protests rock Israel

o ‘colonization’ of West Ban

ecial to the Tribune

AVIV—Broad and diver-
Social and political circles

 Degun a variety of protest

NS against the danger to
and democracy result-
Om the adventurist and

“colonization” forays
e€ Arab occupied territo-

> oY the ultra-rights.

any cities throughout Is-
€ protest demonstrations,
Ing, mass meetings and
Ms are being carried out
ny public figures, working
ble, members of kibbutzim,
Particularly youth; all repre-
Ng a variety of political par-
and social strata of city and
1)
embers of- the Communist
Of Israel (Rakakh), who
among the first to raise
Voice in protest warning of
Ultra-right conspiracy, and—
Cipating in many. of thesé
Sts, greeted the wide public
Mess to this danger to peace
the future of Israel, urging
Y and the strengthening of
~ Protesting forces.
: Protest Actions
* Morning after the ultra-
t “colonizers” invaded the
Cli-held Arab territory, mem-

Protest pickets took place in
Tel Aviv by the Committee for’
a Just Arab - Israel Peace.
Throughout Israel Rakakh distri-
buted leaflets. Some of these
distributers were arrested for a
few hours in Petach-Tikvah.

When left-wing protesters
found an arms cache at a public-
ly known ultra-right headquart-
ers in the centre of Jerusalem,
and reported this to the author-
ities, the police arrested the
protesters! :

Again, on October 9, another
left wing youth group occupied
the Yeshiva in Jerusalem from
which the ultras went forth to
“colonize” the Arab territory.
The police came, using physical
force against the protesting
youth, arresting 44 of them, in-
cluding 14 young girls. They
were released after being rough-
ly “interrogated”.

A mass protest meeting was
held ‘in Tel Aviv by Knesset
(Parliament) - Deputies, proml-
nent public figures -and artists
demanding the government offi-
cially ban these “colonizers”.

‘from the Rakakh, Moked. -

‘Mapam parties picketed the
Sset (Parliament), marching
T to picket the Premier’s
quarters,

the same day, a mass pro-
demonstration was held on
Latrun Highway, by mem-
‘from the Hashomer Hatzair
Mist socialist youth) kibbutz-

Nd the Committee for the
‘nce of Democracy, consist-

of representatives from
Pam, the youth section of the
tning Labor Party and other
tical groupings.

By GEORGE LAMBERT
ARSAW — At the present
©'an up-to-date chemical in-

is a must for a country’s

fl0mic development and mod-

Ao

)

. Plastics, artificial fibers,
thetic rubber, artificial lea-
» fertilizers, plant protec-
agents, dyes, paints and
ishes, synthetic detergents
se are just a few of the
ical products that have re-
tionalized many industries
agriculture.

“t home one merely has to

800d look at the planned
‘€n, the household applian-
the furniture and -other
to see how plastics have
®d color and durability to

9st everything in the house. ©
Onder that 28 millions tons ~

Plastics were used in the
d in 1970, and the figure is
“cted to reach 78 million
Sin 1980.

\ the early post-war years —

“Nd was too busy rebuilding
devastated country and

silding up her heavy industry

Pay much attention to the
ical. industry but once
Was started on its expan-
the result was an industry
Was second to none in

“ernity, and the value of it
€ Poland the 10th largest

“cer in the world.

‘Attracting Attention’

August 1967, the Chemical

Engineering News, an au-
tive U.S. journal, reported

yy

poland’s burgeoning chem-

dustry, now one of Eu-
largest, is attracting at-

Most of the spokesmen stressed
the necessity for unity to halt
the ultra-rightist fascist offen-
sive.

Anti-colonization slogans ap-
peared on many buildings. Mem-
bers of the Labor Party’s youth
and student sections picketed
the home of Knesset Deputy Ben
Mayer, the rabid ultra-rightist
leader. Over 100 youth picketed
the Premier, countering his
“Peace Through Strength” policy
with the slogan, “Give Strength
to Peace!” YCL’ers and young
Rakakh members carried
through this demonstration ° in
Tel Aviv.

Giant protest meetings num-
bering thousands of participants
representing all shades of poli-
tical opinion, took place on Oc-
tober 12 in Tel Aviv and Haifa.
A feature at these meetings and
in many other cities was the
collection of signatures on a
petition by the Hashomer Ha-
tzair, demanding the banning of
the “wild colonizers”. In some
cities the petitioners were ar-
rested,

parked by the Communist Party of Israel (Rakakh), people denion-

strate against the ultra
‘into the West Bank of the Suez.

tion from- the West. .
Caen: about half the equip-
ment for new plants is being
purchased abroad from West
Europe and East block coun-
tries, including France, West
Germany, Italy, Great Britain,
Austria, Czechoslovakia,
man Democratic Republic and
the U.S.S.R...- Several USS.
trade missions have visited Pol-
and within the past year in art
attempt to increase trade.

At first top priority was
given to artificial fertilizers, and
the achievements in this field
are remarkable: in the course of
25 years the output of nitrogen
fertilizer increased 15-fold | and
that of phosphate fertilizer ten-
fold, placing Poland seventh in
the world in fertilizer produc-
‘tion. This was made possible by
the building of modern plants in
various parts of the country,

‘one of them — in Pulawy, the

largest in Europe, which ope-
rates on natural gas piped from
the Soviet Union.
A major contributing factor
-was the discovery and exploita-
tion of rich sulphur deposits —_
an important raw material for
the production of sulphuric acid

which, among other things, is.

used in the making of phosphate

rtilizer.
= Oil Refining

The next big effort to expand
and chemical industry was made
in oil refining and in the pro-

Ger- —

-right “colonizing” forays by Zionist groups

A lot of money has gone |
into the plastics industry
to meet the growing needs
in this field and to

catch up with the
industrially advanced
countries. During the
period of the present
Five Year Plan (1971
through 1975) the output
will be doubled.

AUALGUUOUGONGUUOUREREOUDOODOGUTCOUEONOUUOOOOOUE:

duction of petrochemicals, which
provide the basic raw materials
for modern synthetic products.
Synthetics replace materials
that are in short supply (steel,
non-ferrous metals, rubber, lum-
ber, cotton, etc.) and at the
same time make it possible to
modernize many branches of in-
dustry and construction to en-
rich the supply of consumer
goods.

A breakthrough in this field

' was the building and steady en-

largement of the refinery and
petrochemical complex in Plock
supplied with Soviet petroleum
via the “Friendship” pipeline.
Other plants were expanded—
a new one is now going up on
the Baltic coast and another one
will be built in Silesia. Ad-
ditional petrochemical plants
will be put up to ensure the ra-
pid‘ development of the branch
of production now given to pri-
ority — chemical fibers and
plastics. Already at present the

fag War danger still real

warns peace movement

One year after the most rep-
resentative meeting of peace
forces in history, the committee
charged with carrying on its
work met in Moscow, Oct. 25-27,
and warned that despite suc-
cesses in efforts towards detente
in the world, the “dangers of
war have not yet been eliminat-
ed and world peace still does not
rest on sound foundations.”

The enlarged meeting of: the
steering committee of the con-
tinuing Liaison Council, chosen
by last year’s World Congress of
Peace Forces, drafted a Charter
of Peaceful Co-existence, Inter-
national Security and Coopera-

_tions, and wound up its sessions

wtih a clear-viewed communi-
que noting the positive and
negative features of the present
world situation.

Representatives from 94 coun-
tries and 42 international orga-
nizations attended. There were
also representatives of the Unit-
ed Nations, the UN Conference

on Trade and Development, the -

UN Special Committee on Apart-
heid, and De-colonization and
the UN Council for Namibia.

Present from Canada were:
James Foulkes, selected last year
as representative of the English-
speaking Canadian delegates to
the World Congress, Michel Ig-
nieff, replacing Jean Louis Roy
the representative of French Ca-
nadian delegates last year, Ro-.
land Morin, past president of the
Quebec New Democratic Party
and Mrs. Doreen Plowman, for
the Canadian Peace Congress.

In its communique the meet-
ing welcomed the development
toward detente. “The idea of

basic types of synt
(poliamide, polyester, acrylic)
are produced in large quantities,
and their use is on a par with
highly industrialized countries.
Progress has also been made in
the production of dyes, many of
which are exported. :

Useful Plastics

A lot of money has gone into
the plastics industry to meet the

rowing needs in this field and
o catch up with the industrial-
ly advanced countries. During
the period of the present Five-
Year Plan (1971 through 1975)
the output will be doubled.

The great housing program
calls for even speedier develop-
‘ment of the production poten-
tial. Materials for planned kit-
chen, sanitary supplies, floor
tiles, insulation materials, wash-
able wallpaper, windows, doors,
etc., are already being made of
plastics.

Increasing quantities of plas-
tics are also being used in the
machine-building, electrical and
electronic industries as well as
in manufacture of household ap-
pliances, sports equipment and
toys. More plastics are also
needed for the rapidly growing
automobile industry.

Automobiles need tires, and
that means rubber. A _ large,
modern tire factory was there-
fore built in Olsztyn, which.
also produces radials, and. an-
other factory is being expanded.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMB)

nt ten

peaceful co-existence and co-
operation among states with dif-
ferent social systems continues
to gain ground,” it noted. “The
elimination of the vestiges of
colonialism has entered a new
phase. The struggle to re-estab-
lish democracy in the face of
fascist regimes is marked by
news successes,” The objectives
of disarmament are gaining pub-
lic support, it continued.

“Nevertheless,” the document
warned, “‘in certain parts of the
world, imperialism, colonialism
and reactionary forces continue
to threaten the independence of
peoples by recourse to~force —
either military or economic.

“Groups with vested inter-
ests,” it said,
national corporations and others,
are striving to exploit the world
— their manoeuvres may be bet-
ter camouflaged but they are in-
creasingly dangerous. In fact,
powerful forces are working
against detente. Dangers of war
have not yet been eliminated
and world peace still does not
rest on sound foundations.

“In these conditions, an in-
creasingly persevering and. co-
herent struggle is essential to
make detente irreversible and to
rebuild international relations on
a truly new basis,” the commu-
nique said.

With bicycles’ again in vogue
more bicycle tires will be pro-
duced for the home market and
for export.
And More

This article on the chemical
industry would be incomplete if
I were to omit two important
branches — pharmaceuticals and
cosmetics. The pharmaceutical
industry, which covers 90% of
the country’s needs, has been
growing at a terrific pace, regis-
tering a tenfold increase in out-
put in the years 1961-1973 and
a 15-fold increase in export. At
a symposium of the World
Health Organization the system
of checking the drugs has been
referred to as exemplary. The
standard of Polfa (that’s the
name of the largest company)
drugs is second to none.

Polish cosmetics . and toilet °

articles, products of “Pollena,”
are popular with men and wo-
men in the country and abroad.
I have been to all the countries
in this part of the world and
found that no present is as ap-
preciated as “Pollena” cold
cream, after shave lotion, toilet
water, lipsticks, etc: In fact, big
quantities are exported to these
countries, but they are sold out
in no time at all. Canadians
who have tried ‘Pollena’’ pro-
ducts were also _ enthusiastic
about them. The reason is that
they are produced under strict
supervision, and before going
into production they are check-
ed by doctors and other special-

ists. And the prices are reason- —

able.

“often multi- —

ER 15, 1974—Page 7