BRITAIN RETURNS TORIES Labor's defeat attributed t policy failures of right win Compaigners on hustings Followers of Aneurin Bevan (above) scored several successes at the polls. The vigorous Communist cam- paign brought its 17 candidates increased votes. Big business shared Church- ill’s elation — the stock market went up. LONDON | The Conservative party, headed by Prime Minister~ Sir Anthony | Eden jwas rewurned to power in ‘lact week's British general elec- tion with an increased majority over a Labor pariy prevented by its dominant right-wing leadership from offering any effective chal- lenge to the government. The Conservatives now have a majority over Labor of 68 seats as compared with 27 in the former House of Commons and an overall majority of 60 seats. Standing of ithe parties in the new House is: Conservatives 345; Labor 277; Liberals 6; Sinn Fein (Irish Republicans) 2. Spokesmen for the right-wing Labor leadership blamed Labor’s defeat on the policy revolt led ‘by Aneurin Bevan and his follow- ers. Their bitterness obscured but could not evade the fact that the right-wing Labor leadership fail- ed. to inspire the electorate with any real alternative to Tory policy, and particularly foreign policy. The reduced Labor vote was an in- |dication that many Labor voters had lost confidence in the right- wing leader:hip because of its support of German rearmament and the Tory government’s H:bomb policies. On election night, Labor leader |Clement Attlee “offered only the librief but revealing comment that “dissension in the Labor ranks” had caused the drop in his party’s vote. & Cypriot school children defy British order. NICOSIA Cyprus schoolchildren defied the order of the British authorities to take a holiday to celebrate Empire Day (May 24) and went to school instead. In Nicosia they demonstrated in front of the government building. Police with riot shields stood on guard while police cars followed | the demonstrators. The secretariat building had been barbed-wire ringed against the children who had marched through Metaxas Square shouting: “Britain get out!” This week, the London Daily Mirror, largest mass circulation Paper generally supporting Labor, came out with the demand that At- tlee must go, indicating that At- tlee himself might become the scapegoat ror Labor’s defeat. Labor/s majorities were cut in its strongholds throughout the country, but the drop was most Pronounced in the seats held by right wing supporters. Left wing supporters, however, chalk- ed up several victories. In the reorganized division of Reading, which the Conservatives were confident ot winning, Ian Mi- kardo, Bevanite member of the Labor national executive, won by 238 votes after a recount. Another left-wing Labor execu- tive member, Anthony Greenwood, was returned in Rossendale with an increased majority. Maurice Orbach retained Wil- lesden East despite Attlee’s action in sending his Tory op- ponent a letter repudiating Or- bach’s opposition to the H-bomb. In Salford West, Charles Royle, one of the’ Labor MPs disciplined last year for opposing making of the H-bomb, won re-election, and in Salford East, a new left-winger, Frank Allaun, headed the poll. Another Bevanite, W. T. Wil- liams, won the newly created Bar- ons Court seat in London by 125 votes after a recount. The Communist party, which entered only 17 candidates, con- firmed the upward trend in its vote shown in recent municipal elections. , In the majority of the seats they contested Communists polled a higher vote than in 1951, although in the two seat; in which their vote was highest, Gobals (Glas- gow) and Stepney (London), it fell below that of 1951. But in St. Pancras North and Hornsey, both London seats, and in Wigan and Brightside, the Communist vote ro.e substantially. Most substantial increase in the Communist vots was in West Fife, where William Laughlan polled 5,389 votes, and Rhondda East, where Annie Powell polled 4,544 votes. Conservatives (Cabor. sios & Liberals Irish Nationalists Sinn Fein (Percentage of popular British election summary PARTY STANDINGS PARTY VOTES Conservatives 0.080 13,718,069 (47.97) 13,340,118 iabor. cee 3. 13,949,105 (48.78) 12,421,162 (46 Liberals 2... 730,552 ( 2.94) 717,326 Communists 21,640 (0.08) 33,154 Othels. 0 a aa 177,329 (0.23) 246,578 ( 1951 320 vote shown in brackets) 1951 1955 NEW DELHI A time-bomb caused the crash of the Air India Constellation Kashmir Princess carrying Chinese officials and newspaper corre- spondents to the Asian-African conference at Bandung in April. of an Indonesian government in- quiry made public last week. The plane crashed into the South China Sea in Indonesia waters on April 11, Fifteen of those aboard were killed and three crew mem- bers were the only survivors. China charged that the plane’ Bomb caused crash of Air India This was the: sensational finding: iexplosion in the starboat plane jtait was Pile and_ held “Hole partly responsible because gil : kong was the airliner’s las ied the fore the crash. Britain charge. The Indonesian anno released in New Delhi, § wre ge “An inspection of the ot revealed positive eviden¢ ine well of a timed infern# parts of which were sti in the. wreckage. sed Bie “The explosion aut and |puncturing of ‘No. 3 fue a fire which spread read BT BERLIN Representatives of the huge Krupps West German armaments concern are negotiating with Madrid and Paris on creating a West European atomic pool. The Hanover Confidential Bulle- tin for the Advancement of the Textile Industry says that French Foreign Minister Pinay, and the Franco regime have shown _inter- est and approval. : Uranium deposits recently dis- covered in the Spanish Sierra Ne- Krupps negotiating — for Spanish uraniv™ , vada by German experts # used and the necessary will be provided by We ges, According to the BU! project is a counter-move J British plan to establis Fes Western Europe by © nstallal and exporting atomic ins Krupps is eur ee to do the same and t r is B a superior position ove ish competitors thro European atomic po? ation with France’. vie i Spain. U.S. violates treaty by flooding Celilo Falls - THE DALLES, Ore. The spring run of salmon ils com- ing up the Columbia River on its way to the spawning grounds. And as it comes, Native Indians from all over the U.S. Pacific Northwest eonverge on Celilo Falls, their centuries-old fishing grounds. To the Native Indians the fish- ing grounds represent not only a food supply anda source of fin- ancial income. Also involved is the religious and historical ‘sym- bolism connected so closely with the fishing seasons. “The fishing begins with ritual dances and prayers designed ‘to help bring about a successful run. Celilo Falls is a fishing village of makeshift shacks and drying aes Few Natives live there on a permanent basis. The Falls consist of a series of rock ledges down which the water pours in torrents. It is here that the salmon must make a series of jumps before they can go on to their spawning grounds upstream: This affords an ideal spot for fishing. The Natives build scatf- folds above these rocks and with a strong rope ‘tied around their waists and then to some part of the scaffold, they dip ‘huge nets in the water hour after hour. Families work together, - taking shift; during the heayiest part of the run, on a 244hour schedule. * x * The Dalles is the nearest town. The Natives come here to do their shopping. In most stores they are treated ‘courteously, but there are instances when they are taught over and over again that theirs is a scenic value and ithey are not wanted as equal members of the community. For example, a Native man finds it difficult to get a haircut in The Dalles, and a Native woman does not have access to the beauty par- Indians will lose Oregon fishing shop that will not allow Native women to try on dresses. The usual discriminatory prac- tices exist as regards housing, night clubs, restaurants, although a night club may allow Natives in occasionally if the management thinks there is a possibility of trouble because of the state Fair Employment Practices law. * * a Next year will be the Jast’ one for salmon fishing at Celilo Falls. Waters backing up from The Dalles dam, now being built, will det.troy' forever this fishing Joca- tion on the Columbia — a location guaranteed ito the Indians by a treaty with the United States gov- ernment around 1855. Is it any wonder the Native In- dian; are bitter that they feel treaties with them have no mean- ing when it is expedient to the U.S. government to break them? {of another disgrac Arguments can be made that lors. There is one women’s dres} grounds _ fe iprogress; that in ease "es chosen for the am Ww. one from an engineeriNg 4 ie point; that the dam me that more electric pow® tribes involved are lump sums for 105s © other rights. : All of this is true. the Native inden pos 5 4 a sum Jarge enou pate for the lovs of future Ser oe How can they ever be Bi ee loss of historical pound up traditions so clasely ' : ge this fishing site? Brive oo The answer is Pale 76. 8. can’t. And once agit nese ernment is treatin’ eae ng at cans who were here Me Oe the white people came net ful, irresponsible mand! ot So, with the oon, the ip Falls, the U.S. come chap a e Ae hae its treatment 0 nothing can stand in the way of PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 3, jet Indian.