i ae Tionist policy split on Middle East peace Zionists have launched strong attacks on Dr. Nahum Gold- Mann, reports Tom Foley in the _ U.S. Daily World. Goldmann, 79- year-old president of the World Jewish Congress, has been ad- ee vocating resumption of the Gen- €va Conference on the Middle East with the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organi- zation (PLO). His views have won consider- able support in the world: Jew- ish community — exactly how much will be seen at the WJC plenary assembly being held in Jerusalem as the Tribune goes to press. : In a Jan. 8 interview in the Paris newspaper, Le Monde, - Goldmann said the Soviet Union ’ ly, Should play a role in any Mid- dle East peace talks, and he cri- ticized Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s tactic of ‘small Steps” to delay peace and ex- Clude the USSR. “The situation is- explosive,” Goldmann told Le Monde. “It Needs a quick and radical settle- Ment.” He added, “Such an_ agree- Ment is possible only if the U.S. and the USSR cooperate close- He also told Le Monde that Is- rael eventually will have to take Part in negotiations, such as at Geneva, with the PLO. Goldmann’s_ widely-circulated statements led to an outburst of Zionist protests and demands that he resign as WJC president. The reasons for the anger of the Zionists are fairly clear: 1) Goldmann favored a role for the USSR in helping to achieve Mid- east peace; 2) Goldmann wanted a negotiated political settlement —a quick one; 3) Goldmann Dr. Goldmann was overwhel- mingly re-elected president of the World Jewish Congress de- spite a heavy right-wing effort to remove him. wanted PLO participation in that political settlement. His Zionist opponents: 1) are rabidly anti-Soviet; 2) do not want any political solution but rely on military force; 3) do not recognize that there is a Pales- tinian people, or that PLO re- presents them; 4) are 200 per- cent pro-U.S. imperialism and re- sented Goldmann’s criticisms of Kissinger. ee In general, it is obvious that there is a good deal of behind- the-scenes _ movement _— taking place both in the Israeli govern- ment itself and in the Zionist movement. The WJC. which Goldmann heads has 900,000 members including nearly all the most important Israeli and Zionist public figures. U.S. law creates problems WASHINGTON — The meet- ing of Latin American Foreign Ministers with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been postponed until an undisclosed date. The meeting, third of a . series, was scheduled to ‘begin in March, in Buenos Aires. Its post- ponement is deemed a victory_ for the positions of Venezuela, Ecuador and other countries of Latin America who are opposed to the recently passed U.S. Fore- ign Trade Law. Since the passage of the Law last month, Ecuador and Vene- zuela, threatened by discrimina- tion due to their membership in OPEC, have refused to attend the meeting. Both countries have said that they will not meet with Kissinger until the discrimina- tory passages of the Foreign Trade Law are modified. Mexico hinged its attendance upon Cu- ban participation. It said that the meeting would not represent the whole of Latin America if Cuba was not participating. The postponement of the meet- ing is the second blow dealt the U.S. by Latin America as a con- \ sequence of its Trade Law. In late January, 20 Latin American members of the Organization of American States expressed oppo- sition to. the Law. The -Buenos Aires meeting was to be the third since the Latin American Foreign Minis-. ters met with Kissinger in Mexi- co City in Feb., 1974. The meet-- ing was outside the framework Vi PPI IF: C4, of the OAS to begin what the’ Secretary: of State called a “New Dialogue”. Since then the inconsistencies of the “New Dialogue” have grown increasingly apparent. Kissinger’s performance at‘ the first two meetings did not meet the expectation of most of his Latin American colleagues. The Foreign Ministers’ conclu- sicn was that Kissinger was careful to refrain from making any concrete committments and simply repeated old theoretical formulas used by Washington in regard to its Latin American policy. The second round of New Dia- logue talks took place in April 1974 in Atlanta, Georgia. —Prensa Latina HUnuuuuneeuuuaneuuueeeauuvenaqueeeanuenea4uueee4sueeees4unees4ueeegquueeegauueeegnuUeegguceeegQ4Ueee(QUUUUEUQQUCOUOUUUOEOOUOUUEOOUUERERAOUEEEOOUUEOROQOUCEOOUOOGUCOUOOUOEOOUUEOOAUUEOOOOUUEEOOOCEREQOUUEOEOOUUREGGOUECEOQUUUEOOOUUEROOUUEEEOQOUEEEQOUUEEOOAUEE Of th _ *Xtraordinary accomplishments of the Past four years. ue Poland: with the people in mind The goal set by Poland’s so- Cialist economy — economic pro- gress combined with rising sand- ards and improvement of life for the people — shows indisputable signs of success. Means «said to be unworkable by Canada’s capitalist politicians — such as a _ Price freeze, but steady wage increases — are working for the People of Poland. The steady tise of the Gross National Pro- duct and the living standards of the people contrast sharply with recession and belt-tightening in capitalist countries. By GEORGE LAMBERT “ WARSAW __ Judging from the great achievements during four years of the Five-Year Plan €re is no doubt that 1975 will witness over-fulfilment of the objectives Or this year and for the entire plan. e tremendous impetus to socialist onstruction in Poland was given four Years ago when: the new Party leader- Ship and the new government took over © responsibility of guiding the de- Yelopment of the, country, basing their licies on closer contact with the _ Working class and the nation. € need to combine economic pro- Ss with higher living standards and &eneral improvement in the life of the people is emphasized. The success is line of action is proven by the ____ Price Freeze — Wage Rise _ Most important, 1975 marks the fifth ‘Year of the freeze on prices of basic x Stuffs, a fact which has greatly nhanced the prestige of the Party and 5 © government among all Poles. More- ;Vver the price freeze was-accompanied Y substantial wage increases, higher E Nsions and family allowances, as well § other measures that raised-the in- € of both workers and farmers. In the years 1971 through 1974 about nine million workers received increases in real wages that averaged 7.7% per year as against 3.5-3.9% envisaged by the Five-Year Plan. Pensions, family allowances and other benefits have risen from 53 bil- lion zlotys in 1970 to 103 billion zlotys ‘in 1975. During the same period the supply of goods to the home market has gone up by 73% and both the assortment and the quality of goods has risen considerably. This year 265 thousand families will move into new apartments, apartments with larger rooms and better equipped than ever before, making a total of 1,121,000 apartments built during the period of the Five-Year Plan. Another area which had been pre- viously neglected, namely, the health service has received a 65% increase in expenditure during the present five- year period as compared with the years 1966 through 1970. Added to this is iis area which had been previously neglected in Poland, health service, has the National Voluntary Health Fund which by the end of 1975 will amount to four billion zlotys. Why Productivity Rises All this was made possible by the ‘hitherto unknown growth of the na- tional economy. By the end of 1975, ‘which will mark the end of the present Five-Year Plan, the national income will be up by 60%, capital investment by 90% and industrial growth by 70% over the previous five-year period. During the past four years foreign trade has risen at an annual rate of 21% as compared with 10% during the period of the preceding Five-Year Plan. In 1974 export was up by 28% and im- port was somewhat higher. This can be explained by the rapid moderniza- tion of plant. In fact by the end of this year one-third of Poland’s industrial machinery and equipment will be less than five years old. This partly explains the high rate of growth of productivity received an increase in expenditure. Above: health researchers at the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy work on methods of cancer control. — nearly 50% — during the present five-year period. This rise accounts for almost 80% of the’ increases in indus- trial output. ; : Resource Development In view of the energy and raw mate- rial crisis in the capitalist countries Poland has stepped up the exploitation of its natural resources. In comparison with 1970 the production of copper will this year increase from 72,000 tons to 240,000 tons, that of cement from 12.2 million tons to 20.2 million tons and that of hard coal from 140 million tons to 170 million tons and that of electric power from 64.5 billion kilo- watt hours to 95.5 billion kilowatt- hours. Steel, an important item in Poland’s industrial advance has risen during the same period from 11.8 mil- lion tons to 15.5 million tons. Light industry, another area which had been neglected in the past, has been given a shot in the arm by tripling capital investment in comparison with the previous five-year period. The food industry has been considerably expand: ed and modernized, expenditure for this purpose amounting 2.5 times that of the previous five-year plan. Success in Agriculture During the present Five-Year Plan agricultural production has risen at a yearly rate of 5.3%. The greatest. pro- gress has been made in stock farming: the number of cattle will, in comparison with 1970, be up from 10.8 million to 13.5 million and that of hogs from 13.4 million to over 22 million. A big ad- vance has been recorded in the produc- tion of milk and in poultry farming. I have cited a lot of figures but I have not forgotten about those who planned them and those whose devo- tion and effort gave essence to these figures — the Party — the leading force, the workers, engineers, techni- cians, scientists, farmers and many others who have contributed toward the impressive achievements of social- ist Poland. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1975—Page 9