Senator Morse hits
U.S. Vietnam policy

nited States Senator Wayne

Morse last week repeated
his demand for U.S, withdrawal
and negotiations in South Viet-
nam, and blasted the raids on
North Vietnam as “an admission
by the U.S, that we cannot win
guerrilla war in Asia.”

Addressing an audience of
1,000 in Hamden, Conn., Sen.
Morse charged that “control of
events is moreand more removed
from our hands.”

“The only hope for Asia is that
all nations that signed the UN
Charter will join in taking jur-
isdiction over this incipient war
«-e « We should be using all the
prestige we have left in Asia to
bring about a negotiated settle-
ment, because I am satisfied
that that is the only way we will
be able to retain any prestige at

all in that part of the world,”
* * *

Sen, Ernest Gruening of Alaska
also called for a reassessment
of the U,S. position, *The war in

SEN. WAYNE MORSE

South Vietnam should be brought
to the conference table and the
sooner that is done the better
will be the U.S, stature not only
in South Vietnam but inthe entire
free world,” he said in a recent
speech,

He said there was great dan-
ger “in continuing a fruitless
military engagement that cannot
be won on. the field of battle,

but can only be settled political-"

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CALL FOR GREATER SOLIDARITY

Latin American CP leaders |
set goals in common fight

lans for solidarity actions
within their own countries
around urgent continental and
international issues were dis-

cussed at a recent conference in .
Havana of representatives of each ©

of the Communist parties in Latin
America,

Resolutions dealt with the need
to mount broad people’s support
to the anti-imperialist, anti-col-
onialist. struggles throughout the
continent,

A special resolution expressed

“determination to work for the

unity of the international Com-
munist movement.” The solidar-
ity actions urged by the con-
ference included a call for:

* Support to the government
and people of Cuba and struggle
against the economic blockade,
for development of trade, Inten-
sification of efforts “to expose
the aggressive activities of the

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e the profits among 2,000 generals than among 10 mil-

counter- revolutionaries and CIA
agents,”
diplomatic and commercial re-
lations with United States, Pop-
ularization of the economic, soc-

“jal and cultural achievements of

the Cuban revolution,

* Assistance in each country to
the formation of solidarity move-

' ments among the people’s organ-

izations against repressions,

* Active aid to those subject
to cruel attack, “as, for instance,
the freedom fighters in Venezu-
ela, Columbia, Guatemala, Hon-
duras, Paraguay and Haiti.”

* Aid tothe independence strug-
gles of “Puerto Rico and British
Guiana, for the autonomy of Mart-
inique, Guadalupe and French
Guiana, for returning to Argen-
tina the Malvinas Islands and for
rendering support to the national
aspirations of the British and
Dutch colonies in the Caribbean
Basin,”

* An active movement of soli-
darity in all-the Latin American
countries on a continent-wide
scale with the liberation struggle
of the people of Venezuela,

* Intensified solidarity move-
ment with “the people of Pan-
ama who are waging a struggle
against imperialism under dif-
ficult conditions.”

An active campaign for the
release of Communist leaders
now in jail in Venezuela, Ecua-
dor, Haiti, Paraguay, Brazil, and

Computer bringing revolutionary
changes, professor says at UBC

prominent American econ-
4 nomist has warned that “any
underestimation of the problems
of automation could be fatal,”
Speaking before 850 students at
the University of British Col-
umbia last Thursday, Robert
Theobald, who recently submitted
a brief to President Johnson ask-

ing the President to take steps

to prepare society for the effects
of cyberneties, stated that man
must learn to control the com-

_ puter by guaranteeing that the

mind of man does not become an

anachronism,

Theobald, who holds aMasters
of Econdémics degree from Col-
umbia University, said that the
computer in ten years has in-
creased in number from 40 to
15,000. He predicted that in an-
other ten years the present re-
quirements of programming for
computers will be obsolete and
that all that will be necessary
to obtain calculations a million
times the speed of man’s ability
will be to talk into a “magic

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console on the new SS Mormacargo which makes pos-
sible push button control of more than 150 operations

that formerly were performed manually on the ship.

machine,”

He compared science fiction
writers to social scientists in
their respective approaches to
technological change, but claimed
that the science fiction man writ-
es of an environment closer to
reality than do many social scien-
tists who are tied to the condi-
tions of 1965, 1955, or even
1945,

He went on: “The computer is
challenging old ways of thinking,

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The engineers walking distance is reduced by 85 per-
cent. Six such ships, all automated, are expected to
be in opergtions soon in the U.S.

changing tradition, and causing
revolutionary change.” He quoted
a spokesman of American big
business, Tom Watson, whosaid:
“Capitalism is going to have to
change or it will end,” At this
point Theobald commented that
“society has put more power into
the social system than the social
system can hold, or was designed
fore:

Some of this: power may be
channeled into four areas, and
the logical question flowing out
of this channeling is: “Does man
know how to handle it?” These
are the four areas he mentioned:

*Power to destroy the world,.

The continued arms race means
a downward spiralling to oblivion,
and that we have not found the
means of settling disputes,

“Power to produce anything we
want,

“Power to overpopulate the
world,

“Power to eliminate the mind
of man from the productive pro-
cess,” \

He stated that the question of
cybernetics brings into focus the
role of education: whether or not
education should be a discipline
as it now is, or whether it should
be a creative process,

Theobald concluded his re-
marks by stating the- challenge
T’is ours to effectively find the
controls which will let automation

“serve mankind most effectively,
February 26, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page

secure resumption of:

defense of all persecuted, “pat-
riots, workers and democratic
leaders,” :

* Support in each country to”
the “protest actions of workers

at all enterprises,” and to deve- . 4q

lop solidarity with these actions
by making them known to the
World Federation of Trade Un-
ions and to independent labor
centers in Latin America.

The Latin American Commu-
nist leaders declared that their
parties consider the unity of the
international Communist move-

ment “the main guarantee of the 4 ;
success of our struggle against ~

imperialism, for the national and
social emancipation of all the
peoples, for world peace and for
the construction of socialism and
communism,” P

Therefore, they said, .“the
Communist Parties of Latin
America consider it. necessary
to exert all possible effort to
clear the way for unity, ensure
mutual understanding in the Soc-
ialist camp and avoid everything
that increases the danger of a
split and makes it difficult for
the fraternal parties to act ina
united front.”

The conference called for an
end to public polemics between
Communist parties, for “proper
channels to solve” questions, the

condemnation cf “factional activi-

ties, no matter what their source
or nature,” and for “necessary

bilateral and multilateral meet-

ings or conferences of all the
Marxist-Leninist parties.”

The student
of tomorrow?

Automation to
double job
loss by 1966

WASHINGTON, D.C, — Th
elimination of jobs as a resul
of automation will be doubled b
1966, according to Machinist Un
ion president Al J, Hayes — wh0-
predicted that by. 1966 seventy
thousand jobs-per-week will b
vanishing from the U.S, market.

Hayes called the problem
“much more serious than most OF”
the people in the country realiz

. This will mean six million fewe

job opportunities over the next
two years, he said, With auto
mation in its infancy, the num
ber will continue to mount, h
added in a radio interview,

Among the solutions~ offered
were: Shortened lifetime working
period through more educatio
and earlier retirement with bet
ter pensions; longer vacation
periods; shorter work week
more paid holidays as well a5”
other solutions along this line