the supersonic TU-144 will also
start servicing air routes.

Within the borders of the
USSR air transportation is the
cheapest in the world — fares
run to about half the rate in
capitalist countries.

Ottawa ducks issue of
fishermen’s rights

By NELSON CLARKE ©
The labor movement across

family of five or more. Children
had no clothes to go to school,

Canada can do two things now - and their needs were met by two
to help the Nova Scotia fisher- truckloads from Sydney work-

men in their courageous strug-

ers, and the equivalent of a

gle, Homer Stevens, president of . truckload from Halifax.

the: United Fishermen and Al-
lied Workers’ Union told the’
Tribune in an interview this
week. :

e It can press the federal gov-
ernment for .an immediate and
forthright declaration that it

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Stevens cited the magnificent
help of one local of the Inter-
national Pulp and Paper Work-
ers in Nova Scotia, “which with
but 300 members sent a cheque
for $5,816.00.”

But funds from across the

will bring down legislation to | country are just beginning to

give

fishermen collective bar- . come. Of $55,000 so far received

gaining rights if the courts fin- - half has come from. Nova Scotia

ally decide, that this body of : labor,

and another 40% ‘from

workers is within federal juris- British Columbia.

diction.

Stevens described the present

e The labor movement can efforts of the union to get nego-
step up financial assistance to tiations going on the basis of
the embattled fishermen and the recommendations of Mr.
their families on strike in Nova Justice Green who proposed

Scotia.

that as a “primary and interim

_ The question of jurisdiction is " measure,” discussions On work-
now before the Nova Scotia | ing conditions should take place
Court of Appeals. But pending between fishermen elected as re-

the outcome of. this legal pro-

presentatives and spokesmen for

cedure, the demand has been, aS ,_ the company.

Stevens emphasized, “that both |

In line with this the Union has -

the Nova Scotia and federal min-| agreed that its own officers,:

isters of labor should pledge to
enact collective bargaining legis-

and clergymen selected by the
workers as advisors stay out of

lation dependiig on which way the meetings. It has even agreed

the court rules.”
Nova Scotia Labor Minister

to remove picket lines so that
plants and boats could be

T. J. McKeough has made such | readied for operations, and to

a declaration on several occa-

allow removal of processed fish

sions, and has been backed by. and fish meal from inside the

Premier G. I. Smith.
But this, Stevens points out

plants.
But nothng will satisfy the

is relatively easy for the Nova companies except total surrrend-

Scotia Tory government, be-
cause. all informed opinion is

er as contained in their demand
that they be allowed to send

- that the court will rule that the out boats to catch more fish.

fishermen come under federal
law.
“Federal Labor Minister Bryce

So the picket lines stand firm

_ and the fight goes on.

Stevens provided some inter-

Mackasey”, says’ Stevens, “has | esting side-lights on the Nova

flatly. refused to give any decla-
ration.” He showed the Tribune
a letter from Mackasey’s As-
sistant Deputy Minister which
ignores the union’s representa-
tions and simply refers them
back to the parties to the dis-
pute in Nova Scotia.

Behind these evasions, Stev-
ens is convinced lies the pres-

‘sure of the Fisheries , Council

which wants fishermen finally to
be declared not workers, but
“co-adventurers,’ who have no
right to bargain collectively. and
who will be then totally left to
the mercy of the big packing
companies.

The morale of the Nova Sco-
tia workers is high, Stevens
stressed. “They are determined
to stand firm for as long as their
difficult struggle lasts.”

But there is real hardship with
the union only able to provide
over the last five and a half
months strike pay ranging from
$10.00 per week for single men,

up to

Scota political situation. The
Smith government is nervous
about the fishermen’s struggle
so strongly supported by the
Nova Scotia Federation of Labor.
When it called the present prov- !
incial election it had believed
that talks were finally going to
get started on the basis of the
Green recommendations. But in-
stead the Packers pressed their
impossible demands.
‘What is needed now. says
Stevens are big mass public

‘meetings to bring forward the

issues involved. He hopes that
these will be initiated by the
Nova Scotia Federation of Labor,
and that the people of Nova Sco-:.
tia will make clear that they ex-
pect their government to meet.
the threat of the Packers to
close down and move out, by a
statement. that they are ready
to take over and operate the
plants under government con-
trol as has been done with the
steel plant at Sydney and the

$20.00 for those with a ‘heavy water plant:

Girl students in GDR

BERLIN (ADN) — The enrol-
ment of 100 girls for mathema-
tics studies in 1970/71 is.a re-
cord result for Leipzig’s Karl
Marx University (German De-
mocratic Republic). The female
students enrolled for mathema-
tics studies in 1970 thus out-
number the certificated mathe-
maticians trained at this uni-
versity in the past 20 years.

Altogether some 2,500  stu-
dents commence studies at Karl
Marx University on September
1, 1970. For mathematics four
times as many young people as
in 1968 were enroled. In phy-

sics, chemistry, biology, Marx-
ism-Leninism and teachers’
training in 1970 almost twice as
many new students as in the.
previous year were enrolled.

Nearly. 6,000 students were
enrolled this year at the eight
Dresden universities and colleg-
es and will take up their. stu-
dies by mid-September. Over
3,100 high-school graduates have
een newly matriculated at the
Technical University, and 980 at,
the Transport.College. The num-
ber of students in Dresden is”
now far over 30,000. _ —

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