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By ALAN WINNINGTON

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city of incredible color.

Chairman Mao Tse-tung and other government leaders review
National Day parade in Peking.

Peking celebrates :
fourth anniversary

And
also the happiest.

As military forces— men, guns
and tanks—paraded through the
great square of Tien an Men, over-
head flew huge new twin jet
bombers, dwarfing jet fighters that
kept them company—visible evi-
dence of China’s ability to defend
peace.

Behind the services marched Pek-
ing’s workers, Christians, Budd-
hists, monks and nuns, students
and children.

I saw one group of merchants
cheering and waving like all others
to the great crowds of Chinese. and
foreign delegates in grandstands,
including W. Stevens, general sec-
retary, and seven other members
of the British Electrical Trades
Union delegation to China.

In his order of the day, Com-
mander-in-Chief Chu Teh said
fhat although American aggres-
sion in Korea had been defeated,
the Americans still remained in
Formosa and were still trying to
make the truce unstable and plot-
ting with Syngman Rhee to sab-
otage the political conference.

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Labor part , demands

ending of cold war

MARGATE

Strong demands for ending the cold war and lifting U.S_British-imposed restric-
tions on East-West trade were made at the British Labor party conference here last
week. So strong was the feeling that the debate on the party's program, ‘Challenge to
Britain,’’ was almost completely one-sided. Even though it succeeded in defeating two
amentments on the cold war section of the program, the executive was forced to take note

British labor assails
U.S. deal with Franco

of them.

Introducing the program for the
executive, Jim Griffiths spoke of
the inspiring call which must go
forth from the conference. But
his call concerned only the limited
and restricted items of the pro-
gram, which arouse not a vestige
of enthusiasm. :

All his Celtic eloquence could
not conceal—and indeed only em-
phasised—the utter bankruptcy of
“Challenge to Britain.”

First of the leading Bevanites
to speak, Harold Davies, MP, mov-
ed an amendment to the program
urging an end to U.S.-imposed trade
bans and proposing the develop-
ment of East-West trade.

The amendment read: ‘‘The La-
bor party believes that Britain is
facing economic ruin from Ameri-
can-imposed restrictions on East-
West trade.

“It urges a drastic change of
policy providing for a material
expansion of East-West trade to
meet economic and human needs,
and the ending of restrictions on
trade with the nations of Eastern
Europe and China so as to assist
in the development of new rela-
tionships conductive to a peaceful
solution to present world prob-

lems.”

Davies said Britain was facing
economic thrombosis. . Thrombosis
was dangerous. It might be an
economic clot in trade that could
confuse the whole system and cause
decay.

Ninety-nine percent of MPs did
not know the goods there were on
the strategic list. ‘““When you ban
antibiotic drugs it is inhuman and
indecent for any society.” Yet in
two months Britain had banned ex-
port of $6 million worth.

“If you want a policy different
to the Tories, see that you force
through this amendment,” Davies
told delegates. “Unless you do,
you will be living in Uncle Sam’s
pawnshop for another genera-
fion.” : :

“The Eastern world is trying a
new life. All your bombers and
hydrogen bombs will not stop that
surge of human material.”

Another MP, Emrys Hughes, ask-
ed whether the executive state-
ment would help the people of
the world to get together to end
the cold war and the prospects of
a hot war.

Some things in the document
could be in the election address
of his Tory opponent, he said; in-

~ Alth CAPE TOWN
ty three oe elected with a majori-
Vote mes his opponents’ total

a :
Bunting South African MP, Brian
three 4’. 1°Presenting one of the
“Xpelleq mcan constituencies, was
the House of As-
The expulsion

Pressig nder the 1950
The : Of Communism Act.
that “a Peaker told the House
the Ministe Teteived notice from
the ha uae Of justice that Bunt-
jd tha fased to be a member
Weney S Cape Western consti-

* Bunti 4S vacant.
oe S expulsion follows ap-

Malan, unable to carry seat,
has MP expelled from House —

proval by the House of a report
finding that before and after Mal-
an’s Suppression of Communism
Act Bunting had “encouraged acts
calculated to advance Communism.
Only the four Labor members
and the other two members. repre-
senting African interests opposed
acceptance of the report.
The report was the result of
a government inquiry set up
after it had failed in a series” of
attempts to prevent Bunting
from being elected and taking his
seat as a representative of the
Cape Western constituency.
Bunting, a member of the South

African Communist party before
it dissolved itself in 1950, won
the seat easily last November, Riis
three opponents all losing their
deposits, although he neither spoke
nor in any way solicited votes.

He replaced Sam Kahn, also a
former Communist party member.
who was deprived of his seat un-
der the same Suppression of Com-
munism Act last year.

; eed i id
During the inquiry Bunting sal
he had been freely and legally
elected, and it would be interfer-
ing with the voters’ rights if he

were removed.

MARGATE

A resolution declaring the soli-
darity of the British Labor party
with Spanish Socialists and all
genuine democratic forces in Spain
in their struggle against the Franco
regime was adopted unanimously
at the party’s annual conference
here last week.

The resolution was moved by
W. J. Carron of the Amalgamated
Engineering Union and supported
by delegates of four other unions.

“Conference accordingly de-
plores the conclusion of the Ameri-
can-Spanish military agreement,
which will tend to bolster up the
Franco regime and inflicts serious
moral and political damage on a
community of nations united in de-
fence of freedom and democracy,”
the resolution stated.

Carron condemned Franco’s
black record of persecution of
trade unionists and all others who
raised their voice for freedom.
The regime ‘was regarded with
loathing by every lover of freedom
and democracy,” he said.

: “The purpose of this resolution
is to make perfectly clear to the
government our feeling toward the
inclusion of Franco Spain in any
organization in which we as a
nation participate.

“Here we have an act which,
because of our commitments,
must link us up with this detest-
ed fascist dictatorship.”

Fred Copeman of the Construc-
tional Engineering Union, a form-
er. member of the International
Brigade in Spain, seconded the
motion. He said that the alliance
with Franco could not help to build
an atmosphere in which it would
be possible to end the cold war
round the table.

To shake the hand of Franco
was an insult to their beliefs as
Socialist’.

“We know that people of this
party and of these trade unions
gave their lives in the Spanish
war. We don’t believe that those
lives were given in vain.”

deed, they could have been writ-
ten by. Anthony Eden.

It was not the clarion call that
should be made to the world from
the Labor movement.

J. Fagan of Barrow-in-Furness
moved the. composite amendment
to “Challenge to Britain” which
urged the end of the cold war
and a cut in rearmaments.

The cold war, which the execu-
tive asked the conference to sub-
seribe to, was against the interests
of the British people and of com-
munities throughout the whole
world, Fagan declared.

The amendment deplored di-
version of large sections of Brit-
ish industry to the manufacture
of arms, which increased Brit-
ain‘s dependence on the U.S.,
reduced the living standards of
the people and threatened the
social services. It therefore urg-
ed an immediate reduction of
armaments to a level commensur-
ate with the country’s economic
strength.

World planning was impossible,
Fagan said, while the U.S. had the
Battle Act. This had restricted
British experts.

Some people who supported the
Battle Act were responsible for re-
storation of Japanese and German
industries, which were taking
markets away from Britain.

Wall Street could not care less.
The world had recently seen U.S.
policy toward India and China and
other countries receptive to demo-
cratic methods.

Lord Strabolgi, speaking to the

East-West trade amendment, made
a strong plea to put an end to
what he called the “utterly ridicu-
lous” restrictions to trade with
China, including the refusal of
licences for $6 million worth of
penicillin which China obtained
from France and was now making
itself.
’ Electric cables could be sent to
the Soviet Union, but British firms
were not allowed to sell them to
China.

The conference was asked by
Emanuel Shinwell to be “sensible”

by accepting the spirit of the
amendments both on rearmament
and on East-West trade, while re-
jecting their terms.

He argued that such trade was
so small it would not help solve
our difficulties.

“Does anyone imagine you can
abolish or even partially suspend
the cold war by disarming in this
country or by passing a resolution
at this conference pinning down a
future Labor government to abol-
ish the cold war?” he asked.

“What about France? What
about Germany—militarism resur-
gent, the greatest menace that faces
Europe and peace at the present
time—what about the U.S.?

A strong plea to take the whole
question of foreign policy out of
the arena of national unity and in-
to the arena of party politics was
made by Brian Thomas.

“It is perfectly possible to
reach a_ live-and-let-live agree-
ment with the Communist third
of the world, provided we leave
the Bolshevik bogey behind,” he
said.

In a lengthy defense of the
Labor government’s decision to
rearm, Miss Margaret Herbison,
for the executive, resurrected the
old and discredited argument that
after 1945 Britain and the U.S.
disarmed, whereas the Soviet Un-
ion did not disarm.

She challenged delegates who
were asking for an immediate re-
duction in armaments to state a
figure to which they wanted arma-
ments reduced and promised that
the national executive would keep
the matter constantly under re-
view.

Denying that the bans on East-
West trade were dictated by the
U.S., she boasted that the first ban
was imposed on April 3, 1949, by
the Labor government, followed by
a resolution of the “United Na-
tion” on trade with Korea and
China. e

Both amendments were declar.
ed lost on a show of hands with
a large number of delegates vot-
ing for both.

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