The Chinese declaration that
the Soviet Union would ‘‘sacri-
fice the international position of
the German Democratic Repub-
lic” to achieve the test ban
agreement has been described
by the East Berlin newspaper
Neues Deutschland as a ‘‘mon-
strous assertion.’’

The organ of the Socialist
Unity Party pointed out that the
GDR was one of the first states
to sign the test ban treaty.

“The Chinese leaders presume
to be able to judge better than
‘the party, government and pop-
ulation of the GDR what better
‘serves its interests and those of
the German people,” the paper
‘said.

: Two Communist newspapers —

-the Tribune of Australia and
Rakjat (People’s Daily) of Jak-
arta, Indonesia — have issued a
joint statement on the serious
situation in regard to the pro-
posed Malaysian federation.

The statement says in part:
“The relations between Australia
and Indonesia have become a
matter of great importance and
urgent concern for all of the
people of our respective coun-
tres... - ;

“At a moment when the neo-
colonialist scheme of ‘Malaysia’
has come up against the historic
___ Struggle of the Indonesian people
- against imperialism, powerful
sections of the Australian press

Trotsky-China

According to a Tass _news-
agency report from La Paz, Boli-
via, the weekly newspaper, Lucha
Obrera, organ of the Trotskyist
party of Bolivia, has published a
resolution of the 22nd plenum of
the executive committee of the
Fourth International, which ‘‘ap-
proves the historical task of
achieving unity with the Chinese
and a struggle to create a united
front between thé Fourth Inter-
national and the Chinese com-
rades.”’ :

“The executive committee of

The 7-member European
Free Trade _ Association,
headed by Britain, reported
recently that it has overtaken
the U.S. in export trade and
is second only to the Euro-
pean Common Market.

EFTA’s exports to other
countries in the year ending
June 30 reached a value of
$21.5 billion compared with
the U.S. figure of $21.3 bil-
lion. The Common Market's
export trade was worth
$34.2 billion during the year.

A Chinese foreign ministry
spokesman in Peking last week
described a statement by the

Indian Prime Minister, Nehru, on
Chinese troop concentrations on
the Indian border as ‘‘a ground-
less fabrication.” :
“The Chinese government,’’ he

said, “‘has consistently stood for

GDR scores Chinese stand

West Germany has launched
an offensive against the treaty,
and in the U.S. it was repre-
sentatives of the arms industry,
and in France the personal
regime of de Gaulle which flatly
rejected accession to the treaty.
‘In Bonn it is known better than
in Peking that the Moscow treaty
jeopardizes Bonn’s plans’ for
getting atomic weapons and
Yeast of all the ‘international
position of the GDR’.”

“It is precisely the Soviet
Union which has insisted on the
active co-operation of the GDR
if the centres of tension in Eur-
ope are to be removed,’’ the
paper said.

Two papers deny ‘threat’

are voicing a demand for new
Australian military commitments
in support of Malaysia.

“Such proposals, like the plans
for United States military bases
in north-western -Australia, can
only gravely harm the course
of Australian-Indonesian _ rela-
tions.

“President Sukarno of Indon-
esia has again and again de-
clared the peaceful policy and
intentions of his government,
which indeed faces great con-
structive tasks in the economy
of the nation. The practical
deeds of Indonesia have fully
borne out that policy, and ex-
pose as false all talk of any
‘threat’ from Indonesia.”’

t bs j |
unity-" plea

the Fourth International greets
the Communist Party of China’s
ideological struggle, which it is
conducting against Soviet bureau-
cracy,’’ the resolution — says.
“The Chinese comrades are mov-
ing, although as yet in an em-
pirical and contradictory manner,
towards the program of the
Fourth International.’’

The resolution also emphasizes
that ‘‘the Chinese are adopting,
although yet in an incomplete
form, the proposition put forward
many years ago by the 4th In-
ternational.”’

Growing challenge to U.S.

EFTA links Britain, Switz-
erland, Portugal, Austria,
Sweden Denmark and Nor-
way, with Finland as an as-
sociate member.

The figures quoted in the
third annual report of what
hag been called the ‘Outer
Seven” (as it was set up in
opposition to the “Inner Six”
of the Common Market).
show the increasing compe-
tition American imperialism
faces in the growing econo-
mies of the West Europear
countries. :

‘Nehru’s statement denounced

‘the unconditional opening of ne.
gotiations and for a_ peaceful
settlement of the Sino - Indian
boundary question.

“Owing to the efforts and self-
restraint on the part of China,
the eased situation along the
border has been maintained,”’

- housing;

EQUALITY FIGHT AT NEW HIGH

Quarter million march
in Washington parade

By ANNA COLLOMS
(Special to the PT)

From all ends of the country,
East and West, North and South;
from all walks of life—industrial,
farm, middle class, professional,
business, government
(ocal and national); the arts,
performing or creative, 250,000
came to Washington on Wednes-
day, August 28 to express in
many ways, vocal, in song, in
numbers, in gesture, in placards,
in smiles or serious mien two
fundamental and urgent phrases
—“NOW”’ and “This is just the
beginning.”

There was the man in a wheel
chair or the one guided by a
seeing-eye dog, the four year old
girl accompanied by mother,
grandmother and great grand-
mother, all wearing the button
with the message of the day —
“Jobs and Freedom!”’

There was the placard—home
made, although officially none
such were ‘acceptable—announc-
ing “Chile is with you.” There
was the 18-year-old senior from
a segregated high school in
Greenwood, Mississippi, with a
home made sandwich board that
read on one side ‘Stop criminal
prosecutions of vote workers in
Mississippi” and, on the back:
“We must have the vote in Miss-
issippi by 1964.”’ It was this lad
who had been sentenced to four
months in jail after a student
Non-Violent Committee demon-
stration, his clothes taken from
him, and placed in solitary con-
finement.

There was the Sunday look of

officials .

CP PROGRAM

Cont’d from pg. 1

and those unable to work; for ex-
panded hospital facilities, a com-
plete medical and social security
program; for proper low rental
for increased pensions
for our senior citizens, the blind,
mothers and widows, and retired
civil servants.

(5) Assure Decent Farm _ In.
come.

Communists call for guaranteed
farm prices that cover cost of
production and assure a reason-
able return on labor and invest-
ment. We urge combined provin-
cial and federal action to halt
U.S. dumping. We call for an ex-
panded home market and devel-
opment of foreign trade. Com-
munists propose low _ interest
loans, a crop insurance scheme,
and more assistance for irriga-
tion and drainage.

_ (6) Protect Labor’s Rights.

Communists will fight to repeal
Bills 42 and 43 and to replace
them with a Bill of Rights that
will guarantee all employees the
right to organize, to bargain col-
lectively, to strike and_ picket
without interference from the op-
erators and courts. We will seek
to establish a 35-hour work week,
increase minimum wages in line
with present standards and needs;
amend the Workmen’s Compensa.
tion Act so as to include complete
coverage for all classes of em-
ployment, all occupational dis.
easeg and disabilities, and to pro-
vide increases in compensation
pensions.

SOLIDARITY FUND?

Since 1958 when the AFL-CIO
established its ‘International Sol-
idarity Fund’’ some $4,200,000
plus $300,000 in annual dues has
been spent to further the. aims
of the cold war in international
trade unions, especially Africa
and Latin America. ~

Washington—the streets emptied
of people and the traffic non-ex-
istent, except for the hundreds
of stationary buses lined up out-
side the park grounds waiting to
return their human cargo to their

Progress?

4 * Qa
(from. the «Afro-American», U.S.A.)
homes after midnight and a long,
exhausting ride even as_ they
had picked them up at silent and
dark street corners at three and
four a.m. to deposit them in time
for the gathering at the Washing-
ton Monument and the short walk
to the Lincoln Memorial to hear
the same message repeated, al-
ways eloquent and purposeful.
The rabbi who himself had been

a victim of Nazis, whose main
strength was in the words that
we today would not remain
“silent,’? which he found the ser-
ious crime, greater than the bru-
tality and horror he had suffered —
under Hitler and, of course,
Walter Reuther and Martin Luth-
er King, Mahalia Jackson, et al.

There was the Equity actors
who had been unable to come -
because it was matinee day in
New York, but who had collecte
a big enough purse to charter
busfullof New York Fuerto Rican
youngsters from a slum area and :
so have representation there in
Washington.

There was the sign that said:
“Look, Mom! Dogs have a TV
program, but Negroes don’t.”

There was the good humor, a5
one Catholic priest put it, like 4
Sunday school picnic. There waS
the man who roller skated from —
Chicago and the walkers from —
New York who arrived at about
three in the afternoon.

There was the Peace Corps
trainee who cut classes at George
Washington University to join the —
march; the Negroes from the
Southern farms in overalls and
the elderly church women in their
Sunday best. :

It was a great day and there
will be more a’coming.

——

100,000 unionists took part in the mammoth annual march.

ite

COLUMBIA

Cont’d from pg. 1

Paddy Sherman.

Writing on ‘‘What’s Premier
Bennett’s Purpose?’’ Sherman
outlines the government’s con-
siderations in calling the election
in this way: ‘A clear Socred
mandate will presumably give
Prime Minister Pearson the
strength to quell some dissidents
(against the Columbia River
Treaty) within his own party.”

The Minister of Lands and For-
estS also indicated in his release
a few days ago that the Socreds
want to be able to show the U.S.
in negotiations opening in a few
weeks that the people of B.C.
“support’’ the government’s give-
away policies. He implied that
the Socred government feared
holding the election in 1964, the
date previously anticipated for a
provincial election.

PRICE NOT REAL ISSUE
Social Credit spokesmen have

WANTED

a 30-ft. flatdeck truck

elections.

Ph. AL 5-1216 or TR 6-0177

September 6, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pagé

so far indicated that the only
point they consider at issue with on
the U.S. is the price B.C. will get |

for the sale of Columbia powe!
in the U:S..

Liberal and Tory spokesmen i?
the first week of the electio?
campaign charged that the Soe
reds had no firm commitment for
the price of Columbia power and
deliberately failed to come t
grips with the main issue: The
present terms of the Columbia
Treaty which will turn B.C.’s i0”
terior into a vast water storas®
for U.S. hydro development, ae
stead of developing maximum —
power in B.C. tor Canadian use-

In their shadow-boxing on the
Columbia, the Toriés and Lib-
erals have shown that they bas!”
cally support the sell-out Colum |
bia Treaty. By debating with the
Socreds on secondary issues they
have joined in a plot to keep the.
decisive issue from the public
arena in the current election ca™
paign.

Only an aroused electorate ca?
force the issue of the sell-out °
B.C.’s resources — and especially

the Columbia River—into thes
centre of the present electio?
campaign.

The Communist Party is already
fighting to put the spotlight 0?
this issue.

If the NDP in B.C. is to serve
the interests of the people aM
expose the big business political
gang-up to stop this betrayal they
must speak up now much more
energeti¢ally than they have do
so far in the election eampai

rie