mer + ~ . J — = Ines vor T1775 FN \e = The theme of this cartoon from Kol Haam, organ of the Communist Party of Israel, is friendship between the Jewish and Arab peoples. It expresses the courageous struggle of Israeli Communists for peace and international brotherhood in face of the drive of the imperialists aided by Ben Gurion and other right-wing leaders to foment divisions and hatreds which endanger peace in the Middle East. U.S. PAPER TELLS HOW U.S. ATTEMPTED A DEAL WITH BATISTA WASHINGTON Press A story of February 12th, regime and give it military aid to block Castro from coming tells about the testimony be-| to power. fore a closed-door hearing of the Senate Internal Security sub-committee last Sept. 2nd by former Ambassador Wm. D. Pawley, who had earlier served as Ambassador to Peru and Brazil in the Truman ad- ministration. Pawley told of a secret mis- sion to Cuba that he under- took in December of 1958 to make a “deal” with dictator Batista. The testimony was released by the sub-committee which earlier had released similar testimony by’ Earl S. T. Smith who’ ‘was Amabassador. to Cuba in 1958. Smith told of spending two and a half hours with Batista on December 17, Pawley spent 83 hours with him December 9, 1958. According to the testimony of Pawley and Smith the mis- sion was to make a deal with Batista under which he, Ba- tista, would “capitulate” to a eare-taker government = un- friendly to him but satisfac. tory to us.” The U.S. would. then promptly “recognize” the new Pawley said that he offered Batista, “An ‘opportunity to live at Daytona Beach, Flori- da with his family. Pawley mission was under- taken with the “knowledge” of the State Department and the C.I.A. sometimes referred to as the Central Intelligence Agency. Smith said his visit with Batista was at State Depart- ment “instructions.” Well, Batista didn’t buy the deal. Perhaps he wanted more than the Daytona Beach ar- rangement. Or he might have still had the hopes of stopping Castro. But a few weeks tater he no longer had a choice — neither did the U.S. State De- partment. Then for a time they hoped that possibly they might be able to do business with Cas- tro. They could — but not on their terms. It was when it became clear that Castro was going ahead with his agrarian reform that the crack down came from the U.S. govern- ment, e From U.S. Farm NEWS, FEBRUARY, 1961. SHANGHAI — Unlike Can- ada, there is no unemployment in the shipyards of China. In- stead of scrapping its mer- chant fleet, as Canada did, this sister nation on the Pacific is busily engaged in creating a fleet of small ‘ships suitable for river and coastal trade, plus a number of larger ves- sels for overseas trade. For example: while — in Shanghai I visited the Chung Hu Shipyard — one of 10 busy shipyards on the Whangpoo River — and was shown the plan of work for: 1961 by Hsao Hsou-vu, head of the di- rectors’ office. It calls for con- struction of one _ 3,200-ton freighter, one 1,200-ton pas- senger ship, two 1,800 hp. ‘Spushboats” and two 1,200 hp. tugboats, 20 500 hp. tugboats, one 700-ton freighter, one 1,400 cubic metresdredge, 20 barges and a small dredge for collecting sea muck (used as manure). In addition, the shipyard is building equipment for six chemical fertilizer plants, four aluminum smelters, three ce- ment plants; and is also manu- facturing 300 oval excavators, an hydraulic lift, and 100 sets of ore-dressing equipment for non-ferrous metals. “We are a medium-sized yard,” explained Hsao. “There are 4,800 workers, 10 percent of them women, compared to only 200 workers and _ staff before liberation. “Before the great leap for- ward in 1958 it took us six months to build a 1,700-ton freighter. Now we can launch a 3,200-ton freighter in 23 days.” We walked around the yard and I saw some of the work in progress: the large freighter and passenger ship, five tugs and several barges, As we covered the yard and the shops, Hsao answered ques- tions about wages and work- ing conditions. “At one time we could only do repair work in this yard,” he said. “Now we can build freighters up to 3,200 tons and 2,000-ton passenger. ships. We also, as you have seen, turn out many kinds of industrial equipment. “The average wage is 80 yuan a month — the highest is 123 yuan and the lowest 40 yuan. Perhaps these wages seem low to you (a yuan is worth 40 cents Canadian — B.W.) but with us it is a question of what our wages will buy. Before liberation inflation was so great that we received sack- lfuls of wages which wouldn’t No unemployment in China’s shipyards writes P.T. correspondent Bert Whyte, after visiting Shanghai's yards buy even one sackful of rice. Now our small wages will buy a lot. For example, a worker can eat three meals a day in the canteen at a cost of about 12 yuan a month.” Lack of time prevented me from visiting the yard’s dry- docks on the other side of the Whangpoo, which does repair work on ships up to 7,000 tons. At present a 5,000-ton freight- er from the USSR was in for repairs. “Come and visit us again on your next trip to Shanghai,” said Hsao Hsou-yu. “We are making some changes in our designing room and machine shops, and would like to show you these improvements and the progress we will have made in the coming months.” * * * Busy shipyards and a busy waterfront means busy long- shoremen. A trip to Dock No. 5 (there are 12 docks in the city) proved a rewarding ex- perience, for I happened to run across longshoremen un- loading Cuban sugar from a British freighter, the Great City. And I also saw huge piles of aluminum ingots, stamped ALCAN, piled neatly on the dock. Ships from 20 countries as well as coastal freighters use Dock No. 5. Exyorts handled by the dockers here include machinery, textiles, jute, tea, frozen eggs, chickens, ducks, lard, etc. Imports include ma- chinery, chemical products, rubber from Southeast Asia, synthetic rubber from Europe, dates from Iraq, sugar from Cuba, etc. Average wage of longshot men is 87 yuan a month. Ther is also a group bonus syste in operation ‘which usué adds an-extra month’s annually. About 70 perce the work is mechanized semi-mechanized. From to 1960 inclusive the @ averaged 3.3 million tome year. 9 Women longshoremen © no rarity here, although ® men vastly outnumber #® and do most of the heag work. When a women Bt, shoreman (longshorewoma"h is six months pregnant she f switched to office work, a given a 56-day rest perp after the birth of the ba) While nursing the child she) freed from any night shif® Dock No. 5 can_ hase ships of up to 15,000 tons the year around. It can han@ at the same time, four 1048 tonners, two 5,000-tonners a two 2,000-tonners. There *, 2,700 longshoremen (out total of 9,200 longshoreme® | Shanghai). Shanghai has_ long bee b known as one of the wort a great seaports. Today it nas, population of about ten © p, lion and is one of the ime ant industrial bases in i Before liberation this com? iar : cial metropolis was run J 5. ly by foreigners; today 5 Chinese are masters of ¢ i? own destiny and are wo! diligently for the furthe? i, velopment of their great 7: and for the good of their ° : AM qT ; : | i es J il ' Hi motherland. re A ye An 18-year-old Ottawa student recently took direct ae) 2 ures to demonstrate the need for a Canadian flag- Hargreaves raised his version of what, the flag should 109 yall) na (shown above) on the flagpole of the Supreme Court of Building. ag As a result of his action he faces charges by the ide which carry a maximum penalty of 14 years in jail. He sa took this course because “there have been thousands ° ‘se submitied but the politicians are just using them for a po? football.” April 28, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE?