Artificial climate tests
for seed growth checks

"-By F. BOGATYRYOV

A phytotron, an artificial cli-
mate station, is under construc-
tion in Odessa. This will be a
system of extremely intricate
structures.

Two years ago the All-Union
Institute of Selection and Gene-
tics in Odessa, the oldest insti-
tute of its kind in the Soviet
Union, became a _ coordination
centre for fundamental research
in selection and seed growing of
agricultural crops for the coun-

_tries in the Council for Mutual

Economic Assistance (CMEA). It
is now called the International
Selection Centre, or Interselect-
senter. é

Important research is being
conducted by the - Interselect-
senter. Scientists are engaged in
creating an international stock of
seeds. Each country of the so-
cialist community sends seeds of
winter wheat, winter and spring
barley and hybrids to supplement
the stock. The seeds are sown
out on the small plots of a quar-
antine nursery where the speci-
mens undergo ecological tests.
The results of the checking of
each crop, its drought and hu-
midity resistance are recorded in
the catalogues.

Last autumn the nursery num-
bered 223 specimens of winter
wheat and 64 specimens of
spring barley. Such Soviet varie-
ties of winter wheat as “Odess-
kaya-51” and “Priboy”, three
varieties of summer wheat and

‘four of summer barley which

have proved very good in our
country have been sent for eco-
logical tests to the German
Democratic Republic, Bulgaria,
Rumania and Czechoslovakia.
Thus a common “bank of
genes” is created, a large collec-
tion of seeds from which spe-
cialists from the CMEA countries
can choose the necessary ma-
terial for selection and reprdduc-

tion. When the phytotron is
ready, the specimens of seeds en-
closed in hermetically sealed ves-
sels will be placed in special de-
positories at the artificial climate
station where they will be care-
fully checked.

initial material for breeding
dwarf and semi-dwarf varieties
of wheat, while a research Insti-

tute in the German Democratic

Republic has sent new barley
seeds. Rumanian — researchers
have sent their sunflower hy-
brids. This crop has a high yield-
ing capacity and a high content
of oil.

The phytotron in Odessa will
be the largest in the world. Some
1,800 square meters have been
allocated there for greenhouses

“and 450, for artificial climate

chambers. In these chambers it
will be possible to create condi-
tions similar to natural ones, to
control lighting, temperature, hu-
midity and even to imitate sud-
den frost. However in order to
test a new variety of seeds and
prove their quality at least three
generations of a certain crop
have to be grown. In the phyto-
tron this can be done in a year’s
time. :

The first stage of the phyto-
tron, a seven-storey laboratory
building, has already been built.
The main building with its nu-
merous services will be com-
pleted this year. A block of arti-
ficial climate chambers will be
ready for use towards the end of
the present five-year period. In
these chambers scientists will be
able to simulate dust storms
droughts, fogs, and low and high
temperatures. .

An international laboratory for
grain quality is being founded on
the basis of the Interselectsent-
er. The Hungarian Agricultural
Institute has handed over to it
the initial material for breeding
drawf and semi-dwarf varieties
of wheat, while a research Insti-
tute has handed over to it the

dictadura buscd la vengsazs,
el en-

Montevideo.
22 de agosto
de 1974

No, 23

1974 y los 153.000 millones de pesos previstor com
de 1975 dentro de un presupuesto estatal d

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que seguir, como lo han hecho los tral
movtltzac!

Party and other popular forces

the people. -

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os tabs adores de

Despite the tremendous repression against the Communist

Uruguay, the Communist Party's newspaper Carta (letter)
still appears every week. Although the Communist Party is
illegal, the paper is printed and sold clandestinely through-
out the country by Party militants. :

Carta’s lead: article (Aug. 22) reports on a mass protest
of thousands of workers in front of the Ministry of Econom-
ics and Finance in Montevideo August 8. The workers were
confronted by “an extraordinary contingent of repressive
forces who tried to prevent them from coming together, but
between three and five in the afternoon there was an inces-
sant stream of workers who gathered near the building.
During this time the area “steamed” with workers, wearing
their working clothes, who arrived from the factories, the
repair shops, to the gates of the Ministry. :

“The dictatorship hoped again to difuse the people with
terror, but were unable to do so. The workers were present,
with a greater spirit of struggle.”

Although the Communist Party has been dissolved, and
the trade union centre also illegal, they still are working for

900,900 millones de pesos, una gran parte destinad:

a la represion.

Sila movilizacién se acrectenta y el pueblo se unc
asia On de matices. se creardn lax condiciones
=, pata acabar con la diciadura ronquera y sustituirlepor
mun goblerno democrftica v patristico de civiles v
militares, : s

STA conjuncién de pueblo pusie hacerse realidad
y ella, de cristalizar, marcaré un cambio cualits
‘tivo en la luchs contra la dictadura. En efecto. sise
von flele coBjugan los exfuertos de} Partido Nacional. de 19s
ic. tecteres colorados dispuest
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civiles

by the Bordaberry regime in

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1974—Page 10

Communists project people polid/

Continued from page 5
rents and profit-taking this “big
business first” policy regards the
multi-national and big corpora:
tions, Canadian and U:s. alike,
as “untouchables”’.

The main policy resolution of
the 22nd Convention of the
Communist Party of Canada
(which every worker should
read) puts it this way:

“Both the Government and the
Conservatives refuse to face up
to what is central — that there
can be no attack on inflation
without curbing the profits and
power of the monopolies and
speculators.” :

The resolution goes on to say

that this has to be done because

“monopoly controls the econo-
my and is able to raise prices at

‘will, Their uncontrolled domina-

ticn of the market makes that
possible.” ercghe
Communist. Charge

The Communist Party charges
that it is monopoly control and
the capitalist state, namely,
state monopoly capitalism, which
is responsible for inflation. Just
as it is responsible for Stagfla-
tion, recession and economic
crisis. :

It charges that the spokesmen
of state monopoly capitalism
spread illusions that.

© state monopoly capitalism
would provide full employment.
But unemployment is more than

Patriot murdered
by Iranian police

News has been released of the
death of Parviz Hekmatdjou,
Iranian patriot and a member of
the Central Committee of Tudeh
Party of Iran, after 10 years in
the Shah’s prisons.

Arrested . in October 1964,
Hekmatdjou was tortured and,
along with another leading Tu-
deh Party member, Ali Khavari,
was sentenced to death. Public
pressure forced commutation to
life imprisonment. However, un-
der aie constant physical and
mental pressures exerted b
SAVAK (the Shah’s Boer See
vice, also known as The Commit-
tee) Hekmatdjou finally died in
early June of this year,

In lannouncing the news of
this tragic political murder, the
Tudeh Party warns that other
Political Prisoners today lan-
guish in the Shah’s prisons un-
der similar conditions and ap-
peals to every democratic-mind-

ed person to raise their voice in
protest. :

satan

6% which these same spokes-
men now say is equivalent to
full employment; (small comfort
to the jobless)

® state monopoly capitalism
would achieve stable prices. But
in the first quarter of 1974, the
price of sugar rose by 60%,
fresh vegetables by 7.4%, pork
and poultry by 22%. Transporta-
tion rose by 7.7%, housing costs
by 7% and consumer credit in-
terest is slated to go up to 30%
per annum; :

® state monopoly capitalism
would achieve rising standards.
But real wages have already
dropped by 5.6% this year over
last year. The real purchasing
power of the average worker is
back to where it was in 1970;

© state monopoly capitalism
would eliminate poverty and in-
security. But, instead the poor
are getting poorer. The working
people who produce the wealth
cf the country get less and less
of that wealth while the corpor-
ations get bigger and stronger
and profits soar;

© state monopoly capitalism
would achieve stable growth.
But now we have no growth
representing a sharp drop from
a growth rate of 7% for 1973.
(all figures, Statistics Canada)

Massive Action Needed

The Communist convention
declared that the time has come
for massive public action to end
the crisis in everyday living, to
put an end to price and profit
racketeering and to raise labor’s
share of the national income as
the producer of all wealth. To
do this the Communists call for:
, © wages to be immediately
increased by a very minimum of
15% for this year, wage re-open-
ers and cost-of-living clauses in
all union contracts, a minimum
wage law of $3 everywhere;

@ a new tax system based on
ability to pay, higher exemptions
for low income earners, aboli-
tion of all sales taxes, an excess
profits tax and a full capital
gains tax;

© housing a public utility
with land taken out of the hands
ot the speculators:

e roll back prices on basic
foods, fuel, housing and rents to
the level of January 1, 1973; _

© roll back interest rates on
home mortgage to a maximum
of 5%;

© reduce pension age to 60
with a $250 basic pension; :
_ © protect small savings and
Insurance investments from ero-
sion by inflation.

Such a platform of immediate
economic demands, say the Com-
munists, should be bound up
closely with far reaching demo-

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of pea
nd extell
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race a
Canada’s military budget cA
least 50% using the ‘DIN,
saved for necessary $0
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with the socialist and
developing countries. Jos!
This platform shoul be ©
ly bound also with ¢ lane?
national struggle for ©) qe
economic developmen cot
heart of this struggle, c anal
munists state is for the ily if
people to re-establish uly of
ada’s sovereignty over jicy:
economic and political Pe jan
end U.S. domination © ooliey
To be finished with 4 P 4
selling out our precious us
replacable resources size ©
monopolies. To nation@ ce
gy and natural resou nip !
establish public owners
control of big industtys,
and credit system,
companies, transportation
communications systen oy
A People First P? ap
This would represen!
first policy. A policy ‘emo
the working class and ment
tic forces can implem™
policy once implemen? is
open the way for s0 ing.
Canada thus guaranteé i
a “people first” policy ery
firmly rooted in the Y°“¢ J
and economic fabric
country. 0
The eSlios resolution
22nd Convention Of” aiity!
munist Party in its ge acl
presents a grand P ar ing
for unity of the woF
and democratic fo
monopoly power, [0 demo
independence, peace
advance and socialis™- 145
Every Canadian W"" an
fortune of our county art
industrious people 2
find much food
‘thought and inspiring ied
for united mass strUsh co
documents of the 22M o,
tion of the Communis ee
Canada. There are tht™ 9,
nion pamphlets wh ot s¢0
give the reader the q
what the Communis F
Canada and her peoP ™ ie.
and English speakin& are
These pamphets ist
Convention Commuf +, Me
Canada, Unite Agaitt al :
ly by William Kas ry.
and general secretary |
party, and The Deci h
also by William Kas vit
explains why the i
and democratic fore
strong Communist **

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dent foreign policy
based on preserving @
ing detente to cover

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