African stoolpigeo ns These hooded informers are pointing out suspects among Africans rounded up in Nairobi, Kenya capital, to British officers. But neither mass arrests nor executions have succeeded in quelling esistance to British colonial rul e in East Africa. Recently, on @ eve of his departure for London to ask for more arms and *quipment, Col. Arthur Young, Kenya‘s police chief, admitted that members of the Wakamba tribe were increasingly joining the Kikiyu in ©PpPosing British rule. U.S. companies struck by Honduras workers a orty thousand Hondurans who > uit plantations on April 30 have NEW YORK struck United Fruit and Standard now been joined by workers from VS-owned mines and: tobacco firms, according to reports received Bene: There was a possibility that the strike movement would spread © the Honduras Coca Cola bottling works run by another U.S. com- “vail Cerveceria Huodnreno Com- cig the New York Times report- na pPeals for troops from U.S. penonals operating the Honduras : °Perties were still going un- Uswered by the Honduran govern- Re! which is in the midst of a “Oitical campaign, the Times re- tted on May 15. weet the next day, the Times’ Trespondent in Honduras was on ae the situation with that ace which resulted in installa- inte of a dictator, “after the US. int tvened, sending two warships ° Honduran ports.” ge The 1924 regime took office “af- 2 conference aboard the (U.S.) iser Tacoma,” the Times said. t the present government is ; hing a deaf ear to requests for tial Ps, and for declaration of mar- Woul Foe because “martial law ta _effectively end all political ™Daigning,” © roli of strikes and compan- fected included: United Fruit Company, 25, les a 000 workers out. Demands include a general 50 percent wage increase, and improved housing and hospi- tal facilities. Additionally, “72 percent more is asked for workers earning up to 87.36 lempiras ($43.86) per month.” @ Standard Fruit Company, 15,000 workers out. Wage, housing and hospital demands are involved. Allied Labor News reported: “Their ranks were quickly swell- ed®by other workers” in the port city of La Ceiba, “who shut down the shirt factory, bottling works and soap factory. Later, masons, machinists, carpenters and other building trades workers joined the strike. ...” @ British - American Tobacco Company,, office and plant work- ing force walked out. The 100 workers are demanding a 50 per- cent pay hike for plant workers, 25 percent for the office force. @ Workers on the national railways and the national airlines were also reported by the Times to be preparing to strike. Soviet Union expands trade with West... British get big order for textile machinery Conclusion of a $19.5 million contract to supply textile machinery to the Soviet Union, the largest single order placed with British since the war, was announced here last week by F. C. Seward of Oldham. Seward, who initialled the contract after nine weeks’ discussion at the Soviet Foreign Trade Ministry, said he had negotiated the deal on behalf of his own and other companies, each of which would manufac- ture complete machines, Yorkshire and Lancashire com- panies associated in the contract would provide the Soviet Union with machines for cotton and wor- steds, spinning, weaving and*finish- ing industries. British deliveries were to stuart at the end of this year and would be spread over a two-year period. The contract, he said, had been MOSCOW approved by the British govern- ment. The Soviet Union needs textile machinery for new mills which are being built to increase the output of clothing. This is part of a consumer goods drive in which the Soviet people have been promised a wide range of better quality products within the next two or three years. “The negotiations started in Mos- cow in January and since that time our engineers have formed a high opinion of the knowledge and auth- ority of Russian textile engineers,” said Seward. “We found the Russian negotia- tors well-informed, very keen, and businesslike and fair.” People’s China expands trade with West .. . West would get more trade if bars removed Last year’s China’s foreign trade was five times that of 1949, Lei Jen-min, vice-minister By ARTHUR CLEGG GENEVA . of foreign Trade in the People’s government told a special press conference here. Lei Jen-min added that as China was expanding its industry and raising the standard of living of its people, trade would now expand year by year. If no artificial barriers inter- fered she would buy from Brit- ain and other countries of West- ern Europe increasing quanti- ties of capital goods, industrial raw materials and consumer goods, he said. Over 120 newspapermen of many countries, including the U.S. list- ened attentively to Lei and after- wards plied him with questions. He told them that China’s trade with capitalist countries in 1950 had been greater than in any year since 1936. The U.S. embargo in 1951 had hit hard, but it had not ended this trade altogether and in 1953 it began to rise again. Western Germany’s exports to Wesi Germany seeks s Soviet trade pact BERLIN West Germany financiers are re- ported to be preparing a mission of 18 experts to negotiate a $60 million trade pact with the Soviet Union. The trade mission is scheduled to leave for Moscow in June, ac- cording to the Frankfurter All- gemeine Zeitung, a leading West German newspaper. Its members will represent the principal West German industries. China rose ten times in 1953. French trade increased three times and British trade rose by one-third over 1952 figures. This trade would grow still more if there were not artificial barriers. But U.S. still says ‘No’ Trade beneficial, but barriers to WASHINGTON Despite pressure from her al- lies, the U.S. will continue to op- pose the opening of full com- mercial relations with the Soviet Union, People’s China and Eastern Europe. This is made clear in the half- yearly review of the working of the Battle Act—the act which im- poses restrictions on her allies’ East-West trade — submitted to the U.S. Congress by Harold Stas- sen. : The U.S. Foreign Operations Ad- ministration chief admits that more new East-West trade agreements were concluded last year than dur- ing any period since 1948. And he recognises that the countries he describes as “the free nations” can derive benefits from East-West trade. Stassen expresses his satisfac- remain tion with the working of the con- trols restricting East-West trade, adding that it is now US. policy to simplify these. “The government believes that much could be done in the months to come, if done carefully and with due regard for security, to adjust the controls to a long-haul basis.” _ Stassen’s report boasts of the fall in _ Western trade with People’s China during the six-months under review; shipments fell “below even the extremely low level of the first half of 1952,” claims the report. “Exports from the British colony of Hongkong, the traditional gate- way of commerce to and from the mainland of China, fell so drasti- cally in the second half of 1953 that the Hongkong total for all of 1953 was only $94,600,000, or little more than the $91 million in-the second half of the previous year.” Ukrainian Nationalist| emigre lea MOSCOW rene €x-emigre leader, 75-year-old the is 4 tiy, has broken with anti-Soviet Ukrainian Nation- movement. dentutiy made his declaration con- Ring this emigre movement in mune in Pravda, Soviet Com- __ St party newspaper. thy on to devote the rest of ip € to working for the well- 2 Of my people,” he said. that have come to the conclusion Ukrai fe place of every honest onan is in the Soviet Ukraine 32S his own people. mentll talk of resistance move- Sin the Ukraine is a deceit alist | which Ukrainian Nation- lth faders are concealing their ‘lan Y work against the Ukrain- Uktainiag. Kut} ainian Nationalists, said Y, had become mere paid der quits agents of U.S. Intelligence; Nation- alists who had once worked for Hitler Germany against the Soviet Union were now working for the US. oe Nationalists leaders are “intri- guers and adventurers,” participa- ting in the organization of espion- age, terrorist and subversive activi- ty in the Ukraine. — They .were carrying out the plans of U.S. Vice-Admiral Stevens, chairman of the U.S.-financed “Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia,” with its headquarters in Munich, in the U.S. Zone of Germany. : Krutiy who first left the Soviet Union in 1919, said his decision to break with the Nationalists fol- lowed the decision of Dr. Alexan- der Trushnovich, former leader of another emigre anti-Soviet organ- ization, to go to the German Demo- cratic Republic. Moscow citizens celebrate May Day Rising living standards and the boundless opportunities of a socialist system gave these Moscow citizens every reason to celebrate May Day. the assurance of ever greater security. For them the future holds no threat of economic crisis but PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 28, 1954 — PAGE 3