sch A Sa a a Support South Africa’s militant Black workers! AN APPEAL TO ALL COUNTRIES BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY The first half of 1973 has seen the oppressed working people of our country moving into action in many fields to challenge the regime of white domination and _ starvation wages. The’ massive strike movement which spread from Natal, involving tens of thousands of Black workers, is striking evidence of a new wave of unity and militancy. It is a serious legal crime for Af- ricans to strike, punishable by heavy prison sentences. It is customary for an army of police to descend on strikers, employing tear gas, baton charges, police dogs and even fire- arms to drive the workers back to work. This time the movement was too strong, widespread and militant for such methods to suceed in breaking the workers’ spirit and unity. The workers came out into the streets on demonstrations—on at least one occasion, headed by the red flag. They sang the forbidden songs of the African National Congress. The South African Government is in an insecure and precarious situation. African guerrillas are win- ning advances in the _ bordering regions of Angola, Mozambique,- Zimbabwe and Namibia. In South Africa there is the ever present The fascist government of South Africa maintains unyielding terror against the patriotic and democratic forces of the country... threat of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed liberation wing of the move- ment. In this position the Vorster regime felt obliged to avoid a show- down with the workers. The State and the employers: were compelled to behave with restraint. Some pay concessions were made, even on the mines and other industries which had not actually been involved in strikes. True, these increases were small in cash terms and did not even com- pensate for the increase of prices resulting from inflation. Most Af- rican workers are still paid at rates below subsistence level. The workers have by no means won all their demands. Their trade unions are still unrecognized; their strikes illegal; many leaders have been victimized. But they have taught the employers and the Gov- ernment a salutary lesson. And the workers themselves have begun to learn the immense power they have in their hands once they are organ- ized and determined. The Government: and the employ- ers (aided by the white-dominated “official” trade unions, collaborators with apartheid) are trying to prov- ide a safety-valve by setting up dummy “works councils,’ company unions, or black unions subordinat- ed to the white-led Trade Union Council, TUCSA. To advance and consolidate their struggle Africans will reject such diversions, demand full trade union rights, including the right to strike, and build up the South African Congress of Trade Unions, the only truly representa- tive workers’ industrial organiza- tion, which has courageously fought every ‘form of color bar since its inception 18 years ago. The strike movement has given fresh impetus to the world move- ment of sympathy and _ solidarity with the oppressed people of South Africa in their fight against apar- theid and white terror. The Soviet Union and the other socialist countries; the members of the Organization for African Unity and the lands of Asia and Latin America and the national liberation movements in other regions striving for freedom, have maintained and intensified their consistent support for the South African revolution- aries. The working class in Britain, the United ‘States, the German Federal Republic and other imperialist coun- tries have raised sharp questions concerning the way, in which the monopoly capitalists and their coun- GENEVA (ADN)—West Ger- The massive strike movement involving tens of thousands of Black workers is evidence of a new wave of unity and militancy ... tries — through South Africa subsi- diaries and branches — are extract- ing profits from forced labor and apartheid. The great Trade Union Confer- ence against Apartheid held at Geneva on 15-16 June 1973, repres- enting 186 million workers and unit- ing for the first time for-many years, all the main .detachments of the trade union movement, unanimously denounced apartheid and race dis- crimination as a crime against humanity and called for a whole series of practical measures to be taken by governments, trade unions and employers to bocyott racist South Africa and render fin- ancial, moral and material support to the workers and people of South Africa “through their authentic trade union and political organiza- tions.” Despite such powerful internal and external pressures, the fascist government of South Africa main- tains unyielding terror against the patriotic and democratic forces of the country. Like thousands of other victims of repression, Mandela, Sisulu, Kath- rada and the other heroes of the Rivonia Trial of ten years ago are still serving life sentences under abominable conditions in the hellish prison of Robben Island and other jails. Abram Fischer, eminent advoc- ate and Communist, now in his 65th year and seriously ill, languishes in Pretoria Central prison for a life sentence, notwithstanding appeals for his release from church leaders and other notable South Africans. Savage sentences of imprisonment were recently imposed on the “Pre- and financial credits they set in Krupp groups support ¢ man firms have trebled invest- motion the inflow of capital perimental nuclear rea toria Six” — Petrus Mthembu, Gar- dener Sejaka, Theophilus Cholo, Jus- tice Mpanza, Alexandre Moumbaris and Sean Hosey — for the “crime” of struggling for the liberation of our motherland. Inside South Africa the call has gone out from the Communist Party and the national liberation move- ment to raise still higher the banner or resistance; to organize and carry out every form of struggle, legal and illegal, violent and non-violent, until the fascist racialists are overthrown and the people win their freedom. We, the South African Commun ist Party, call upon the millions of opponents of apartheid in every country to intensify their splendid campaigns of solidarity; to isolate and quarantine the racists in every field, political and economic; in com merce, diplomacy, sport and culture: We appeal with confidence to our comrades of the Communist am Workers’ Parties in all countries t0 take a leading and dynamic part implementing the resolutions of the U.N. and the Geneva Conference. NO TRUCK WITH THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS OF PRETORIA! NO ARMS — INVESTMENTS — TRADE — WHITE IMMIGRATION — FOR-SOUTH AFRICA! THROW VORSTER OUT OF NAMIBIA! NO APARTHEID TEAMS IN WORLD SPORT! FREE MANDELA, _ SISULU, KATHRADA, FISCHER AND ALD POLITICAL PRISONERS! EXPEL SOUTH AFRICA FROM THE UNITED NATIONS! FORWARD TO A FREE, DEMO CRATIC SOUTH AFRICA! FRG invests in Apartheid ed the a Former president of the United Mine Workers, W. A. “Tony” Boyle, flanked by federal agents, is led away to face charges of murdering Joseph A. Yablonsky, leader of the rank and file movement which challenged Boyle’s domination of the union. Yablonsky, his wife and daughter were shot as they slept by hired killers in 1969. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1973—PAGE-10 ae) ments in South Africa between the end of 1963 and mid-1969. In 1970, a total of 102 firms in- cluding the Krupp, Siemens and Farbwerke Hoechst trusts main- tained subsidiary companies in South Africa. These figures are drawn from a documentation on foreign in- vestments in the apartheid State by an exiled South Afri- can publicist, Ruth First, who has been living in London. The cocumentation was published by the United Nations. According to. Mrs. First banks of the Fede- ral Republic of Germany were among the first from abroad to have established branches in Johannesburg. The Commerz- bank, the Dresdner Bank and the Deutsche Bank all have branch offices in South Africa. Through loans; — obligations’ from the FRG to South Africa, the documentation Says. Through middlemen said banks have been selling production licences of West German firms to South African companies and establishing other business rela- tions. The development of South Af- rica as a nuclear energy capacity (in the middle of 1970 South Africa announced that it would be able to - produce nuclear weapons in five years) was largely made possible by techni- cal support from the United States, the paper says. The Fe- deral Republic of Germany, however, also takes part in this development, the document says. It is reported that the FRG shared nuclear know-how with South Africa in return for ura- nium supplies. The Siemens and Pelindaba, it continues. ; ays In conclusion’ Mrs. Fits", that the investments giV® — | of strength to the Govern™ ne if its policy of apartheid. Govel™ tention of the Pretoria ». sie ment is clear: the close? ‘eres with west European }? optai" the simpler it will be '° ¢pes? political support countries. jew... Sk Rents without land Rents have been te of v GDR since 1945 in § : fact that 60% of all house that country has beet — ge pe, World War Il. This is ™ ipsidl sible by large state — Xs i (2.5 thousand million; 1972). A family of thre?’ 4 an average of monthly, income on lord in the oe a -